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

Comments

[ecosophia]

3) It's what's available to do the work I need to do. If we still had lots of weekly occult magazines, trust me, I'd publish in those instead.

4a) Depends on a lot of variables which I'm not going to try to judge en masse.

4b) Again, depends on a lot of variables. Once you quit, I'd recommend that you be careful to eat a balanced, healthy diet, get plenty of sunlight and fresh air, and take up some kind of daily exercise regimen, so your etheric body has the chance to recharge and heal itself.

[(Anonymous)]

3) Fair enough. I really wish there were more alternatives to the internet myself. It'll come before too long though.

4a) Fair enough again.

4b) I'm not going to worry about diet too much aside from avoiding processed foods (since it's such a mess right now I think I'll likely do better by avoiding the topic than trying to follow any particular set of advice); sunlight and fresh air are easy enough to come by for me; and I do a bit of martial arts. If, as seems likely, I'll have more energy once I'm free, I think it'll be easy to step it up from 3 times a week.

I think I'm set then.