« In order to understand what true religion is, human beings must draw closer to the light, warmth and life of the sun. That is to say, they must seek the wisdom which enlightens them and resolves all problems, the disinterested love which beautifies, encourages and consoles them, and the subtle, spiritual life which renders them active, dynamic and daring, so that they may realize the Kingdom of God and His Justice on earth. And no one can contest this religion: anyone who tries to destroy it destroys himself, because he restricts himself. When this understanding of a universal religion penetrates every mind, the whole organisation of life will become universal: all separation between human beings will cease to exist, including borders and wars. As they come to know the sun in its sublime expression of light, warmth and life, human beings will draw closer and closer to the Divinity, and they will transform the earth into a garden of Eden where all will live as brothers and sisters. Everyone must accept this universal religion, this brotherhood which the sun teaches us. »

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Some examples of yoga:

- Any unselfish, desinterested work made for our neighbour belongs to the karma yoga.

- Discipline or religious attitude which consists in loving God and in praying can be called the bakhti yoga, or yoga of the worship. So, Christians practise without knowing it, one of the forms of the bakhti yoga.

- Study and deep understanding of the Sacred Texts, knowledge of oneself, identification with our me superior, our divine me, is called the jnana yoga or jnani yoga, the yoga of knowledge.

- The application of commands, the discipline leading to the self-control corresponds to the raja yoga.

- The sacred attitude in front of different forms of food is called the hrani yoga or the yoga of nutrition.

- Link with the source of the life, the spiritual work with the sun is the surya yoga or surya of the sun.

- etc...


« The road of the follower is the road of the dawn. It is the road of eternal light, which carries love in itself. »

Peter Deunov

« I am very happy, my dear brothers and sisters, to be able to say a few words to you today in this beautiful region of France, with its sky always blue, its perfumed air, and the sun always radiant. What profound silence and what peace in this magnificent place!

I am sure that you already feel that a new day is rising in the world. The history of the earth and of humanity has its periods which replace one another. Each period adds something new in the life of living beings. Astrological science of ancient times was capable of foreseeing the unrolling of events in the life of human beings, in connection with the movement of the stars and planets. Without entering into the details of the periods through which the earth has already passed, and with it the whole of humanity (which would lead us very far), I shall say to you only that an old age, like a long, painful and dark night, is going away. It is disappearing away, into the past of time to give way to a new age, a culture of the sun! One already hears the children of the sun and of light singing hymns of joy and of gratitude to the inexhaustible goodness of the Creator. One sees the sun opening halfway and the angels, unflagging servants of God, coming down to put order and harmony into sensitive and affectionate souls. A new earth and a new heaven have been in preparation and formation for a long time in God's great studios, workshops. The children of the new life know a wonderful way: the path which leads towards the sun! They have tasted delicious fruits, ripened by the rays of this sun, fruits of joy, of hope and of divine love. They ask now this question to their brothers, a little dulled, numb in matter, deprived of faith and hope:

- "Do you believe that intelligent beings still exist on earth?"

- "Naturally!", answer these nice brothers, who based everything on matter, having, moreover, never well known what it really represents. "Naturally, we believe it! And these intelligent beings, we are they!"

- "Oh, how magnificent it is!", respond the children of the new life, "to be classed among intelligent and reasonable beings."

- "Do you believe that there are just and noble beings on the earth?"

- "By all means!", answer these brothers made heavy and dulled by matter. "Of course, we believe that! It is we who are these just and noble beings! All the others are in error and total ignorance!"

- "Oh how wonderful!", exclaim the children of the new life. "It is marvelous to be just and noble in this life that is so sad and colourless for the majority of human beings."
  "Do you believe in the existence of good, beautiful and powerful beings?" continue to ask the children of the new life.

- "Come on! Honestly! There is no doubt!", answer the brothers a little laggard and rebellious; some of them recognizing that they were beaten or desacrated by some in the struggle for existence, and the others enchanted, enticed or seduced by the charms and beauty of creatures specialized for that."

"In such cases, how can one not believe in the existence of powerful and beautiful beings?"

After that, the children of hope and of the new life affirm solemnly this:

- "Oh, you have supplied us with the means to prove to you and to convince you that beauty, intelligence, force, justice, gentleness, charity, love, patience and all other sublime virtues are qualities and attributes, or grains come from an unique Source, transmitted to us by intermediate centers. This Holy Source nourrishes all the worlds and their creatures in infinite space. If all these qualities and virtues came from yourselves, who are matter and nothing else according in your opinion, why then can you not become at will all powerful, omniscient or beautiful as you wish it yourselves? These qualities which human beings possess come logically, therefore, from a Source which is outside of us, or of our current possibilities. Reunite now by your imagination all these qualities and virtues, amplify them to infinity in one single being. It is that being precisely whom we call the Divinity, from whom come to us all talents and all possibilities, unique Being, unquestiontable, more real than reality itself. To doubt His existence, is to doubt your intelligence, your goodness, your force and the glorious future that you can have. It is the greatest error which slipped itself into the intellect of our brothers, slaves of the material world, who bear pretentious names of atheists, materialists, realists, of rationalists, anarchists and of "abracadabrists".

Can we increase our qualities and virtues?

Yes. by uniting ourselves:
- by correct and luminous thoughts of true intelligence,
- by the warm and vivifying feelings or sentiments of selfless love,
- by straightforward, upright and noble deeds of an ordered and harmonized activity.

By uniting ourselves with this inexhaustible Source of goodness, joy and bless which represents the spiritual Sun, we are walking towards perfection. All true thinkers, all non nebulous true mystics of all ages, the prophets, masters or initiates, acknowledged this great and sublime Truth, beyong all truths. They bowed down with love, humility and adoration before The Supreme Being, who is the true distributor of all good, all interior and exterior riches. All drew force from Him for their inspiration, their revelations, and the actions which ensued them.

