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Magic Monday
It's just before 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 1.1 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 image? I field a lot of questions about my books on magic these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book on the left is the current edition of my fifth published book, The Encyclopedia of Natural Magic. I got tired of the torrent of wildly inaccurate books on herb and stone magic, and decided to write one based entirely on medieval and Renaissance sources -- granted, it helped that I'd gotten fairly good at reading Latin by the time I got to work on it. I wrote this before I studied hoodoo with Cat Yronwode, or it would have had much more traditional American conjure in it. It's still a solid book, and one I use myself whenever I need to look up the magical properties of an herb or what have you -- and it's the oldest of my books that's still with its original publisher, for whatever that's worth. If you're interested, you can get a copy here if you live in the US, and at your favorite bookstore if you live elsewhere.
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***This Magic Monday is now closed -- as in, no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***
Re: UNLIMITED POWER!!!
2) Well, yes, but there's something you need to know that most people don't know: making more than a little bit of power yourself is far from easy. Imagine for a moment that you put an ordinary compact car into neutral, took off the emergency brake, and then pushed it along the road for thirty miles using nothing but your own muscles. Think of the amount of muscular energy you'd have to put into that task. That much energy -- all that sweat and effort -- is in one gallon of gasoline.
That is to say, fossil fuels contain an insane amount of energy. They get it the hard way, by being roasted and squeezed by the fantastic heat and pressure inside the earth. If you want to have the same kind of energy concentration you have to put something like the same amount of energy into it, and That. Isn't. Easy.
That's why people who live off grid learn early on to use very modest amounts of energy and conserve it relentlessly. If you want to know how that's done, fortunately, there are several very good sources. One place to start is Low Tech Magazine and its sister site, No Tech Magazine:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
https://www.notechmagazine.com/
3) No. There's no spare energy in the universe -- all of it's already doing something -- and if you started drawing energy from the etheric plane, let's say, everything around you would start to die because you were draining it of life force. The notion of "unlimited power" is a very harmful one, because limits are the basis of existence and when you remove something's limits, problems follow. Your sphincters impose certain limits, you know -- do you really want them to embrace limitlessness? ;-)
(By the way, in future comments please leave off the profanity; I'm pretty sure you're new here so I didn't delete the comment, but I ask people to keep it clean since this is an all ages journal. Thanks.)
Re: UNLIMITED POWER!!!
(Anonymous) 2023-11-20 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)Re: UNLIMITED POWER!!!