Magic Monday
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ecosophia
It's a little before 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 1.1 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 field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book above on the left is the current edition of my seventh published book, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult. I'd gotten irritated about the lack of decent reference works on occultism, and Llewellyn, the publisher I worked with in those days was enthusiastic about the idea of helping to fix that. It was a fun project, and includes a certain number of quiet and rather abstruse jokes; there are other occult encyclopedias available these days but this one still stands up fairly well -- though I'd make a lot of changes if the publisher was interested. (This also turned out to be the last book I did with Llewellyn for a long while, due to some issues involving their treatment of another project of mine.) If you're interested in the encyclopedia, you can get a copy here if you live in the US, and at your favorite book venue if you live elsewhere.
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Date: 2023-12-04 10:52 am (UTC)Extremely odd question, but I happen to be a fantasy writer who is trying his hand at a story that hews relatively closely to reflecting actual occult practices.
I have a scene with two characters. Character A is a normal person, who has decided they need to contact the Archangel Michael (for Reasons). Character B is an extremely skilled but rather mad occultist practitioner. Essentially, I want A to get B to make an angelic contact, so that A can deliver his message. Ideally, I want a situation where A is deceiving B as to what his real motivations are.
Would B be using the Ars Paulina or Enochian magic here, or something else altogether? Bearing in mind that B is the sort of character who likes to gratuitously show off their power.
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Date: 2023-12-04 08:52 pm (UTC)The Pauline Art would be a very good choice, since that specifically works with angels from the Hebrew tradition, such as Michael. Enochian has its own completely different set of angels, and Michael isn't included in them.