Do you not feel that there is something changed in life, in human nature and in the surrounding countryside? that even the sun and the most faraway stars are sending us the most moving messages? Do you not feel that underground or subterranean forces, in the oceans, in the air and in cosmic ether, all are in feverish activity? Do you not feel that entities, in countless number, descend from heavenly regions with the plan to awaken us to spiritual truths? And that these beings direct myriad other beings, who work on stones, plants, animals and humans beings? Are you waiting to begin to work with these workers of the new time until the greatest disasters and the largest cataclysms burst out on humanity? That subterranean forces begin to shake the earth's fragile crust? That the oceans flow out onto the continents? That storms and hurricanes show their strength and power in sweeping out everything in front of them? And that the most devastating wars are launched between several nations and tear down the earth? (*)

It is said in the Holy Scriptures, that "the sun will be obscured", that "the moon will no longer give light", that "the stars will fall from heaven", and that "the powers of heaven will be set in motion. And then the sign of the Son of man shall appear in heaven."

All this is purely symbolic. According to the ancient science of symbols, which revealed and summarized all esoteric science, "the sun will be obscured" signifies that the human intellect, their point of view, will not give any more clarity. The works of numerous scholars, writers and philosophers will present only aberrations, deviations and obscureness. Their point of view, based on an egocentric philosophy will crumble. Here is a striking example: the conclusion drawn by certain researchers sincere, honest, and nevertheless misled; that the law of life is battle, war, and merciless, pitiless fight among creatures for their existence. This conclusion has been drawn thanks to their observation of the inferior regions of life: in the oceans, where everything are eating and devouring each other; in forests, jungles, where animals and wild beasts are devouring each another, in swamps, in families and societies, where, everywhere they report egotism, ferocious fight, slaughter. They believed they were right to draw a conclusion which did not contain the whole truth, but only fifty percent.

All that is true if one sees only the lower regions.
All that is true if one sees the egoistical, selfish and personal child, who only asks to take without thinking of anybody else. It is selfishness, egotism which absorbs, cries, claims, subjects and enslaves the others.
 
But one forgets to see that beside the child exist the mother and the father, or the grandparents,... this mother who is all love and abnegation, who exerts herself to bring up the child. She is the incarnation of devotion and sacrifice.
 
Can we not conclude that another law exists in life, the law of Love and Sacrifice?
Let us take the example of the earth, which is still an egotistical child, and of the mother, the visible sun, because the Father, He, is hidden: it is the invisible Sun. Both of them bend over this child continually, warning him, enlightening him. The earth never stops taking forces and energies from the sun. And the sun gives itself continually with love and patience until the maturation of the earth. The earth will become a sun one day in its turn, contrary to that the astronomers and scholars expect according to their calculations and scientific forecasts, which are based on their point of view purely mechanical, that is, on the dead side of nature. If scholars pay attention only toward the earth and toward what happens in the inferior regions, seeing only purely selfish and destructive phenomenas, it is that they have not raised their eyes towards the regions of spirit and love, where reign other laws, those of kindness, love, charity, sacrifice, patience and impersonality. Due to maturing under the sun beams of goodness and love, a tough, bitter and acid fruit, becomes sweet, delicious and fragrant.

It is so with the earth, and with human beings. One day, all of humanity will evolve, will progress, and people will leave the planet, leaving the earth to their small brothers, the animals, those who have also become more evolved and intelligent in their turn. Nothing will be able to resist the all powerful influence of divine heat and divine light. It is a question of time.

Still, what is the most extraordinary and astonishing, incredible for the moment, is that unbelieving and atheistic scholars, like bitter, acid and tough fruits, will become sugar and honey, speaking only of love.

This example shows us that there exists another point of view, known by the Initiates, which makes us see things correctly.

It has been said that "the moon will no longer give any more light". That means that the human heart is filled with religious prejudices and with continually changing and unstable sentiments; and that these prejudices and sentiments will be reduced to nothing.

"Stars will fall from heaven", that means that many scientific, political, economic, as well as military authorities, because of a turnover of things in the life, will no longer be able to remedy by their old methods various conditions, circumstances and factors which shall start, so that they shall fall from their base.

"Then the sign of the Son of man will appear in the heavens." That means that a new light will appear, that new ideas will come to prepare the new culture which is coming. Scholars will no longer any more search for purely destructive means. Philosophers will no longer invent any more purely human philosophies and which are far from the truth, but they will accept the unique and only Philosophy which exists since the Creation of the world, which the greatest Masters of humanity knew and professed. Neither Hermes, nor Zoroastre, nor Ram, nor Buddha, nor Krishna, nor Orpheus, nor Moses, nor Plato, nor Pythagoras, nor Fo-Hi, nor Lao-Tseu have ever invented and fabricated anything by themselves as philosophy as such. But they all studied the one and only true Philosophy, which has been well guarded and passed on to our time. Writers will no longer write any more works which destroy faith, joy and hope, and so introducing in this way anarchy and chaos into human souls, without having the least idea of their moral responsibility toward their readers.

Poets will not write poetry where sadness, laziness and desolation, as well as a crepuscular and morbid sentimentality weaken human beings.

Painters will no longer paint any more paintings which are the reflection of their continual nightmares, lived in their swampy subconscious, or in subterranians, undergrounds or caves full of mildew.

Authors of theater pieces will not present plays where one sees exclusively unchained human passions, where human beings are in prey to conflicts with no way out, and walk on inextricable paths, with neither solution, nor salvation.

Musicians will no longer compose any songs or music which unchain hell slumbering in each human nature to manifest itself in madness, folies. New musicians will create a new music, which will correspond to the highest and most divine aspirations of the soul, its desire to live again the life which it lived before it left Paradise. This new music will nourish all that is pure and divine in the soul. This new music will save the world. It will possess the magic power to call the sacred Fire down from Heaven and with it a whole hierarchy of beings of order, of harmony and of beauty as well.

Dance, sculpture, architecture, everything will change and will improve thanks to the intelligent and luminous beings who know the structure and formation of human being, and of all his subtle bodies.

