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# Re: Re: Elemental Correspondance

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Re: Elemental Correspondance
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:04:50 -0700
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    Dear Peter,

    >> You sure about that? What I get is:
    Sight = Fire
    Hearing = Air
    Feeling = Water
    Smell & taste = Earth
    Not exactly sure where the akasha would fit into it all, but I would
    say that attributing akasha to a particular, physical sense doesn't
    exactly make too much sense to me. Primarily due to the fact that I
    would associate the akasha more with a sense of intuition or the
    direct perception of essential meaning. <<

    Just as we associate the five fingers with the four Elements, plus
    Akasha, so too are the five physical senses associated. What you say
    makes good logical sense (and indeed these associations show up later in
    IIH), but in regard to the specific relationship between the Step Two
    *mental* exercises with the creative use of the senses, and the Soul
    Mirror, the associations are as I posited.

    As always, sight is associated with Fire because: 1) Sight depends upon
    light. 2) Difficulties with this exercise point to imbalances in the
    Fire region of the astral body.

    In this case, hearing is associated with Water because: 1) The physical
    perception of sound depends upon waves striking your ear drum. This
    requires rhythm and frequency. 2) Sound directly affects the emotional
    body. 3) Difficulties with this exercise point to imbalances in the
    Water region of the astral body.

    Here, feeling is associated with Akasha because: 1) The perception and
    interpretation of feeling is the most complex of all the senses and can
    excite memory-responses from each of the other senses. As one works
    with isolating each sense, there is almost always a feeling associated
    with whatever it is you are trying to create with that sense. 2) The
    perception of a feeling directly affects all three bodies. 3)
    Difficulties with this exercise indicates a global imbalance and as one
    transforms the most important negative traits (no matter which Element
    they pertain to), this exercise becomes easier.

    Smell is associated with Air Element because: 1) Smelling requires
    inhalation of a quanta of atmosphere containing the molecules which the
    olfactory system then interprets. It relies *only* on the medium of
    air; whereas hearing, can occur through water or even solid objects. 2)
    Perception of an aroma directly affects the mental body (that's one
    reason for using incense in ritual). 3) Difficulties with this exercise
    point to imbalances in the Air region of the astral body.

    And finally, taste is associated here with the Earth Element because: 1)
    Tasting something requires the introduction of liquid or solid matter
    into the mouth and its absorption by the tongue. 2) Perception of taste
    directly affects the physical body and, like the sense of
    feeling/Akasha, isolating the sense of taste will excite
    memory-responses from all of the other senses (especially that of
    smell/Air). 3) Difficulties with this exercise point to imbalances in
    the Earth region of the astral body.

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    15 Aug 2003
    rawnclark@...
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