Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

I'm going to be shocking and launch this week's Magic Monday a few minutes early, since I'm here on Dreamwidth,. (The picture is Thomas Taylor, the great Regency-era Platonist and worshiper of the Greek Gods, godfather of the modern Neopagan revival)

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SoP and the Middle Pillar

[(Anonymous)]

Greetings JMG,

In a previous Magic Monday I think you made reference to the SoP having effects similar to the LBRP + MP. Would that be due to the way the SoP activates and/or works with the three cauldrons/currents (along with the energy circulation at the end)?

I'm working with a Hermeticized/Qabalized SoP and originally had the notion of working with the Middle Pillar in the space thus prepared, but something's never quite felt right about that. Is that just me, or might it be related to the mismatch between the (three-or-seven-fold) energy work inherent in the SoP itself and the five-fold work of the MP? Or to some other factor in the rituals themselves?

Thanks and best wishes,
Jim

Re: SoP and the Middle Pillar

[ecosophia]

Yep. The SoP and its expansions works with the energy currents of the subtle body, just as the LBRP and MP do -- but they work with those things in different ways, and so it's not a good idea to mix them. If you're having good results with the SoP, stick with that.