Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

Midnight is in just a few moments, and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and 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.  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.  And further:  I'm going to draw a line, a hard one, under questions involving the evocation of spirits. Down the road a bit I'll be doing a post on the blog about why that's far less important than it's been made to look, and how the way of occult initiation takes a radically different path; in the meantime, I'm tired of fielding repetitive questions from people (or, quite possibly, one person using many sock puppets) that rotate gyroscopically around that one habit.

The image? I field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book above on the left was my twenty-eighth published book, and one of the oddest. On the blog I was doing then, The Archdruid Report, I ended up doing a whole series of posts on the relation between magic and peak oil. It became very popular among my readers, and so I decided to risk the experiment of assembling them into a book, adding such additional information and reflection as seemed appropriate, and offered it to one of the small presses that were pioneering the new business model of fine editions of occult books. Much to my surprise, Scarlet Imprint accepted it and brought it out in two editions, one good hardback edition and one over-the-top bound in black goatskin with gilt edges. Even more to my surprise, it sold out, and did so promptly enough that the publisher then issued a paperback edition, which is still in print. As with so much else that emerged during the heyday of the peak oil movement, it's unfashionable these days but no less valid than it was; you can get a copy from the publisher here.

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With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed, and no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***

Comments

Lambspring

[randomactsofkarmasc]

When you first published the Octagon Society lessons online, you included a picture from the Book of Lambspring with each section.


1. Are the correspondences between each image and section historical, ie, does each image really align to the specific lesson? (Because some of the images seem to go better with different lessons, except then they would be out of order. But maybe it is a more "these are spiritual alchemy pictures that relate" and I'm trying to impose a Splendor Solis interpretation on the text and images and I shouldn't be...)

2. If the correspondences are historical, why were the 1893 images used instead of older images?

3. I am finding lots of overlap of the images (especially from the Salamander on) with the Five Rites and Hall's Man: Grand Symbols, which is quite fun. I am slightly stuck on one thing (the mountain of India) that I have not found in the Five Rites (and the only mountain reference I've found so far in Grand Symbols is 'in the Himalaya'). Any resources you could recommend that would help me in figuring out which mountain Lambspring is referring to? (Hindu has a lot of sacred peaks, all with slightly different lore. So far, I am leaning toward Mount Meru. But there are two versions of Meru. The spiritual one has five peaks; the one in the Himalayas has three.)

Thank you very much!

Re: Lambspring

[randomactsofkarmasc]

And one more question, if I may. Is the work in the Five Rites (with the Centers and Vortices) and the process that Hall describes (with the Dew and the glands, etc) referred to as "Spiritual Alchemy" or does it have a more specialized name? (I have in my notes that you referred to something as "energetic alchemy", but I'm not quite sure you were referring to this.)

Re: Lambspring

[ecosophia]

The term "spiritual alchemy" means about a hundred different things, depending on who uses it. I'd refer to the Rites and Hall's work as physiological or microcosmic alchemy.

Re: Lambspring

[ecosophia]

1 & 2) Nope. I just liked the imagery.

3) Mons Abiegnus, the Mount of Fir-trees, the mystical Rosicrucian mountain of initiation. It's not a physical place. It's the Mons Magorum Invisibilis ("invisible mountain of the mages") in the image below.

Re: Lambspring

[randomactsofkarmasc]

What a fun picture! This will keep me busy for a while. Thank you so much!!!