The philosopher, John Baines had something very interesting to say on the subject of Hermetics: =================================== John Baines Forum #32 - Sept 30 The Spirit ==================================="For the spirit, the physical body is a heavy load when it does notrespond to the messages and actions that the spirit desires it to undertake; it islike a black veil which limits and clouds the vision. Self-mastery means learning toperfectly handle the complex and extraordinary machinery which is our physicalbody." "In general, the condition of the human being can be compared to that ofan individual who enters a very complicated automobile without knowing howto drive it. The physical body of a man who has neither cultivated nordeveloped his consciousness, is like an automobile traveling a long distancewithout a driver.""In order to clearly visualize the spiritual problem of mankind, we willoffer the following simile. The spirit is pure energy of a high vibration whichpenetrates a material body of a low vibration. All that the spirit tries toexteriorize is lost, like a radio transmitter of a high frequency that has to be retransmitted to a lowfrequency receiver (the body). Logically, it is impossible for this receiver (the body) to receiveanything at all, until its frequency level is increased to that of the transmitter (the spirit).""The power of the human mind has no limits and the day will come whenman will have attained perfect mastery of the mind enabling him tomaterialize his thoughts, and giving him the ability to achieve the integration of matter."From Chapter 10: "The Dominion of Oneself" of The Secret Science, byJohn Baines =================================== To find out more about John Baines, The Institute of Hermetic Philosophy, or our current events, visit<http://www.dsiny.org> www.dsiny.org kos_kou4 <kos_kou4@...> wrote: Hello friends, I am new to this group and I am still practising Bardon's step one. But the last week I had some kind of a problem. I had obsessive thoughts, I couldn't consestrate, my mind went blank, had absence of emotional responsiveness and reduction in awareness. As you can understand my first thought was that "ok you are a mad man now, don't panic you just have to go to the psyciatry clinic". I have always been really nervous guy. Always something to do, couldn't sit down, always in a mood that "I have to leave now" and lots of other things that a really nervous guy can do. When this "crisis" slow down a bit I searched in the internet about mental problems and I found very interesting things. All the symptoms that I have a few years now are stress symptoms caused by a trauma. Now, about Bardon's work I have done something really foolish. I have done the mental exercise WRONG for five months. So, a week ago when I understand this got really anxious and stressfull and I think that these stressfull feelings might triggered this crisis. What I want for you, please, is just an advise. To stop Bardon's course it is not a sollution because it is very importand to me, is like a life purpose. And except from this in first step we learn to control our mind which for me I think that it is the best therapy for my problem. I can't afford a therapist and even if I could, I couldn't tell him about Bardon and occult because he woudn't understand. So, what do you thing, should I stop Bardon's course or should I fight it? Do you thing that this course could be a therapy for my problem? Regards, Kostas To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: BardonPraxis-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]