Magic Monday
Mar. 2nd, 2025 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
Midnight is just a few minutes away 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-eighty published book, and -- like some of the other things I've written -- it landed me in a certain amount of hot water. I noticed, not long after I started doing the kind of intermediate astrology that involves tracking transits of planets across natal chart positions, that most of the resulting predictions worked very well, but that those involving Pluto didn't. I then noticed that political and economic predictions involving Pluto -- not mine, in this case -- also flopped spectacularly. That launched me into a research project that convinced me that Pluto is in fact not a planet, but that it functioned like one in birth charts and mundane charts during the short period while astronomers mistook it for one. That led me to write The Twilight of Pluto, which talks about the complex way that planetary discoveries and downgradings relate to astrological prediction.
The reason this got me into hot water is that Pluto has a huge astrological fan club. It's weird; no other planet has that kind of frankly addictive emotional hold on people. No other planet sees people make one false prediction after based on its movements, and just keep on doing it, without ever noticing that they're making fools of themselves. I didn't get into that in this book, but Pluto fans took offense anyway because I dissed their favorite planet. The book's sales have been slow, though a remarkable number of people seem to know about it. I still think it makes a valid case, I don't use Pluto in my political astrology...and, ahem, my predictions are more accurate than those who do. If you're interested, you can get copies here in the US and at your favorite book outlet elsewhere.
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The Body’s Four Elements
Date: 2025-03-03 05:00 am (UTC)I’m interested in any alchemical or magical theories that elevate or transform the elements of the physical body.
Is there such a thing; and if so m can you please direct me to some resources??
Thank you
(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-03 05:02 am (UTC)A good start to the week!
We know that the Cathars, as a social and religious group, were extinguished in the 13th century.
My question is: Did their ideas and way of life persist in any religious or initiatic order?
Re: The Body’s Four Elements
Date: 2025-03-03 05:05 am (UTC)Thoughts on A Short History of Ethics and Question on Etheric Effects Thwarted by the Red Bag Amulet
Date: 2025-03-03 05:06 am (UTC)To anyone who marks it, a very happy Mardi Gras, to be followed by an appropriately somber and reflective Ash Wednesday.
To Share: As the first entry in a planned series on ethics, I've written up my thoughts on Alisdair MacIntyre's A Short History of Ethics: https://jpowellrussell.com/#book_a_short_history_of_ethics
To Ask: I started wearing a red bag amulet three weeks ago.
The first week, the nail turned completely brown in rusted. The second week, it was obviously corroded, but not as much. This third week, it was not quite as shiny as brand new, but not distinctly corroded. From what I've gathered on here, that started out as a rather quick rate of being "used up," which seems to imply that something bad was going on in my etheric environment that has either lessened on its own, or the amulet's been doing its job of reducing, and it hasn't been re-inforced enough to offset. What's not clear to me is whether the "something bad" is/was some kind of especially grubby etheric environment I'm spending time in, an attack (whether conscious or unconscious), or something self-generated.
Any tips on how to differentiate between these possibilities? Specifically, I'm wondering what leads to self-inflicted negative etheric patterns and how to recognize if I might be doing that to myself, as some of my assumptions/understanding of how this stuff work seem to make the other possibilities less likely. 1. I haven't noticed particularly "bad vibes" in the places I've been, which makes me think it's not environmental, 2. I haven't been spending time in close physical proximity to anyone who I know or suspect to be wishing me ill, and I figure such proximity would be necessary for an etheric, rather than astral, attack, and 3. I realized I don't really know what self-inflicted bad etheric patterns would look/feel like, so I don't know what to look for there. Of course, it's quite possible I'm missing something here, such as ignoring the possibility of an attack or something starting astral and then manifesting in the etheric, or over-weighting the necessity of physical proximity for etheric "vibes" or attacks to affect me.
If it's a relevant data point, I also made up a couple of the jars you've described and placed them on each bedside table, and when I checked after two weeks, the nails weren't corroded at all, and the salt hasn't discolored either. I take this to mean that whatever has affected the worn amulet isn't acting in that space, at least not as strongly, but more likely somewhere else or through some other medium.
As always, thanks very much to JMG and those who read and comment.
