Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

Midnight is breathing down our necks 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 is my sixth-third published book, and you'll have a little trouble finding it right now, because its former publisher let it go out of print last year. The upsides are, first, that this gave me the chance to revise, expand, and improve it considerably; second, that I was able to give it the title I originally assigned it, Merlin's Wheel -- did you know that authors have no control over the titles and cover art of their books? -- and third, that I had it placed with a second publisher less than 24 hours after the old one let go of it.

The book -- well, it's a sequel of sorts to my earlier book The Celtic Golden Dawn, providing a set of eight seasonal ceremonies inspired by ancient mystery rites, celebrating the legendary life of Merlin around the cycle of the year as a system of spiritual self-initiation. The new version has been expanded so that it can also be practiced within the ritual system of the Golden Section Fellowship and its related traditions, including the Dolmen Arch system and the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose. It'll be out later this year, and I'll make an announcement here and on my blog once it's available for preorder.

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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

Would a group manifestation be appropriate now?

[(Anonymous)]

Hi John,

Two of my favorite words:

Zeitgeist: "is the way of thinking and feeling (mentality) of an age or certain time-frame. In occult terms a Zeitgeist is an etheric storm, to use Dion Fortune’s definition, with a very strong morphogenetic force that afflicts most people psychologically and can lead to both a period of prosperity and/or enlightenment or collective insanity and decay, such as is the case with a period of war, religious, political or economic hysteria, witch-hunts (old or modern) or crisis, which are all mass-psychoses." https://vamzzz.com/blog/zeitgeist/

Egregore: "In magical and other occult traditions, it is typically seen as having an independent existence, but in other kinds of esotericism, it is merely the collective mind of a religious community, either esoteric or exoteric. In the latter sense, as a collective mind, the term collective entity, preferred by René Guénon, is synonymous with egregore.[1] See the usage overview below. In the apocryphal Book of Enoch, the term had referred to angelic beings known as watchers,[4][5] and it was also used by associated (Enochian) traditions to refer to the specific rituals and practices associated with these entities.[6]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore

A lifetime's worth of things have actualized in the last year, certainly the last five, and arguably a decades's worth in the last 14 days. Are we far enough past the storm center, yet, that we can relax a bit and maybe turn more positive? (Speaking for myself, I did a lot of praying last year -- half of it that the world somehow, miraculously, escape the worst of the darkness -- and half that I, and those I cared most about, would get to "Noah's Ark" before it left dock.

Is it safe to come out yet? And, if so, would you consider doing a post, or series of posts, on how to view where we are (in broad strokes, and considering that descent is a long path) and, perhaps, lead a group "manifest" to a brighter future from here?

I know there is a thing about not talking too much about what we are about. But I would imagine something could be woven together, in a broader sense, for those who would like to participate? I like to think I did my small part with https://www.ecosophia.net/a-primer-of-magical-combat/

Re: Would a group manifestation be appropriate now?

[ecosophia]

No, not at all. One of the most important lessons we have to learn is that the age of Pisces, the age of mass consciousness, of prophets leading crowds toward this or that mirage of imminent salvation, is over. The age we are in now, the age of Aquarius, is the age of the individual, in which the spirit is being poured out over everyone and each of us gets to find our own way up the mountain -- if it's even the same mountain we're all on. (My guess is that it's not.)

There is no Noah's Ark, no escape hatch from history, no grand march toward the one true shining tomorrow. We are all wandering in the forest of time, and as the braying of trumpets and the bellowing of leaders fades out behind us, a hush is beginning to gather. In that hush, the thing that can lead each of us, or all of us, or all of us who want to, toward something better than we've got now is to learn to think our own thoughts -- not to copy anyone else's, no matter how impressively the latter may be presented or how good the cause seems.

THINK FOR YOURSELF, SCHMUCK! is the inscription written in fire on the mountain cliff ahead. And with that, I'll wind up this little sermon, and suggest that praying all by yourself, to whatever aspect of the divine calls most to you, is also a good idea just now.

Re: Would a group manifestation be appropriate now?

[geometria]

On that note, I wonder what you make of Jiddu Krishnamurti? He was born roughly around the beginning of the Age of Aquarius (in your dating), a lot of people wanted him to be the next World Teacher, and he clearly repudiated that role.

Re: Would a group manifestation be appropriate now?

[ecosophia]

Showing that he was in tune with the coming age while the people who marketed him were not. When he got up on that stage and said "Truth is a pathless land," he struck what I believe to be the authentic note of the Aquarian age. In a certain sense, then, he really was the World Teacher -- just not the kind of World Teacher the Theosophists wanted...

Re: Would a group manifestation be appropriate now?

[(Anonymous)]

I hope the end of the Piscean age means that those hoping for a mass white racial awakening to happen in the United States do not get their wishes fulfilled.

Re: Would a group manifestation be appropriate now?

[ecosophia]

I'm quite sure they won't. You really have to meet and talk to the genuine white supremacists in this country to realize how fragmented, dispirited, and ineffective that movement is.