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: What Could Happen?

[ecosophia]

You ask somebody in a strange city to show you around, and it turns out they're not trustworthy. What could happen to you? All kinds of things! This is the same kind of thing -- it all depends on what kind of entity it is and what intentions it had.

Re: What Could Happen?

[(Anonymous)]

John sir I've had a similar experience happen to me as the OP and I would like to know your opinion on it. In fact unlike the OP, I had an surprisingly positive experience:

A few days ago, I decided to start my path of initiation into the Tree of Life by pathworking from the 4 elements and working my way up the Holy Tree of Life.

I started with elemental Earth by visualizing the earth symbol (downward triangle with a horizontal line in the middle) and passed through the gate and immediately came upon a lush green forest. A few seconds of walking through revealed an 'alchemist' working in his open spaced lab at the bottom of a massive tree.

He told me he is an alchemist of the earth element and is conducting his research to help the gnomes. I asked whether he can help me with something. He agreed and told me to make a paper talisman with his name on top and the symbol of earth in the middle with the godname of earth on the bottom and to use any psalm of my liking. I asked for his preferred incense and he prefers Sandalwood or Musk (I own sticks).

I conveyed him my doubts about the authenticity of this pathworking and he said to try and see for myself because he has nothing to gain but my trust by being truthful and that was the end of the pathworking. I initially wanted to meet Ghob for my request but this guy was just perfectly present at the gate.

I wrote down the experience and did a geomantic divination asking whether this spirit was a genuine entity and the reading came back extremely positive in almost all houses so much so that I had no choice but to do the ritual as instructed by him and see for myself. His name is just three letters different from a character from the works of Tolkien so I was just full of doubt and still am.


What should I do? Should I try pathworking to Ghob again or should I go back to him and ask more questions about his nature its relationship to the element of earth?

If Ghob had given me this talismanic design, then I would have no doubts about it but the fact that the divination was completely in agreement with my question is unavoidable.