My blessings to all who welcome them,
Jeff
(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-03 05:10 am (UTC)https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/239168.html
There are also several surviving works of Cathar literature, which have influenced many modern Gnostic lineages:
http://gnosis.org/library/cathtx.htm
Re: The Body’s Four Elements
Date: 2025-03-03 05:12 am (UTC)Yes, according to Gurdjieffian alchemy, the physical body’s elements are simply on a different “octave” from the astral body, though admittedly lower on the elemental scale.
My idea is the impossible idea of transforming the four bodily elements to the astral realm.
(Impossible?)
Re: Thoughts on A Short History of Ethics and Question on Etheric Effects Thwarted by the Red Bag Am
Date: 2025-03-03 05:18 am (UTC)Re: Thoughts on A Short History of Ethics and Question on Etheric Effects Thwarted by the Red Bag Am
Date: 2025-03-03 05:25 am (UTC)Cheers,
Jeff
Re: The Body’s Four Elements
Date: 2025-03-03 05:31 am (UTC)Let's cover some basics. You have three bodies -- a material body, an etheric body (that is, a body of life force), and an astral body -- and you're evolving a fourth, a mental body. (It's a mental sheath right now, since it hasn't yet evolved organs of perception and action on the mental plane.) All these are vestures surrounding the soul. You can learn to put your soul and mental sheath in a portion of your astral body, and move it away from the material and etheric bodies; that's astral projection, and there are plenty of manuals to learn how to do that if you want to.
To dissolve the material body into astral substance, though, would deprive you of your link with material reality -- that is to say, you'd die. The etheric body would dissolve or detach after a short delay, and then you'd be in the afterlife in the normal condition, with an astral body and a mental sheath surrounding your soul; then you'd get to process the memories in your astral body, and proceed with the normal post-life process. You're going to do that soon enough anyway, and having a material body has certain advantages, so why rush it?
Re: The Body’s Four Elements
Date: 2025-03-03 06:09 am (UTC)My current belief is that there are beings of a higher caliber who live very long lives in the astral world. I sort of ascribe the Buddhist “ form realm”, with its higher “gods”, as similar to the Western astral realm.
Apparently the Buddha might have ascended to his parinirvana from the highest region of the form realm. The Buddhist idea is that the layers of the form realm correspond to attained meditative states; and the way in to them is through a certain non-degenerating type of meritorious deeds.
Upper Planes and Flames
Date: 2025-03-03 06:12 am (UTC)I listened to a podcast you did on monsters. I added your book to my list, it sounds interesting. My question is about something you said in this interview about how etheric beings can sometimes manipulate dust. I was wondering if the etheric plane can do the same for fire, maybe through the electromagnetic field?
I am asking because one of my meditation practices is staring at a candle flame, and when I really get into it, I find the flame can move it ways that feel like a mirror. So it got me thinking, according to your understanding, and if it is indeed possible for the upper planes like the etheric to influence fire, could it be my own etheric body interacts with the flame due to my concentration and contemplation of the flame?
If true, this could prove an interesting tool for my practice of spiritual alchemy, as I could maybe get clues to what my unconscious and subconscious minds are up to.
Re: The Body’s Four Elements
Date: 2025-03-03 06:45 am (UTC)Ecosophia Prayer List
Date: 2025-03-03 06:53 am (UTC)If I missed anybody, or if you would like to add a prayer request for yourself or anyone who has given you consent (or for whom a relevant person holds power of consent) to the list, please feel free to leave a comment below and/or in the comments at the current prayer list post.
This week I would like to bring special attention to the following prayer requests.
May Cliff's friend Jessica, who is suffering from severe postpartum depression, be blessed and soothed; may each day take her closer to an outlook of joyful participation in the world.
May Other Dave's father Michael Orwig, who passed away on 2/24, make his transition to his soul's next destination with comfort and grace; may his wife Allyn and the rest of his family be blessed and supported in this difficult time.
May Viktoria have a safe and healthy pregnancy, and may the baby be born safe, healthy and blessed. May Marko have the strength, wisdom and balance to face the challenges set before him. (picture, update)
May Cliff's friend Jessica, who is suffering from severe postpartum depression, be blessed and soothed; may each day take her closer to an outlook of joyful participation in the world.
