ecosophia | Magic Monday

Midnight is almost here 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.

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I wish there was more readily available material on group souls! Dion Fortune talks about them in a few places, and I've triangulated between that, Oswald Spengler, and my own impressions based on a lot of reading of history and mythology. I agree with you, for whatever this is worth, that Byzantium put a very deep imprint on Russia, at least as deep as the Roman imprint here in the US; it's almost as though once the Roman Empire split in half, the two sides drifted geographically apart, and the west ended up on the far side of the Atlantic while the east ended up in the Dnieper and Volga basins.

As for the prediction, here again, the only place I've seen references to it is here and there in Theosophical literature -- never in detail. Most of what I've written on the subject is my own work, rather than references to older teachings.

Heavens, yes! That the capital of Russia (Moscow) is the third and final "Rome" has been a major part of Russia's self-identity ever since the late 1400s and the 1500s. (The first Rome was Rome itself, the second Rome was Constantinople, which fell to Muslim armies in 1453.)

Here is how one Russian writer, the monk Filofei [Philotheos], exhorted the Russian Tsar [the title comes from the Latin word "Caesar"] in the early 1500s:

"all the Christian kingdoms came to an end and came together in a single kingdom of yours. Two Romes have fallen, the third stands, and there will be no fourth. No one shall replace your Christian kingdom."

This exhortation has been quoted over and over again since the 1800s in Russian schoolbooks on the history of Russia, to the point where it has become deeply embedded in Russians' consciousness of their historical destiny.

Thank you very much

I suppose, one of these days I will have to plunge into Spengler

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