12/12/2004.

"All human souls have come from the womb of the Eternal, and inscribed within them are the ‘samples' of true wisdom, true love, true beauty, true justice, and so on. But as most human beings have not learned to seek out these celestial imprints within themselves and to bring them to life, they remain buried under layers and layers of mistaken opinions, faulty perspectives and depraved desires. With no reference points to guide them, why is it so surprising that people
endlessly go astray? It is up to each of us to descend into the depths of our being to find this clarity we so rarely glimpse. By means of reflection, prayer and meditation, by means of a life discipline, we can travel through all the opaque layers and rediscover this light which alone can illuminate our choices."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

This is a nice idea, thanks for starting it! We need positive thoughts. Our words become our reality.

To that end, let's each take our one step today!

People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.


Dorothy Day

Well, lets do it! Welcome on board! I wish you all love, wisdom and truth of eternity and especially the kingdom of god and justice on earth!

All the best
lwwb
roger

11/12/2004.

"Even among spiritualists, how many have discovered the inner attitude that enables them to surmount their difficulties? They will give you erudite commentary on the law of karma, with references to all the books of India and to complicated Sanskrit terminology… They will tell you that the law of karma is the law of cause and effect, the law of justice; that a particular action leads to particular consequences for an individual's future, and so on. But as soon as they themselves are afflicted with misfortune, they rebel: they study, they practise a spiritual discipline, they work for good, so how is it that God has not protected them? Suddenly they have forgotten that the earth is a school through which they too must pass. They are perhaps more educated than most, but they still have much to learn."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

10/12/2004.

"Even if you reap only indifference or ingratitude, never stop loving and doing good because the love within you is a spring and, if you decide to stop it flowing, it is you who will be the first to dry up. Of course, no-one then will be able to take advantage of you or deceive you, but the water of your spiritual spring will no longer flow, and you will lose your life force. Yes, for when you allow your spring to run dry, the divine world closes off and you become empty and poor. It is sometimes useful, from an educational point of view, to close off to someone in order to teach him a necessary lesson, but it is very harmful to close off to human beings in general. Whether people deserve it or not, allow the spring of love in you to flow. You will say, ‘Yes, but if they do not deserve my love, this is not just!' Do not be so concerned with what is and is not just: practise the injustice of love, or else you will become a desert!"

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

09/12/2004.

"Whatever your circumstances, always remember to analyze yourself so that you know what you are doing, and especially how you are doing it. For example, every day you are obliged to do certain tasks that are more or less interesting or pleasant. But, pleasant and interesting or not, they have to be done. So, observe carefully how you set about doing a job you do not like very much: you sigh, you grumble, and you go at it without conviction or love. You do not realize that your attitude makes the work even more difficult; and then, not only do the efforts you are required to make bring you nothing inwardly, but they destroy you. Whereas if you learn to consider things in another way, if you decide you are going to use this boring work as a chance to train yourself and to make progress, you will change your state of consciousness and the task will seem less hard. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

13/12/2004.

"Each of us possesses a soul and a spirit, and this soul and spirit have needs. If so many human beings are unconscious of these needs, it is because they have stifled them by leading a life without ideals. But these needs are there, and sometimes they manifest in people but they do not understand the language. All these dangerous experiments – like drugs for example – that today tempt young people as well as adults, are expressions of something they are lacking, a call of the soul hungry for the infinite and demanding to be nourished. For what is left for the soul in a society in which all belief in a divine world has been destroyed and in which political rivalries and economic and social success are held up as ideals? Since we deprive the soul of the spiritual foods it needs to be able to soar into space, it looks for these elements in the material realm, in substances such as tobacco, alcohol and drugs. Yes, when the soul is not given the nourishment it needs, it seeks to satisfy itself by means of material foods. However it is these foods which destroy us. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Why can I not stop thinking, reading this tread, each time, that this is about some kind of religious sect?????????
I guess Descartes is reading over my shoulder

Dear Mistral,

Sorry my english is not good enough, but i will try to answer you properly.
Youre absolutely right! It just depends on your personal viewing point. I guess, if i would be a clever pope i would call all the other spiritual groups as "sects", its like in our daily business, a big competion to get us sheeples under control. I do not say that the catholics or evangelics nowadays are the biggest "sects", cause i will not judge other religious groups, its just not my business. i accept it, sometimes its more easier and sometimes it is more difficult for me.

A Sect is a "Sect" when (one of the most important points in my opinion):
When a religious group does not accept other religious behaviors or Religions.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov was a philosopher like Descartes. Infact, he was a philosopher which lives his philosophy and not only discussed philosophies on how to live a better life.

By the way there is not only one way or one teaching which shows us the way to god, there are a lots of different teachings. So if you find nice thoughts of Descartes, Steiner, Ghandi, Nicolas Flamel, Moses, Jesus, Platon, Pythagoras, Hermes Trismegistus, King Salomon, Orpheus, Zarathustra, Lao-Tse, Krishna, Buddha, please post them!!! A real teacher you will always recognise on his altruism.

I feel sorry that many of the so called "teachers" or "gurus" treated people not properly, but this we have to accept too, cause even this teachers are only human beings and do mistakes. There are a lot of charlatans on the spiritual path, but Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov is one of the real guides on our spiritual path, i guarantee you!

Im not pushing you into buying his books, just read his daily thoughts for free and...

...I wish you all love, wisdom and truth of eternity and the kingdom of god and justice on earth.

roger

14/12/2004.

"In the West, we have witnessed for centuries the endless battles between religion and science. For a long time religion was powerful enough to carry off the victory. Then, little by little, the situation was reversed: as science gradually advanced, it gained the upper hand and took revenge by ridiculing religion, which was forced to beat a retreat. But just as religion could not prevent scientific development, science, no matter how great its progress, could not replace or destroy religion. There is a connection between these two domains, and each must work to enhance and enlighten the other. Those who try to separate them or pit them against each other are mistaken. God would not have established two incompatible realities in the universe He created, or in the human being He created in His image. You must therefore discover the laws that govern both the material world and the spiritual world. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

15/12/2004.

"The circle with the point in the centre is a structure which is found everywhere in the universe. It is that of the solar system, with the sun in its centre. And, at the other end of the scale, it is also that of the cell, which is composed of a nucleus, a substance called cytoplasm, and surrounding it, a skin or membrane. An analogous structure is also found in the egg, which is made up of the yolk, the white, and the shell, and also in most fruits, in which we find the stone or the seeds, the flesh and the skin. All living organisms are made up of a centre, then a space in which energy circulates, and finally a ‘skin' which serves as a barrier, a boundary. From the solar system to the atom, this identical structure of the circle with the point in the centre can be found everywhere. And the space surrounding the point represents matter; for without space, matter would not exist. Whereas the point, which represents the spirit, does not need space. And its power lies in the fact that, although it is an imperceptible entity, it is active everywhere at the same time."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

16/12/2004.

"Life and death are so closely connected that there is always something in life that must die in order for something else to live. Like it or not, it is impossible to escape this dilemma. We can already observe this in the realm of health. How many sick people who have been advised by their doctors to stop smoking or drinking alcohol feel that if they follow this advice, they would no longer be able to live! Yes, because there are two conflicting ideas of life here: that of the instinctive life and that of the life of reason. If we live one thing, we must renounce the other. Those who, on the pretext of living more intensely or more agreeably, fail to respect the laws of the physical life, become ill and die. You must decide which form of life you prefer, because you cannot live everything at the same time."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

I am enjoying these!

Here's an old native American story, called the Two Wolves:

An Indian grandfather told his grandson that there is a battle
between two wolves that live within you.

One is evil and has anger, envy, sorrow, regrets, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, superiority, and ego.

The other wolf is good and has joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, empathy, generosity, faith, courage, honor and integrity.

The grandson asked his grandfather, "Which one wins?"

The old Indian simply replied, "The one you feed."

This is a short one, and not very deep in thought... but something I got from a woman's magazine, and something I am doing every morning, in hopes one day it will change my outlook on everything ( I come from a long line of pessimists)

Every morning, start each day by looking in the mirror and saying to yourself
"I am a special person, and something wonderful will happen to me today"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omraam_Mikhael_Aivanhov

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
(Redirected from Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov)
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov (January 31, 1900, Serbtzi, Bulgaria - December 25, 1986, Fréjus, France) was a French philosopher, pedagogue, alchemist, mystic, magus, astrologer with Macedonian roots. He was a disciple of Peter Deunov (Beinsa Duono), the founder of the "Universal White Brotherhood".

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov was a Master in the tradition of what is termed the Great White Brotherhood. His teaching is largely rooted in the Christian path but especially from an esoteric aspect - the inner teachings of Jesus the Christed One.

Quotes
"There are times when you are overwhelmed by the sensation that nothing is going right for you. But it is important to understand that there is no law that obliges you to be relentlessly ground down by fate. Only those who forget that the spirit lives in them are subject to unrelenting fate. Whatever your trials, remind yourself that you are a spirit and are capable of changing your destiny. Of course, you will not be able to change very much to begin with – perhaps your path will veer by only one hundredth of a degree – but if you continue to work in the same direction, you will end by putting a whole solar system between you and fate. What is important is to tap the power of the spirit that is within you."

"God first sent Moses to teach men justice later he sent Jesus to teach them love and forgiveness. True, but we must not leave it at that. To forgive our enemies and turn the other cheek is far nobler than to demand an eye for an eye, but there is something even better."

"It is in the midst of difficulties that man develops his intelligence because, in order to overcome them, he must observe, think and become clear-sighted. Nature has put difficulties here and there in life to develop her children's intelligence, but the children do not develop: they waste their time and energy crying, complaining, getting angry and upset, instead of trying to understand and look for solutions. Obviously when they are exhausted they calm down, but the difficulties are still there; their energies are gone but their problems remain. What a weird method! I ask someone, 'How long did you cry? - three hours. - Did you solve the problem? - No. - Well, next time, cry just ten minutes. As you would miss not crying, do it, but no more than ten minutes; and once the ten minutes is over, start thinking!'"

"Is there a law against being stronger than your enemy? Is there anything to forbid you from picking up your aggressor by the scruff of his neck and asking him, ‘do you want me to smash you to the ground?’ If you did this he would soon see how strong you were. And then, if you put him gently on his feet again instead of throwing him violently to the ground, he would begin to respect you. Would this not be much better than always allowing yourself to be defeated and ill-treated? You must be stronger than your enemies, capable with a single word, gesture, or glance, of paralysing them and making them feel so small and vulnerable that they beat a retreat. If you cannot be a winner on the physical plane, you can at least try to be a winner on the mental plane. Would this not be far better than allowing dishonest, cruel, evil people to destroy you?"

"When you feel anxious or irritated, instead of fretting or going round worrying others, just calm down. Start by controlling your breathing, then say a word with love, do something with love, send a loving thought, and you will see that what was brewing inside you and turning sour has been washed away. In asking love for help, you have opened a spring within you, and now you can leave love to do its purifying work. You see, it is quite easy, you only have to open up your heart to let love come flooding in. Try it, and you will wonder why you never tried it before. We hear love spoken of, and we make fun of it, and play around with it, instead of using it as the most effective means of salvation."

"Meditation has become fashionable lately. More and more people meditate, or so it would seem. But what can such meditation without any preparation bring them? How can they meditate if they do not have a high ideal, if they have not relinquished their whims, their debauched living, their disordered thoughts and desires, their wine and their tobacco? They say they meditate. And what is the subject of their meditation? Money, power, a man or woman they might seduce? They cannot meditate on celestial subjects because they do not have an ideal with which to tear themselves away from ordinary, animal life, and to pull them up to heaven. Be quite clear on this: you cannot meditate unless you have conquered certain weaknesses and understood certain truths. And not only are you not able to, it is even dangerous to try."

"Disciples who do not know how to behave towards their master because they are unaware of what role a master can play in their lives, prevent their master from being as useful to them as he could be, as he would like to be, and they thus hamper their own progress. It is up to disciples to discover what their relationship should be with their master, how they should regard him and behave towards him. It is not up to the master to make recommendations on this subject. A true master is content with simply giving his teaching; he leaves his disciples free. He will never say: 'You must respect me, admire me, obey me.' No, never. First of all because it would be useless to do so, since respect, admiration or obedience cannot be imposed. Secondly because the master does not need to; he has other sources of joy and satisfaction. It is up to disciples to find the best attitude to adopt towards their master for the sake of their evolution."

"History has known so many revolutions! How many times have human beings experienced changes! And yet the situation has not really improved. Why? Because in spite of these changes, people have not freed themselves from the vicious circle of their lusts and badly controlled instincts. No situation will really improve if mentalities do not improve. People have to leave the region of their lower appetites for changes to become true improvements. If they continue to utilise the same defective materials with the same polluted elements, whatever combinations they may consider, human beings will keep on living in the same disorder and tribulation."

Books
Spiritual Alchemy
The Splendour of Tiphareth
The Path of Silence
Toward a Solar Civilisation
Light as a Living Spirit
The True Meaning of Christ's Teaching
New Light on the Gospels
Creation: Artistic and Spiritual
The Powers of Thought
Man's Two Natures: Human and Divine

17/12/2004.

"You have to move a great block of stone and, since it is subject to the earth's gravity, it is heavy. But if you could move it far enough from the earth to escape its attraction, it would become light and would even float. Let us now apply this physical law to the world of the psyche. If you knew how to transport your burdens beyond the limits of the earth's gravity, not only would they cease to weigh you down, but they would lift you like a balloon, and you would rise higher and ever higher. And when a master asks you to free yourself, what does he mean? That you must liberate yourself from all your mundane, prosaic activities in order to take up other responsibilities, divine responsibilities that will elevate you."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

The Sephirot Tree, the Cabbalistic Tree of Life, is an Image of the universe in which God dwells and which He impregnates with His essence, a symbolic representation of the divine life that flows through the whole of creation. The Tree of Life is a system which can be of tremendous importance in helping us to avoid dispersing our spiritual activity. If you work with this Tree for years, if study it and savour its fruits, you will be introducing the balance and harmony of Cosmic Life into your own lives.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Farmers were the first moral philosophers, they don't expect to reap if they have not sown, and they know very well that, if they sow cabbages they will not harvest carrots. How can someone who sows nothing but hatred and strife hope to reap a harvest of love and peace? If you want a marble palace you are not going to start building with clay bricks. If you want a healthy body you are not going to give it poisonous food.

How can anyone expect to develeop a healthy, sturdy psyche, a lucid mind and a generous heart if he is seething with anarchic thoughts and feelings poisoned by his own greed and resentment? Exactly as we sift and select suitable food or building materials, we have to sift and select the thoughts and feelings that present themselves to us. The laws that govern the psychic life are the same as those which have already been seen to govern other aspects of nature or technology. it was neither man nor society as a whole that invented morality: it is intrinsic to nature, to every aspect and dimension of nature. Morality is simply the extension on the human, psychic level, of the laws of nature.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

18/12/2004.

"Jesus said, ‘My Father is still working, and I also am working.’ But who, even among the initiates, can pronounce such words? Who even knows what this work is? Most human beings can only say, ‘I do odd jobs…I struggle…I rack my brains…I make some miserable attempts.’ But work is something completely different. After two thousand years, we have not yet fathomed the depths of the phrase ‘My Father is still working, and I too am working.’ It has remained ineffective and empty of meaning. Have we ever wondered what this work of God is, how He works, and in what way Jesus is associated with this work? The work of Christ is to purify everything, to harmonize and illuminate everything, and to orient everything toward the divine Source, so that the water of this Source can in return flow and bring to life the earth and all its creatures. Only someone who has managed to rise as far as the divine Spirit in order to imbue himself with its quintessence and then to distribute its benefits to all creatures, has earned the right to say ‘I am working.’"

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Money is not, as many people believe, 'the root of all evil'. There is something within human beings that uses money as a means to express its greed. Do away with money and put anything else in its place and, as long as people continue to be possessed by their own weakness, base appetites and passions the probablem will be the same. So it is not money that is to blame, but man. Man is not sufficiently enlightened, he doesn't know what attitude to adopt with regard to money, how to use it properly, for what reasons and what purpose it should be used. In itself, money is neither good nor bad; it is neutral. At the same time, it is a tremendously powerful means in the hands of those who possess it and this is why it can be used either to destroy or to save. The whole question, therefore, is one of attitude. Money is powerful simply because human beings attribute great value to it. If they decided, tomorrow, to divest money of its value and attribute it to something else, the same pattern would repeat itself all over again, with the same tragedies, the same seductions, the same splendours and the same degradations.

Keep your money in your safe or in your pocket, but never in your head. If you keep it in your head it will be an opaque screen that will cloud your vision. If you keep it before your eyes as an ideal to be reached at all costs, less ready to see people's good points; you will be less considerate, generous and tolerant. You will become severe, intransigent and cruel. To have no money at all, on the other hand, is not desirable either. People have sometimes wanted to live in stark poverty, thinking that it would enhance their spiritual life, and have ended by becoming a useless burden to society. That is not the ideal solution! As long as we are on earth and things are organized as they are today, we need money.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

In the course of a year, as the sun moves round the circle of the zodiac, it travels through the four points known as the equinoxes and the solstices. The equinoxes correspond to the two days of the year when the sun crosses the equator and day and night are of equal length. These two days are March 21 and September 21. The solstices, on the other hand, correspond to the two days on which the angle between the sun and the equator is at its maximum. These are December 21, the winter solstice and the shortest day of the year, and June 21, the summer solstice and the longest day of the year. To these four points in time, the solstices and the equinoxes, correspond four so-called Cardinal Feasts: Christmas, Easter, St.John the Baptist and St. Michael Archangel. These feast-days were instituted by the Initiates as a reminder to human beings that, on those days, the sun sets particularly powerful currents in motion in the universe and that, if they are aware of them, human beings can draw on these currents and use them to advance their evolution. The passage from one season to the next occurs at these four points, each of which is a nexus of extraordinary forces proper to each season. The seasonal forces are organized and regulated by very powerful spirits under the command of which are many lesser spirits whose task is to distribute these energies and forces to every part of the planet. You must not think that everything happens automatically in nature; on the contrary, a whole host of spirits are actively involved. some of them have been specially entrusted with the care of rocks, plants, animals and men, and all the seasonal changes that occurs are the result of their activity.

