Magic Monday
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ecosophia
It's getting toward 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 or comment 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 picture? I'm working my way through photos of my lineage, focusing on the teachers whose work has influenced me and the teachers who influenced them in turn. Three weeks ago I started on the OBOD end of my lineage with past Chosen Chief Philip Carr-Gomm. Last week we got to Vera Chapman, and that brings us this week to John Hargrave of the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift. White Fox, to give him his Kin name, was a student of Ernest Thompson Seton, the Canadian artist and naturalist who founded the Woodcraft movement in 1902. The Kibbo Kift -- the name's a bit of Kentish dialect meaning "proof of great strength" -- was founded by Hargrave and a circle of Boy Scout leaders with Woodcraft connections who were sickened by the intensely militaristic flavor of Scouting at that time. The Kindred attracted a great many young men and women in the postwar years and sketched out many of the themes that became central to the appropriate tech and natural-living movements in later decades. Hargrave also wrote a series of novels and nonfiction works. People who knew him -- including Vera Chapman -- noted that he had a considerable background in occultism. The Depression and the Second World War put paid to the Kindred, but there has been a considerable revival of interest in the Kibbo Kift in recent years; it (and Seton's Woodcraft movement generally) are among the early 20th century movements worth revisiting. That's a group of the Kinfolk on parade below on the right.
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***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List
Date: 2023-05-16 12:27 am (UTC)My seizures are getting out of control. I am worried about (further) brain damage, not to mention petty things like job loss. Prayers and healing energies are urgently sought.
Thank you all.
- Epileptic Doomer (real initials TA)
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List
Date: 2023-05-16 02:36 am (UTC)Re: Ecosophia Prayer List
Date: 2023-05-16 03:05 am (UTC)For now I propose to phrase your prayer listing as follows. I’m trying to read your situation to help push toward the best possible outcome for you, but as I don’t know the specifics at all, I may have written something slightly off target. Please let me know if you’d like what I’ve written to be adjusted at all.
“T.A. (“Epileptic Doomer”) has seizures that have been increasing in intensity, and worries about it causing further brain damage and even costing them their job; for blessings, protection, and healing, a reduction of intensity and frequency to the seizures, and for a path for navigating their illness in a way that helps them lead their best possible life.”
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List
Date: 2023-05-16 03:34 am (UTC)