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The image? I've decided to do another pass through magical personalities, and I figured I'd start with one of my own teachers. This is John Gilbert, with whom I studied the teachings of the Universal Gnostic Church, the Order of Spiritual Alchemy, the Modern Order of Essenes, and the Magickal Order of the Golden Dawn -- this last, of course, is the parent body of the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose. This photo was taken in 2008 in eastern Tennessee at a Druid event there; it was the last time John and I met in person, though we corresponded via email and talked on the phone quite a bit after that.

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It's part of the Octagon Society teachings. The idea is that depression is usually driven by repressed anger -- if you're furiously angry and you can't deal with it, you shut down your emotional energy, and depression is the result. The real challenge is that anger itself is also usually a secondary emotion -- it's easier to feel angry than it is to feel grief, fear, or shame. So to heal from depression, according to these teachings, first you have to let yourself face your anger, which is a challenging task, and then you have to do down beneath the anger to the grief, fear, or shame that lies beneath it, and that's another challenging task.

If he's interested, the Octagon Society work might be worth trying -- it's available online for free at octagonsociety.org .

In terms of positive magic, anything that directs healing energies and love toward him will help.

JMG,

Thanks for the suggestion. I was thinking about the program but couldn't recall the name. I hope he will give it a try.

Rita

I have to wonder how much this thought can apply to populations and nations as a whole. There's a whole lot of anger in the ole USA these days.

I don't know, but it seems like a reasonable hypothesis.

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