Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

Midnight is just a few minutes away, 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-ninth published book, and remains far and away the most successful of my books from the peak oil era. Its genesis, like most of my other peak oil books, began on the blog I ran in those days, The Archdruid Report, with a series of posts on the appropriate technology movement -- one of the most promising of the movements of the 1970s ecological scene, which attempted to craft advanced technologies that could work within the limits of sustainability. Though it was erased from collective memory by mass media and corporate interests, it produced quite a few useful technologies, and this book was my attempt to bring those back to the attention of those who might use them. Given the steady sales of this book, I still have hope. If you're interested, you can get a copy here.

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I've also had quite a few people over the years ask me where they should buy my books, and here's the answer. Bookshop.org is an alternative online bookstore that supports local bookstores and authors, which a certain gargantuan corporation doesn't, and I have a shop there, which you can check out here. Please consider patronizing it if you'd like to purchase any of my books online.

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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

Re: Flag Question

[ecosophia]

I'm watching that carefully. Is this the one you mean?


If so, it's a hybrid of the solar cross -- which belongs to the same symbolic family as the swastika -- and the Latin cross, which gets a lot of use in Scandinavian flags among many others. Let's see whether it gains general acceptance among the "Auslander Raus" crowd. If so, I'd expect to see some interesting political shifts.

Re: Flag Question

[robertmathiesen]

By far the oldest of those Scandinavian flags is the Danish one, the Dannebrog or "the cloth of the Danes." It shows a white cross (without any circle) on a red background. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Denmark

Legend has it that the flag fell from the sky on June 15, 1219, during a Danish crusade against the still Pagan Estonians, to give victory to the Danes under King Valdemar II. It's about as popular among Danes as the Stars and Stripes is among Americans, and displayed about as frequently.

(This was the same King Valdemar II who promulgated the Laws for Jutland with the quotable opening words, "With law shall the land be built. ..... If there were no law in the land, then he would have the most who could grab the most. Therefore shall the law be done for the needs of all men, so that just men and wise men and men not litigant can enjoy their peace, and unjust men and bad men may fear ...")

Re: Flag Question

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, JMG, that is generally it.

Somehow the flags that I have seen recently (on video) appeared to be square in shape, hence equal-armed in appearance. However, if the original/true version is the Latin cross, that gives it a different flavour.

And thanks, Robert, for the fascinating story about the Danish flag! These myths, as improbable as they may be at the physical level, have extraordinary power to galvanize a nation.

Ron M

Re: Flag Question

[xcalibur_djs]

That's a really cool aesthetic, and is similar to earlier white nationalist logos. It definitely has potential.