May Peter Evans in California, whose colon cancer has been responding well to treatment, be completely healed with ease, and make a rapid and total recovery.
May Debra Roberts, who has just been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer, be blessed and healed to the extent that providence allows. Healing work is also welcome.
May Jack H's father John, whose aortic dissection is considered inoperable and likely fatal by his current doctors, be healed, and make a physical recovery to the full extent that providence allows, and be able to enjoy more time together with his loved ones.
May Goats and Roses' son A, who had a serious concussion weeks ago and is still suffering from the effects, regain normal healthy brain function, and rebuild his physical strength back to normal, and regain his zest for life. And may Goats and Roses be granted strength and effectiveness in finding solutions to the medical and caregiving matters that need to be addressed, and the grief and strain of the situation.
May Kevin’s sister Cynthia be cured of the hallucinations and delusions that have afflicted her, and freed from emotional distress. May she be safely healed of the physical condition that has provoked her emotions; and may she be healed of the spiritual condition that brings her to be so unsettled by it. May she come to feel calm and secure in her physical body, regardless of its level of health.
May Linda from the Quest Bookshop of the Theosophical Society, who has developed a turbo cancer, be blessed and have a speedy and full recovery from cancer.
May Frank R. Hartman, who lost his house in the Altadena fire, and all who have been affected by the larger conflagration be blessed and healed.
May Corey Benton, who is currently in hospital and whose throat tumor has grown around an artery and won't be treated surgically, be healed of throat cancer. Healing work is also welcome. [Note: Healing Hands should be fine, but if offering energy work which could potentially conflict with another, please first leave a note in comments or write to randomactsofkarmasc to double check that it's safe]
May Open Space's friend's mother
Judith be blessed and healed for a complete recovery from cancer.
May Peter Van Erp's friend Kate Bowden's husband Russ Hobson and his family be enveloped with love as he follows his path forward with the glioblastoma (brain cancer) which has afflicted him.
May Scotlyn's friend Fiona, who has been in hospital since early October with what is a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, be blessed and healed, and encouraged in ways that help her to maintain a positive mental and spiritual outlook.
May Jennifer and Josiah, their daughter Joanna, and their unborn daughter be protected from all harmful and malicious influences, and may any connection to malign entities or hostile thought forms or projections be broken and their influence banished.
Guidelines for how long prayer requests stay on the list, how to word requests, how to be added to the weekly email list, how to improve the chances of your prayer being answered, and several other common questions and issues, are to be found at the Ecosophia Prayer List FAQ.
If there are any among you who might wish to join me in a bit of astrological timing, I pray each week for the health of all those with health problems on the list on the astrological hour of the Sun on Sundays, bearing in mind the Sun's rulerships of heart, brain, and vital energies. If this appeals to you, I invite you to join me.
Novels and the Mental Sheath
Date: 2025-03-03 09:20 am (UTC)Thank you for hosting another MM. I have been reading your occult philosophy workbook and have become fascinated with the idea of developing the mental sheath. To this end, can you please recommend some novels that when read attentively would develop my mental sheath? Thank you.
(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-03 10:03 am (UTC)To share, for those who wonder what OSA, ADF or AS mean, a list of abbreviations used on Ecosophia. There's also a list of the book entries so far.
Last week I received an email from Sphinx books saying my copy of "The Carnelian Moon" has shipped. Looking forward to reading Ariel's third adventure!
Re: Thoughts on A Short History of Ethics and Question on Etheric Effects Thwarted by the Red Bag Am
Date: 2025-03-03 10:05 am (UTC)I wear the bag only at certain times. Not sure if that's the right way to do it, but it made me think of an answer to your question. You could craft two bags and wear one at night and one by day, and compare how quickly they rust?
(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-03 11:10 am (UTC)1. Is there a karmic component to what one dreams at night?
2. What is the difference bween "How to Judge a Nativity" and "The Key to Your Own Nativity" by Alan Leo? I believe you have written that these are good introductions into natal astrology, is thir correct?
Thanks!
SOP and illness
Date: 2025-03-03 11:45 am (UTC)I've been doing a morning SOP regularly for 6 months or so now and feel I'm receiving many great benefits from it (thank you JMG for leading me to it in the first place).
