Re: [BardonPraxis] Question about requirements for beginners

["Andy Llewellyn" <andy.llewellyn@...>]

Hi Patrik,

I believe this is what is expected from an advanced Magician.....not from a 
beginner.

Regards,

Andrew
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrik" <patwe77@...>
To: <BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:33 PM
Subject: [BardonPraxis] Question about requirements for beginners




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








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