[Opinion] New students need to cease trying to impress others.

[DiLoco_DelEted]

Okay guys and gals, you need to grow up and listen up.
None of us are here to be impressed by you.
Actually if this was ran in a way where only seasoned and certified teachers were the only ones able to post, we would have no misinformation in attempts to impress any of us.

 

[Öwnchef]

It is sad but I don't even trust certificates. I met authors of well known esoteric books who admited to have no clue other than imagination.

You have to know for yourself whom to trust. For a beginner that is almost impossible.

 

[KjEno186]

It is sad but I don't even trust certificates. I met authors of well known esoteric books who admited to have no clue other than imagination.

You have to know for yourself whom to trust. For a beginner that is almost impossible.

You are quite correct. Who can we trust? I trust results. I joined the forum initially to access the library. It's not like I can spend a ton of money on books. I'm amazed at how much 'padding' some authors use to fill the pages of a book that might contain some nuggets of good information. Then I discover that they're just rephrasing some things that someone else wrote years before them. Granted, that might be a good thing if the information finally strikes a chord with readers in ways that no other book previously could. That being said, I'll buy any book, after having read and practiced the information in the pdf, which I determine has brought me what the author claims it can. The book pays for itself, in other words.

Personally, I don't care about certificates. Those only impress people. Results matter. I am not here to impress anyone. Even if/when I achieve results, I am unable to speak of them until well after the fact, using discretion:

"TO KNOW, TO DARE, TO WILL, TO BE SILENT, those are the four verbs of the mage which are written in the four symbolic forms of the sphinx." - Éliphas Lévi

 

[Roma]

"TO KNOW, TO DARE, TO WILL, TO BE SILENT,

I would add: to test by experiment

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

I was actually just testing a tarot square, by speaking psalms in order according to the Hebrew letter of the card, then speaking aloud the syllable, the word, and the letters. It seems related to alchemy.
Beth, Lamed, Tav; Heh, Mem, Peh; Cheth, Yod, Resh.
By speaking the letter of the card in psalms 119, something should occur.
Would like to find meanings of the Greek letters and write those on the cards, then speak the Greek, observing and journaling.

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

The Gematria is off for the others but: lamed-mem-yod, yod-mem-lamed, heh-mem-peh, peh-mem-heh all work out to or nearly 32.

It is also interesting by removing the other four cards, it leaves six cards in an equal armed cross.

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

By the number of the keys, not the letter Gematria values themselves I might add, to remove confusion. Heh, Yod, Peh, lamed, Mem. Mem is the center of the cross. Horizontal heh-mem-peh; vertical lamed-mem-yod. Said it counter-clockwise - effect is calm awareness.

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

The window-lile reflection of the hand, hand to mouth instruction,.instruction to the sea of memory.