Last week I had an illness (probably just a heavy cold) that had me feeling weak and lethargic. I didn't feel I had the energy to get out of bed, let alone the imaginative energy (not the right term, but close enough) required for the SOP. What's the best thing to do in this situation? I like to listen to what my body is telling me, especially with regard to rest, but I also felt I'd be vulnerable without the regular ritual (especially if the illness was coming from a malevolent attack...), even though attempting it with low energy might not yield results...
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
BTW I would soooo be shoving in Walt's line but I'm in the wrong hemisphere...
The subconscious/The Shadow
Date: 2025-03-03 11:54 am (UTC)I remembered the gist of what I wanted to ask last Monday, so let me try again.
I have long dealt with a form of mental disturbances that comes and goes in episodes, in fact, trying to work on this is a big part of what led me to try JMG's ternary of daily practices(and get a lot of improvement from it, btw).
Working on this stuff has led me try and think about the nature of my problem, and I have come to realize that the reason it seems to spring on me like possession by Mr. Hyde is because much of it stems from my subconscious, particularly the Shadow components of my subconscious. These destructive mental patterns seem to be the subconscious' way of saying "I have stuff that needs dealt with to, stop ignoring me". For example, I would have sworn my entire life that I do not like being the center of attention, yet I can find no other good explanation for my behavior and choices during some of these episodes than an attempt to put myself into the center of attention, which I think is a subconscious feeling of being ignored bubbling up.
I was wondering if anyone has any advice for trying to talk to my subconscious and establish a line of communication that allows these episodes to be avoided or at least mitigated to some extent. Is this a good instance for doing the freewrite journaling I've seen mentioned before? Or maybe try and do dream journaling to see whats there? I know the entire concept of the Shadow is that it is content that we refuse to look at consciously, but maybe try and see it by looking at my projections, or find it by looking where my mind tries to avoid going?
Also, in trying to track back in my journals about the issue, I've come to realize that an imbalance of Water seems to play a role, every one of these over the last year has involved days where Water was involved with my meditation, either through the meditative concept or pore breathing. I am someone who is way too prone to getting stuck in my own head, so it is most likely pulling on Water too much, but I'm still a noob with most of this so maybe I'm misreading that. What practices are there for trying to re-establish a balance in my elemental forces? My diet is already pretty heavy in hot and dry foods, which cause their own problems, maybe I need to be looking at herbs to counteract this? Or are there mental practices that could help, like doubling up Fire pore breathing?
Thank you for hosting MM, there is so much good stuff to learn here every week.
Geoff
Mindset of ceremonial magick
Date: 2025-03-03 01:03 pm (UTC)I had a question pertaining to what type of mindset or level of being open to have during ceremonial magic ritual (specifically Golden Dawn/Celtic Golden Dawn)? I come from a mystic/tantric background and in that previous practice, the practitioner surrendered to the energy to merge with and attempt to have some sort of union with, said energies.
Ceremonial magic seems different, and one of the things that drew me to CM was this idea of self empowerment and having my own will and own energy and own mind, contrary to this previous practice of deity yoga/guru yoga and surrendering wholly and merging with.
Is there such thing as "too open" during ritual? Where do we draw the lines? And is such a level of openness critical to causing change in one's consciousness? I'm speaking to the energies and forces one feels while doing ritual. Level of trust in whatever is swirling around?
Thanks for any wisdom you may feel inclined to share with a beginner like me. and thanks for answering our questions
Re: Thoughts on A Short History of Ethics and Question on Etheric Effects Thwarted by the Red Bag Am
Date: 2025-03-03 01:17 pm (UTC)Q
Date: 2025-03-03 01:34 pm (UTC)1) After a chat with a friend who came back from a buddhist retreat where many had intense non-dual experiences, I want to asked you about plato, neoplatonist (as well as say Dion Fortune)'s conceptions of the universe, compared to more non-dual cosmologies in buddhist and advaita.
Why is it that buddhist/advaita practioner seem to report direct non-dual awareness and one-ness, compared to the more hierarchical emanations of the former? I tend towards neo-platonism like you, but I am puzzled by buddhists and vedantists who speak of one-ness, or of gods as mental projections.
How much of our own expectations is "priming" what is perceptually experienced, and can we really look outside so to speak?
