Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

Midnight is  here, 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've decided that questions about getting goodies from spirits are also permanently off topic here. The point of occultism is to develop your own capacities, not to try to bully or wheedle other beings into doing things for you. I've discussed this in a post on my blog.

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 was my fortieth published book, and the product of an investigation that's still ongoing. I happened to notice back in the early 1990s, as a result of voracious reading in odd books, that a surprising number of temple traditions around the world are connected to legends about increased agricultural fertility. I know, that's supposed to be mere superstition -- but it's funny how often "mere superstition" turns into evidence that the ancients knew more than it's fashionable for modern intellectuals to admit. That launched a quest that resulted in this book. I've come to theorize that woven into the design and use of certain specific kinds of temples is a lost folk technology that boosts agricultural productivity. I've collected physical evidence (including controlled double-blind studies) that there are energies known to science that could have been concentrated and put to use with resonating chambers of stone, designed according to specific geometries, filled with volatile organic compounds, and activated with sound waves. What's more, it's a technology that could be rediscovered and put to work to help plants thrive now.

This book was my first progress report on that investigation.  It's about to go out of print -- Llewellyn, the original publisher, still has a few copies left on sale, which you can get here -- but there'll be another edition in due time, and probably a further book not too long after that, as I'm continuing to find relevant data. Yes, there are also other people busy with this; the prospect of a working model, so that the details of the technology can be tested in real world conditions, may not be far off.

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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: Heathen Golden Dawn

[ecosophia]

1) I haven't heard of any yet, but you may be the person whose wyrd it is to get it started, you know.

2) There's no shortage of options. Always keep in mind, though -- how does it end? For this kind of work, you want to avoid myths and legends that end in tragedy. That's why so many workings that try to enact the core Arthurian legend fall apart so messily, and very often do it the same way that Arthur's kingdom did, via someone's spouse falling in love with somebody else. One option with a happy ending that comes to mind is first war of the world, the struggle of the Aesir and the Vanir that ended up with peace between them; that would make a fine seasonal cycle of rituals.

Re: Heathen Golden Dawn

[(Anonymous)]

1) I'm open to that in principle, and that's one reason I wanted to put out some feelers here, and to see if someone else had already started one. Maybe it could be as simple as a Discord group or the like to begin with, but we'll see...

2) Thanks for the suggestion. Like I said in my reply to Jeff above, I was under the impression, based on Merlin's Wheel, that the protagonist/model of the cycle should be a mythological figure rather than a full-on deity, while those are invoked during the rituals. Of course that could be a misunderstanding on my part.

As for happy endings, I suppose making it to all the way to old age is about as close as you get in the sagas, but you're right that Egil's life might still be too grim to make a good fit. In any case, I'll consider your idea and read up on that myth, and be on the lookout for other happy(ish) endings.

Re: Heathen Golden Dawn

[ecosophia]

2) Nah, think of the Eleusinian Mysteries -- they focused on the myth cycle of Demeter and Persephone, who were full-on goddesses. Most of the ancient mysteries had equally divine foci -- Mithras, Isis, Dionysus, Cybele, Jesus (ahem), etc.