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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Beauty ?
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:43:00 -0700
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    Dear Hervé,

    >> I just want to know :
    - What is beauty ?( Is it equilibrium plus harmony ?) <<

    :) I recommend that question as a good meditation or series of
    meditations. To aid your meditations, here are my thoughts. :)

    I'm sure you're familiar with the saying, "Beauty is in the eye of the
    beholder." This saying holds a lot of wisdom. There are two distinct
    levels of truth to it.

    On the surface it means that Beauty is an *interaction* between the
    perceiver and the perceived. In other words, Beauty is slightly
    different for each person. What I find Beautiful, you might not and
    vise versa. This level of Beauty is emotional and has to do with
    personal preference and experience. A shape, for example strikes *you*
    as Beautiful because its form pleases you at an emotional level. Thus
    the Beautiful form *affects* you, touches you at an emotional level,
    lifts your spirits and incites an emotional response of appreciation,
    happiness, etc., all of which trigger physiological changes This is
    what I mean by an interaction between perceiver and perceived.

    At this level, Beauty depends more upon the perceiver's likes and
    dislikes than upon the perceived thing itself, in so far as universal
    qualities like equilibrium or harmony are concerned.

    The deeper level of meaning in the statement, "Beauty is in the eye of
    the beholder", is revealed through consideration of Paul Case's
    Trestleboard statement for #6 (Tiphareth, which means 'Beauty' in
    Hebrew): "In all things, great and small, I see the Beauty of the
    divine expression."

    Here, Beauty is described as a divine *expression*. This is the
    *essential meaning* which each thing *expresses* through its form (its
    thing-ness). When directly perceived *through* a form, essential
    meaning has the same affect upon the perceiver as does the mundane
    perception of Beauty. The direct perception of essential meaning
    touches you at *every* level -- it uplifts your thoughts and emotions
    and stimulates the response of appreciation, happiness, etc. Even
    though it requires emotional detachment, the *direct* perception of
    essential meaning is not mere passive observation -- it is an
    *experience* and you become at one with that quanta of essential
    meaning.

    Yet it is up to the perceiver to *directly* perceive essential meaning
    and in that sense, the power to perceive the Beauty that is expressed
    through *all* things, lies "in the eye of the beholder."

    When we perceive something (and this doesn't have to be a concrete,
    physical thing -- it can also be an idea, an emotion, sensation, etc.)
    which we feel *at an emotional level* is Beautiful, we feel that way
    because the essential meaning that the form expresses, comes in a form
    through which we *personally* can more readily perceive it. The reason
    is because the *personal* filters of perception that we see things
    through at the mundane level, are in greater harmony with *that
    particular* form and we can therefore harmonize with the essential
    meaning that form expresses. To *our* eyes, the form harmonizes with
    its essential meaning and we can therefore perceive that essential
    meaning more clearly. [Sorry if that's unclear -- it's hard for me to
    put in words at the moment.]

    Ordinarily, we do *not* see the Beauty of the divine expression (i.e.,
    its essential meaning) in *all* things, great and small. But when we do
    *directly* perceive essential meaning in *all* things, we discover that
    the forms of *all* things harmonize with their essential meaning. In
    other words, Beauty is, quite literally, all around us and all within
    us. All we need do is see it. :)

    >> - In what is it useful to eat, inhale, drink, breath, beauty ? How
    it is manifested / concretised within us, and outside of us in everyday
    life, when we work whit it ? ( In your "Rawn's pore breathing beauty"
    exercise, you wrote : You can, in fact, continuously inhale and exhale
    the Beautified universe and create a resonant relationship between
    yourself and your surroundings. It is also possible, using this
    technique, to effect the temporal bubble that surrounds your
    consciousness. In essence, this Beautifies the immediate future and
    disperses any "resistance" in your path.) <<

    At the mundane level, when we perceive something that we *feel* is
    Beautiful, it means that we are perceiving *more* of its essential
    meaning (its divine expression) than we would perceive in a thing we
    *feel* to be ugly. Essential meaning nourishes us (this is the Divine
    Water principle of All-Love) and one way in which we receive that
    nourishment is through mental, astral and emotional *perception*. In
    most of our perceptions, the essential meaning is minimized by our
    *personal* filters of perception, but when we perceive Beauty, we
    perceive a greater quantity of this nourishing essential meaning or
    divine expression. We are affected by this perception to a greater
    degree than we are by the perception of an "ugly" thing. Thus the
    mundane perception of Beauty is especially nourishing.

