Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

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. 

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 seventy-second published book and the beginning of a new fiction series. I'd spent years being frustrated by the way that fantasy fiction ignored real magic and fixated on Harry Potter absurdities instead. Once I finished my tentacle novels, that had the inevitable result and gave rise to the first of a series of novels in which all the magic is the stuff real human beings in the real world can encounter. Ariel Moravec, the protagonist of the series, is an eighteen-year-old girl who goes to spend the summer with her grandfather, an occult initiate who spends his time investigating paranormal happenings. Before long she's caught up in one of his investigations, centering on legends of a colonial-era witch and a cascade of very real and vicious spells in the present day...

There are two more novels in the series already in print, a third in press, and a fourth currently being written. It's turning into a very entertaining series to write and, I hope, to read. If you're interested, you can get copies of The Witch of Criswell here if you live in the US and here if you live elsewhere. 

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With that said, have at it! 

***This Magic Monday is now closed, and no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***

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Madeline Montalban's Order of The Morning Star and associated material

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,

Are you familiar with Madeline Montalban and her Order of the Morning Star? It's not directly linked to the more well known Stella Matutina.

Years ago, I got a book by David Goddard, which seems to be based on material he learnt from Montalban; the book mainly talks about different rituals to the 7 planetary angels from what I recall, I left my copy at my parent's place IIRC so I can't check right now. I found a private scan of some of Montalban's writings after that but it's lost on another hard disk long ago. I was thinking of it recently and found that Montalban's order taught some kind of Luciferianism in its inner levels, so that makes me a bit leary of it right now.

What, if anything, do you know about her and her system of magic, and would you recommend staying away?

Thanks

Re: Madeline Montalban's Order of The Morning Star and associated material

[ecosophia]

I don't believe I've ever encountered Montalban's work so can't offer any kind of advice regarding it.

Re: Madeline Montalban's Order of The Morning Star and associated material

[robertmathiesen]

Julia Philips wrote a biography of her, Madeline Montalban: The Magus of St. Giles, published in two hundred copies by Neptune Press (that is, Atlantis Bookshop) in 2012 (reprinted in 2015). She was born in 1910 and died in 1982.

To the best of my memory, her writings have only been available directly from her Order of the Morning Star. See https://www.sheridandouglas.co.uk/oms/ There is a little more about her available writings at the back of Julia Phillip's biography.

For her, Lucifer (the name means light-bringer) was not Satan, but an angel also named Lumiel, and her magic seems to have been angel magic in the Hermetic tradition.

She's a major figure in the history of 20th-century British esotericism.

Re: Madeline Montalban's Order of The Morning Star and associated material

[ecosophia]

Interesting. Thank you for this!