Dear Rawn and all I have some confusion, not being clear about a certain subject concerning intro./character-building of step 1 / 2 of IIH. Although, as you say Rawn, the inner voice is most important for classifying what is negative or positive, there are still (as you have said too) some external results (concerning whether a step is mastered or not) ? and sometimes, someone may feel negative about certain traits and that feeling itself (as he may recognise later) is the problem and not the trait (or the other way round, too). So a kind of *general* approach could be helpful especially concerning larvae or schemes because Bardon himself points them as a (rather negative) general category to be mastered in order to get a noble character. (and, if it were true, that just the inner voice as it arise within every individual to be the *only* criterion for what is noble or not, then a criminal or so called black magician hurting others could be called very noble just provided they feel good about themselves). So, shortly asked, does developing a noble character in terms of Bardon rather mean mastering and balancing your soul or also or rather mean purifying / cleansing + transforming your soul concerning negative traits (or what the individual feels for themselves to be negative)? Lets say that *every* thought form, every feeling, may it be noble or not, could be generally named as *elemental* (definition by Daskalos) (elementals not meant as Nature Spirit here). So, larvae are elementals as well as any kind of positive thought form like a divine symbol, even a cabbalistic letter according to *thise* definition. Now, for example, take: The book "Pranic Psychic Self Defense" by Choa Kok Sui, (at least that German translation I have), there are some nice pictures of some kinds of elementals or larvae. For example an elemental of learning, very clear shining. An elemental of fear, like a dark heavy grey-black blue dusty cloud. A beautiful elemental of heart-love, like a subtle symmetric spiral form ? very lovely and soft. And also an elemental of sexual passion, more heavy, orange and dark red colored, less symmetric form and less lovely. Then, there are some non-colored pictures: A smoking larvae, living at the chest area of smokers. They look quite mean, like an intelligent little grey cloud, wanting the smoker to smoke again and again. (For Pranic healing people therefore, smoking out of pleasure would still be caused not by your higher will but by those larvae - *they* long for a kind of purity). Now, Bardon himself sometimes speaks of *control* (or *master*). Other times, he speaks of *cleansing* your soul, make it *pure* or *get rid of* (German: "beseitigen") passions. This is confusing a bit. *** So, what does *noble* mean, especially concerning passions? *** Those it just mean to *master* those (not so nice looking) larvae like sexual passions or smoking larvae in terms of *control* them by your will, so it is your will deciding *when* to smoke or having sexual pleasure and when not, as a kind of time-regulation how often? Or does it rather mean *transforming* those not so nice looking larvae or elementals into more beautiful looking ones, so one has then *beautiful-noble* sexual passion larvae instead of heavy dark one? Or does it mean for those having successfully mastered step 2, having (for example) removed or transformed more or less *all * larvae and now just to smoke or enjoy sex out of higher noble beautiful mental/astral elementals like lovely looking ones? And last question, how can I be sure, concerning sexuality, that need for sex is caused by *noble* elementals and not by eros-schemen? And are those eros-schemes (Eros-Schemen) (compared with larvae) just to be removed or to be transformed? How is it possible to recognise and differ those kinds of elementals, larvae or eros-schemes for beginners step 1 / 2 that are not clairvoyant? With best regards Patrik