Defining Your World

We are not passive observers of this universe, but rather partners in its creation. We are the ones who assign each thing its meaning, who bring definition and resolution to an otherwise ambiguous world.

In fact, we are legal witnesses who determine a matter of life or death: For each thing we hold, each event that enters our life, our word declares whether it breathes with Godly life or simply idles itself into oblivion.

T.Freeman

Lorsqu'on parle de pierre philosophale

Lorsqu'on parle de pierre philosophale, on parle de « pierre », c'est-à-dire du plus tangible, du plus concret qui puisse être, mais on parle aussi de «philosophale», de philosophie, c'est-à-dire d'un monde qui respire autour : la pierre qui pense, la pierre qui parle, la pierre qui sent. Cette pierre, c'est l'homme. L'homme est la pierre philosophale qui peut tout transformer en or ou en plomb. Celle-ci peut amener le plomb vers l'or, mais elle peut aussi amener l'or vers le plomb. On disait de la pierre philosophale qu'elle amenait la longue vie, la santé et l'immortalité. Cette pierre, c'est l'homme qui respire une intelligence supérieure du bien ou du mal. Le bien, c'est la vie, et le mal, c'est la mort. Le plomb est le corps physique de l'homme, qui va vers la mort : le plomb s'oxyde. Le processus de l'oxydation en chimie équivaut à un processus spirituel de mort.

O.Manitara

A Connection Through the Times

There are two engines on the the “Kennedy” spacecraft, each engine five-feet wide. The spacecraft engineers wanted to make the engines wider, but couldn’t. That’s because the engines were delivered by railroad, and the distance between the rails was only five feet (or rather, four feet 8.5 inches). Why?
It’s because the American-made railroad was modeled after the British model, and in Great Britain the railroad was modeled after the trolleys, and the trolleys were modeled after horse-trams, and the width of the horse-trams was specifically made so the wheels would fall into tracks, and the distance between the tracks in Great Britain is five feet.

And that’s because the roads in Great Britain were paved by the Romans to fit the size of their military chariots, which were five feet wide. And that’s because the chariots were led by two horses and this was the width of two horses’ behinds!

So the size of the spacecraft’s engines depends on the size of a horse’s behind 2,000 years ago!

Michael Laitman

Love And Hatred Of “600,000 Souls”

600,000 souls are parts of a single soul created by the Creator.This single created being got divided into parts which we call “600,000″ souls. However, this number does not indicate quantity, but rather the quality of the connection between them. 

When the Creator gives rise to the desire to receive pleasure, everything is a single whole; the Creator, the vessel, and the Light are like one. But in this state, both the desire and the Light sense neither separation nor connection; they don’t feel whether the creature exists or not. There is a complete absence of any sensation because any sensation in the creature can be detected only through the opposition between the creature itself and what it feels.

For that, it is necessary to distinguish between the Light and the vessel and to feel their complete oppositeness and connection. However, when the vessel and Light connect, their difference doesn’t vanish since love emerges above hatred.

Both qualities have to emerge. The distance between hatred and love, darkness and light (hatred is revealed as darkness and love as light) gives the creature the sensation of its existence and understanding of where it exists and with whom it is connected. This is the reason why the World of Infinity is not enough to outline the creature and make it independent.

Only after the creature goes through the entire process of its development, meaning that it starts at the first stage, descends to the second, and then rises back to the third, does it begin to understand what the first state was about. The created being becomes independent and similar to the Creator. That’s why it is called Adam.

In the beginning (Stage 1), the creature was just a drop of semen. Then, it realizes that the breaking has occurred and corrects it. By doing so, the creature attains perfection. It is not considered a drop of semen any more, but rather, it has the power of 600,000 souls and represents one big autonomous soul.

“Six hundred thousand” stands for six Sefirot of Zeir Anpin multiplied by ten Sefirot in each of them and then by ten thousand, the power of the ascent of Zeir Anpin to Arich Anpin which governs all corrections. 60 x 10,000 = 600,000. Hence, the common soul (the general, final, corrected state) is called 600,000 souls.

