Magic Monday

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Midnight is just past, and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and with certain exceptions noted below, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after that point will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted.  If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 341,928th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.2 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.  This was my fifty-ninth published book, and those of you who aren't Lovecraft fans can breathe a sigh of relief now, as we're out of tentacle territory at long last. The Dolmen Arch is a study course in Druidical occultism, and it came about in a very odd way. The Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), the order I more or less rescued from the dumpster in 2003, had been through political struggles a decade further back and a lot of people had bailed out. After I became Grand Archdruid, since I hadn't been involved in any of the fussing, some of these people contacted me or simply mailed me packages with notes amounting to, "Now that you're Grand Archdruid you ought to have this." What "this" amounted to was a very mixed bag, but in one package, tucked into a bunch of unrelated papers on French occult orders, were parts of a couple of lessons of an old American Druid correspondence course from between the two world wars.

I spent a while being annoyed that the rest of the course was nowhere to be found. Then it occurred to me that I could reverse engineer it without too much difficulty, since I'd been able to figure out some of the important influences on the course and I also had a wealth of other twentieth century Druid material. The result was a hefty seven-unit correspondence course. I taught it privately to students for a while, then arranged to publish it with Azoth Press in a very nice fine edition. When that sold out, Azoth decided to bring out a trade paper edition, which is still available and selling steadily. Apparently there's a demand for fussy, richly philosophical, old-fashioned Druid training. This is the first volume of two. If you're in the market for that, you can get copies here in the US and from your favorite online retailer elsewhere.

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I've also had quite a few people over the years ask me where they should buy my books, and here's the answer. Bookshop.org is an alternative online bookstore that supports local bookstores and authors, which a certain gargantuan corporation doesn't, and I have a shop there, which you can check out here. Please consider patronizing it if you'd like to purchase any of my books online.

And don't forget to look up your Pangalactic New Age Soul Signature at CosmicOom.com.

With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed, and no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***