From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...> Reply-To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com To: <BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Initiation Into Hermetics Primer Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 13:57:08 -0800
Dear John,
>> Rawn....in your commentary, you say that a person with a strong Od is outwardly gregarious and active, while a weak Od is personified by passivity and shyness.....this strikes me as rather simplistic. Would you please clarify? <<
Well, I wrote a bit more than just that summation. :) Here's the rest of the text: =============== The "Od":
Bardon mentions "Od" in passing but doesn't really explain what he means by this term. I've heard several definitions of Od but from what I've gleaned of Bardon's definition, he is referring to the character of the individual or, in other words, the individual's expression of their particular Elemental composition.
The Od is primarily Electric in nature. Simply put, it is the energy that we each express through our accumulated thoughts and emotions. At the mental level, it is our attitude and the quality/quantity of our ideas, seen by how they influence others -- in other words, their emanation. In astral terms, the Od is our astral character or emotional composition, again in its emanative phase of influencing our surroundings. As to our physical body, the Od is the vitality we bring to life and express through our actions. Thus, one with a strong Od is generally outwardly gregarious and active, and one with a weak Od is passive and shy.
These three aspects of the Od work in unison to produce the overall Od.
One place where Bardon speaks of the Od is in the little book "Questions and Answers", under the Astral heading (page 50, question #21). This question concerns astral healing methods and gives an important clue as to what Bardon means by Od:
"We draw this accumulated vital energy directly from the universe and direct it into the astral body of the ailing person without passing it through our own body. Through this we prevent the weakening of our own vitality and at the same time prevent the mixing of our Od (character) with the Od of the ailing person; otherwise we can infect ourselves with the negative attributes of the patient."
While Bardon speaks here only of the Od in relation to astral healing, the same can be said of the mental Od in mental healing and the physical Od during physical healing. =====================
My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 02 Jan 2004 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis http://E.webring.com/hub?ring=arionthebardonwe