    When we *intentionally* imbibe essential meaning from the cup of Beauty,
    this effect is magnified still further because it is an intentional and
    conscious action. We focus upon it and upon the *feelings* its
    perception generates within us and therefore extend its effect upon us
    and increase our nourishment. And just like in Bardon's magical
    breathing, we can consciously *inhale* that Beautiful essential meaning.
    This is what I mean by "breathing it in".

    *All* perception of essential meaning nourishes us mentally, astrally
    and physically. Which is to say that *all* perception nourishes us --
    each use of our mental, astral and physical senses nourishes us. By
    'well nourished', I mean that we are in harmony with life and with self.
    In other words, we more clearly express our *own* essential meaning.
    The question then becomes one of how *well* nourished are we? ;-)

    If all we do is perceive *unintentionally* and *without focus* then we
    have an essential meaning diet equivalent to eating at MacDonald's for
    every meal. If we surround ourselves in Beauty and perceive it all the
    time then we are reasonably well nourished. If we add to that the
    factor of intentional and prolonged inhalation of the Beauty we
    perceive, then we are very well nourished indeed! :)

    We can quantify it thus:

    1) Mundane, un-intentional perception. Barely sustains body, soul and
    spirit.
    2) Mundane, un-intentional perception of Beauty. Briefly stimulates
    body, soul and spirit.
    3) Mundane, *intentional* perception of Beauty. Briefly nourishes body,
    soul and spirit and has a temporary harmonizing effect.
    4) Intentional inhalation of Beauty. Nourishes body, soul and spirit
    and has a prolonged harmonizing effect.
    5) Direct perception of essential meaning through external things.
    Deeply nourishes body, soul and spirit and briefly transforms them.
    6) Direct perception of one's own essential meaning (and that of *all*
    things, great and small). Permanently transforms body, soul and spirit.

    >> - Does magical equilibrium can be done more easily ? - Is it good for
    health ? Personality transformation ? <<

    Yes. Any perception of essential meaning changes the perceiver to some
    degree. It makes them more or different than what they were before the
    perception. The greater the clarity (i.e., directness) of that
    perception, the greater the perceiver will be affected by the essential
    meaning and consequently, the change within them will be greater. The
    *direct* perception of essential meaning, immediately and strongly
    transforms the perceiver. Since essential meaning is the *divine
    expression*, the transformation that the perceiver undergoes directly
    benefits their own evolution and growth.

    This is most especially true when one is able to perceive their *own*
    essential meaning. Which is to say, the moment in which one
    *experiences* their own essential meaning in all its Beauty. I say that
    because to directly perceive essential meaning is to *experience* it and
    to *be* it.

    One thing that I think I only hinted at in my "Inhalation of Beauty" is
    that Beauty (and any essential meaning, for that matter) can be
    accumulated, just like the Vital Energy, the Elements, Fluids, Lights,
    etc.. For example, through magical inhalation of Beauty, you can
    retain the Beauty during each exhale and in that way build up an
    accumulation of Beauty. You can cause it to become radiant and thus
    affect your surroundings. Furthermore, you can project such an
    accumulation and fill an external object with it. In short, you can
    work with essential meaning in exactly the same way as Bardon instructed
    regarding Vital Energy, Elements, Fluids, Lights and so on.

    This, of course is the subject of my next book and the magic pertaining
    to the Emperor. :)

    At any rate, I hope my rambling has provided you with fruit for your
    meditations. :)

    My best to you as always,
    :) Rawn Clark
    21 April 2004
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