06-27-2010, 08:28 PM
OK I have started re-reading Book IV. Turns out I actually did get thru about half of it before; it was the last half that I tried to read multiple times but never quite got. Still, I'm going to start from the beginning again.
For starters, this jumped out at me immediately:
Session 76
In light of the discussion on another thread about the value of learning beyond the 3D choice of STO, this seems to shed some light on that question. Such study seems to be optional, but certainly advantageous to those who choose to pursue it.
For starters, this jumped out at me immediately:
Session 76
Quote:Ra: I am Ra. This group’s use of the Banishing Ritual of the Lesser
Pentagram has been increasingly efficacious. Its effect is purification,
cleansing, and protection of the place of working.
The efficacy of this ritual is only beginning to be, shall we say, at the lower
limits of the truly magical. In doing the working those aspiring to
adepthood have done the equivalent of beginning the schoolwork, many
grades ahead. For the intelligent student this is not to be discouraged; rather to be encouraged is the homework, the reading, the writing, the arithmetic, as you might metaphorically call the elementary steps towards the study of being. It is the being that informs the working, not the working that informs the being.
In light of the discussion on another thread about the value of learning beyond the 3D choice of STO, this seems to shed some light on that question. Such study seems to be optional, but certainly advantageous to those who choose to pursue it.