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From: markk@West.Sun.COM (Mark Kampe)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: practicing in silence
Date: 23 Oct 1995 22:45:32 GMT
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In article 842@newsbf02.news.aol.com, ubrino@aol.com (Ubrino) writes:
> Is there any validity to the admonition that one should not practice
> magick/kaballah/the occult until age 35?

Is "reasonable motivation" "validity"?  The motivations, as I understand
them are:

	Kabbalah is a very esoteric discipline, and for someone
	to study such a subject before they were well grounded
	in the real world might interfere with their ability
	to develope a life in Malkuth.

	Age (in general) and parenthood (in particular) are very
	grounding experiences, and assumed to be adequate to
	counterballance the abstract and non-worldly influences
	of Kabbalah.

Kabbalah is no longer as weird (compared to other experiences) as it
once was, and people are now subjected to many more philosophical
constructs in their childhood ... so the specific warnings no longer
seem appropriate.  The general admonition, however, that "one should
be well grounded in this world before exploring others" still strikes
me as prudent.