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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!***
Re: Question about the US
I'm glad to hear this! The United States is a very strange place and its egregor has problems, like those of all the other nations on the planet, but it can be a very good place to be. My family's been here for a while -- my father's people came over from Scotland in the early 19th century -- but it's not just a good place for those who've been here a while.
The community in Rhode Island where I live has a lot of legal immigrants -- quite a few Portuguese-speaking people from the Azores and the Cape Verde Islands, a large community from the Dominican Republic, and a fair number of Koreans -- and those I know personally are thriving and seem very happy here. So I think there's good reason to be part of the national egregor, and those two acronyms seem very sensible to me just now.
Re: Question about the US
Thanks for this. I am grateful for this forum!
What are some common egregore problems? Do you have any recommedations for individuals who who like to assist in supporting the development of a healthy egregore? One morening I woke up with the feeling that the US is trying to give birth, but it's in deep labor pains right now. I am happy to assist in whatever way I can on the inner planes.
Lots to say, but I'll reserve the rest of my questions for another Magic Monday.
Many thanks!
Re: Question about the US
Re: Question about the US
Thanks very much!
Nicky