Michael Laitman PHD

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An Honest Talk With The Creator

Question: What does it mean to “speak with the Creator?”

Answer: To “speak with the Creator” primarily means to do everything you can to try to reveal His image within you. Try to imagine: He is the reason for everything I feel. My thoughts, desires, and sensations are all Him, the One who has laid my foundation and forms me.

When I decide that my current reality is established by Him, then how do I treat everything that happens to me? There are two possibilities:

1. Directly structure my attitude towards my inner reality as my attitude towards Him. But this approach is inaccurate, incorrect, and unstable. There is no ability to test or verify it because I will surely be guided by my ego and err.

2. At first, I strengthen myself through my connection with others like me, and then I structure my attitude towards the inner reality by passing its image through this connection. In this case, I am definitely already in some quality of bestowal, and my qualities are adapted to the Creator’s image. Thus, instead of changing the image, I change my attitude towards it. This is what it means to “speak with the Creator.” 

Michael Laitman PHD

La pierre philosophale, c'est l'union harmonieuse de l'esprit et de la matière

La pierre philosophale, c'est l'union harmonieuse de l'esprit et de la matière, comme son nom l'indique. Celui qui possède uniquement une connaissance intellectuelle ne l'emportera pas par-delà la porte de la mort car l'homme emporte de l'autre côté uniquement les expériences vécues intensément dans les trois sphères de son être, les expériences qui ont un caractère d'éternité, de plénitude. Ce sont elles qui forment la rose au centre de la croix. Chaque âme incarnée vivait auparavant dans un autre pays où elle parlait et pensait avec une autre langue et pourtant dans sa nouvelle incarnation, elle ne se rappelle plus son ancien langage, ce qui démontre que l'âme ne garde que la quintessence la plus spirituelle, la plus intense d'une incarnation à l'autre.

O. Manitara

The Power of Not Thinking

Thinking has a profound effect. So does not thinking.

A mind obsessed with yesterday’s travesties, today’s aches and pains, and tomorrow’s dark clouds, creates problems where none exist.

It transforms daydreams into realities, molehills into monstrosities, innocent creatures into venomous snakes. All the more so when such words pass the lips into the tangible world we all share.

That is why simply turning your back to those thoughts is such a powerful form of healing—for every sort of illness. Distract your mind to good thoughts, productive thoughts, thoughts of confidence in the One Who Made You, and especially thoughts of Torah.

Heal your mind and heal your soul. You will heal your body as well.

T.Freeman

Being and Not Being

He made His world of contradictions, opposites that combine as one.

Being and not being,

infinity and finitude,

light and darkness,

form and matter,

quantity and quality,

giving and withholding.

At their nexus, a world is formed: Neither can exist without the other, all function together as a single whole.

They are mere modalities—He Himself is none of them. He mixes them and matches them at whim.

Paradox is our window to the Unknowable.

T.Freeman

Get Real

Why is God not real to you? Because your god is not real.

You begin with “Here I am, standing in this world,” and then you append, “and God is watching down on me.”

If you begin with the premise of your own reality, what room is there left for His?

God Is—and you and your world are a glimmer of His presence.

T.Freeman

Transformation

When light pushes away the darkness, 

eventually another darkness shall come.

When the darkness itself is transformed into light,

 it is a light that no darkness can oppose.

T. Freeman

Many people, without realizing, end up with two gods

Many people, without realizing, end up with two gods:

One god is an impersonal, all-encompassing, transcendent force.

But then, at times of trouble, they cry out to another, personal god, with whom they have an intimate relationship.

Our faith is all about knowing that these two are one. The same God who is beyond all things, He is the same one who hears your cries and counts your tears. The same God who is the force behind all existence and transcends even that, He is the same God who cares about what is cooking in your kitchen and how you treat your fellow human being.

God cannot be defined, even as transcendent. He is beyond all things and within them at once.

T. Freeman

No man can say he is free today because yesterday he was granted freedom.