"This present generation", say the great Masters, "is darkened, materialized, chaotic, unruly, disorderly, and crystallized in inoperative and null forms. This generation cannot vibrate in harmony with the powerful and irresistible impulses of this spouting out Source, the visible sun, representative of the invisible Sun which is the Christ. A new generation is coming with new hearts and new minds, carriers of new seeds. New life approaches like the spiritual Spring, of which all the true poets dreamed, which the true clairvoyants contemplated, which the true prophets predicted."

The new Teaching of the Great Universal White Brotherhood contains all the methods, all the rules, and all the principles, as well as the discipline and the prescriptions necessary to prepare beings to receive the new impulses and the new streams which flow from the heart of our solar system. This heart already sends us its Heat and its Light to animate us and to resuscitate us. Everything must be renewed, needs to vibrate and shine new plentiful, intense life, which will cleanse everything, purify all, armed with Love, with Hope, with ardent, immovable and powerful Faith in the existence of the Being of all beings, the Ancient of ancients, the Mysterious of mysterious, gentle Father of the Heavens, clement, merciful and misericordious Father. May His name be louded and sanctified for eternity! Oh, may this blessed day come as soon as possible, Lord, in order that the whole world quivers with joy and with gratitude, to be in order to sense Your presence, inexpressible through human words, but who is the resurrection and the eternal life, in joy, in Love, and in Peace.

So be it! »

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

06/01/2005.

"To ‘stay young’ has now become an ideal, and yet our contemporary culture teaches people to age as rapidly as possible. Oh, not physically, to be sure! Every day, quantities of products and methods are invented to keep the body fit, to maintain the figure, to smooth away wrinkles and so on. But inwardly, psychologically, men and women age earlier and earlier, because it is earlier and earlier that they forsake simplicity, spontaneity and confidence to become suspicious, calculating, blasé and dull. Do you want to stay young? There is only one way: remain young at heart, forever alive, loving, interested in everything, quick to forgive, delighted by the slightest thing, and ready to forget insults, sorrow and failure. Maintain a heart that is always ready to love and embrace the whole world, a heart that does not shrink and grow cold. As long as you maintain a warm heart, you will never grow old."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

07/01/2005.

"Why do people always dwell on what they lack and so rarely on what they have? Everywhere they parade their petty cares and woes: ‘I ache here… I don’t have this or that…’ Why don’t they say to themselves each day: ‘I have arms, legs, a mouth, eyes and ears. The Lord has put all the riches of heaven and earth at my disposal.’ Every day you must remember that you are a son or daughter of God and that you can rediscover yourself as you were in the far distant past when you emanated from the bosom of the Eternal. You fell from this state when, like the prodigal son in the parable, you sought life far from the paternal home. But now you are able to return. This return to the Father, this ‘reintegration of humanity’, occurs when we once again become masters of ourselves and of the forces of nature, when at last we regain our dignity as heirs of our heavenly Father. Why then do people always dwell on the little things they lack?"

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Widening of conscience

Here is a point of view among the others, which helps in an enlargement of consciousness of our presence and our role in the vast cosmic body:

« In the same way that you participate in your family life, in the life of your city and country, you must learn to participate in cosmic life.

Why do you think to have to be an astronaut in a rocket in order to travel and work in space?
The earth travels in the universe, carried along by the sun, so human beings are on earth as in a spaceship making his way among the stars.
 
This makes them cosmic citizens, capable of participating consciously, luminously, in universal life.
 
It is time to abandon those limited notions transmitted by your education, family and society, and to embrace vaster, broader and more grandiose ideas:

participating in this cosmic work for the light, under the aegis of Christ. »

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

« On the basis of protecting their independence, many people refuse to participate in the collective life. Well, these people do not realise to what extent they are actually limiting themselves. They move within the small circle of their feelings, their desires, and their lusts. What poverty, what misery! This is not freedom. This limited state is normal for a child, but not for an adult. Adults must show that they are able to think of others: their family first, of course, but also their neighbours, friends, colleagues, and fellow citizens...And even then, this is limited. The circle must become wider and wider, to include the country, the race, the whole of humanity...and still further, to encompass immensity, infinity, the universe...Rare are those who have reached beyond these limitations, whose desires, thoughts, and interests converge on the collective, universal aspect of life. It is in this direction that we must strive. »

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Search for the centre - equilibrium, harmony

« Never stop looking for the divine centre within you for, when you find it, all your cells, all the particles of your being which do not vibrate in harmony are brought back towards this centre around which they must revolve. That is the secret: to call back all these disparate elements that have scattered in all directions and bring them into orbit, like planets around the sun. Then indeed we can talk of order, health, equilibrium, harmony, of the Kingdom of God: because there is a centre, a sun, a nucleus around which all other elements find their place and an orbit to follow. And they are able to do so without colliding with one another. »

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

« Every day, try to contact the divine centre within you. The moment you do this, all the particles of your being, all the forces circulating within you will become harmonized and will order themselves in relation to this divine centre around which they must revolve. The secret of spiritual life is this: to recall this multitude of disparate elements which have scattered in all directions, and make them orbit around your inner sun like planets around the cosmic sun. Then, yes, we can speak of order, harmony, and peace. Then we can speak of the Kingdom of God, because a centre exists, a sun, a nucleus, and around this centre all other elements find their position and follow their appropriate trajectory. »

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Link with the centre - equilibrium, stability

« Do not let a single day go by without uniting with Heaven, without meditating, praying... For nothing is more important and beneficial for you than to acquire a taste for spiritual activities. Stop for a few minutes, many times a day, and try to find within yourself a center of equilibrium, your divine center. You will then begin to feel that, in all circumstances of life, you have within you an eternal and indestructible element. And even if it does not pay off on the material plane, you become inwardly freer, stronger and very confident... you are above the events of your life. This spiritual work is the sole richness, the sole possession that is truly yours. Everything else can be taken away from you: only your work is yours forever. »

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Travel of spirit through time and space

« In order to evolve we must, during the course of our successive incarnations, experience all the situations and conditions a human being is destined to know. This truth should help you widen your understanding of life, of your existence, because it means that you can not only change sex from one existence to another but also incarnate in different countries, in different social classes, and belong to different religions. And as such, what could possibly be the point of nationalistic views, the class war, the battle between the sexes or religious conflict? In reality they are based on nothing concrete. Our spirit travels through time and space and this differentiation is merely an artificial creation of the ignorant human brain, an artifact. One day nothing will remain of these narrow-minded views because they are totally ill-formed. Only those who work for unity, for the Kingdom of God on earth, have the right approach.  »

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Drug Addiction a Disease of the Soul 

« By convincing human beings that there is no God, no Providence, no Heaven and no hope of life after death, materialistic thinkers have robbed them of the one reality that gives meaning to human existence: the reality of the soul and spirit. They proclaim that religion is 'the opium of the people' and that man can be perfectly happy as long as he has sufficient food, a roof over his head and the chance to study and to raise a family. But is this born out by what we see in reality?

