Magic Monday

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It's getting on for midnight as I type this, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. This week's classic of Western occultism, since I've been indulging in Ross Nichols' poetry of late, is The Cosmic Shape, published in 1946, which contains his brilliant essay "An Examination of Creative Myth," which discusses the need for nature-myth and ritual as a counterbalance to the artificialities of modern life, and his related Arthurisn poem-cycle "The Cosmic Legend," as well as other poems of his and his fellow poet James Kirkup. He clearly discussed these ideas with his good friend Gerald Gardner; those ideas ended up playing a central role in the creation of Wicca as well as the transformations of 20th-century Druidry. Here's a bit from "The Cosmic Legend": 

I have made my ceremonies; the crisis
comes. None may reproduce, no water flow,
until the sword is from its sheath pulled.
Only I, the medicine-man Gawain, instructing 
at midnight Galahad, the pure one of 
spring -- only I can save you, faithless 
with the fallen leaf. I prove to you,
O my dead people, once again that
I alone am your strength.

In the first ray beating touching on the centre altar-stone
to the eye prepared at vigil-end, the vessel of the sun,
cup and heart, to Galahad. 

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Comments

Re: Homeopathy and banishing rituals

[(Anonymous)]

I expect banishing rituals to help, not only with accidental proving but with picking up some of the patient's miasmatic load (something I have struggled with in the past, though never a serious case).

You may want to send your friend looking into Antidotes. Remedies have different relations between each other, and an antidote will neutralize the effect of the main one. Common knowledge regarding "not drinking coffee while on Homeopathic treatment" derives from Coffea cruda/tosta being antidotes for many (but not all) remedies. Camphora is another quite common antidote; it may be helpful to put a drop or two of Camph 12c on the water she uses to mop the floor on her office (disclaimer: I have never used this last method. Being a heavy coffee drinker myself, I've never seen the need of it). A more complete list of specific antidotes, which she can use after the fact on a case by case basis, can be found here http://homeoint.org/books2/curiepra/chap9.htm

CR Patiño

Re: Homeopathy and banishing rituals

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for your reply. :)

She knows about antidotes and stores the strong ones like Camphora away from the other remedies. I think she's not inclined to use them too much because she's so sensitive, and also doesn't want to be antidoting patients she's trying to treat.

I'll report back with anything interesting that we discover.