Finally, on December 21, comes the winter solstice, presided over by the Archangel Gabriel and, a few days later, it is Christmas. Christmas is the celebration of a birth, that is to say, of a descent into matter, a condensation, a cristallization reflecting the characteristic of winter, the season in which nature freezes and becomes immobile. The Archangel Gabriel commands the forces that have the property of condensing matter. If the influence of the moon had not been counterbalanced by other influences, it would have materialize an idea, a plan, even if the occurence of this feast. The winter solstice is a period for birth, a propitious period for something to be born on earth. The other feasts correspond to seperation, resurrection and the kindling of fire; only the feast of Christmas is associated with material realization on earth.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

19/12/2004.

"Animosity and hatred arise between human beings because face to face with one another they are never conscious that they are in the presence of a spirit, a spark that is seeking to manifest itself and that, in order to help this spirit before them, it is worth their while to be kind, patient and generous. Given the way they are used to thinking of each other and what they see in each other when they meet, it is inevitable that they end up wanting to kill each other. And even Christians who have, supposedly, placed the love of one's neighbour as the foundation of their religion, do they not continue to live in hatred and confrontation? Yes. Why? Precisely because they never see beyond people's lower nature. If they understood that there was a soul and spirit in them to which they could relate, they would feel obliged to behave differently."

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

All the thoughts and feelings that take shape in the minds of human beings, whether they are conscious of this or not, are living beings, and those who bring them into existence nourish them invisibly, every day, with their own emananations. At the moment of death, some people actually see and recognize these beings as their own children and, although they may try to flee from them, they cannot shake them off. This is why we must learn to focus on light, every single day, and renew our ties with our Maker as often as possible, for it is these ties that will deliver us from the monstrous creature that ignorance has led us to create'.

I am well aware that, in the present state of things, human beings are a very long way from envisaging or accepting the truth of such a statement, for they know nothing about the nature or power of their thoughts and feelings. They have become so materialized, so fossilized, that this subtle, vibrant world escapes them. They neither feel it nor believe in its existence – and yet they continually manufacture it. Human beings are ceaselessly engaged in manufactoring thoughts and feelings, good or bad, without realizing that they are bringing tiny entities into the world which, in order to survive, have to feed on those who produce them. This means that, if those entities are evil, they will drain them of all their strength and, if they are good, they will enrich them with many precious gifts.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

If you read the great book of Living Nature you will realize that, in order to evolve satisfactorily, it is essential to know exactly where one's energies go, what one spends them on, what use one makes of them. This is just one more area in which human beings do not have the light they need. They squander their energies frivolously and unthinkingly on whatever takes their fancy. But to live in ignorance of how to use one's energies makes it virtually impossible to advance and evolve. We are responsible for our energies; Heaven has not given them to us so that we can waste them, and the use we make of them will be noted on our record. The Book of Living Natures says, 'Blessed are those who devote all their physical, emotional and mental energies to working for the good of mankind and for the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.'

A close look at human beings will show you that they are not really aware of all the energy that has been given to them so that they may live. They have no idea how precious it is, how much the Lord values it, where it comes from or what it has cost nature to manufacture it for them. It is in things like this that one sees that man is not very highly evolved, for he wastes his energies on fits of anger, orgies of sensuality and selfish, criminal activities without realizing that, in this way, all that priceless treasure goes to feed the forces of Hell. If I told you that it was human beings that nourished the forces of Hell you would be astonished, and yet this is the truth. Out of ignorance, most human beings spend their lives nourishing, sustaining and supporting Hell. They are extraordinarily well-informed in the sciences, but they have never been told that they are responsible for the way in which they use their energies – and it is not at University that they are going to learn this.

One of the first tasks of a disciple is to become conscious of how he spends his energies, for they have been carefully counted, weighed and measured. When Heaven sees someone wasting his energies in harmful activities, it shuts off the supply. It says, 'That man is dangerous; he has got to be put out of action.' Do you know, for example, why some people are drunkards? It is because the invisible World chose that way to render them harmless. If they were in full possession of their faculties they would use their destructive energies to create havoc in the world, but their abuse of alcohol chloroforms and stupefies them. They are incapable of doing any harm. This is not true in case, of course; there are all kinds of reasons why people become alcoholics.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Some so-called philosophers would like to abolish man's desire for wealth. But this is not possible: they will never succeed, for it is Nature herself who has given man the desire to be rich, if not on the physical plane, then on the emotional or intellectual plane. Man has the innate urge to enrich himself in one way or another on every plane of being. It is exactly the same with his tendency to make war: that, too, will never be abolished for that, too, is an instinct fostered and nourished by Nature. If Nature has given man a head, it was so that he would use it not to wipe out his instincts but to give them direction and put them to good use.

Almost all the rewards of society – prestige, social prominence, influence and authority – are based on wealth. A warmer welcome and greater defence is always shown to the rich, even if they are dishonest. Even the chief of a tribe of savages has something more or better than the others: a few more feathers or more statues, a few more little pots. It is Nature herself that gives human beings the instinct to do better than others. The only trouble is that, if the head is not in charge, they are inclined to exaggerate and be unjust and to break the law. but when the head is in control, that is to say, when they are lucid and use their reason, all their instincts - their acquisitive instinct, the instinct to compete and do better than others, the instinct of aggression, even the sexual instinct - all these instincts can develop normally. For they are forces, useful impulses that urge men to advance.

Of course, when human beings are too primitive they are not controlling and guiding their instincts. History gives us many examples of this. Personally, I am not in favour of abolishing men's instincts because, when you do that, you abolish all that stimulates them, life comes to a standstill and all progress ceases. A lot of people say that we should destroy such and such a vice or uproot such and such tendency. But that is no solution, for Nature will continue to produce other individuals with the same tendencies. A programme of destruction is doomed from the start. We destroy snakes and mosquitoes but Nature simply produces more the following year. This is why the old methods have never produced good results: they were applied without wisdom. Wisdom lies in acknowledging the intelligence of Nature, in deferring to her and, in this way, becoming capable of understanding her designs and the reason for them.

If we ask Nature how she envisages things, she will say, 'What about you? How do you build a ship? You put engines into it, but are the engines intelligent? No, they drive the ship forward but they are perfectly capable of driving it onto the rocks or into an iceberg or bringing it into collision with another ship and wrecking the whole thing.' 'Yes, but there is always a captain on board. He is intelligent and he keeps his eyes open and steers the ship.' 'Exactly! When I created man, I gave him engines to drive him forward, and those engines often spit fire, but I also gave him a captain. The only trouble is that the captain has gone to sleep, or perhabs he is drunk and has abandoned his post and the whole ship is drifting out of control. 'Oh, how simple the whole thing is! And to think that I wanted to stop the engines!' 'No, keep the engines running, but wake up the captain because the poor fellow has lost his grip.' The engines are below decks, in the bowels of the ship and above, in the head, is the captain who uses your eyes, ears and mouth to look and listen and give his orders. Why is your head not between your legs, for instance, or on the soles of your feet? Actually, that is where a lot of people keep it - symbolically speaking. Anarchists, who refuse to reason, sacrifice everything to the engines and disdain the head. Try talking to them about wisdom, order or intelligence and you will see their reaction. What they advocate is blind brute force.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Jesus was familiar with the Cabbalah; this Science was an integral part of the Judaic tradition in which he was brought up and it was he who revealed it to St John. This is why we find so many cabbalistic elements it to St John's Apocalypse. In all spiritual traditions there is an exoteric teaching which is given to all the faithful, and an esoteric teaching which is revealed to a small minority of initiates. The exoteric aspect of Christianity is represented by St Peter and the esoteric aspect by St John. In the Gospels, St John is called 'the disciple whom Jesus loved', and his closeness to Jesus sometimes aroused some jealousy on the part of the other disciples, particularly St Peter. After the Resurrection St Peter questioned Jesus about St John and Jesus replied, 'if I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you?' And the Gospels adds, 'Then this saying went out among the brethren that this disciple would not die.? This is the source of that long-lived tradition according to which St John is still alive and he dwells with other Inititates in Agartha, waiting until that the old legends about the mysterious kingdom of Prester John originated in these words of Jesus and the fact that the early Christians took them to mean that St John would not die.

Jesus, therefore, prepared St John and St Peter for two different missions. Why did he divide his work in two in his way? Those who are familiar with the history of Initiations in the past know that all great Masters did the same thing. Moses, himself, gave one body of teaching and rules for the masses, but to the seventy elders chosen from amongst the wisest and most faithful of his followers, he entrusted the keys of his five books, the Pentateuch, and it was thanks to these keys that they were able to decipher the hidden meaning of those books. Certain truths were kept secret either because they were beyond the comprehension of the weak or because they would have put power into the hands of the wicked. This is why Jesus said, 'Do not cast your pearls before swine.' And, when his disciples asked him why he spoke to the multitude in parables, he replied, 'Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven, but to them it has not been given'. All the established churches, whether Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant, are exoteric churches; they teach certain truths but their primary concern is with rules and regulations for the masses. They are unable to reveal the deepest and most mysterious truths, for only those whose minds have been tempered and made ready can accept and digest secret aspect of reality.

Jesus gave his exoteric teaching to St Peter, therefore, and his esoteric, Initiatic teaching to St John. This is how St John received the keys to the Old Testament and, in particular, to the deeply mysterious Book of Genesis. You are all familiar with the Word' which seem to echo the first words of Genesis, 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.'

