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# Re: RE: Step V - a few questions (cont)

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] RE: Step V - a few questions (cont)
- From: Jwingate2002@...
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:43:29 EDT

    Hi Rawn -

    I understand your answer here but there is one thing that is still slightly
    ambiguous. On the one hand it is being said that pursuing certain abilities at
    Step V is a waste of time, since in later steps one will be able to do
    everything without having had to pursue it earlier, and one will attain it
    quicker. Well and good! On the other hand, it's being said that one's character
    is
    being tested, and this is where I need a small clarification. It seems one's
    character is tested a) because the very *desire* to do the 'miracle' indicates
    a problem - perhaps impatience, and at the same time b) because working on
    being *able* to do the 'miracle' will in itself create an elemental imbalance.

    If this is right, the problem is not desiring to do the actual lighting
    candles (or whatever) but simply desiring to do it too soon. Is this correct?

    The reason I lay such stress on this is that it seems to me there is such an
    issue at *every* step of the training! For example, the making of
    elementaries. By the time one has mastered evocation, is the ability to make an
    elementary laboriously and slowly really so valuable? Doesn't one continously
    outstrip one's previous abilities and thus render what was very difficult
    previously extremely easy?

    If this is so it might at 1st appear better *never* to test abilities at
    all, because one will always outstrip them later! I must admit that I mistook
    the minor deeds we are talking about in Step V for tests that one must pass,
    just like some others did (on a casual reading). What I think now is that when
    *detailed instructions* are given, it is a sign that one must certainly do
    the work - even though later it might seem insignificant. But when Bardon
    mentions little effects such as these as an aside, and gives no specific
    further
    instructions, it is better to ignore the aside except as a curiosity, not to
    be pursued. Is this right?

    There is an element of temptation, it seems, to some of this. So one has to
    tread carefully... Jason

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