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Rene ChambellantIt'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 hereAlso: 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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Re: Harmones and Energy cycles

Date: 2023-06-13 01:38 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] open_space
When I was younger I used to joke with my the girlfriend, when she was feeling hormonal, that I also had a period, I just didn't bleed physically by it. It was interested to note since the Moon seemed to have something with it!

Re: Harmones and Energy cycles

Date: 2023-06-13 02:34 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Yeah, it's very strange. The totality of men's health dealing with hormones comes down to "you need more testosterone. So workout, eat right, and get plenty of sleep." That's only when they aren't trying to sell supplements. Guess I've got some meditation to do.

Re: Harmones and Energy cycles

Date: 2023-06-13 03:48 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ritaer
My ex is a transwoman. In a recent phone conversation, I asked her about the online claims by some transwomen that they have menstrual cycles too. She explained that some physicians treating gender dysphoria do cycle the female hormones. She said that her doctors had not done so, but that she had nonetheless felt some monthly fluctuations in mood, etc. We speculated together that the female hormones being administered might have been interacting with the unrecognized or discussed male cycles--for those not aware, all humans have both androgen (male) and related hormones and estrogen (female) and related hormones. These are not produced solely in the testes and ovaries, so even a person who has had the testes or ovaries removed still has some level of the so-called sex hormones in their body. So this is the testimony of someone who has been on artificial hormones and noticing this aspect for about 50 years now.

Rita
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