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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Comments

[ecosophia]

1) You should ignore them. The Golden Section work is its own thing, and has its own version of the Cabala, which will be covered in a forthcoming book. If you want to work with the standard Cabalistic material, stay with the more traditional stuff.

2) It's a mistake to try to cram everything into the Tree of Life. You can't fit an infinite universe into just 33 cubbyholes! Remember that you can do spirit vision with any symbol, whether or not it has anything to do with the Tree of Life -- the Golden Dawn taught its initiates to do scrying with the Enochian tablets, for example. If you want to communicate with a saint via scrying in the spirit vision, establish a practice of regular prayer to the saint, get an image of that saint, and then pass through that image as you would through a tarot card.

3) The same rule applies. You can use the symbols of the zodiacal signs as portals.

[(Anonymous)]

Not the OP but this insanely fascinating stuff. I too thought that the methods in your Paths of Wisdom book is limited to just the Hermetic tree of life and its angels.

For how many days would the practice of regular prayer to the Saint and projecting into his/her image symbol? The Saints I have in mind are St Expedite (Saint of hard times) and St Jude (same function). I ask because of your warnings regarding repeated spirit vision scrying in the book.


Also, is the Enochian system not following the hierarchical structure of Hermeticism; elements, planets and signs? I thought that Enochian was just another alternative approach to traditional Hermetic magick.


Finally what if no symbols exist for a spirit we're interested in? I assume that the spirits of Druidry in your books have no lore, and hence no symbols. Just as there is no symbol for the 'spirit ruler of my neighbourhood'.

[ecosophia]

1) I wouldn't do it more than once a week at most, and it would be best to do it once a year on the saint's feast day.

2) Sure, but it's a very different structure with its own unique logic. It's not simply Cabala with a new paintjob.

3) That's when you have to use what you know in an original way. Choose a wise being you're used to working with, and ask to be shown the relevant symbol...

[(Anonymous)]

Is there a specific book you recommend for learning to scry on the enochian system?

[ecosophia]

I recommend working through Regardie's The Golden Dawn in order, starting at the beginning. Enochian work is demanding stuff and you need to have mastered the rest of the GD system before attempting it.

[(Anonymous)]

Does the Golden Fellowship have both theurgy and practical magick practices? The last thing we want is an incomplete tradition.

[ecosophia]

It has neither. Like most of the older occult schools, it doesn't focus on magic; meditation is its central practice and personal spiritual development is its goal.