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)

Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. Any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer, though it may be Tuesday sometime before I get to them all.

I've had several people ask about tipping me for answers here, and though I certainly don't require that I won't turn it down. You can use the button below to access my online tip jar. 

With that said, have at it! 

***This post is now closed to new questions. See you next week!***

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

JMG
Not so much a question - more a thank you.
Over on I think Kek 3 I asked about a reading source for Charles Stuart 1st (Britain) getting into occult practice. You had made the point about delusions of magical power distracting leaders from a reality building thus toward a disaster.
You recommended Vaughan Hart's 1994 Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts. I rapidly obtained at astonishingly low cost for UK a fine copy of this very interesting book having insights into a previous crux time in British history. And I knew nothing of Inigo Jones interest in Stonehenge. It has given me, however, a task. The book was purportedly ex libris and from a well known large online seller of used books but actually appears to have been out on loan from 2002. Am checking but have yet to hear back from the University concerned.

Caution (and ordinary ethics) in magic however low cost compared with the Stuart extraordinary extravagance?
best
Phil H

[ecosophia]

That's the one! Yes, exactly -- also, it's a really bad idea, though a popular one, to use magic to blind yourself to the consequences of your own actions.