Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's a little shy of midnight, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. The picture is of Louis-Claude de St.-Martin, one of the most influential figures in the late 18th century revival of occultism in the West. Originally a student of Martinez de Pasqually and a member of his magical lodge, the Elus-Coens, St.-Martin later turned to the Christian occultism of Jakob Boehme and became the central figure in the evolution of what became the Martinist tradition, which is still very active today in most Western countries. 

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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hello Mr. Greer,

I have some questions about the Christian banishing that you put in a reply during last week's MM (Sign of the cross in four directions).

1) First of all, thank you so much for posting this!

2) Is it necessary to balance this banishing with invoking? Can you just do this every day and be fine?

3) What do you think of replacing the phrase while doing the sign of the cross with "Exorcízo te, immundíssime spíritus, omnis incúrsio adversárii, omne phantásma, omnis légio, in nómine Dómini nostri Jesu Christi."? This is a phrase taken from the 1962 Rituale Romanum and should have some build-in voltage.

Thank you, I was so happy to see this!


Another unrelated question: What is your guess what will start on January 12th, with Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn?

[ecosophia]

1) You're most welcome.

2) Yes, but not necessarily a ritual of the same kind. What I'd advise, since I gather you're Catholic, is to pray the Rosary every day. That's a potent invocation, and will balance the masculine Christ current of the ritual with the feminine Mary current.

3) Nice. Yes, that would do very well. You might want to say the Lord's Prayer in Latin also, so as to have that at the same voltage.

4) Good question. The traditional mundane lore doesn't cover conjunctions with Pluto, of course, and my take is that Pluto is a waning force anyway -- but it's not spent. It would not surprise me, given that an afflicted Uranus is rising at the moment of that conjunction (as seen from Washington DC), if something very secret, disreputable, and disruptive were to be made messily public around that time.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you again!

1+3) I tried it about an hour ago and my fingers and toes are still faintly tingling now. I'll make it a daily practice and see where it takes me.

2) Will do!

x) You had me laughing at your comment on Idries Shah seeing Sufis everywhere. Good one.

I'm not sure if you'd be comfortable with me wishing you a merry Christmas, so I'll leave this wish as optional to you and hope you've had a blessed Alban Arthuan!

[ecosophia]

Good heavens, I'm perfectly willing to wish you a merry Christmas! I have no idea why it is that some people get annoyed by that.

[(Anonymous)]

I tried it just now. No tingling. Maybe I did something wrong?

[ecosophia]

Don't worry about it. Different people have different experiences of these things.

[(Anonymous)]

I was just getting ready to say, it’s been an hour and a half or so, and I’m feeling quite relaxed—while drinking a glass of Diet Mountain Dew. 😧

Protestant invocation

[(Anonymous)]

If you are a Protestant and don’t use the rosary is there something else to use for an invocation?

Re: Protestant invocation

[ecosophia]

Sure. Every day, read a chapter of the Bible and pray.

My teacher in these things recommended starting with the Gospels, not with Genesis, and said that you should read the New Testament and the Psalms through three or four times before you try the rest of the Old Testament -- and even so, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy are really hard slogging. Open the Bible to the chapter you've chosen, read it attentively, spend a little while thinking about it, and then pray extempore, ending with the Lord's Prayer. This in itself is a very good spiritual practice; combine it with the Ritual of the Cross and you've got a solid program of personal spiritual development.