No man can say he is free today because yesterday he was granted freedom.

Freedom is a source of endless energy. Freedom is the power behind this entire universe. Freedom is the force that brings existence out of the void.

You are free when you take part in that endlessness. When you never stand still. When you are forever escaping the confines of today to create a freer tomorrow.

T. Freeman

A smile

"A smile is in itself a greeting, a sign of acknowledgement we

give to those we meet even before we say hello to them, so it is

important to be aware of what our smile expresses. Of course, it

is not a matter of putting on a false smile that we’ve been

practising in the mirror. Our smile should come naturally from

within and express kindness, gentleness and understanding.

If you are able to reach into the depths of your being and seek

silence and light, your inner sculptors will know which nerves

and muscles to tighten or relax. You can trust them. Wanting to

manufacture your own smile is only going to deform your features.

So work with love, hope and faith, and trust in the inspiration

of your inner sculptors."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Voir, entendre, toucher, c'est être avec la vie universelle

Voir, entendre, toucher, c'est être avec la vie universelle, mais pour cela, les sens doivent être parfaitement ajustés. S'ils ne le sont pas, les perceptions se brouillent et c'est la bêtise, la folie, le fanatisme qui apparaissent, et l'homme s'enferme dans un monde. Les sens sont des outils qui doivent être maîtrisés par la discipline méditative. Ils sont des fenêtres par lesquelles la Lumière de la conscience et de la vie peut entrer. Alors, tout peut être connu : soi, l'autre, l'univers, les mondes magiques et les Dieux. Être en paix avec soi-même, en harmonie avec l'univers et entrer dans le monde des Dieux immortels, tel est le sens véritable de la vie. La clé est cachée dans la nutrition. « On devient ce que l'on mange. » Une nourriture d'homme engendre des mortels, une nourriture des Dieux engendre des immortels. Je ne parle pas que des aliments physiques, mais également des pensées, des sensations, des perceptions, des impressions. 

O.Manitara

Inner Anxiety

Often, anxiety takes root because a person’s external character is incompatible with his or her inner self. The anxiety may dwell upon other issues and obsessions—but none of these are the true underlying cause.

Most souls can tolerate a few inconsistencies. But others are sensitive to every nuance. As soon as some aspect of their lifestyle is not attuned to the purity of the essential self, the entire person is thrown off balance.

T. Freeman

The aura is our spiritual skin.

"The aura is our spiritual skin. And it is as desirable for the

spiritual skin surrounding us to be wide and strong as it is for

our physical skin to be soft and fine.

There are people who never stop complaining about the way others

look at them, speak to them and treat them. They are so sensitive

you would think they were covered in wounds. This shows that

their aura is very thin. Why is this? Because they do not have

much love. Whereas, you can say what you like to those people who

have a very wide aura, and it doesn’t bother them or offend them,

for they have a great deal of love. So, if you are so very

sensitive to criticism, don’t try making excuses. It is simply

that you do not have enough love to seal the breaches, to build

thick walls and prevent negative currents from coming in through

your aura."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Il ne faut pas mélanger les mondes

Il ne faut pas mélanger les mondes, il faut les tenir séparés. Fais la différence entre ce qui est mortel et ce qui est immortel dans ta vie. Non, la mort n'existe pas, mais il faut qu'il y ait la vie. Il faut que tu mettes la Vie dans ta vie. La vie est ce qui est universel, la mort est ce qui est séparé. Si tu es séparé, c'est que quelque part, tu es mort. Si tu es avec l'Universel, c'est que tu entres dans la Vie.

O.Manitara

Initially, the idea of serving others is never an attractive one for many people

"Initially, the idea of serving others is never an attractive one

for many people; it is even humiliating, and that is because they

do not know what true service is. Otherwise, why would Jesus have

said in the Gospels, ‘The greatest among you must become like one

who serves’? Those who are great never find it demeaning to be at

the service of others, because their greatness is of the spirit.

They know that nothing, no task, will make them lose their

nobility, their true greatness.

