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# Re: Doubts about the path

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- Subject: Re: Doubts about the path
- From: "Peter Reist" <preist@...>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 18:22:15 -0000
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    David,

    >>>So I'm begging for answers to my questions:
    Isn't a path like Hermetics, strewn with many possibilities for power
    and abuse of power, also prone to abuse of self and self-delusion?
    Doesn't it focus unnecessarily on methods of control rather than
    methods of communion? Would it not be simpler to give up the power
    and focus on experiencing the Divine, with paths like Buddhism?<<<

    Every path, be it the path of the Hermetic, Shaman, Buddhist, Daoist,
    Kabbalahist, Christian, has the potential to lead to an obsession
    with power, the potentiality of self delusion and so forth.
    Typically, however, there are a number of safeguards woven into the
    fabric of that tradition that *sometimes* help to aleviate these
    problems to a certian extent. The guru being the primary one
    throughout most mystical traditions. Though, of course, that
    potentially leads to all sorts of problems in and of itself.

    Within the Hermetic tradition of Franz Bardon the primary safeguard
    is the radical self honesty that is needed to undertake the soul
    mirror work of step one and two. In addition to the fact that if you
    don't do this work it is rather hard, if not downright impossible in
    some cases, to move onwards to some of the more advanced work of
    creative visualization and so forth.

    As far as the issue of control is concerned, I don't think so. And
    yes, there are a number of exercises throughout IIH that involve
    communion. In fact, one could say that the whole purpose of Hermetics
    is communion with one's Holy Guardian Angel, one's own personal god.
    Or, in other words, Hermetics, Kabbalah as well, *is* all about
    experiencing the divine.

    Love and Live well,
    Peter Reist

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  - Doubts about the path
    - From: "David Yeh" <ldreamr@...>

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