Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's nearly midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. With certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. (I've been getting an increasing number of people trying to post after these are closed, so will have to draw a harder line than before.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says. 

The picture?  I've been tracing my lineages back as far as I can, and last week took my Martinist lineage back as far as they can be documented. The next step -- and it's the last step in the entire process -- involves a fair bit of speculation, but it's speculation backed up by some evidence. It's been suggested by some historians, Marsha Keith Schuchard foremost among them, that the mysterious Knight of the Red Feather who conferred the Templar lineage on Baron von Hund, last week's honoree, was none other than Charles Stuart, the Bonnie Prince Charlie of Scottish song and story. The claim is that in the years immediately before 1745, when the House of Stuart made its last (and disastrously unsuccessful) attempt to reclaim the British throne, Charles and his inner circle of supporters used various forms of clandestine Freemasonry to raise funds, engage in espionage, and gather arms and supporters for the planned rising. Baron von Hund's initiation was an incident in that process. Martinez de Pasqually, who was honored a couple of weeks back, also claimed to have a charter signed by Charles Stuart as the basis for his occult Masonic order. So it's possible that what lies behind one of the great traditions of Western occultism is a failed political intrigue that got picked up and repurposed by a couple of canny occultists. Stranger things have happened in the history of occultism.

...And with this, the rambling tale of the odd lineages that I've inherited comes to an end. Now I'll have to think of something else to use as illustrations to Magic Mondays!

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***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***

***Please note -- when Magic Monday is closed, IT'S CLOSED.  I just had to delete a flurry of attempted comments posted up to eleven hours after I shut things down. I do need some time to write and do other online chores, you know, so please don't keep trying to post after 12:00 am Monday night/Tuesday morning -- there'll be a new Magic Monday in a week, you know. ***

Comments

Bach Flower Remedies

[(Anonymous)]

Hello,

Thanks as always for holding this space open for all of us. I am sure most people who read Magic Mondays would agree that thus is a magical space.

My questions relate to Bach Flower Remedies. I have been taking Bach Flower Remedies for a variety of complaints and they certainly see to have sort of uncanny influence to create changes through some very odd means.

Have you taken any and experienced effects? Would you say that they work through some magical means rather than normal mundane means? How would you go about explaining how Dr Edward Bach established the uses of these particular remedies, and what skills would one need to develop to learn about the uses of plant remedies not explored by Dr Bach?

Thanks as always for your answers and insights.

P

Re: Bach Flower Remedies

[(Anonymous)]

I find excellent results with the Bach flower remedies, and they seem to work in a way similar to homeopathic medicine. They seem to work through the physical and etheric bodies, and then go back up the chain from there to heal the underlying causes on the astral, mental, and spiritual planes.

Obsidian Fuzzy Puppy

Re: Bach Flower Remedies

[(Anonymous)]

Hello,

I'm not JMG.

I used the Bach flower remedies for 3 years. I found the results subtle but helpful.
After that time, I looked for others, Californians, Brazilians, etc and I also noticed differences in myself and around me.

Re: Bach Flower Remedies

[ecosophia]

Like homeopathy and cell salts, the Bach flower remedies work on the etheric plane. Yes, I've used them -- they were recommended in one of the occult study courses I took -- and they certainly work. I don't happen to know how Bach devised them, but my guess would be clairvoyance; you might see if you can find a biography of him to doublecheck that. If I recall correctly, quite a few other flower remedies have been introduced since Bach's time, and you may be able to find out the method by researching in that field.