No; even when a man's physical body, heart and intellect have everything they could possibly ask for, he is not necessarily happy or satisfied; we see evidence of this every day. And why is he not satisfied? Because he has neglected to nourish his soul and spirit and they are still hungry and thirsty.

And this is why the increasing use of drugs, especially by the young, is a warning. It is a sign that the soul is trying to make its needs understood: men's souls are being stifled and the use of drugs is an attempt to find release. We have been told that mankind had to reject the opium of religion, but are we any better off with marijuana, heroin and cocaine?
 
The soul needs infinite space; when it is hemmed in it suffocates and is ready to grasp at any means in order to free itself, and alcohol and drugs are amongst those means because they have the property of detaching the soul from the physical body and giving it, if only for a few moments, the illusion of freedom and space, Young people take drugs because they don't know how else to satisfy their soul's need for freedom. But this is no solution, for a drug is simply a chemical element administered to the body, and it is not the body that is clamouring for freedom, but the soul. The use of drugs is an indication, therefore, but it is not the solution. Not only are drugs incapable of satisfying the needs of the soul but they destroy the body. This is why I say that no one should ever use them on any pretext whatever. joy, freedom, fulfilment and the expansion of the soul must be sought by spiritual means.

A true adept of Initiatic Science never relies on external means; he knows that God has given him all the powers, gifts and chemical substances he needs; they are all within him, and he only has to find them there. Of course, this is not something that can be done in a day, it takes time and effort, but it is well worth it. When you find your nourishment in the sublime regions of the soul and spirit your hunger is satisfied for days and days, for the elements of the divine world are so rich that one taste is enough to give you a sense of abundance and fulfilment that will stay with you always. Nothing can take away from you this sensation of immensity and eternity. »

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Toward a universal family 

« The time has passed when human beings were advised to live a solitary life in order to evolve and earn their salvation. We are now entering the era of brotherhood. Human beings must no longer erect barriers among themselves, but must walk together, side by side, to form a universal brotherhood on earth, in which all beings will form one vast family. When this is realised, frontiers will fall, and instead of wasting enormous sums of money protecting themselves from others, all nations will live in abundance and peace. These are the ideas that inspire the teaching of the Universal White Brotherhood. They explain why our ideal is to develop ourselves on all levels, so that we may become examples. Our ideal is for all of humanity to advance together, united by this love that God has envisioned for all human beings. Our ideal is to live harmoniously within the collective life, because it is here that all blessings are to be found. »

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

« Outwardly we will always remain separate individuals, with one physical body, one name and one identity. Inwardly, however, we must unite and form one collective being so that we may learn to live cosmic life, universal life. Two people may love each other so much that they feel they are one. They have two separate bodies, nevertheless, and there is no way to make them amalgamate. Even when they kiss, however deep their love, they remain two separate beings. And when they catch a bus or go to the theatre, they will always need two tickets and two seats. Only in their mind can they be one. In this very same way all human beings can be one, and this feeling of oneness is not subject to physical proximity. Thousands of kilometres may separate us, but we can still feel together, united. Let us therefore endeavour to introduce this idea of unity into our thoughts, our emotions and our actions, and we will then form one single family on earth whilst still remaining separate individuals. »

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

08/01/2005.

"Where does the power of a word come from? It does not come from the spoken word itself, but from the energy, the quintessence with which it is impregnated. This quintessence is found in the aura of all beings. The power of a magus, of a theurgist, comes from his ability to impregnate the words he pronounces with light, with the light of his aura which is rich, intense and pure. The word is the repository of a force, and the more the word is impregnated with this creative element—the light—the greater its power. It is not just anyone who can pronounce magical words that will produce great effects. Only a true magus, by the power of his aura alone, without straining his voice or gesturing, is able to pronounce a few words which can command the forces of nature and attract higher beings. It is not the spoken word which created the world, but the Divine Word. Speech is the means used by the Divine Word to implement the work of creation. The Divine Word is the first element God put into action, and it is by means of the spoken word that this Divine Word is able to express itself."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

'Man was built by Cosmic Intelligence in such a way that he can fulfil himself and attain his full stature only by maintaining ties with a higher world from which he receives light and strength. When human beings rely exclusively on their own limited intellect they deprive themselves of true understanding, and it is this lack that is the cause of all their disastrous mistakes. When men are motivated only by a lust or material possessions and power and act in total disregard for the plans of Cosmic Intelligence, they stir up layers of the physical and psychic atmosphere and arouse formidable forces whose fury is turned against them.

The Age of Aquarius will soon be upon us and the tremendous upheavals accompanying it will oblige human beings to understand the reality of the invisible world and the laws that govern it. But the beauty, splendour and harmony of the new life that will emerge from these upheavals will be beyond anything imagined by man. All those who have been secretly working for the coming of the Kingdom of God throughout the world will join forces and work together, and the bastions of ignorance, materialism and despotism will crumble and collapse.

This I tell you. And it will be: nothing can prevent the coming of the new era, the new Golden Age.'

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

09/01/2005.

