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 1.3 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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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 more comments will be put through. See you next week!***

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MOE online course, blessing, books about energy body

[milkyway1]

Good morning,

I hope you, and everybody else, had a great weekend!

1. JMG, a little while ago, somebody asked for books about the energy body, how it's built up and works, its structure, "organs", etc, and you recommended one (or more?) books.

I thought I had saved the references somewhere, but can't find them anymore, and the search function hasn't helped me so far. Could you please give me the names and authors of the books again? Thanks!

2. And to everybody:

I'm teaching the Modern Order of Essenes in an online course. We started yesterday, and there is still plenty of room for people to join in (being a few days or even a few weeks "late" doesn't matter, you can just work in your own speed and still have the group to support you).

If you're interested, here is the link to the first "lesson" and some info on how it works:

https://thehiddenthings.com/moe-course-intro-and-unit-1

I'm also going to perfom a formal blessing on Wednesday, as usual, and bless everybody who signs up - and as it helps me to practice my blessing skills, I'm grateful to everybody who takes me up on the offer:

https://thehiddenthings.com/categories/weekly-blessings

Hope to "see" some of you in the MOE course, :-)

Milkyway

Re: MOE online course, blessing, books about energy body

[ecosophia]

Hmm. The only one that comes to mind right off hand is Arthur Powell's The Etheric Double, which is very Theosophical but solid. Anyone else?

Re: MOE online course, blessing, books about energy body

[slclaire]

I have downloaded these titles from recommendations you made:
The Astral Body, by Arthur Powell
The Causal Body and the Ego, by Arthur Powell

Re: MOE online course, blessing, books about energy body

[(Anonymous)]

"The Circuit of Force" by Dion Fortune, with supplemental chapters by Gareth Knight, is informative about the energy body and phenomena associated with it.

Gray Hat

Re: MOE online course, blessing, books about energy body

[(Anonymous)]

Two things that might be useful:

Kurt Leland's Rainbow Body: A History of the Western Chakra System from Blavatsky to Brennan, which does a good job covering not only the history but the applications and methods.

and

Gyalwa Yangönpa, Secret Map of the Body: Visions of the Human Energy Structure which goes into some detail as well, from a certain Tibetan point of view. This is useful not only for comparative purposes, but for a sense of the fact that there's as much variability in what seem to be older, established traditions as in what seem to be more recent, "western" adaptations.

This could be usefully read in connection with Janet Gyatso's Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet, which in a sense does for the Tibetan ener0gy body schemes what Leland's book does for the western ones.

The general point is that all of the energy body traditions are mutable, not fixed -- something that has caused some consternation in all traditions, especially as they engage with healing and medicine.


LeGrand

Re: MOE online course, blessing, books about energy body

[(Anonymous)]

Milkyway and JMG, if I may, if you haven't already, I might suggest taking a look at YOUR SACRED ANATOMY by Desda Zuckerman.

Re: MOE online course, blessing, books about energy body

[milkyway1]

Thanks a lot to all of you for your replies. This is very helpful. :-)