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Magic Monday
Midnight is upon us 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.
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Re: A query on particular accents/elocution
Re: A query on particular accents/elocution
(Anonymous) 2025-04-28 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)(I don't mind the posh British accent but I'm more soothed by those who speak in cockney rhyming slang ; ) I also like the voices of Snoop Dogg and Samuel L. Jackson... I think it has something to do with being from the westside of Cincinnati)
There might be something to this though. In my research for my book The Radio Phonics Laboratory, I learned about Melville Graham Bell's work as an elocutionist and how his creation of his system for Visible Speech, to help the deaf, linked back to the quest for a universal language, that itself had been part of various hermetic and occult traditions. In my research throughout the book, what Joscelyn Godwin called "the mystery of the vowels" came back as a thread over and over again, in the development of communication technology, and the electronic instruments that were an outgrowth of that.
If nothing else, the active use of will in speaking a certain way may have certain effects as opposed to speaking "unconsciously." As a broadcaster, I know I talk differently when I'm on the radio than when I'm not. (Though I can slip into that mode.) Or the different ways you speak when giving a talk or reciting poetry. There is something potentially Bardic that can emerge.
Certainly I think that whether or not elocution had a magical dimension or not, a magical dimension could be brought into it now. But it would be interesting to see if there is anything in the literature about elocution. I imagine there might be something connected to the New Thought movement at least, as speaking well might have been an aspect of self-improvement.
Justin Patrick Moore
Re: A query on particular accents/elocution
(Anonymous) 2025-04-29 02:54 am (UTC)(link)LeGrand