"The moment they find themselves in difficulty or distress, those who are naïve and gullible turn to the Lord, imagining he has nothing better to do than to come to their aid. But this is not true prayer. True prayer is based on a science which has to do with the structure of the universe and its different states of matter. Beyond the earth, beyond the water, air and light, there are regions in space of increasing subtlety, inhabited by spiritual entities. Just as we can draw everything we need for our physical life from the earth, water, air and light, we can draw everything we need for our mental, emotional and spiritual life from these regions. The universe is a hierarchy. At the summit of this hierarchy reigns an all-loving Being who has distributed everything in such a way that no creature anywhere is wanting. It is now up to us, by means of thought, to strive to attain these spiritual regions where we may capture all the elements our heart and soul require, and where, in moments of anguish and uncertainty, we may find refuge."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

10/01/2005.

"Someone who has too much faith in himself provokes others: he makes enemies and has to spend his time confronting them and settling scores. He should call himself into question a little and say: ‘Since I am not especially wise, nor particularly virtuous, nor very gifted, I will put my trust in him who is omniscient, all-loving and all-powerful.’ Thanks to his misgivings about himself and to his faith in God, he allows the Lord to enter into him. He allows the Lord to manifest through him, and wherever he goes he is a force for peace and harmony. It is when you humble yourself before God that he expresses himself through you and you obtain true power, spiritual
power. Your salvation lies in the awareness that you are almost nothing by yourself, that your greatness comes from God alone. You may ‘believe in yourself’, but only if, through ‘yourself’, you believe in God. It is he alone who merits our faith."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

11/01/2005.

"God created us in his image, and our task during our earthly existence is to seek this image within ourselves and to manifest it. Some have achieved this goal. And since some have achieved it, to claim that others are incapable of doing so is unacceptable. Just as there are no naturally superior races, there are no naturally superior human beings. They differ only in their degree of evolution, as they have not all made the same efforts and accomplished the same work during their successive incarnations. But the truth is that everything that happens in the world, all the happy and unhappy adventures people experience are nothing more than moments in this attempt to express in its fullness the image of God. If they are not reminded of this, how will they make up their minds to work toward this end? All education must emphasize this point, so that human beings can recover in themselves all the knowledge that is buried there. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

12/01/2005.

"Love is not simply a feeling people experience for one another. Love is an energy originating on high, an energy with the same quintessence as that of the sun. The task of men and women is to receive this energy and to circulate it within themselves in such a way that it then returns to the heights from which it came. If this circulation does not function as it should, it is because many impurities have accumulated within them as a result of their unbridled instincts and passions. Instead of rising, this energy descends and disappears into the earth where it is lost.

When you have worked to purify yourself, when you have become master of yourself and are truly united with God, this energy which descends daily without cease will once again take up its path through you to the summit. In the universe as it was designed and constructed by the Creator, heaven is both the point of departure and the destination."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

13/01/2005.

"Jesus said: ‘It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’ Although seemingly exaggerated, this comparison corresponds to a psychic reality. It is not the physical body of the rich man that is enormous and keeps him outside the gates of heaven, but his astral body, his body of desires. The astral body is insatiable by nature, and in their attempt to satisfy it, the rich seek to accumulate more and more possessions. As for the camel, because of its way of life it has become the symbol of sobriety, of the ability to control one’s appetites. In the human being, appetites can take a variety of forms: ambition, power, sensuality, and so on. Jesus takes the rich man as a symbol of those who attempt to satisfy all the desires inspired by their astral body. It is the astral body which obstructs the door to the Kingdom of God, where only those who have learned sobriety, selflessness and sacrifice are welcomed. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

14/01/2005.

"There is a Being on whom we depend completely, which is why we must constantly maintain our connection with him and dare to confront all inner and outer desires attempting to block the way. Those who are not conscious of the link which unites them with the first Cause can only debase and degrade everything, first in themselves and then around them, because they have cut themselves off from the Source of life. Life comes from above; it is the quintessence of God himself. It is our duty in all our pursuits to receive this life, to open a passage for it within ourselves, and to learn to preserve it in all its light, richness and power so that we may also distribute it around us. We sometimes meet people who have this gift of receiving and distributing, who radiate life everywhere they go. To encounter such beings is a blessing."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

15/01/2005.

"In their everyday lives, people worry very little about the lot of their fellow men. When they see images of devastation, famine and massacres on television, then, of course, they are moved for a few minutes, and sometimes tears even come to their eyes. But they quickly forget, and the next moment they return to their usual subjects of dissatisfaction: a boss who exploits them, a rival who has taken their place, the neighbour who is encroaching on their land, their husband, their wife, their children, their mother-in-law…and all the miseries of the world are somewhere far away! I’m not suggesting that personal problems be neglected. I am simply pointing out that people are more preoccupied with the little problems of daily life than with the disasters that befall others. When these occur, more often than not people are content merely to tell themselves that the world is an evil place."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

16/01/2005.

"It is a tradition to raise monuments and statues to the men and women who have contributed wonderful things to a society, to a culture or even to humanity as a whole. It is right to do so, of course, and I am not suggesting that we should not honour them. Nevertheless, I believe it is to our enemies that we should erect the most beautiful monuments and statues. Of course! They are our true benefactors, thanks to whom we are forced to become more vigilant, more intelligent and more patient. Do you think I’m joking? Well, think what you like, but all the same, try to reflect a little on this idea: our friends often put us to sleep, whereas our enemies upset and stimulate us. You will say: ‘But they make our life impossible!’ In fact, if you possess a high ideal and the sincere desire to advance, you will receive all the knowledge and strength necessary to make use of every obstacle your enemies put on your path. These obstacles are like rungs of a ladder which allow you to climb higher and higher."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

17/01/2005.

"The person who is guilty and tries to appease his conscience will not succeed, because the problem does not lie with his conscience—which merely reflects the reality of his conduct—but with his innermost sense of the wrong he has committed. This lives on in him as a recorded debt, and until he has made reparations for his errors, his conscience will find no peace. It is normal to inflict punishment on those who have done wrong, but this is not enough. We must not be satisfied merely to punish wrongdoers; we must also give them the means to correct their mistakes. Otherwise they are all the more resentful toward those who have imposed sanctions on them, because they live constantly obsessed with the wrong they have done. To put them on the right path again, we must help them free their conscience by giving them conditions which enable them to pay their debts."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

18/01/2005.

