Re: success with Bardon's system

["sineadoconnorfan" <sineadoconnorfan@...>]

Dear Rawn,

Bardon mentioned that there was a difference between knowledge 
gained from reading or of studying transferred knowledge and 
knowledge gained from experience, and that only the second type was 
true possessed knowledge eventhough both are factually accurate.

I'm interested to know the history of magic and of real human 
history (Bardon claims that Atlantis was real and there is a much 
older human history.) but I don't know if there are many good 
sources out there and I really wouldn't know which are the accurate 
sources and which aren't.

Ardeshir 

--- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@n...> 
wrote:
> Dear Ardeshir,
> 
> >> I see. From reading IIH and Frabato the Magician, Hermeticism 
is not
> about intellectual knowledge, book learning or a science of facts, 
like
> modern science, but about development. <<
> 
> Hermetic *initiation* -- as opposed to the intellectual Hermetic
> *Philosophy* -- is indeed about developing one's own faculties of
> perception. It's *not* about relying upon what others tell you or 
what
> a book tells you, etc. It's about discovering, exploring and 
perceiving
> for *yourself*.
> 
> This does result in the development of personal intellectual 
knowledge
> but it is knowledge founded upon experiential understanding, not 
upon
> book learning.
> 
> Many throughout human history, have passed along the understanding 
of
> things they gained through their own pursuit of Hermetic 
*initiation*
> either orally or in writing. In fact, what we call "modern 
science" and
> "religion" are the children of such personal discoveries.
> 
> My best to you,
> :) Rawn Clark
> 31 Oct 2004
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