Re: William Mistele and Evocation

["peter_reist" <peter_reist@...>]

Dear Jason,

It's good to see that there are young upstarts out there that like to 
ask the right questions. Now I know what Rawn must have been 
experiencing when he had to deal with me.

First and foremost, I don't really think that any spirit is "non-
incarnated". For if these spirits where not incarnated, they would 
not exist. Which is, of course, a little bit of a conundrum due to 
the fact that if a portion of infinity where not to exist, it would 
not be infinity.

As for the work of evocation, I do believe that it is a practice that 
is an essential pre-requisit for the actual merging with divinity. 
That is to say that it is a practice that expands the scholars 
*experiental* understanding of the universe. Something that is 
necessary for the crossing of the abyss and the eventual merging with 
divinity.

In most respects, one could consider this type of work to be 
equivelent to the transference of consciousness exercies in step four 
and the depth point exercises of step five and six in which one 
learns how to project ones consciousness to the depth point, and then 
into the akasha. In other words: one works at expanding the 
consciousness in small incriments before making the exponental leap 
to encompass the infinity of the akasha. For without those first 
small steps, the final leap is something that is very hard to 
accomplish.

Moreover, evocation and Kabbalah are somewhat akin to cosmic cheat 
sheet. They allow the scholar to do things that would normally take 
quite a lot of effort and attention otherwise, with rather little 
effort. The unusual thing is that you don't get to look at the cheat 
sheet until after you've taken the exam, after you've gone through 
all of the trails, pain and sweat of being able to do such work on 
your own. Neither spirit nor Kabbalahistic utterence will do anything 
more for the scholar than he or she is already capable of doing on 
their own. It's just more convenient to work with a spirit or 
Kabbalahistic utterence than to go through the route manipulation of 
vital energy, elements or fluids.

Love and Live well,
Peter Reist