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# RE: Wealth and Esotericism

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: RE: [BardonPraxis] Wealth and Esotericism
- From: "lux xul" <luxxul@...>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:15:45 +0000
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`I think this was an absolutely WONDERFUL, clear and insightfully written response. Gracious and humble style. Even warm..
WOW.
:T:`

>     From: esoteric777@...
>     Reply-To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
>     To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
>     Subject: [BardonPraxis] Wealth and Esotericism
>     Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:30:36 EST

>     Dear List,

> `One of the list members stated that he was still in the university and very
> career motivated; he was wondering if his drive for achieving big success would
> be an impediment to his spiritual progress.`
> `In short, he asked "is there anything wrong with that (making 'BIG money')?"`
> `Having had the opportunity to deal with people across the entire financial
> spectrum, from very poor to so wealthy they literally did not know what to do
> with it, I think there are several things anyone asking this question needs to
> consider.`
> `The current belief in material poverty as being good and wealth as being bad
> has its roots in several areas, one of which a form of gnosticism which says,
> material life is essentially evil and needs to be escaped from, thus throw
> yourself into your spiritual activities.`
> `The same is found in any schools of yoga, and is easily understood as a form
> of compensation in cultures and communities that suffer under crushing poverty
> or little avenues for material advancement.`
> `Another influence is the Roman Church, that used similar language to comfort
> peasants (or keep them from rioting) for the last 1,000 years. With improved
> standards of living, courtesy the industrial and technological revolutions,
> this holds less power.`

>     The Protestant Work Ethic that equates material success and wealth as a for
>     of godly blessing has also eroded it somewhat.

>     So where does that leave us?

> `Well, if we look at Wealth and Esoteric Wisdom, we see they both relate to
> the qabalistic sphere of Chesed. Wealth it the more material manifestation of
> this force, wisdom its more subtle form.`

>     Chesed is in short, out inner blueprint or highest ideals in the realms of
>     duality, or manifestation.

>     Projected through Yesod, or our subconscious, they take form.

> `Now, lets look at the idea of renunciation in Easter and Western though. We
> hear a lot about it, giving once again the idea that only a monastic life is
> the spiritual life. However, there is the warning that it is easier to be a
> sinner while a hermit than in the world.`
> `In truth, renunciation is not an absence of material things, but in using
> them, not being used by them, and being firm in your commitment that the material
> life is a tool and not an end.`

> > `From this point of view, all things can be brought into the Path of`

>     Service.

> `If our highest ideal is to be enlightened for ourselves alone, that puts us
> at Tiphareth. If our ideal is to make wealth for ourselves alone that puts us
> in Malkooth. If our ideal is to serve and be of assistance to humanity, that
> puts us in Chesed, where all things are at our disposal.`

>     There is also the reality that you will die.

>     Your time is limited, even if it is 100 or 150 years thanks to medical
>     science.

>     As such it is not so much what you do, but why you do it. Time is limited,
>     pick wisely.

> `If it is out of need for security and to own nice things, for status, and
> privilege, you are working from fear. If it is to enjoy life while making firm
> and definite assistance to others, then it is our of love and compassion - the
> domain of Chesed - and you will not even be asking the question you did.`
> `I hope this makes your journey into the Magic Mirror a little more fruitful.`

>     Sincerely,

>     Mark Stavish
>     Institute for Hermetic Studies
>     Advisor to the Louis Claude de St. Martin Fund
>     www.hermetic.com/stavish/
>     www.hermeticinstitute.org (under construction)

>     [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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