"Despite their diversity, spiritual exercises have as their one and only goal the fusion of the human being with the Deity. The initiates of India have summarized this sublime state of consciousness in the formula ‘I am He’, which is to say, he alone exists; I am only a reflection, a replica, a shadow. I exist only to the extent that I am able to dissolve in him. In reality, we exist not as beings separate from the Creator, but as part of him. This is why initiatic science teaches us methods for detaching from our illusory images of ourselves. By saying ‘I am He’, we understand that we do not exist outside the Creator, and we unite ourselves with him, we come closer to him, until one day we resemble him."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

19/01/2005.

"Make a habit of weighing things on your spiritual scales. Let us say you have had to put up with an insult, an injustice. Examine the pros and cons and you will see that in spite of everything, what you gain by keeping your faith is a thousand times superior to what you lost because of some stupid or mean-spirited person. Every second of your existence, the faith that works within you gives you life. It is like a river of crystalline water that flows unceasingly. Why deprive yourself of its benefits just because you may be wronged or deceived now and then? Wisdom has its own way of weighing things. It does not stop the flow of what is essential, vital and eternal because of a few unpleasant situations. Seeing that you are betrayed only once in a while, is it worth depriving yourself permanently of all that faith can bring you?"

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

20/01/2005.

"Are you wondering what path to follow, what rule of life to accept? Well, this is very simple. If you have no other ambition than to lead an ordinary, mundane existence, you can let yourself go, because it will be useless to make great efforts to master yourself and control your instincts. Such self-control will even be detrimental to your physical and psychic health: you will become insufferable for your family and your entire entourage, you will feel frustrated, and you will become embittered, hard and intolerant. For the demands of a discipline to have their raison d’etre, you must have a very high ideal. You must have the desire to make something great of your life, something beautiful and noble, and each day you must feel the need to add to it a new element of spirituality, of light. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

21/01/2005.

"Provided that we wrong no one, each of us is free in theory to do whatever we want, even to indulge ourselves. Why not? The problem is that by engaging in extravagances, in satisfying all our desires, we sign a pact with inferior entities, and later we are at their mercy and are unable to extricate ourselves. You have had a good time, you have eaten and drunk, symbolically speaking, and now you have to pay. This is precisely the meaning of the famous pact between Faust and Mephistopheles. Of course, entertainment and pleasures are enjoyable; you have new experiences, you live! Yes, but this is very costly. Human beings are never short of ideas when it comes to amusing themselves and savouring pleasures, but they are blind when it comes to foreseeing the consequences. They focus on pleasure alone, and pleasure is rarely a good counsellor. Nothing comes without a price. How many have ruined their health and destroyed their psychic equilibrium in exchange for a few pleasures!"

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

22/01/2005.

"Even if they are atheists, our contemporaries must admit that the notion of brotherhood was brought to them by Christianity. Before Jesus, of course, initiates taught respect and love for one’s neighbour, and certain commandments among those given by Moses heralded the teaching of Jesus: ‘You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge….you shall love your neighbour as yourself….’ But these are given so little place in relation to the multitude of dictates and punishments threatening those guilty of the smallest error! In the same era, Buddha taught kindness towards all creatures and compassion for the immense suffering they must endure throughout their earthly lives. But the sentiment of benevolence or compassion is not the same as the sentiment of brotherhood, which is the consciousness that we all belong to one and the same family. It is the philosophy of Jesus, transmitted by Christianity, which has allowed
the sense of brotherhood to develop in the western world."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

23/01/2005.

"Why should we learn to live in a spiritual community? It is so difficult! But the person who sincerely accepts this discipline brings about highly beneficial changes in his consciousness. He understands that he cannot act out of selfishness and anarchy, because this leads to fatal antagonisms and disorder. On the contrary, he strives to live in harmony with the others, and this synchronization with the collectivity allows him to progress. And since this collectivity tends to be in harmony with the cosmic collectivity, it establishes wonderful things in those who work to live in conformity with its principles. By striving to live a larger, more harmonious and universal life, human beings greatly enrich themselves, because they come into contact with Cosmic Intelligence and receive its blessings."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

24/01/2005.

"Every day, life presents a certain number of problems to be solved. Instead of making honest efforts to resolve them, those who try to avoid them soon find themselves faced with insurmountable difficulties. The reason is very simple. You went to school, didn’t you, and there you studied grammar, mathematics and so on. For each subject, you were given exercises to do. Take mathematics as an example: imagine that a student starts out by neglecting the exercises which accompany the first lesson. He is then missing the elements he will need for the following lessons. What will happen? The situation will become more and more difficult, and at some point he will no longer be able to manage. It is the same with the problems handed to us in life. Each problem satisfactorily solved provides us with the elements we need in order to face subsequent problems under the best possible conditions, because our efforts bear fruit. With every exercise we become more patient, more clear-sighted, and stronger."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

25/01/2005.

"Everything is in God, and God is in everything, but consciousness of this begins with man. You may ask: ‘But why isn’t this consciousness more developed in us?’ In God’s desire to enter into human beings so that he could manifest through them, it is as if he amused himself by passing his consciousness through opaque lenses. But the opacity of this matter is such that he can no longer see himself. It is as if he has faded away and become lost in us. In order for the divine consciousness to awaken in our soul, our matter must become transparent. When this happens, God will be able to say: ‘At last I recognise myself, there I am!’ And at that moment we too will experience him. Because our consciousness is still obscured, God does not recognise himself in it. But he never ceases to work on us and in us, and if we participate in this work, one day at last God will see himself in us."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

26/01/2005.