I know that a great many people have difficulty in accepting the idea that Jesus was familiar with the Cabbalah, but we find at least one proof that this was so in the Gospels. Do you remember the episode of the woman taken in adultery? Some Scribes and Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery before Jesus. The Law of the Jews decreed that such a woman should be stoned to death and they wanted to get Jesus to tell them what they should do about it, in the hope of getting him to lay himself open to charges of breaking the Law. The Gospels says, 'But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger, as though he did not hear. So when they continued asking him, he raised himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. 'Nobody has ever explained what it was that Jesus wrote on the ground. Was he making idle marks in the dust like someone who doodles on a scrap of paper when he is bored? Was he pretending to be thinking of something else so as to avoid their questions? Neither of these, of course. Although no one has ever revealed this before, I will tell you what he was doing: he was tracing certain Cabbalistic signs and symbols with which the Scribes and Pharisees were as familiar as he was, having been schooled in the same tradition. Jesus took this way of telling them, 'If you are pure and blameless, you are free to apply the Law and punish this woman. but if you, yourselves, are guilty of the same sin, be careful what you do for, by virtue of these Cabbalistic signs you will be condemned and struck down'. Seing these – and because they understood perfectly well what they meant – they withdrew and left him alone with the woman. How can you explain that the Scribes and Pharisees, who had every justification in law for putting this adulterous woman to death, gave up their intention so readily if not because Jesus threatened them in some way?

Yes, there is no doubt about it: Jesus was familiar with the Cabbalah, and St John's Revelation cannot be interpreted without some of that same knowledge. Take, for instance, the passage about the scarlet Beast with seven heads and ten horns on which sat the Harlot, holding the golden cup full of abdominations and filth: this is obviously a reference to the evil, adverse Sephiroth known in the Cabbalah as the Kliphot. But how can anyone who does not possess the key to the secret meaning of the Apocalypse hope to interpret it correctly? St John wrote, for instance, that the number of the Beast was 666 and, failing to grasp the symbolism involved, a great many people have tried to decide to whom he was referring. Every imaginable interpretation has been given to this wretched number; it has been attributed to all the most hated tyrants of history: Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, etc. But that is plainly ridiculous.

Christianity did not suddenly appear out of nowhere. It is the outcome of several different traditions, the most important of which is the Judaic tradition contained in the Cabbalah. This is why it is so important to have some knowledge of the Cabbalah in order to understand the Bible. Christianity possesses a vast philosophy, a science of tremendous richness but, unfortunetly, for several centuries the Church has been content to transmit only scraps of incomplete, superficial information to the faithful. Is it any wonder that they are flocking for inspiration to Japanese, Tibetan, Hindu and Sufic philosophies? The answers they receive from Christianity seem so poor and inadequate, whereas others have such a wealth of knowledge. The clergy should be ashamed of their inability to communicate the deep truths of Christianity to the faithful; they have been content to preach at them without teaching them anything, and it is only now that they see the results! It is high time that Christians began to reflect about these things, otherwise Christianity will finally disappear altogether. for my part,I am not opposed to Christianity, quite the contrary. Iwish that Christians would return to Christianity; they have no idea what it really is at all. If priests and pastors understood my attitude they should be the first to come and embrace me. But it is just the opposite: they think that I am working against Christ and against their interests. There is a great deal of misunderstanding here.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

People sometimes tell me that they are interested in the Cabbalah, that they have read a lot of books by well-known students of cabbalistic science – people such as Lenain, Papus, Eliphas Levi, Dion Fortune, A. E. Waite and Israel Regardie – and that they would like my opinion and advice. Certainly, there is a lot to be learned from all these books, but the first thing I ask somebody who wants to know what I think about these books is how he or she has read them. And, all too often, the answer I get is, " Oh, from time to time I read a few pages, here and there." Well, I am sorry to have to tell you that that is not the way to study the Cabbalah. If you tried to study mathematics by beginning with differential and integral calculus, for instance, before mastering the four basic operations, the science of mathematics would remain a closed book to you! You have to begin at the beginning and understand the first lessons before trying to assimilate more difficult things. Only if you do that can you expect to make rapid progress. As long as some point is not quite clear to you, you must not try to go any further. You have to advance step by step, without rushing things. If this is true of mathematics, how much more so is it true for the Cabbalah. You cannot read the Cabbalah as though you were reading a magazine. Before I go any further, I should make it quite clear that, although I sometimes talk to you about the Cabbalah (about the Sephirotic Tree of Life, the Angelic Hierarchies or the 72 Planetary Spirits, for instance) in my lectures, it is not because I think you should study it in detail, but because it is important for you to have an idea of some of the essential elements of the Cabbalah that can help you to grow spiritually. The Cabbalah is a very special science, quite unlike any other, and it demands very special qualities in those who want to study it in depth. In the first place, they are advised not even to begin before the age of forty and, only then, if they are truly destined to do so, if they have the mental and psychic capacities required and if they possess the moral integrity that will ensure that they never use their knowledge to achieve their own, personal goals. The Cabbalah is a mysterious, sacred doctrine and it presents many difficulties, even dangers, to those who venture to explore it. Cabbalists have a parable that emphasizes this: one day, four rabbis decided to meet in order to study the Cabbalah together. Not long after, one of them had abandoned the attempt, another had lost his faith and a third had gone out of his mind. Only the fourth pursued his study and received great blessings from it.

I do not advise you to embark on a serious study of the Cabbalah, therefore. Learn only what can be useful to you, what is within your reach; for my part, I shall not reveal more than that to you. And, if you are not ready for it, begin with other subjects and other exercises which will prepare you to explore the Cabbalah later on. Believe me, it is an extremely difficult science; not everybody can undertake to study it. Indeed, it would be sacrilegious and even dangerous to do so without porper prepartion.

If I say this, it is not because I want to discourage you but because I want to be useful to you. It is my duty to warn you that to launch rashly into the study of Cabbalistic Science can upset your psychological balance. If this happens, of course, it is not the Cabbalah that is to blame, but your own misplaced curiosity or your desire to gratify your own cupidity or ambition.
I have sometimes said to people, " You study the Shem Ha-Mephorash and learn the names and attributes of the 72 Planetary Spirits, but what do you intend to do with them once you know them?" "I want to ask them to protect me and give me success, love and wealth." Exactly, and that is where the danger lies! In the first place it is extremly unwise to try to force these luminous spirits to serve human cupidity and, in the second place, you must not imagine that they are ready to obey every Tom, Dick and Harry. You have to begin by reaching a certain stature in the spiritual world, otherwise the spirits will see through you at once and leave you to flounder along on your own.

The 72 Planetary Spirits are under no obligation to gratify your whims. If you want to give them orders you must be possessed of great power, a very strong will and a high degree of self-mastery; it is not enough to know and pronounce their names. A great many people think that this is all they need to do and, of course, they get no results. Before launching out on your own, therefore, be sure to examine the whole thing very carefully in advance, especially as the danger in venturing alone and uninstructed into such practices, without the help of a guide or Master, is that it can lead to sorcery and black magic.

Look at all the publishers that have started to bring out books about the occult within the last few years. It is nothing less than witchcraft! Some of those books contain terrible formulas and even detailed explanations about how to make a pact with the Devil. The tragedy is that a great many people – many more than you might imagine – are fascinated by such books and believe every idiotic word in them. Some of it is true, of course, but a great deal of it is not only a tissue of lies, it is also dangerous; but there are many who are gullible enough to swallow it all. I am well aware of all that goes on in this respect; I know that witchcraft is still very much alive in some country areas where people still use old books of magic to cast spells and conjure up spirits. They even try to call up the Devil himself – and the astonishing thing is that they succeed! Why Because, with their faith and tenacity and, especially, their patience, they attract infernal spirits. Thes spirits attach themselves to them in order to feed on them. So, not only are these people in close contact with the spirits they call up, they also lend them life, as it were. I am aware that these things happen and I am also aware that many people have fallen victim to their own practices and died as a result. You must never, neer do things of this kind! That is not true spiritual science. The science you receive from me will never lead to your doing anything of this nature. What is the use of becoming rich and powerful and having all the pleasure in the world if you then find yourself bound hand and foot, persecuted and possessed, and end by having to go to an exorcist to be freed from an evil spell?

People do not realize how dangerous witchcraft is. The publishers and bookshops that sell these books have a heavy burden of responsibility in this respect. It seems that the more extravagant the titles, with their so-called Hebrew, Chaldean and Persian names, the more popular they are! But the names are deformed out of all recognition and have no connection with the originals, for the manuscripts have been handed down, from one person to the next, for centuries, and every time they are copied the errors they contain increase. But there is nobody to warn you of the dangers involved. You find it fascinating to practise some of these methods, but have you ever considered the psychic effects they will have on you?

I want it to be quite clear in your minds that I shall never lead you into ventures of this kind. Try to understand the difference between our spiritual, initiatic Teaching, whose only goal is the light, and other occult practices. In this Teaching you are perfectly safe. If you want to venture into other areas, without a guide and without the light, you are free to do so, but you run the risk of sinking to the level of black magic. You are free to dabble in all this if you want to, but I cannot answer for your safety if you do. If you decide to abandon the Teaching I cannot be responsible for you any more.

