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Magic Monday
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 1.3 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-sixth published book -- I've passed over The King in Orange, which was pulled out of order by the eldritch attraction of Inauguration Day and appeared in January -- and the beginning of my most ambitious publishing project to date: a complete system of occult training, original although based on the material I studied with John Gilbert, which fills roughly the same role as the correspondence courses offered by old-fashioned occult schools but is published for everyone to read.
I stress the word "occult" here. Occultism and magic are not the same thing, though they're related to each other and can be compatible. Magic uses ritual as its primary tool, and has power as its theme and goal; occultism uses meditation as its primary tool, and has wisdom as its theme and goal. (Both contrast with mysticism, which -- in its western forms, at least -- uses prayer as its primary tool, and has love as its theme and goal.) The Way of the Golden Section and its sequels teach very little in the way of ritual and even less in the way of magic. They focus on meditation, divination, sacred geometry, and certain other standard occult practices, and their goal is to achieve wisdom, revelation, and enlightenment. This book -- which requires The Sacred Geometry Oracle for some of its work -- is the first step on that path. Interested? You can get copies here if you're in the United States and here elsewhere. (I recommend the hardback edition, btw: it's sturdy, and will stand up to the hard use you'll give it.)
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With that said, have at it!
***This Magic Monday is now closed, and no more comments will be put through. See you next week!***
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(Anonymous) 2025-02-17 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)*Or will have that side effect as it fulfills its actual purpose
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(Anonymous) 2025-02-17 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
On my side of the pond the times feel intense. So many lives seem to be in turmoil, decade long friendships breaking up, home improvement jobs going haywire, people falling and injuring a joint. Nothing seems to go right at the first attempt. I noticed myself falling into a really bad mood yesterday when some things didn't work out the way I intended. And our political leadership is bursting out in tears when JD Vance holds up a mirror to them. Our greatest war mongers are meeting today in Paris, no doubt plotting how to derail any peace process in Ukraine. It's all just crazy. Anyway, would this fit in the picture of something working its way through the planes?
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That's interesting to hear what the mood's like in Europe. Here it depends on where you stand politically. Committed Democrats -- and of course all those who profit from the current system -- are in a state of shrieking hysteria. A lot of other people are pinching themselves and thinking, "Am I dreaming, or are so many things really going the right way at last?"
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I was hoping we could latch on to some of the changes in the US, but so far I don't see anything on the horizon. Maybe the Changer is only interested is in the US and we will get our own archetypical force activated, for better or worse. Time will tell...
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(Anonymous) 2025-02-17 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)However, I surprise myself saying to people who are in a state of rage, panic or despair Trust God. Please, just trust God. It's not necessarily coming from me.
I'm worn out already.
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