These types of people will speak of say look at the horizon and feeling/sensing that the horizon is you also. Even though when my kundalini first woke up, I had an experience of observing myself outside of my body, I don't know what to make of this type of stuff where everything is experienced as one, and I don't know what it means ontologically or epistemologically.
Last, where do these experiences line on the 7 planes, 7-sub levels per level schema of yours. I'm presuming the really non-dual ones are the mental plane or something even beyond that, versus say discursive meditation or any other dualistic personal identity-based meditation of spiritual experience?
Request for Advice: Escape from Q
Date: 2025-03-03 01:46 pm (UTC)I hope you have all been well. I wish I could have come here under better circumstances, but my story is roughly equal parts cautionary tale and a request for advice or help of some kind. In some ways, the cautionary tale is part horror story, as it deals with negative entities and some evil people.
In reconstructing this story from my memory (for it is years-long in its unfolding), I have tried to strike a balance between brevity and comprehensiveness. If I were to go into every detail, this post would be a novelette—maybe longer—but if I were to leave out key facts, the story would be misrepresented. I wish to do neither.
So, dear reader, I ask your forbearance at the beginning, for there is a lot of info to convey in a relatively small space.
The tale starts, as far back as I can trace it, in April of 2017. That’s when I was hit with a very powerful magical attack. I don’t know who did it, nor why they did it. The attack/curse left me almost dead, with very little energy to do anything. I couldn’t think well; it was as if my mind had been starved of energy and filled with something toxic. I felt an enormous blockage in my crown chakra but couldn’t remove it. I would sometimes sleep for 20 hours out of 24, and not by choice. No matter how much I slept, though, the sleep was never very restorative: I’d wake up about as tired as I had fallen asleep. I lingered somewhere between the living in the dead, in those ways.
For convenience’s sake, I called this curse “Disease X,” for it was largely an unknown to me at the time.
In the years since the attack, I sought help from various people—anything that might give me a clue for how to remove Disease X from myself… or anyone who could do part or all of that job for me.
I was not very successful at this attempt, due to my disabled state and to my lack of resources to bear on such an arcane, difficult problem. Certain healers and exorcists were able to help here and there, and, today, nearly eight years later, most of Disease X is gone. Not all of it… but most of it. I am grateful for the help these people gave me. A lot of demonic entities and malign magic were removed from me, thanks to the help of these kind people and because of the exorcism knowledge they shared with me.
However… not everyone I asked was kind or wholesome. I am ashamed to say it, but one of the people I asked for help, when I was at the end of my rope, was an old sorceress whom I knew to be at least somewhat evil. This was back in January of 2022. I was out of known-wholesome people to ask for help at this time, but some of the demonic entities from Disease X were still very much active. I thought that I could ask the old woman for help, and I’d be cured in only 2-3 months, tops, for she was very powerful, in terms of magical abilities.
But my asking her for help was, in hindsight, the most disastrous mistake I’ve ever made in this incarnation. I do not say that lightly. In some ways, she is worse than Disease X.
Let me explain…
The old sorceress, whom I’ll call “Q” for shorthand, is highly abusive. For whatever healing she gave me, she gave me at least twice that much in suffering, either at her hands directly or at the hands of the negative entities she uses.
The sorceress seems to have some obsession with me, and that obsession has sexual overtones. For the past two years, I’ve pleaded with her to let me go, but she will not. Being “magically linked” to her (if that’s what this is) feels like being near a black hole: She is something dark, uncaring toward me, ruinal, hard to escape from…
I seem to have inadvertently become one of her “possessions,” for lack of a better term. In no particular order, Q’s abuse toward me has taken these forms:
A) Sexual abuse in dreams / the astral.
B) Verbal abuse. I can sometimes hear her in my mind, and she forces her messages onto me against my will and with my protest. Some of the messages have been very harsh and lewd. Others, nonsensical. All of them have been distracting and troubling. For years, I have tried to reason with her via these messaging attempts, but she cannot or will not use reason. Sometimes her demonic entities will say awful things to me, including threats, projections, gaslighting, and insults.
C) Holding me in confinement (in the astral? I am unsure if this is the correct level of reality) within her “HQ” or “domain” against my will, using demonic entities as something like jail guards.
