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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Re: Questions, questions, questions
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 12:04:02 -0700
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    Dear Peter,

    >> Thank you very much for your reply, it clears a number of things, and
    actually confirms my own thoughts upon how the three trees relate to the
    three realms. ;) <<

    :) My pleasure.

    >> Could you expand upon the ten stages of initiation within the Western
    Hermetic tradition. From what I know of the ten degrees within Golden
    Dawnish systems they seem to be associated with the ten sepheroth: 10=1,
    9=2 and so forth. <<

    Instead of writing something myself, I suggest "The True and Invisible
    Rosicrucian Order" by Paul Foster Case. In that book, he does the best
    job I've ever read of describing the initiatory degrees in the Western
    Hermetic Tradition.

    I also suggest that you take a look at my "Permutations of the Tree:
    BOOK 231". Specifically the section titled "The 231 Gates of Yetziratic
    Redemption (Initiation)". The gates that belong to each of the
    Sephirot, describe the tasks of initiation into that specific
    Sephirot/degree. These Gates are arranged in an initiatory sequence.

    >> Which balances out the bodies more: the acumulation of the elements
    within their respective regions, or the condensation of the essential
    meaning of the sepheroth within the three bodies? Or is it more along
    the lines of a different quality of balance? <<

    Yes, it is a difference in quality as opposed to quantity. However,
    there is the matter of the long time it takes to learn how to truly
    condense the Tree into the three bodies, verses the considerably shorter
    time it takes to learn how to truly accumulate the Elements and thereby
    balance the three bodies. In other words, it takes less time to learn
    the Elemental work than it does the Kabbalistic work.

    By "the Kabbalistic work", I don't mean simply visualizing the Tree in
    each of your three bodies. Instead, I mean the ability to *truly*
    condense the essential meaning of each component of the Tree (i.e., the
    32 Paths of Wisdom), into each of the three bodies. Bardon described
    this process in the "Preparatory" work section of KTQ. Achieving this
    ability requires the undertaking of a long process of transformation
    affecting all three bodies, brought about by the exercises that Bardon
    described.

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    29 Jun 2003
    rawnclark@...
    rawn@...
    http://www.ABardonCompanion.com
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis
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