Re: [BardonPraxis] Re: Questions, questions, questions

["Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>]

Dear Peter,

>> I'll have to try that. Though I do believe that I'll have to
experiment a lot more with the actual shape of the mouth as I can't seem
to pronounce each consonant individually. <<

The key to this is found in Sepher Yetzirah 2:3 -
"Twenty-two foundation Letters: He portrayed them with voice; He
hewed them out with breath; **He hid them in the mouth in five places --
Aleph, Cheth, Heh, Ayin: in the throat. Gimel, Yod, Kaph, Qooph: in the
palate. Daleth, Teth, Lamed, Nun, Tav: in the tongue. Zayin, Samekh,
Shin, Resh, Tzaddi: in the teeth. Beth, Vav, Mem, Peh: in the lips**."

Begin your practice by speaking the Letter normally, with voice and
breath. Take very careful note of how your mouth shapes itself, where
your tongue is placed and how the breath is compressed for the consonant
itself. Then speak the Letter without voice, with the breath alone.
Then drop the vowels associated with the normal speaking of the
consonant and utter just the consonant itself. This stops the breath at
the point of compression.

For example, let's take the Letter 'K'. Speak it first in a normal
manner as 'kaaa'. Note how it's the back of the tongue which compresses
the breath at the palate (roof of the mouth towards the back). Now
speak the 'kaaa' without the vocal chords and focus just upon the
compression of the breath and placement of the tongue. Notice how the
'aaa' is a release of the breath compressed by the 'k'. Now drop the
'aaa' and focus just upon the compression of the breath by the back of
the tongue against the palate.

>> What about pronouncing the vowels though? <<

It's much the same except that instead of a compression of the breath,
it's about the shaping of the flowing breath, again by mouth and tongue.

But be careful when using Bardon's letters to distinguish between the
*vowel* Umlaut 'A' (the vowel point Kametz) and the *consonant* 'A'
(Aleph), for example. Reference to the charts I provided in my KTQ
commentary will help with this.

>> Though, just from playing around with this approach in the pauses
while writing this out I can see it certianly does work. <<

Excellent! :)

>> Now, how does this work relate to that which you just put forth? In
the accumulation of the light? But one is able to percieve the right
colour...then should one be able to work with the colours/letters in
a condensation. Or should one wait until I've finished step eight? <<

Since you can perceive the essential meaning (an ability that Bardon
seems to have assumed would not be gained until the completion of Step
Eight) and are capable of an accumulation and condensation, I'd say
there was no reason for you to wait until the completion of Step Eight
before beginning this phase of the Kabbalistic work.

My best to you,
:) Rawn Clark
01 Jul 2003
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