Before approaching the sacred science of the Cabbalah, you must purify yourself, purify your heart and your mind, otherwise the Heavenly spirits will see that you are commiting a sacrilege and put obstacles in your way. On the other hand, the spirits of darkness will be delighted to snare one more gullible creature by dazzling him with the prospect of easy success. It takes a great deal of effort to keep climbing upwards, but it is all too easy to slide downhill, down to Hell; it is enough to follow the pull of one's own lusts and appetites.

I sometimes say to people:"Why are you so strongly drawn to occult practices? Why do you neglect the great truths that I have given you and which could help you to improve your health and to have better relations with your fellow human beings as well as with God Himself? These truths don't really interest you very much, do they? There are other things that interest you more, the hope of some rather dubious advantages, perhaps, or the urge to fulfil an ambition? If you are truly honest and upright you will begin by studying these great truths. There is enough there to keep you busy and happy for the rest of your life. If you neglect them, it means that you are driven by inferior motives, you want to command the spirits so as to get money, love and worldly success, without taking the trouble, first of all, to acquire purity, intelligence and kindness. Let me tell you that this makes you a member of the Black Lodge. It is the Black Lodge that gives you this desire to command the spirits before you are worthy to do so, before you are a true son of God."

Of course, the desire to study the Cabbalah has, in itself, nothing to do with witchcraft. The only thing is that, before discovering its secrets, one must be willing to pass through all the preliminary stages, to work on oneself and improve one's own character, and to prove oneself both worthy and capable of going further. But, if you are in too much of a hurry, if you want to skip the preliminaries and force your way into the realms of the sacred before you are fit to do so, you will not be allowed to; you will be held up by the guards at the gates and refused permission to go any further until you have passed some tests and given sufficient proof that you possess such and such a virtue.

On the other hand, nobody will make you pass any tests if you want to do evil. On the contrary, the viler and more malignant you are, the more readily you will be recognized as a hero and leader, someone to be respected by others of your kind. What happens in a gang of cutthroats? The most brutal and violent of the gang is spontaneously recognized as the leader. This is simply a reflection of the way things are done in Hell, where the leader is the blackest of all its inhabitants. In Heaven, on the contrary, it is the gentlest and most luminous, the one who is most full of love, who reigns. This is why the Cabbalah sometimes compares the universe to a White Head which is reflected in the form of a Black Head. The Black Head is the shadow, the inverted reflection of the White Head. Hell is the image of Heaven in reverse. In Hell it is the most degraded who rules; in Heaven it is the most exalted.

'That which is below is like to that which is above', said Hermes Trismegistos. That which is at the bottom, therefore, is like that which is at the very top. The Sephirah Kether, at the summit of the Tree of Life, is reflected in an inverted Kether at the bottom. And in this world of human beings, who are the rulers? Are they the best and most worthy? Have those who hold the reins of power, the men in charge, the barons of finance, politics and economics... have they been chosen because they are nobler, more generous and more disinterested than their fellows? On the contrary, they are the most ambitious, the most self-seeking. This is the world that lies below the diaphragm, the world of the inverted reflection, or, to use Dante's image, " the inverted cone", and those who hold sway in this world are those who are most suited to do so. To be sure, there are some happy exceptions, but, generally speaking, those who are best equipped are those with the longest fangs, the sharpest claws and the hardest hoofs. Here and there, fortunetly, there are still a few exceptional, disinterested beings in government and industry, men of intelligence, competence and integrity. True, but they are few and far between.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

20/12/2004.

"The word Bible means book. But the true Bible, the real Book, is the Book of living Nature. That is to say, the universe created by God, and the human being He made in the image of this universe and into whom he breathed His spirit. All sacred books have their origins in this great Book, and each presents only a few fragments of it. The Book of Nature alone is complete and indestructible, and if you have not learned to read it, you can spend your entire life reading the Bible and you will still understand very little of it. Fanatics may brandish the Bible, the Koran or other sacred texts but, even if they are divinely inspired, these books can never replace the book in which the Creator has inscribed everything: the human being. This book possesses what neither the Bible nor the other sacred books possess: a soul and a spirit which are alive and eternal."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

21/12/2004.

"Spring, summer, autumn and winter – each season corresponds to events in our psychic life, and it is winter that symbolizes life's difficulties. In winter, all the forces in plant life descend and concentrate in the roots where they carry out a great work. The roots correspond to the subconscious. In winter, that is in periods of difficulty, suffering or solitude, our forces withdraw inside us, into our subconscious, where they prepare great changes. To live in winter is certainly difficult, but it is in winter that spring is prepared; soon these forces will be freed, and once again there will be blossoms everywhere and an abundant harvest. Thus, we must simply be patient and wait for the currents to rise once again into our consciousness and superconsciousness. But in order to facilitate this process, certain laws must be understood: during this cold period, you must neither complain, rebel, nor become discouraged, but simply light the fire within you, in order to rekindle your own heart and the hearts of everyone else. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

22/12/2004.

"For most human beings, to love means to ask, to demand, to require. Yes, literally! This is how people conduct themselves with the Lord, and also with those they claim to love: they pursue them with their demands and, no matter what they receive, they are never satisfied. Do you want to know if you truly love others? Then, here is a simple criterion: do you feel grateful to them? If you ask nothing of them, if you are moved to thank them in words – or merely in your thoughts – simply because they are there, because they exist, then yes, you can be sure that you love them. Otherwise, describe your feelings however you wish, but this is not love."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Of course, Mars will always exist and human beings will always feel the need to fight and conquer. The goal and the means will change but the need, the tendency, will never disappear. You have the right to declare war on the whole of humanity, but only with the weapons of love and light. The day will come when human beings will no longer wage war. You will say, 'But you are contradicting yourself!' No; I am saying that war as we know it today, with all the destruction that this implies, will not exist in the future. Human beings will eventually understand how costly it is and stop slaughtering each other. But, as the instinct for war will always be alive - Cosmic intelligence itself does not wish it to be destroyed - human beings will continue to fight each other in different ways and the conqueror, instead of bringing death and destruction to his adversaries, will give them life, wealth, light and love. How marvellous it will be! So, there will always be battles, but of a better kind... like the battles between the stars and the suns in which the weapons are arrows of light.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

I have searched the Sacred Scriptures of all religions and found many noble, pure and luminous figures in them, but I have never found one to compare with the sun for light, love generosity and perfection. The sun is the only being that expresses on earth the greatness of God, and it is the sun that I have chosen as my model. I love and respect all the others but I find that they all have their limits. If human beings are always so weak, lack-lustre, vindictive and forlorn, it is because their ideal is not something infinite. Their ambition is to be like their uncle or their neighbour or a noted politician or billionaire. What sorry models! Look at the disease and disorder of their lives! Whereas the sun... nothing can be compared to the sun and, however strange you find it, I have adopted it as my model. You will say, 'But no one can ever resemble the sun.' You're absolutely right; I know that better than you, but that doesn't matter.

If you take the sun as your model, little by little, your intellect will receive its light, your heart its warmth and your spirit its power. And, above all, you will give and give, as the sun gives. The guiding rule with human beings is to take; this is how they are brought up and the whole of contemporary civilization is marked by this need to take. It is the only word people understand.

One day a peasant fell into a well. A man, who happended to be passing by, heard him calling for help and, leaning over the edge of the well, he said, 'Give me your hand'. As soon as the peasant heard the word 'give' he withdrew the hand he had stretched out; he preferred to stay in the well rather than give something. When his rescuer realized that he was dealing with an inveterate miser to whom the word 'give' was anathema, he said, 'Here, take my hand'. Ah, the effect of the word 'take' was magical! The man immediately grasped his rescuers hand and was saved. He liked the sound of the word 'take' but not the word 'give'. And he is not only one of his kind. Wherever you go, human beings are interested only in what they can take. They study, they work, they get married and go to parties or meetings always with one aim, that of taking, acquiring something. Their minds are always turned towards this. And this is why man no longer emanates light and warmth wherever he goes: because his only preoccupation is to see what he can take.

Even in love, when a man and woman come together, they are only interested in what they can get from each other: the man is bent on sucking life from the woman and vice versa. This is why it is better that they should seperate, for they are transgressing the law of love. You will say, 'But they were truly together; they were really united'. Yes, but only with a view to what they could get out of it: each thought only of taking something from their partner, of feeding on him unscrupulously and without mercy. Instead of trying to sow something good – an impulse, some life, some inspiration – in his heart and soul so that he might awaken and advance... Oh, oh; their only aim is to take, to eat and drink all they can and drain their partner dry. It is because of this mentality that the whole world is rushing towards destruction.

The only school that teaches people to give is the school of the sun. All the planets take. Only the sun gives and this is why we have to enrol in his school. He is the only one who really knows how to give; when we see this, how is it possible not to love him? We always love and are drawn to those who are only capable of taking... Well, we soon learn to avoid them. Why do some people imagine that they will always be allowed to plunder others? The others soon see what they are like an leave them strictly alone. You must cultivate in yourselves a tendency to give.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

23/12/2004.

"The notion of royalty goes hand in hand with that of self-mastery. A monarch who governs others but has not learned to govern himself is not really a king, but a slave. A true king is someone who first and foremost has become master of himself. Only the person whose ideal is to escape the domination of his selfish tendencies and to control and orientate his thoughts, feelings and desires is on the royal road. And then, even the spirits of nature bow at his passing, whispering among themselves: ‘Look, a king has come to visit us' and they give him a warm welcome and crowd around him. For a fluidic substance of great purity emanates from him, imbued with soothing and curative influences. Like a flowing spring, he brings life to all creatures as he passes. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

24/12/2004.

"In initiatic science, fire is considered the most powerful means of entering into communication with the spiritual world, because it represents the frontier between the physical and etheric planes. If, before beginning a work of any importance, initiates customarily light a candle, it is because they know that fire will introduce them to the subtle regions where their thoughts and their voices will be heard and where they will find the conditions for achieving their goals. All true magi have a very powerful bond with fire. Even though religion has gradually lost the meaning of these initiatic practices, the tradition of lighting candles or lamps in churches continues; this proves that human beings unconsciously preserve the ancient knowledge that the presence of fire promises fulfilment."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

25/12/2004.

"The goal of the spiritual life is to give birth within us to the divine Principle, to the Christ. This is a long and difficult work but, as soon the birth of the Christ takes place, it is unmistakable. As if heaven opened before us, a presence is revealed to us that supports, enlightens and protects us, and that brings us great joy. Even in the most terrible circumstances when we are the most discouraged, we feel that in spite of everything, we are helped. Yes, we have the sensation of a presence, of a flame that will never be extinguished. Even if we have no need of its intervention, we sense that it is always present, always at our disposal; and when we need it, it gives us all its light and warmth."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

26/12/2004.

"We must establish centres of light throughout the world in order to form a link between heaven and earth. These centres are living conduits through which divine blessings descend for all human beings. Happily, such centres already exist, because without them the earth would be prey to all dark and destructive forces. If you truly wish to help your family, your country and the entire world, you must do everything possible to create these centres of light by means of which the earth enters into contact with heaven. To establish such centres is the most glorious work you can undertake: to help all human souls benefit from your efforts, so that as a result of your work they may receive spiritual nourishment and joy. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

The Dawn of Aquarius:

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/Da...20Aquarius.html

27/12/2004.

"No problem is insoluble. No illness, no psychological state, however serious it may be, is incurable. Nothing is hopeless, but only on condition that you are able to attain the summit: God, who reigns both in the universe and in us. This is an essential truth discovered by the great spiritual masters of humanity. When they want to find a solution, when they want answers to their questions, they always address themselves to this force of which Hermes Trismegistus said: ‘And as all things are and originate in the One, by mediation of the One, so all things are born of this unique thing by adaptation.' It is this ‘unique thing', this cosmic Force, that is God. So, whatever your needs, it is towards this that you must rise, for it alone possesses the elements which can transform and regenerate everything within you."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

There was once a king who enjoyed strolling through the market (Nowadays, kings are so restricted, they can no longer wander through the markets by themselves but, in the old days, that was possible. A king could walk about in the town and his subjects would come and present their petitions to him). So, this king was strolling through the market and looking at the stalls when, all of a sudden, he heard a merchant shouting, 'Wisdom for sale; come and buy some wisdom!' Greatly intrigued, the king went up to the man and asked him, 'Do you really have wisdom for sale? How much is it?' 'It comes in three sizes', said the merchant, ' One hundred crowns, a thousand crowns or ten thousand crowns.' 'I'll take ten thousand crowns-worth!' said the king. 'Very well! Here you are: ' Do what you have to do , but think of the consequences.' 'Is that all?' 'Yes, that's all.' The king laughed, paid the merchant his ten thousand crowns and walked off, chuckling and murmuring, 'Do what you have to do, but think of the consequences'.
By the time he got back to the palace he had forgotten the incident until, suddenly, the phrase came back into his mind: 'Do what you have to do, but think of the consequences', and he laughed again, thinking of that strange philosopher. The next morning, the king was being shaved before going to an important meeting with his ministers. His chin was already covered with shaving cream and his barber was approaching him with the razor in his hand, when he suddenly thought of the wisdom he had bought in the market and, looking at his barber, he said, jokingly, 'Do what you have to do, but think of the consequences.' To his astonishment, his barber went as white as chalk and fell at his feet, sobbing, 'Mercy, Lord; have mercy on me! I didn't want to do it; it was the ministers who forced me.' The king quickly recovered form his amazement and, realizing that some dreadful plot had been hatched against him, pretended to know about it. 'I know all that', he said, 'But tell me exactly...' 'Sire, I was meant to slit your throat while I was shaving you. I have a wife and children, sire, and they threatened me. I had to do it.' 'Yes, but who?' 'I'll tell you, sire; but promise me you won't kill me.' Well, you can imagine the rest of the story for yourselves, but this is how the king was saved, thanks to the wisdom he had bought in the market.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Parsifal, setting out on his quest for the Holy Grail, is the eternal symbol of the adept setting out on the path of Initiation. Like Parsifal, who had to make his way through dark forests, battle with awe-inspiring giants and knights and avoid the many snares laid in his path, an adept is required to brave darkness, combat enemies and overcome temptations. Once he had emerged victorious from all his trials, Parsifal was welcomed with solemnity in a marvellous castle whose walls were covered in gold and precious stones. It was here that he was vouchsafed the vision ot the Holy Grail. The vision of the Grail is the supreme reward of him who guards faithfully, in his heart and mind, the ideal of obtaining the priceless gifts of the spirit.

The task of a spiritualist is to lay hold of the Divine Spirit, by means of meditation, prayer and contemplation, and to keep him captive in his soul. The presence of the captive Spirit within him manifests itself in the form of illumination, rapture and ecstasy. Unfortuneatly, this state does not usually last very long: he usually drops back into the misery of everyday life and has to begin his efforts all over again. The Divine Spirit can never be held captive by someone who does not possess a suitable recepacle within himself, the receptacle that tradition calls the Holy Grail.
Alchemists used a different language to express the same reality: they spoke of 'fixing the volatile', that is to say, of capturing that which, by definition, cannot be captured: the volatile spirit. But in order to fix the volatile, the Cosmic Spirit, it has to be condensed and made material and this is possible only if the reverse process of 'volatilizing the fixed', that is to say, of making subtle that which is solid, is carried on at the same time. As long as the physical body is gross, dense and impure, it cannot vibrate in unison with the spirit nor hold it captive. This is why there is always need for a great deal of purification and decantation. Once this is done, the physical body becomes capable of receiving the Divine Spirit. To volatilize what is fixed, therefore, is to spriritualize the physical body.

Cabbalists, for their part, have expressed this idea in the two interlaced triangles of the Seal of Solomon. The triangle pointing downwards represents the descent of the spirit into matter, whereas the triangle pointing upwards represents the tendency of matter to rise and become one with the spirit. In this symbol, the two meet in mid-course and fuse into one. When the spirit encounters matter capable of holding on to it, it no longer tries to escape. In the meantime, however ... Well, in the meantime, a disciple will experience many ups and downs: when he manages to hold on to the spirit for a few moments, he is raised to a state of ecstasy before slipping back into the prose of everyday life. But he must never be discouraged; he must simply start climbing again and, even if he falls over and over again, never give up. It is a long and arduous task, a seemingly endless toil like that of Sysiphus who has reached the top, the stone slipped from his grasp and rolled down to the foot of the mountain. But that does not mean that, one day, Sisyphus will not succeed in getting the stone to the top and holding it there!
The chalice of the Holy Grail is the symbol of a human being who has succeeded in capturing and fixing the spirit within him. The legend says that it was carved out of a single emerald and that it had been used to hold Christ's blood. an emerald is green, the colour of Venus, the feminine principle; blood is red, the colour of Mars, the msculine principle. The Grail, therefore, is the symbol of the union of the masculine and feminine principles, Mars and Venus, but in their highest aspect, on the level at which they become identical with the Sun and the Moon. Iron, which is the metal attributed to Mars, and Gold, which is that of the Sun, have many aspects in common, and the same is true of copper, the metal of Venus, and Silver, the metal attributed to the Moon. We can see innumerable examples in nature of how green attracts and stores up the sun's rays, and the sun's rays are yellow and orange because they are fire. All this is present in this marvellous symbol of the Holy Grail.

The dearest ideal of a disciple it to become the Holy Grail and contain and condense the love of Christ. But to achieve this ideal, he must work on his own matter; he must refine it, render it more subtle and more precious so that it becomes capable of vibrating in harmony with the spirit. This is the harmony that exists in every region of space, thanks to the activity of the two principles. A reflection of this harmony exists in the life of human beings in choral singing: when male and female voices rise together and become one in space, life bursts into bloom, water gushes from the springs.

