Magic Monday
Aug. 7th, 2022 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
It's getting on for midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. With certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note: Any question received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. I've been getting an increasing number of people trying to post after these are closed, so will have to draw a harder line than before.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says. 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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**This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***
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Date: 2022-08-08 04:14 am (UTC)2) It's necessary to shift mental gears in order to make sense of the triads in the DA course. Narrative requires one kind of thinking, philosophical discourse requires a different kind, and yes, the transition can be a bit rough! One thing that helps many people is to think of examples in your own daily life, so it becomes less abstract to you.
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Date: 2022-08-08 04:27 am (UTC)I'll keep plodding along regardless, but I was starting to think I was getting the hang of this discursive meditation thing, and I'd prefer for the next few weeks not to feel so much like pulling teeth, so thanks very much for the advice.
Cheers,
Jeff
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