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Preliminary P ractice for
Franz Bardons
Initiation into Hermetics
by
Ray del Sole
Preliminary P ractice for
Franz Bardons
Initiation into Hermetics
Copyright by Ray del Sole , 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4457-6562-4
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Attention
Please regard that you take the responsibility for all exercises, experiments and advices you do or follow in this book. All warnings of spiritual teachers, especially by Franz Bardon, Indian Yogis and me should be taken serious. Spiritual training is an art and science and not something to play with or for curiosity. Spiritual development takes years, whole life times, many incarnations indeed. As you are an eternal being you have time enough to proceed step by step keeping the balance in all aspects.
I dedicate this book in deep love and thankfulness to the great master who incarnated as Franz Bardon.
May God bless him endlessly for his divine teachings!
Ray del Sole
Please know that there is one big secret:
Practice makes perfect!
(Nothing else!)
Please know that there is a second big secret:
Follow your divine intuition always!
(The intellect is limited, intuition not.)
Ray del Sole
Introduction
Welcome, noble seeker on the path to spiritual perfection!
Probably you are an old soul with many incarnations dedicated to your spiritual development.
Probably you have reached already a good degree of spiritual refinement, of self-realization, of holiness.
And probably you have been already on a long peregrination through a diversity of spiritual studies in this life to proceed on your path.
Lately you have discovered Franz Bardon and his universal teachings for spiritual perfection.
You know that they represent the highest and complete knowledge which is available on earth.
And you know that it is your chosen path, - your hearts desire to master all steps to real spiritual perfection. There is simply no alternative for you.
There is only one problem the seemingly unmanageable high demand of the training program.
The question is now: How can this training program be accomplished?
This book has the aim to answer your question and to show you the way to full success.
I have been working with Bardons training system for more than 16 years. I know where problems, traps and obstacles lie and I also know the keys to master them.
Ray del Sole
About Bardon and spiritual perfection
Although there are several genuine masters who reached high degrees of spiritual refinement and enlightenment, who also wrote great books about their paths, - there is only one master who showed clearly the whole path with all stations, skills and virtues; also with all techniques for refinement. This master who incarnated to fulfill his holy mission to help mankind to free itself from the bonds of the material world, from darkness and pain is Franz Bardon. His system of development is universal and true for all people, all religions, all cultures and all times. It is reflected in the old esoteric teachings of the true spiritual traditions worldwide. An Indian counterpart can be found in the path of Maha Yoga and in general in techniques of the Raja Yogis. Franz Bardons books lead to spiritual perfection and his teachings give the keys to understand God, man and creation completely; you can understand all different kinds of religions, all different techniques, all philosophical ideas everything. This is simply the truth. Everyone who follows his instructions can confirm this. Certainly it is not enough to study Bardons books as they present the core of the spiritual fruit but not the pulp. The pulp you find in the old Indian wisdom and in the different spiritual traditions. (Read my essays about these things for more details [Light on the path to spiritual perfection Books I-VII].)
So indeed his books deal with the crown of spiritual knowledge, with the core of spiritual development, with real spiritual practice and with an honest spiritual attitude in dedication to the divine majesty. All limited, relative human things, vices are left behind. His books are dedicated to the unlimited and absolute, divine wisdom, love and power.
In our days the revelation of the Akasha Principle can be sensed everywhere. Old barriers which seemed to last for eternity are torn down. Secret spiritual knowledge which was protected for centuries by the menace of death is free available today. All old spiritual traditions open up to teach mature souls and to help mankind to master its next step in evolution.
Many people who reached a degree of holiness in former life times incarnated today to work on their further development.
So it is not only the time of great revelations but also the time where true seekers of light and wisdom are on their way to improve themselves to ultimate spiritual perfection.
What means ultimate spiritual perfection?
At last it means that you develop your unlimited, cosmic, divine nature completely in addition to your present limited human nature.
It means also to be completely initiated in all mysteries and sciences of God, man and creation.
Until you reach this high degree of spiritual development many steps of the ladder must be climbed. As a normal human being you start in the sleeper stage. When the sleeper awakes from dreaming his life he reaches a first enlightenment. This enlightenment the first rays of the spiritual sun is the impulse, the ignition for a deep transformation spiritualization of his personality through clearing, healing and refinement of his soul.
Indeed you become really alive on all planes of your existence. With this activation step by step all higher abilities of your higher nature are activated too.
Later you get to know the whole creation, the whole cosmos with all beings. You become a real globetrotter the cosmos will be your home.
Certainly you will get to know God in all his virtues. You will learn to embody his beauty, his glory and you will learn to create like God does.
For normal humans are these things hard to understand but indeed it is the foreseen evolution for us to become one with the cosmos.
As above, so below!
Hermes Trismegistus
Know yourself then you know the universe!
The oracle of Delphi
So let me welcome you to the greatest adventure of your life!
In light, love and service,
Ray del Sole
The mental aspect of the preliminary practice
In respect to the laws of wisdom we differentiate the preparation analogue to the mental, astral and physical plane.
We start with the mental plane, the intellect, the understanding, the vision and the master plan.
Before something comes into creation its original idea must be concretized and worked on with the powers of mind and intellect meditation. Then it is ready to cause situations on the astral plane which lead to physical action, realization.
So lets start with meditation:
Bardons training system in general
It is necessary to understand the point that Bardon wrote his books according to the first three tarot cards. Number one deals with the magician, number two with the spheres and its spirits and number three deals with the cosmic language. The content of all three books is clearly defined by the referring tarot card. This means that details, explanations, techniques and information are strictly limited to the respective tarot card. So indeed not all information about topics and techniques is given but basics for understanding and training. This means that the three books of Bardon work to a good degree as overviews in analogy to the tarot cards which altogether build the universal book of wisdom. Bardon was allowed to reveal three sides of this book.