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Magic Monday
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. I've taken the lineage of OBOD back as far as I can, and now it's time to jump to another initiatory lineage, the Martinist Order. It's bad form (and forbidden by the obligations of initiation) to reveal the name of your Martinist initiator, even indirectly; thus I'm going to leap over the last several steps in my Martinist filiation to this gentleman, René Chambellant, whose title as a Gnostic bishop was Tau Renatus. Born in 1907, he was an oral surgeon by trade, and spent many years in central Africa teaching oral surgery and dentistry at a college in the Congo. He was initiated into Martinism and numerous other esoteric orders by Robert Ambelain, one of the great figures of the modern French esoteric traditions; in 1944, after the Gnostic patriarch Constant Chevillon was assassinated by the Nazis, Chambellant became the head of l'Eglise Gnostique Universelle, one of the major French Gnostic churches of the time. Several important Martinist lineages received their initiation through him.
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Japanese spiritual stuff, John Gilbert and the SoP, and Rainbow Backlash
I was reading an older post about how the spirit of place affects things. I.E. Trump as the changer.
This got me to thinking, I've noticed myself and a good many fans of Japanese culture tend to be assimilated into said culture by different degrees, many even taking up Shinto or Zen Buddhism among other things. It got me to wondering how far this could go. Could a devout Shinto practice in America change the spirit of place as I understand Buddhism and to an extent Christianity has done?
Moving on while reading Doors of Tarot, John Gilbert talked about how doing the SoP makes one "a walking spirtual space" what does that mean and does it affect those around me?
Finally and Update from my corners on the backlash against the Rainbow. As I'm sure you've heard a recent boycott over Budweiser is killing the company and knocked it from it's number two spot, similar actions by Target (hiring a Satanist of all things to design trans clothing for very young children) has triggered a massive backlash as well hurting the company. All across Twitter corporations are taking down their rainbow icons, doing this just days into pride month.
Conservative Christian groups have tried to take credit but it seems a coalition of Muslims, Hindus, Gamers/Otaku, and Japanese Nationalists especially followers of Shinto, Japanese Buddhist traditions and other Japanese religions have been doing the lions share of the work and together made it clear they won't tolerate a return of the 90s Religious Right, I'll keep everyone update on what I'm observing.
Re: Japanese spiritual stuff, John Gilbert and the SoP, and Rainbow Backlash
2) It's something that every banishing ritual does, if practiced daily. Your energy changes so that it cleanses and blesses everything you come into contact with. I've known people who could literally banish nasty vibes and minor evil spirits just by walking into a room.
3) Er, I think you're overstating the role of other religions in this. Muslims, Hindus, and followers of Japanese religion all together make up less than 2% of the US population, though they're growing steadily; Christians still make up around 70%. I'm sure the people you've mentioned are putting a lot of effort into it, but there are a whale of a lot of conservative Christians who are also putting their shoulders to the wheel. My hope, and there's some evidence to support this, is that Christians are in the process of waking up to the fact that they really do need to look for allies, and people of other traditional religions are a good choice.