The only way to prepare yourself to receive the Cosmic Spirit is to practise harmonizing yourself with the cosmos. This is a simple but very effective exercise, but it must be done every day, several times a day. Let me give you the example of a man who goes to work every morning: as soon as he leaves his house he is obliged to pay attention to the traffic and the people all round him. If he rushes out without looking to left or right, without adapting himself to his new circumstances, he may well be killed. And the same is true in the spiritual life: before you begin some new work you should look to left and right within yourself and take stock of the situation. If there is a lot of noise and commotion, you must stop before going any further and, as Head of State, do what needs to be done to restore order and peace amongst your citizens. When you sense that things have calmed down, then you can project all your strength, all your thoughts and feelings, into the whole cosmos. This harmony, this union, releases tremendous forces, which you can use to continue your work. For, if energy can be released by the disintegration of matter - this is the most common method - it can also be released by fusion. Initiates work with this second method; they fuse with Heaven through meditation, prayer and contemplation, and this fusion releases powerful currrents of forces which they can use for their own benefit and that of others.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

'The poor don't know how to use their poverty as the most effective means of evolution; they constantly rebel against it. Why? Because they want the money that the rich have. They would like others to think that they find wealth offensive but, in fact, they long for it with all their might. If the rich had a clearer understanding of the question, they would distribute all their wealth to the poor, and the poor would refuse it and say, ''No, no; we don't want anything; we're very well off just as we are!'' If they were truly enlightened, the rich would want to strip themselves of their wealth and the poor would want nothing more than they have. For the sake of their own salvation, therefore, the rich should turn to the poor and beg them to accept their riches, and the poor should refuse adamantly. You will say that I'm turning everything upside down. Exactly! Because this is how we can get everything right side up again!'

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

'A human being is inhabited by a whole population of cells which are directly dependent on him and, consequently, strongly influenced by him. This is why they imitate him in everything. If a person habitually transgress the law, his population notices this and becomes exactly like its master, and it is on his head that any repercussions fall. He feels that something is not quite right and complains: 'What's wrong with me? There's a revolution going on inside me!' The truth is that it is he who has taught his cells to behave in this way. All your ailments are the result of the bad upbringing you have given your cells. You do nothing but grumble as you sweep your room; you knock the chairs about, kick your doors shut, bump into the furniture - and your cells imitate you. When they have to move something they kick it, and you cry out in pain and wonder what is going on. Well, it is simply some of your cells kicking the furniture about in imitation of your own behavior.'

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

28/12/2004.

"When people meet artists – painters, poets, musicians – whose works they admire, they are often surprised to discover that they as people and their behaviour are completely devoid of the beauty found in their creations: they emanate neither light, nor poetry, nor harmony. Why? Because for the most part, artists are content to create works outside themselves using materials exterior to themselves. It is on this outer material that they concentrate their efforts. Well, this is insufficient. Art must not merely be confined to certain works, but it must also exist in life. The true artist is one who can use himself as the material for his creation. All the methods of the spiritual life are at our disposal, to help and inspire us in this work. Yes, it is in ourselves first of all that we must create poetry and music, harmonious forms and movements and sparkling colours, so that all those around us, in the visible and invisible worlds alike, can benefit from them."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

29/12/2004.

"The legendary knight Perceval, or Parsifal, who sets out in quest of the Holy Grail, has become in the initiatic tradition the image of the adept on the path of initiation. Like Parsifal, who must cross dark forests, fight enemies and formidable giants, and elude snares, the disciple meets with darkness, temptations, dangers and enemies in his personal life. Once all these obstacles are overcome, Parsifal comes to a marvellous castle whose walls are decorated with gold and precious stones, where he is welcomed with solemnity; and it is here that he is allowed to contemplate the Holy Grail, the sacred vessel. The sight of the Grail symbolizes the supreme reward for the person who never ceases to nourish in his mind and heart the highest ideal: to acquire the inestimable gifts of the Spirit."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

The Tantra attitude is the very being of Tilopa. You must understand first what the Tantra attitude is, only then will it be possible for you to.. comprehend what Tilopa is trying to say. So something.. about the Tantra attitude -- the first thing: it is not an... attitude, because Tantra looks at life with a total vision. It.. has no attitude to look at life. It has no concepts, it is not a.. philosophy. It is not even a religion, it has no theology. It.. doesn't believe in words, theories, or doctrines. It wants to.. look at life without any philosophy, without any theory, without any theology. It wants to look at life as it is, without.. bringing any mind in between -- because that will be the.. distortion. The mind then will project, the mind then will mix -- and then you will not be able to know that which is.

Tantra avoids mind and encounters life face to face, neither thinking, "This is good," nor thinking, "This is bad": simply facing that which is. So it is difficult to say that this is an attitude -- in fact it is a no-attitude.

The second thing to remember, that Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything. It has nothing like "no" in its vocabulary, there is no negation. It never says no to anything, because with no the fight starts, with no you become the ego. The moment you say no to anything, you have become the ego already; a conflict has come in, now you are at war.

Tantra loves, and loves unconditionally. It never says no to anything whatsoever, because everything is part of the whole, and everything has its own place in the whole, and the whole cannot exist without anything missing from it.

It is said that even if a drop of water is missing, the whole existence will thirst. You pluck a flower in the garden, and you have plucked something out of the whole existence. You harm a flower, and you have harmed millions of stars -- because everything is interrelated. The whole exists as a whole, as an organic whole. The whole exists not as a mechanical thing -- everything is related to everything else.

Tantra says yes unconditionally. There has never been any other vision of life which says yes without any conditions -- simply yes. No disappears; from your very being no disappears. When there is no, how can you fight? How can you be at war? You simply float. You simply merge and melt. You become one. The boundaries are there no more. No creates the boundary. No is the boundary around you. Whenever you say no, watch -- immediately something closes in. Whenever you say yes, your being opens.

One who renounces is not a religious person. In the view of Tantra, one who renounces is an egoist. First he was accumulating things of the world, but his attention was on the world. Now he renounces, but his attention is again on the world and he remains the egoist. The ego has subtle ways of fulfilling itself and coming again and again, in spirals. Again and again it comes back -- with a new face, with new colors.

This is the mind: it persists, it comes in spirals -- again and again to the same thing. You can renounce the world, but you will not become other-worldly; you will remain very worldly. Nobody has ever reached to the divine by saying no to anything.

Tantra says: "You say yes. You say yes to everything. You need not fight, you need not even swim -- you simply float with the current. The river is going by itself, on its own accord, everything reaches to the ultimate ocean. You simply don't create any disturbance, you don't push the river, you simply go with it." That going with it, floating with it, relaxing with it, is Tantra.

If you can say yes, a deep acceptance happens to you. If you say yes, how can you be complaining? How can you be miserable? Then everything is as it should be. You are not fighting, not denying -- you accept. And remember, this acceptance is different from ordinary acceptance.

Ordinarily a person accepts a situation when he feels helpless; that is impotent acceptance. That will not lead you anywhere; impotence cannot lead you anywhere. A person accepts a situation when he feels hopeless: "Nothing can be done, so what to do? At least accept, to save face." Tantra acceptance is not that type of acceptance. It comes out of an over fulfillment, it comes out of a deep contentment - not out of hopelessness, frustration, helplessness. It comes when you don't say no, it suddenly surfaces in you. Your whole being becomes a deep contentment.

That acceptance has a beauty of its own. It is not forced; you have not practiced for it. If you practice, it will be false, it will be a hypocrisy. If you practice, you will be split in two: on the outside it will be acceptance; deep down, the turmoil, the negation, the denial. Deep down you will be boiling up to explode any moment. Just on the surface you will pretend that everything is okay.

Tantra acceptance is total, it doesn't split you. All the religions of the world, except Tantra, have
created split personalities. All the religions of the world, except Tantra, have created schizophrenia. They split you. They make something bad in you and something good. And they say the good has to be achieved and the bad denied, the devil has to be denied and God accepted. They create a split within you and a fight. Then you are continuously feeling guilty, because how can you destroy the part that is organically one with you? You may call it bad, you may call it names; that doesn't make any difference. How can you destroy it? You never created it. You have simply found it -- given. Anger is there, sex is there, greed is there -- you have not created them; they are given facts of life, just like your eyes and your hands. You can call them names, you can call them ugly or beautiful or whatsoever you like, but you cannot kill them.

Nothing can be killed out of existence, nothing can be destroyed.

Tantra says a transformation is possible, but not destruction. And a transformation comes when you accept your total being. Then suddenly everything falls in line, then everything takes its own place; then anger is also absorbed, then greed is also absorbed. Then without trying to cut anything out of your being, your whole being rearranges itself. If you accept and say yes, a rearrangement happens, and whereas before there was a noisy clamor inside, now a melody, a music is born, a harmony comes in.

In noise and in harmony, what is the difference? The same sound waves arranged in a different way. In a noise there is no center; the notes are the same. A madman playing on the piano; the notes are the same, the sound is the same, but a madman playing -- it has no center to it. If you can give center to noise it becomes music, then it converges on a center and everything becomes organic.

If a madman is playing on the piano, then every note is separate, individual; it is a crowd of notes, not a melody. And when a musician plays on the same piano with the same fingers, there comes an alchemical change: now the same notes have fallen into a pattern, the same notes have joined into an organic unity, now they have a center to them. Now they are not a crowd, now they are a family; a subtle love joins them together -- now they are one. And that is the whole art: to bring notes into a loving phenomenon -- they become harmonious.

Tantra says you are a noise right now as you are. Nothing is wrong in it -- simply you don't have a center. Once you have a center, everything falls in line, and everything becomes beautiful.

When Gurdjieff gets angry it is beautiful. When you get angry it is ugly. Anger is neither ugly nor beautiful. When Jesus gets angry it is sheer music -- even anger. When Jesus takes a whip in the temple and chases out the traders, out of the temple, there is a subtle beauty to it. Even Buddha lacks that beauty; Buddha seems to be one-sided. It seems anger has nothing in it to play; the tension of anger, the salt of it is not there. Buddha doesn't taste as good as Jesus. Jesus has a little salt in him, he can get angry -- even his anger has become part of his whole being; nothing has been denied, everything has been accepted.

