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# RE: Re: Fasting

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- Subject: RE: [BardonPraxis] Re: Fasting
- From: "Colin Aston-James" <colin.aston-james@...>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 09:56:59 +0100
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- In-reply-to: <000c01c369af$3c037a40$84a37fd8@ownerbqacdlzy6>

    >From my understanding, fasting was (and is) used to purify the body thus
    enabling the elements to be more readily 'accumulated'. It was also used to
    purify the body a final time before undertaking any work that required
    intense focus and clarity of thought. Bardon states:

    "...A sound mind in a sound body. The genuine truth of this aphorism
    represents itself immediately to everybody dealing with the problem of man.
    There surely will arise the question, what health is from the hermetic point
    of view. Not every one is capable to answer this question at the first
    instant. Seen from the hermetic angle, health is the perfect harmony of all
    the forces operating inside the body with respect to the basic qualities of
    the elements."

    I infer from this that the more healthy or 'purer' a body is (i.e. free from
    toxins) the 'easier' the work would be to accumulate the elements. Bardon
    may well have lived an unhealthy lifestyle from one perspective but he was
    starting his 'journey' much further up the path and therefore may have been
    able to 'overcome' by force of will, disharmonies in his physical body.

    German professor Arnold Ehret termed fasting as the "master key" to mental
    and spiritual enfoldment and evolution. It cannot be a coincidence that the
    individuals that most people would consider as enlightened - Jesus, Buddha,
    Mohammed and the Hindu seers, practiced and preached fasting as a route to
    enlightenment. It could be argued that the path of the Hermeticist is very
    different to that of these 'religious' teachers but are we not all working
    towards one 'Truth'? Is not purification of the body (and thus the spirit) a
    'tool' on this path?

    Again I infer that the Earth element relates to the physical body and is
    thus the embodiment of the tetrapolar magnet. In order to work with the
    other three elements, would it not be considered desirable to have the
    'foundation' as pure as possible? From this, I would suggest that not only
    is fasting a useful step to take when starting out on this journey but that
    the fuel we take along the path should be as 'pure' as possible not only
    from a Karmic viewpoint but also from a chemical one. If our bodies are not
    battling the alien substances we ingest and have to spend energy purifying
    this will free up substantial energy to move more purposefully along our
    path.

    CAJ

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