"The discovery of a spiritual teaching is a source of great joy. Finally, we have found it! Yes, but the reality is not so simple. Once you have accepted a spiritual teaching, however elevated it may be, it often happens that after a month, six months or perhaps a year, confusion takes hold in you, and instead of strengthening your positive side, your efforts develop only your negative side. Why? Because every new idea, every new state of consciousness creates fermentation in those who are not prepared to receive it. Jesus said: ‘No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.’ The new skins represent the solid, resistant forms you must prepare within yourself in order to hold and sustain a new vision of things. You must therefore begin by bringing yourself into harmony with this philosophy. That is to say, you must prepare your physical and psychic organism so that you can withstand the tension created by the new currents to which you will be exposed."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

27/01/2005.
 
"Turn your face toward heaven and you will receive light and strength; but turn your back on it and you will lose everything. The law is implacable. And if it is said in the Holy Books that God is just, it is because the authors knew this law. Attitude is a magic force. What happens to us is only the result of what we have attracted by our attitude, which has the power to trigger beneficial or harmful currents in the universe. Several times a day, therefore, you must remember to turn toward the divine world, to harmonize with it until you are able to activate your spiritual centres instantly, and rays, sounds and colours burst forth from you. Your thoughts, feelings and actions will become the reflection of what already exists on high in the heavens, as precious and as beautiful. And the luminous entities who inhabit these regions will recognize themselves in this being who has understood the meaning of his life on earth. "
 
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

28/01/2005.

"For so many men and women, life is interesting only when it is lived in extremes. They want to experience intense sensations, even if it means killing themselves in the process. Do they ever wonder whether God intended them to live life this way, or whether there are other ways to live intensely? No, most people have a notion of life that leads them to death—either to physical or spiritual death, and often to both. We will all die one day, of course, but this should not prevent us from concentrating all our efforts on life, because it is life that we have in common with God and with everything that exists in the universe. In becoming alive ourselves, then, we enter into communication with God, with all creatures and with the entire universe."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

29/01/2005.

"Faith without love gives rise to fanaticism, and this is the worst that can happen to human beings, because they become monsters. All they ever talk about is God, and they are ready to annihilate the entire world in his name. But when they become the victims of disasters — epidemics, floods, earthquakes or famines—who comes to their rescue? Most often it is the non-believers! The believers are busy muttering prayers to the Lord, asking him to come to the aid of the victims. Even worse, some people interpret these misfortunes as punishments from heaven and are delighted that God’s anger has befallen the infidels. Yes, one has to wonder about this ferment of insensitivity we sometimes find in faith. It is often the faithful themselves who discourage others from believing."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

30/01/2005.

"Man, the reflection in microcosm of the macrocosm, is the repository of all cosmic memory. He possesses within himself the archives of the universe which are represented symbolically in the Sephirotic Tree by the Sephirah Daath, Knowledge. Daath is original matter, the primordial matter over which God breathed at the beginning of the world in order to fertilize it. Because matter is the substance of creation, it is able to hold memory. The spirit awakens this memory by moving lightly over matter, just as a breeze makes the strings of an aeolian harp vibrate. Only our inner silence prepares the conditions for the awakening of this original memory."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

With every breath I take today,
I vow to be awake;

And every step I take,
I vow to take with a grateful heart--

So I may see with eyes of love
into the hearts of all I meet,

To ease their burden when I can
And touch them with a smile of peace.
A Buddhist Daily Prayer

31/01/2005.

"Despite its brevity, the Lord’s Prayer is an unsurpassable work. If you study this prayer all your life, and even beyond in future incarnations, you will never exhaust its contents. It is like a seed which each of us can plant deep in our inner earth, and this is exactly what I myself have done. I planted this seed in the earth of my being. I took care of it, I watered it, I kept it warm and gave it light. Now it has become a tree whose roots penetrate deep into my soul and whose crown rises all the way to heaven. This is why I tell you that you can study this prayer forever. It embraces all aspects of life; it touches all our psychic and spiritual processes, and it gives meaning to our existence. But as with the seed, you must first of all plant it and bring it to life within you. Then, little by little, you will discover all its riches."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

01/02/2005.

"In order to live, we need the support of a certain number of beliefs, which serve as foundations for our emotional and intellectual life. Without these supports, life would be impossible; it would be exactly like walking in quicksand. Inwardly as well as outwardly, we need to feel something solid beneath our feet. This is why, even if you delude yourselves now and then, it is always beneficial to believe in the good. If nothing else, this at least helps you maintain a positive disposition. But at the same time, as the years go by you must strive to become increasingly lucid and conscious by replacing vague beliefs with true knowledge. You don’t want to be as naïve at forty as you were at twenty! "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

02/02/2005.

"What is the purpose of burning candles in churches? If it were only for their light, electricity would do, and it would be more practical. In fact, this ritual has a profound meaning when the believer understands that, just as the wax is burned to keep the flame alight, he too must burn a substance within himself in order to maintain his inner light, and so that his prayers are heard and granted by the Divinity. How can we keep the flame alight within ourselves? By sacrificing all our inner animals, of which there is certainly no shortage! On the astral plane, we not only house sheep, oxen, bulls and goats, but also wolves, foxes, tigers, serpents, scorpions and spiders… Yes, a whole menagerie, a zoo, a primeval forest! So many dangerous animals exist in man in the form of weaknesses, vices and destructive tendencies. It is these we must sacrifice in order to fuel our inner light."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

03/02/2005.

"Combative and tenacious, man’s lower nature has enabled him to resist the aggressions and obstacles he has met on his path over the millennia. This explains why it is now so difficult to dominate this nature. Although the conditions of evolution have changed and we no longer need the weapons of our lower nature to protect ourselves, it is always there, alert, ready to appear at the first opportunity. And if we attempt to go against it single handed, we will always be defeated. In order to dominate it, we must call upon higher forces and cling to them. You must not put so much faith in your own capabilities: the lower nature has had to develop so much power in order to survive that it now bows only before the divine world. If you approach it without the weapons of heaven, without the light, it will not acknowledge you. It will say: ‘You are not my tamer!’ and it will attack and devour you. The true tamer is God himself. Because it is he who has created everything, it is he who knows how to keep this monster at bay."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

04/02/2005.

