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. 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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Date: 2023-06-12 12:47 pm (UTC)I'm a fiction writer. I find that when I get deep into drafting (particularly a first draft), I am completely exhausted after only 2-3 hours of work. I need to sleep far more when I am working on a new draft, and I often almost feel like I am fighting off the flu for a few hours after intense work. (Notably, this isn't when I'm actively working—just afterwards). This has been going on for many, many years, and aligns perfectly with periods of writing first drafts, so it's not a physical health problem.
1.) Is this normal, or in the range of normal...? Or is it a sign of some sort of imbalance?
2.) Is the exhaustion likely coming from drawing heavily on the astral plane/astral body? I generally associate exhaustion with problems with the etheric body...but the etheric body doesn't have much to do with mentally creative endeavors like writing, does it? I honestly don't feel confident that I fully understand the different types of bodies/planes in practical application, though I have read about them repeatedly and they make sense to me when I read about them.
3.) Do you have any remedies to suggest?
Many, many thanks for your time and any possible insight!
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Date: 2023-06-12 06:44 pm (UTC)When I start a larger oil painting - but not a sketch or even an elaborate drawing - I am simply shattered and good for nothing after a few hours of doing the first, and most difficult, stage (I use Old Master techniques which involve many layers).
It's simply a matter of very intense concentration of a particularly demanding kind, as far as I can tell.
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Date: 2023-06-13 12:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-06-12 11:54 pm (UTC)2) You're drawing energy from your physical and etheric bodies, refining it, and using it to reach the mental plane -- the highest plane humans can reach -- which is where creative processes begin.
3) Just what you'd do with any other heavy exertion -- get plenty of rest and good healthy food, and pace yourself.