D) Psychological abuse. Despite my adamant pleas to be let go, she will not let me go, but continues to force herself on me.
E) Use of malign magic on me. Q *has* removed some of Disease X from me, but she sometimes uses malign means to do so, or she uses them on the side (i.e., not to heal, but for other purposes). Some of the magic she does on me does not at all feel good or healing, but oppressive, dark, and controlling. For example, one thing she sometimes does to me feels like filling my head with negative energy: It feels like she has placed some negative entity there (maybe herself?), and there is the definite feeling of pressure in my head when she has done it, and my mind feels clouded, cramped, and uncomfortable.
F) Extensive and sustained surveillance of me. This one is hard to describe, maybe even hard to believe, but it feels like she has somehow linked her mind with mine, or at least extensively tapped it. Like a dark cloud over me, she is aware of my thoughts and intentions. I have no privacy from my abuser and her “henchmen.”
In mid-2023, I turned toward Zen Buddhism, not really having had a religion of my own in the years of my Disease X illness/curse. I have discovered that certain Buddhist mantras are effective at repelling Q, but I haven’t found a way to free myself from her. That is, mantra-repetition can keep her at a distance and dispel some of her malign magic, but it doesn’t keep her from returning to me, and (at least so far) it hasn’t uprooted her from me.
I don’t have the realistic option of letting her have her way with me unopposed, due to the abuses she enacts when I let my guard down for too long. I have no choice but to try to become free of her, but this is a time-intensive and dangerous undertaking….
I am not at all confident that she would leave me alone if Disease X were removed from me. Because of her obsessive personality, I expect that she would continue to “possess” and abuse me for the indeterminate future, maybe even beyond this incarnation, no matter whether Disease X were on me or not.
Having a bit of Golden Dawn experience in my past, I thought to try the LBRP and LBRH, but these are not effective means of holding her back or preventing her return. (To be sure, these rituals *are* good at helping me feel better, for they clean my energy and make tranquil the energy of the surrounding space, but she is not held back by them.)
So, the cautionary tale’s basic moral, as I see it: No matter the circumstances, don’t ask evil entities for help! You might get way more than you bargained for, and not in a good way. (Seems like a no-brainer now, but I didn’t know it then.)
But also the request for help: Do you have any advice for what I can do in my present circumstances vis-a-vis Q? How ought I to proceed, in your opinion? I can do Buddhist mantra-recitation to keep her back, but this option is expensive in terms of time and effort. She abuses me daily, and it takes a long time to repel her (up to 30 minutes for each of her attempts on me, and she makes many attempts at me each day, some seemingly benign, some wicked). I haven’t figured out how to free myself from her.
My current means of extracting myself from her grip are prayers and mantras. They hold her back, and her negative entities have attacked me verbally and magically for trying to protect or extract myself from her (and from them), but I don’t know of better means than these. I am open to your ideas and suggestions.
I’ve been trapped with her for about three years, as of the writing of this post. I would rather not spend the rest of my incarnation with her. To be treated like a sexual possession and prisoner, rather than as a person, and by a demonic and very irrational human, is an awful fate.
Thank you very much in advance for any advice. 🙏🏼
(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-03 02:29 pm (UTC)Outside of magic and planetary charity - which I already know are *not* appropriate for me - what can I do to improve relations with Divine beings?
Also, I’ve been suggested to join church on a regular basis, and part of me sees much value in finding an existing community and tradition to fit myself within. But as someone whose spiritual and life experiences do *not* fit at all within Catholic orthodox teachings and who furthermore feels like I’ve probably practiced the Christian faith in past lives and it’s old-hat and want to do something else this time (I have only one past life memory so this is more just me expressing murky feelings from my subconscious than expressing anything based on fact), another part of me feels no strong connection to going through the work, and that part sometimes wants to resist strong involvement in it. There’s no doubt deeper subconscious issues at work here. How can I work through this?
Please note that my circumstances are such that ritual magic and direct work with the Divine through that is not an option.
I welcome Ecosophians’ recommendations.
Re: The Body’s Four Elements
Date: 2025-03-03 03:07 pm (UTC)None of this, however, is done by doing things to the material body; that dies once it wears out, in the usual way. It's achieved by working with the higher vestures of the soul, in the manner I've just outlined.