"The human being possesses a soul which can only flourish in immensity, in the infinite. All that is visible, concrete and measurable – even if we find it useful, interesting or indispensable – ultimately satisfies only a part of us. It cannot fulfil our lives. Why do children love fairy tales? And why do adults also retreat whenever they can into the foreign, the supernatural, the irrational? Because it is an innate need in human beings: we were created to live in two worlds, objective and subjective, visible and invisible, material and spiritual. We have the capacity to enter into relationship with these two worlds, and we need them both. But we must not confuse the two: the reality we discover through our five senses is not the same as the one we perceive with the senses of the spiritual world. These are two different worlds, and to know them requires different instruments."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

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Indonesia plans to buy German tsunami warning system

With money piling up, two German charities are urging donors to direct their contributions to other relief efforts

04. Februar 2005 F.A.Z. Weekly. After the tsunami ravaged parts of southern Asia in December, national Research Minister Edelgard Bulmahn and other officials launched a sales campaign for a German system that could prevent such deadly devastation from happening again.

The work paid off. Over the weekend, Indonesia, the country that lost more than 108,000 people, said it had decided to purchase the German warning system. ”We are confident that we will be able to sign a contract with Indonesia soon,” said a spokesman for Bulmahn's ministry, Peter Ziegler.
The signing could take place in March at a tsunami conference that will be held in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.

The system is produced by the Geo-Research Center, a government-funded institute in Potsdam, and would cost about €45 million ($58,000). It consists of sensors that have been placed on the ocean floor, and that would report on every below-sea earthquake and tidal wave. The sensors would transmit the information via buoys and satellites to monitoring stations on the coastal areas. Employees in the stations would analyze the data and sound an alarm. Bulmahn has said the warnings could be sent by e-mail and text message to private individuals and hotels.

The United States and Japan run similar systems in the Pacific Ocean, where 90 percent of all tsunamis occur.

Indonesia's research minister, Kusmayanto Kadiman, announced his country's intention to purchase the German warning system at a conference that was held in Bangkok to discuss the aftermath of the tsunami. The head of the German center, Rolf Emmermann, said on Monday that other countries, including Malaysia, could purchase the institute's system as well.

The catastrophe also triggered an unprecedented amount of financial donations by Germans who wanted to assist the millions of stricken people in southern Asia. The total amount of those donations has passed the level of €400 million, according to the German Center for Social Questions. The center is scheduled to release exact figures next week.

But at least two German charitable organizations are urging people to stop giving money to the tsunami relief effort. Caritas International, a Roman Catholic organization, is urging people to direct their money or energy to other areas of the world. Diakonie Catastrophic Aid, which has taken in more than €30 million, began urging people in mid-January to stop donating to the tsunami cause.

”We have already collected so much for relief supplies and reconstruction. We can live well with it,” a spokeswoman for the group said this week.

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer started a trip to Asia on Thursday. At the end of the trip next week, Fischer will travel to the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh, which has become the focal point of German relief operations.

Those efforts include a military field hospital that has been set up on the site of a destroyed medical center. German officials are discussing whether they should turn the rebuilding of the area's health-care system into the centerpiece of the country's development efforts in the region.

05/02/2005.

"Jesus said: ‘In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you.’ In other words, do not always leave it to others to make the first move. If you want to be loved, love! If you want others to give to you, give! And if you want to be enlightened, begin by giving light to someone who has less than you, because at that very moment someone else who has more light than you will give you his. Yes, this is a law. By helping others, you attract a visible or invisible being who will come to help you. Make an effort to support and encourage someone, and you will see that a the divine will, a divine power, will come to reinforce you."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

06/02/2005.

"Look at a snowdrop: what will, what force, what courage it takes to command the snow and the earth: ‘Go on, open up, I want to come out!’ And yet it is fragile: its petals are so tender, so delicate…a mere nothing can damage it. But the earth and snow obey: they give way to it, and it comes forth and blooms. What is this power that compels the earth to open up? The snowdrop possesses an irresistible force in its tiny stem which begins to peek through, and it is this force which triumphs. Love always triumphs! And you, do you not have greater possibilities than a snowdrop? Yes, you do, only you do not know how to go about saying to the difficulties and limitations in your life: ‘Come on, let me through, I want to get out. I want to admire and praise the Creator, to commune with him. Open up!’ If you persist like the snowdrop, in the end you will emerge, free and triumphant."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

07/02/2005.

"It is God who has given us life. It is he who has given us the ability to express ourselves by way of thoughts, feelings, words and actions. And each time we feel drawn toward the light, each time we are inspired by selflessness, goodness and love, each time we feel the need to surpass ourselves and to make sacrifices, it is God manifesting his presence within us. This is why it is essential for each of us to multiply such experiences."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

08/02/2005.

"The human conscience is a reality, a merciless reality. Take the case of a criminal. Whatever he does, he cannot rid himself of certain anxieties: the police, prison, his victim’s revenge, remorse. Why? Because he has set certain processes in motion which are now reflected in his conscience, and he can no longer find peace. It is not his conscience which produces these images, since it is only a screen and is not responsible for anything that is projected there. We can understand, then, why some people surrender spontaneously to the police and agree to be punished for their offences: something within them knows they deserve punishment, but also that they must make amends. For it is by atoning that they free their conscience, and once they have done so, a new ‘film’ is projected on their screen."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

09/02/2005.

"Everywhere we see people eager to educate others, to lecture them and put them on the right path. Even children want to educate their dolls and their dogs! But in reality, no one can educate anyone else. Speeches, explanations and orders are useless. You say: ‘But what does a spiritual teacher do?’ A spiritual teacher does not try to change human beings, because he respects their predestination. But by means of his knowledge, virtues and conduct, he stimulates them, vivifies them and waters the good seeds in them – in other words, the gifts and virtues buried within them. These seeds then begin to grow, to develop and flourish. We ourselves must first acquire these qualities we wish to develop in others, and this is why the job of a teacher is the most difficult of all. Only the initiates, who have already done an immense work on themselves, succeed in reawakening in human beings the best seeds planted in them by the Creator."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov