Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

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.

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-seventh published book, a study of the utterly unfashionable approach to sexual energies in magic that Dion Fortune and her fellow occultists of the Society of the Inner Light pioneered. You can always get a lot of interest by telling people to engage in orgiastic excess, and curiously enough, you can also get a lot of interest by telling people that sex is bad and God will spank them for thinking about it. Suggest something in between these extremes and nothing like so many people want to hear about it. Be that as it may, this is a practical handbook of magical practices that use redirected, sublimated erotic energies; the participants sit several feet from each other, usually with an altar in between them, and stay fully clothed. How dowdy? Nonetheless the methods work extremely well, and I give full details. If you're interested, you can get copies here in the US and here elsewhere. 

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

Comments

Rose Cross across the Gates of Death

[davidincminor]

JMG, a family member will soon be passing out of incarnation. I will be praying for her as she makes the transition. But I have a couple of questions from a spiritual perspective:

1) How long after death should one continue to pray? Is there a good way to know when they have moved on far enough that the prayers have reached a point of diminishing, or negative, returns? (Negative returns in the sense that the attention they get from our material plane may distract them from necessary work on the subtle planes.)

2) Would doing a Rose-Cross ritual for her once she's passed be helpful? I have an LRM-level knowledge of GD magic, plus I've done the R+C many times, Opening/Closing a few times, and the Hexagram Ritual a couple times (though it's been a while, as in a few years). So I'm wondering if the R+C would be helpful or not. If so, would doing it daily for a week or so after her passing seem like the right amount?

She is no longer mentally capable of articulating a decision on wether or not she would consent to having magic done on her behalf, though I think she would be OK with it. I could get consent from her husband, her legal guardian, if that makes a difference.


Thank you, as always, for giving us your time and wisdom.

Re: Rose Cross across the Gates of Death

[ecosophia]

1) There are various traditions about this, but daily prayers for the first month after death are generally considered helpful, and weekly prayers after that are fine. That's why the older churches so often include prayers for the dead as part of the service -- once a week isn't a distraction.

2) That would be a very good thing to do, but please do get the legal guardina's permission.

Re: Rose Cross across the Gates of Death

[davidincminor]

(OP here):

Though your answer to (2) is about what I already thought, your validation puts my mind to ease on this point.

Regarding (1), however, I really had no idea -- so your answer was exactly what I needed.

Thank you again!