Dear Alexandra, Welcome to BardonPraxis! :) >>I'm just in the beginning, but am finding myself already somewhat confused. I hope that this group will help me along in my understanding. << In the "Files" section of the BardonPraxis webpage ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis/files/ ) I have posted a .PDF version of my own practical commentary upon IIH which may be helpful to you. My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 28 Dec 2002 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis ----- Original Message ----- From: <Watauga5@...> To: <BardonPraxis-owner@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 9:14 AM Subject: Re: Welcome to BardonPraxis Dear Rawn, Thank you for letting me join your internet BardonPraxis group. I am at a loss as to how to introduce myself in a few words. It may be suffice to say, that many, many years ago I took a book of my mom's bookshelf, started to read it, just to see what she was in to. I had to give up very quickly, this book was way out of my capability to comprehend. The book's name was/is: Der Weg zum Wahren Adepten. I now wished I'd have recognized back then, that this was the right path for me. Actually, occasionally over the next few decades, I had flashes about this title, but never followed up on it. It took a major tragedy in my life to finally come back to what I could have had for so long. I read the Kybalion and a couple other books by the Initiates and Ramacharaka, and found myself wanting to study the Kabbalah. This turned out to be a rather discouraging task, since most books are way too confusing to the uninitiated. To make this long (no matter how I turn it) story short, I ended up buying t he book: Der Schluessel zur Wahren Kabbalah. It didn't take me long to realize, that this is the 3. book in the series. I searched the internet and found Merkur Publishing, and found to my delight, that they have all of Franz Bardon's books in English translations and ordered them. I now started reading the Initiation into Hermetics, the book I so long ago took out of the bookshelf. I'm just in the beginning, but am finding myself already somewhat confused. I hope that this group will help me along in my understanding. Alexandra