Question about requirements for beginners

["Patrik" <patwe77@...>]

Hi!

I've studied a little William Misteles advises for beginners or
those 
who wish to go the hermetic path of Bardon. Right from the beginning, 
mastering the first steps (before moving on to higher steps), there 
is to achieve gradually:

1. The mental clarity of an advanced Zen master.
2. The concentration and artistic imagination of Stephen Spielberg.
3. The ability to understand personal problems from a universal
perspective as one or two Ph.D.s in transpersonal psychology might 
impart.
4. The level of vitality and chi possessed by a sixth don aikido 
sensei or
a fourth generation tai chi master.
5. The qualities of a successful individual in any profession 
(endurance, hard-work and love your work ..)

This sounds quite challenging in a positive way. 
Well, although I've done practising martial arts and qi-gong for
some 
time, I have to confess that I do not see a quick way manifesting a 
chi level of a qi-gong or kungfu master. Above all, even after some 
days of intensive training and improved vitality (even without 
comparing to others and just to myself), it does not seem as easy to 
* keep * and maintain a higher level of vitality without loosing it 
within struggling times of daily life.

An important question here, arises: Are the hermetic standarts of 
requirements and concerning mastered progress rather internal or 
external, rather inward or outward?

The other, even more challenging thing Mistele points out for Bardon 
beginners, is to somehow find (not the perfection of course) but 
having a deep commitment and identification with the highest light of 
Divine Providence and finding within the sources of the divine 
qualities like absolute faith/commitment (fire), all embracing love 
(water), sense of wonder for life and detachment from personal 
problems (air) and silence and hard-working endurance (earth) ?
to 
get free access to all those sources even in some way * before * 
beginning with the first Bardons exercises. ("I suggest, then, at the 
very beginning of practicing with Bardon that the student take stock 
of what his own individual sense of the sacred and of transcendence 
is." W.M.)

And those, last requirements, really seem to me a quite difficult 
thing to fulfil right away, honestly!
It's one thing to have high ideals and pursuing perfection, step
by 
step. Another thing is to fully have access to those sources 
manifesting and living them in daily life right away.

So, what do you think about Misteles requirements for Bardon 
beginners?

Pat