But Tilopa is incomparable. Jesus is nothing.... The Tantra masters are simply wild flowers, they have everything in them. You must have seen Bodhidharma pictures; if you have not seen, look again -- so ferocious that if you meditate on Bodhidharma's picture in the night, alone, you will not be able to sleep: he will haunt you. It is said of him that once he looked at anybody, that man would have nightmares continuously. He would haunt him; the very look, so ferocious. When Bodhidharma or Tilopa spoke, it is said their speaking was like a lion's roar, a thundercloud, a tremendous waterfall -- wild, fiery.

But if you wait a little and don't judge them too soon, you will find within them the most loving of all hearts. Then you will feel the music, the melody in them. And then suddenly you will realize that they have not denied anything; they have absorbed everything, even ferociousness. A lion is beautiful, even its ferociousness has a beauty of its own. You take the ferociousness out of a lion and he is just a stuffed lion, dead.

Tantra says everything has to be absorbed, everything! -- remember, without any condition. Sex has to be absorbed, then it becomes a tremendous force in you. A Buddha, a Tilopa, a Jesus, they have such a magnetic force around them -- what is that? Sex absorbed. Sex is human magnetism. Suddenly you fall into their love. Once you come across their path, you are being pulled to a different world altogether. You are torn from your old world, and you are being pulled to something new, something that you never even dreamt about. What is this force? It is the same sex which has become transformed; now it has become a magnetism, a charisma. Buddha has anger absorbed; that very anger becomes compassion. And when Jesus takes the whip in his hand, it is because of compassion. When Jesus talks in fire, this is same compassion.

Remember this, that Tantra accepts you in your totality. When you come to me, I accept you in your totality. I am not here to help you deny anything. I am here only to help you to rearrange, to get a center of all your energies, to converge them to a center. And I tell you that you will be richer if you have anger absorbed in it; you will be richer if you have sex absorbed in it; you will be richer if you have hatred, jealousy, absorbed into it -- they are the spices of life, and you will taste.... You will not become tasteless, you will have an enrichment to your taste. You need a little salt. And anger is exactly in the same amount as it is needed. When it overpowers you, then it becomes ugly. If you eat only salt then you will die. Salt has a proportion, and in the proportion it is needed, absolutely needed. Remember this.

On the path you will meet many people who would like to cripple you, to cut you, to dissect you. They will say, "This hand is bad, cut it off! This eye is bad, throw it out! Anger is bad, hate is bad, sex is bad." They will go on cutting you, and by the time they have left you, you are simply paralyzed, a crippled one. You have no life left. That's how the whole civilization has become paralyzed and crippled.

Unless Tantra becomes the foundation of the whole human mind, man will not be complete -- because no other vision accepts man in his totality. But the acceptance, remember again, is of overflowing, it is not of impotence.

One lives one's life, one goes through it: each shade of it has to be lived, and each taste of it has to be tasted. Even the wandering, even going astray is meaningful, because if you never go astray you will not achieve to an enriched enlightenment, you will never be simple. You may be a simpleton, but you will never be simple -- and a simpleton is not simple.

Simplicity needs a very deep and complex experience behind it. A simpleton is simply without experience. He may be a fool, but he cannot be a sage. A sage is one who has lived all the sins of life, who has not denied anything, who has not called anything a sin, who has simply accepted whatsoever has happened, who has allowed it to happen; who has moved with every wave, who has drifted, who went astray, who fell down to the very hell.

Nietzsche has said, "If a tree wants to reach to the sky, its roots need to go to the very hell." He's right. If you want a real flowering into the sky, your roots will need to go to the deepest hell in the earth.

Tantra accepts everything, lives everything. That's why Tantra never could become a very accepted ideology. It always remained a fringe ideology, just somewhere on the boundary outside of society. Civilization has chosen to deny, to say no to many things. Civilization is not courageous enough to accept all, to accept everything that life gives.

The greatest courage in the world is to accept all that life gives to you. And this is what I am trying to help you towards, to accept all that life gives you, and accept it in deep humbleness, as a gift. And when I say this, even those things which society has conditioned you to call wrong and bad. Accept sex, and then there will come a flowering out of it; a brahmacharya will come, a purity, an innocence will come; a virginity will come out of it -- but that will be a transcendence.

Through experience one transcends.

Moving in the dark alleys of life one's eyes become trained, and one starts seeing the light even in darkness. What beauty is there if you can see light while there is day! The beauty is there when there is the darkest night, and your eyes are so trained into darkness that you can see the day hidden there. When in the darkest night you can see the morning, then there is beauty, then you have achieved. When in the lowest you can see the highest, when even in hell you can create a heaven, then, then you have become the artist of life. And Tantra wants to make you the artists of life -- not deniers, but great yea-sayers.

Accept, and, by and by, you will feel the more you accept, the less is there desire. If you accept, how can desire stand there? Whatsoever the case is in this moment, you accept it. Then there is no movement for anything else. You live it moment to moment in deep acceptance. You grow without there being any goal, without there being any desire to go somewhere and be something else or somebody else.

Tantra says, "Be yourself" -- and that is the only being you can achieve ever. With acceptance desires fall. With acceptance, a desirelessness comes into being by itself. You don't practice it, you don't force it upon yourself. You don't cut your desires -- just by accepting, they disappear.

And when suddenly one moment happens that you accept totally and all desires have gone, there is a sudden enlightenment. Suddenly, without doing anything on your part, it happens. That's the greatest gift this existence can give to you.

This is the Tantra attitude towards life. There is no other life than this, and there is no other world than this. This very samsara is the nirvana. Just you have to be a little more understanding, more accepting, more childlike, less egoistic.

30/12/2004.

"Every day, the Stock Exchange publishes the share prices: some are rising, others are falling, those that are rising today will fall tomorrow, and vice versa. Yes, and on a larger scale, the same phenomena have taken place in the history of the world: at any given time, certain values were held high, and others were considered worthless. In certain eras, for example, physical courage was glorified: heroes were those who knew how to fight each other in tournaments, duels or wars, and who were never afraid of danger. In other times, sacrifice was accorded the highest worth: men and women were admired who could give up everything in order to devote themselves to God in solitude and silence, or to serve the poor, the sick and the persecuted. In our times, it is the intellect that is most highly valued: the capacity to reason and acquire knowledge in order to act on matter. But this will not last, and already another value is making its appearance: brotherhood. It is this that will motivate human beings to keep expanding their consciousness, until they acquire the consciousness of universality."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

31/12/2004.

"There are all sorts of books which describe how to meditate and what formulas to pronounce during these meditations. I do not deny that they are beautiful, useful and effective. But there are two words which are never mentioned, words which for me are the most powerful of all, words which clarify, which harmonize, and which heal, and these words are ‘thank you’. I have tried many methods in my life and have carried out many experiments, but the day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words ‘thank you’, I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything. And in you too, if you know how to pronounce them, their work will extend to the very marrow of your bones. Nothing is more important than to thank God: ‘Thank you, Lord. I thank you with all my heart, with all my mind, with all my soul and with all my spirit, thank you.’ You have all eternity in which to understand and appreciate the value of these words.

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

01/01/2005.

"More often than not, the future is a source of worry for human beings. They are forever asking themselves whether they will have enough money, whether they will have enough to eat, a place to live, and so on. So taken are they with these preoccupations that they neglect far more important matters. They make mistakes which should be rectified, but they fail to address them. And as everything snowballs, they are eventually overwhelmed and crushed. In order to avoid this, you must meditate on the words of Jesus: ‘Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own.’ If you see to it each day that your conduct is impeccable, the following day will be completely clear, and you will be free to carry out your plans, always vigilant that you leave no loose ends. In this way, each new day will find you free and well disposed. You will be ready to work, to study and to enjoy yourself, and all life will take on an extraordinary colour of contentment and blessedness! By seeing to it that all is in order today, you take care of tomorrow."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

02/01/2005.

"As soon as you awaken in the morning, welcome this new day with gratitude and make a resolution to live it with love. And what does ‘to live with love’ mean? Well, it simply means to breathe, to eat, to walk, to look and to listen with love. You think you already know all this… No, you don’t! When you truly begin to comprehend with your whole being what it is to live with love, your entire existence will be transformed. Love will spring forth from you unceasingly from morning until night, and even when you are sleeping. To live with love means to live in a state of consciousness which harmonizes all the actions of your life and keeps you in perfect equilibrium…a state of consciousness which is a source of joy, strength and health, not only for yourselves, but for all those around you."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

03/01/2005.

"Even when they reach adulthood, most people are still like children: they always need something new to hold their attention. And this same shortcoming can be observed in spiritualists. Even though the Teaching offers them such a profusion of truths that they haven’t time to assimilate them, they always expect something new. But what are they doing with what they already have? And you, too, do you not have this same failing? You are content to take notes which you then file away somewhere. Make up your mind once and for all to put these truths into practice, or you will spend your life waiting for something new and you will never progress. In the spiritual life, you must constantly work with the same truths. The novelty lies in what you discover each day by delving into them more deeply."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov