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# Re: A question of ambition

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] A question of ambition
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:33:23 -0800
- References: <Law10-F85D2nFWWaOkB00042c64@...>

    Dear Jeremy,

    >> I would like to ask about ambition. Bardon mentions somewhere in
    steps 5-7 i think that the magician should by now have lost all
    ambition. I find this
    very strange and hard to accept. Why would he want the magician to lose
    all
    ambition, I mean, wouldn't that like make the magician pretty much a
    useless
    lump since he has no drive to succeed? <<

    With just a little bit of careful consideration of his actual words, it
    is very clear what Bardon meant by "ambition":
    ==============================
    Step 8
    Magic Psychic Training (VIII)
    1. The Great Moment of Now ~
    By now the magician's should be ennobled to such a degree that he is no
    longer capable of evil thoughts or of wishing anything bad to other
    people. A magician has got to be kind, obliging and willing to help at
    any time, to assist by word and deed, to act generously, considerately
    and discretely. He must be free from ambition, superciliousness and
    avoid any boasting. All such passions would be reflected in the akasha
    and, the akasha principle being analogous to harmony, akasha itself
    would certainly put the greatest obstacles in the magician's way to stop
    his further development, if not make it quite impossible. Any further
    rising in a case like that would be quite out of question.

    Step 10
    Magic Mental Training (X)
    Looking back to his actual development, the magician will realize that
    he has already covered a good distance on the path of his perfection,
    even more than he had supposed to, but he has to know that all this is
    but the thin edge of a wedge. Meditating on the fact how much knowledge
    and experience he has still to store, he will bow in a spirit of great
    reverence in front of the Divine fount of Wisdom. There will be no more
    pride or ambition nor superciliousness, to say nothing of bad qualities
    in his heart, for the deeper he penetrates into God's workshop, the more
    humble and receptive he will become.
    ==============================

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    17 Dec 2003
    rawnclark@...
    rawn@...
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- References:
  - A question of ambition
    - From: "Jeremy Jacobs" <darkzen15@...>

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