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# TMO and MPE

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- Subject: TMO and MPE
- From: "forestofsymbols" <forestofsymbols@...>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 22:21:46 -0000
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     All,

    I have been working of late with the TMO exercises and have been
    finding them to be very useful, suprisingly so. However, I do have
    some questions, partly out of idle curiousity, partly to see what
    other people's viewpoints are on this subject. These questions
    probably have been asked in the past, and I simply missed them paging
    through prior posts.

    First, TMO reminds me quite a bit of the Middle Pillar exercise
    (MPE), although the lessons in TMO seem to be better developed than
    anything I've seen on the MPE (not that I've seen much on the MPE).
    For example, practicing the different levels of speech seems to be
    crucial to both exercises, but I never heard about this until coming
    to the TMO exercises. I read in some prior posting that TMO can take
    the place of the MPE, but I am finding them to be somewhat different
    and useful in different ways. Since they both use the same basic map
    of the human body (the Tree of Life with the Pillar of Mercy to the
    Left), they seem to be complementary to one another and fit together
    quite well.

    Now it has been said that doing different practices is fine, but
    it can also be problematic, especially if repeated practice can
    change one's inner body or bodies. While different systems can map
    the same truths, different maps one could imagine might interfere
    with one another or even contradict one another. This is not to say
    that one system is right or the other wrong, but that internally,
    each system is different. David Sheinkin in his "Path of the
    Kabbalah" compares it to nutritional programs: in program A, one
    might be told to eat cereal and beans but no milk; while in program B
    milk is essential but beans are forbidden. Both programs result in a
    healthy body. Each system may be effective so long as one operates
    within it. Once we start comparing or combining systems, we might put
    them into conflict with one another in ways that only experiences
    practicioners might see.

    I suppose this is a long, drawn out and complicated way of asking:
    should TMO and MPE be practiced together, and indeed, is it wise or
    unwise to explore other Hermetic techniques (for instance, the
    Kabbalistic Cross)? More generally, are there techniques that one
    would be ill-advised to practice along with Hermetics? Bardon gives
    many general principles, leaving the individual to fill it in as
    appropriate (for example, he advises daily physical exercise, but
    leaves it up to each individual to decide on what exercises to do).

    Secondly, brief questions reagarding TMO. Please know I am asking
    these questions for answers, and am not questioning TMO generally,
    which I find to be quite fantastic:

    1. What is the difference between the I am ("ani") in TMO and the I
    am that I am ("eheyeh") in the MPE? Why the different words to
    establish Kether?

    2. Why does TMO establish the center of Tifereth at the solar
    plexus, rather than the heart? Would it be unwise to focus it on the
    heart? Does it really make a difference? I am thinking at this point
    that Hermetics is a system where individuals draw on the same basic
    core of theory and techniques, and then develop them differently
    depending on each individual (summed up by the observation that on
    the Tree of Life, the Sefira are objective, but the paths are
    subjective). I am also thinking that the practices change and develop
    with the individual. However, I don't want to cut the heart out a
    technique when I haven't mastered it, but I don't want to arbitrarily
    limit myself either.

    Just for the record, this post was supposed to be much shorter.
    Thanks!

    mj

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