Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just shy of midnight, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. The picture is of Elias Ashmole, one of the great figures in the British tradition of alchemy. An extraordinary scholar interested in just about everything, he was among other things fascinated by alchemy, and put together and edited several important collections of English alchemical documents from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. A capable astrologer, he was also one of the first people known to history who joined a lodge of stonemasons without being in the building trades, and his initiation is thus one of the early mileposts in the emergence of Freemasonry. 

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With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed -- and yes, this means you.  See you next week!***

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This...ahem...raises so many questions!

1) Does the etheric body of semen remain with/near its physical body after ejaculation? Stated another way, if a condom were employed to catch the physical semen would it also catch the etheric portion?

2) If your birth control method is withdrawal, after the woman orgasms, are you in effect stealing a bit of life force from the female partner every time you do this? What if you orgasm ON her? Does that share the etheric life force equally? If you orgasm on yourself instead would you keep it? I assume if you caught it in a towel or something similar nobody gets it?

3) Without modern birth control how would you make the exchange of life energy from sex equitable for the female partner??

So many questions! Thank you!!

[ecosophia]

1) Etheric substance doesn't pass solely through the genital orifices and it isn't stopped by a condom.

2) Again, you're confusing the material and the etheric planes. If any part of your skin is within about a foot of your partner there's contact between the etheric bodies.

3) I'm not sure I understand what you're asking here. The presence or absence of birth control does nothing to affect the flow of etheric substance between the two etheric bodies.

[(Anonymous)]

Not the original poster

Is there anyway to masturbate safely with out demonic interaction?

[ecosophia]

Masturbation itself isn't unhealthy if it's not done in excess. Avoid porn, don't do it too often, do a banishing ritual (such as the Sphere of Protection) daily, and lead a generally healthy lifestyle, and it shouldn't be a problem.

Masturbation

[(Anonymous)]

A Christian writer I sometimes read, J. Heinrich Arnold, says that a man who masturbates attracts evil spirits of whose cruel character he has no idea.

Beyond that, in my opinion it is intuitively obvious that when you masturbate, you debase yourself. My thought would be that it would be well worth it to make the effort to conquer it completely.

[(Anonymous)]

So the semen doesn't have to transfer into or onto the female partner for her to receive the life force associated with orgasm. Am I understanding that correctly?

That would be good, because I was really starting to feel like a heel for not sharing! (And was worried those chauvinistic porn stars might be doing it right and I wasn't!)

[ecosophia]

That's correct. The best way to ensure a full transfer of energy both ways is to make sure she has at least one orgasm (and preferably more than one -- the female orgasm is less efficient at transferring energy, for complex reasons, so it's best for both partners to make sure she has several), and spend some time cuddled up close afterwards -- the two etheric bodies remain open to each other for some time after sex, and there's a certain amount of balancing flow if the two partners remain in physical contact afterwards.

[(Anonymous)]

Why is the female orgasm less efficient at transferring energy? Is it because there's no ejaculation?

[ecosophia]

As noted, the reasons are complex. I'd encourage you to do some serious study of the human subtle bodies if you want to get into the details; Dion Fortune's The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage and Manly Hall's Man: The Grand Symbol of the Mysteries are good places to start, though both are very cagy when it comes to the practical side of things.

[(Anonymous)]

What if one partner orgasms and the other doesn't?

[ecosophia]

The person who orgasms transfers life force to the one who doesn't. The kind of sexually incompetent male who focuses solely on getting his own rocks off, and then gets up and goes away, is starving himself of etheric energy. Ever notice the sort of pinched, hollow quality you so often see in guys like that? Now you know why.