Jesus was great, because he knew how to be infinitely small. The

man who said, ‘I am the truth’ never asked anyone to bow down to

serve him; on the contrary, he made himself a humble servant to

all. Why? Because truth is charged with immeasurable power. So it

has to be carefully wrapped for others to receive it and

assimilate it without it causing any damage. The power bestowed

by truth must also be expressed through humility, love and

kindness."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Owning Wisdom

You can live in a palace filled with treasures and still be poor. To be wealthy, you must own the things you have.

So, too, with poverty of the mind: You may have all the knowledge and brilliant ideas in the world, but you are still poor until they have become part of you.

T. Freeman

La puissance de la pensée !

« ... Chaque jour, des phénomènes atmosphériques se produisent sur toute la surface de la terre. Et leur cause, c'est le soleil.

Le soleil chauffe l'air et la vapeur d'eau qui constituent l'atmosphère, l'air chaud tend à s'élever, créant des zones de basse pression tandis que l'air froid se comprime, se tasse contre le sol, créant des zones de haute pression. Alors, des hautes pressions

vers les basses pressions circulent les vents.

Quand la différence de pression s'accentue,

les vents deviennent très violents et

il peut se produire des tornades et des ouragans.

De plus, sous l'effet de la chaleur du soleil,

l'eau des océans, des mers, des lacs, des rivières s'évapore et monte. Lorsque l'air atteint un degré de saturation, la vapeur d'eau se transforme en neige ou en pluie, et les averses et les torrents agissent

sur la terre et modèlent le relief.

En nous, le soleil correspond à l'esprit,

l'air à la pensée, l'eau au sentiment,

la terre au corps physique.

Lorsque l'esprit agit sur la pensée, la pensée entraîne à son tour le sentiment, et le sentiment se jette sur le corps physique pour le faire courir, gesticuler, parler.

Donc, le corps physique se meut sous l'effet du sentiment, le sentiment est éveillé par la pensée, la pensée naît sous l'influence de l'esprit ...

Ce mécanisme est là chaque jour sous nos yeux :

sous l'influence de l'air (le vent),

l'eau (les vagues) modèle la terre (les rochers), lui donne des formes, la sculpte.

On peut en tirer cette conclusion : si l'être humain savait interpréter et appliquer dans sa vie intérieure ce processus naturel, normal, de l'action du soleil sur la terre par l'intermédiaire de l'air et de l'eau,

il pourrait opérer de grandes transformations

en lui et en-dehors de lui.

Voilà en quoi consiste

la puissance de la pensée !"

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

The two principles of light and dark are forever at war in the world.

"The two principles of light and dark are forever at war in the

world. If you take sides with darkness, light will attack you,

and if you take sides with light you will be attacked by

darkness. You should know this and be ready to defend yourself.

But you will have to be careful with this too, because it’s not a

question of defending yourself any way you can; the only weapons

you should use are those of light. Yes, for if you fight back

using the means of darkness – hate, cruelty and violence – you

will go crashing down into regions where these hostile forces

confront each other and tear each other apart, and you will

experience darkness and weakness.

Bear this in mind: these enemies are a temptation presented by

the invisible world. To get the better of them, we tend to fight

back using the same methods they use. But enemies can also be a

blessing, if we seek to respond with the higher weapon, light."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Forgetting to Learn

Learning is not the mere acquisition of knowledge and more knowledge. Learning is a process of making quantum leaps beyond the subjective self. No matter how high a summit you may reach, there is always another peak above.

But you can only reach that peak once you realize you are still in the valley.

T. Freeman

Getting Along

When we can’t get along with someone, we like to blame it on that person’s faults: Stupidity, incompetence, outrageous actions, aggression or some other evil.

The real reason is none of these. It is that the world is broken, and we are the shattered fragments.

And all that stops us from coming back together is that we each imagine ourselves to be whole.

T. Freeman

Gradual Truth

In life, you don't get all the answers at once.

First you must absorb and live with one simple truth. Then later you must find another truth --one that may seem to conflict with and negate all you previously learned. Then, from that confusion, emerges a higher truth --the inner light behind all you had learned before.

T.Freeman

A cross, in outline, is merely the meeting point of a vertical line with a horizontal line.

"A cross, in outline, is merely the meeting point of a vertical

line with a horizontal line. These two lines represent two

opposing forces and directions, which meet to achieve the union

of the two principles – the masculine (the vertical line) and the

feminine (the horizontal line). The cross is an expression of the

union of the two principles. To understand the cross, therefore,

means knowing how to put the masculine and the feminine, the

positive and the negative, into action.

You will say, ‘But how can the two principles be put into

action? And is it that important?’ Yes, as important as knowing

how to use fire and water, which also represent the two

principles, the masculine being fire, the feminine water. Imagine

if you didn’t know – how many possibilities you would be deprived

of! Think of everything you are able to do because of knowing how

to use water and fire. It is the union of the two principles that

creates movement. And consider the wheel… What is a wheel? A

cross in motion."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Two masters

A body has two masters, a brain and a heart. When they work together, each in appreciation of the other, the body is at harmony.

So too, Man and Woman.

T.Freeman

The World as I see it - An essay by Albert Einstein

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...

"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..."

"My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle. I am quite aware that for any organization to reach its goals, one man must do the thinking and directing and generally bear the responsibility. But the led must not be coerced, they must be able to choose their leader. In my opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force attracts men of low morality... The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."

Les hommes veulent aller vers Dieu, mais aller vers Dieu, c'est la mort

Les hommes veulent aller vers Dieu, mais aller vers Dieu, c'est la mort : tu disparais dans le néant. Si demain Dieu descendait sur la terre, il n'y aurait plus de terre, il n'y aurait plus rien. On parle du Père créateur, mais le Père n'a jamais créé le monde, c'est la Mère qui l'a fait. Tout cela est un seul corps, le corps de la Mère dont les hommes font partie intégrante. Et ce corps est parfait : « Dieu vit tout ce qu'il avait fait : cela était très bon. » (Genèse 1:31) Et la perfection de tout cela est que dans la non-existence nous pouvons remonter vers l'existence, vers l'immortalité.

O.Manitara

"If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light".

"Just as we possess sense organs, enabling us to make contact with

the physical world, so too we possess subtle organs and centres,

enabling us to make contact with the spiritual world. These

centres, which have different names depending on the tradition,

are like antennae connecting us to heavenly entities.

When Jesus said, ‘If your eye is healthy, your whole body will

be full of light’, he was referring to one of these centres. From

the point of view of physiology, it is absurd to say that the

state of the body depends on the state of the eyes, and anyway

Jesus was speaking not of our eyes but of one eye. This eye, upon

which the whole body depends, is the centre through which heaven

touches the earth within us. And this eye not only sees but can

also understand, feel and even act, for it contains all the other

organs’ possibilities in potential."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

The Night Will Shine

There will come a time when the wolf will lie with the lamb, when the night will shine, when those who have died shall live.

But the wolf will be a wolf, the night will still be night, and the experience of death shall remain the opposite of life.

For all these God made for His glory.

T.Freeman

The Mandate of Darkness

As impossible as it sounds, as absurd as it may seem: The mandate of darkness is to become light; the mandate of a busy, messy world is to find oneness.

We have proof: for the greater the darkness becomes, the greater the confusion of life, the deeper our souls reach inward to discover their own light.

How could it be that darkness leads us to find a deeper light? That confusion leads us to find a deeper truth?

Only because the very act of existence is set to know its own author. That is the cosmic drama, its theme and its plot: That otherness should come to know oneness.

And we are the players in that drama.

T.Freeman

Getting to Godliness

Deep in meditation, quarrying the strata of the secret wisdom, stripping away layer beneath layer of the hardened sediment draped over truth, the mind’s eye attains perception of the light.

That is not yet Godliness.

Immersed in received knowledge of the higher realms, secluded from the confusion of humankind and earthly pleasures, there comes a day the prophet hears with his ears the voice that brings all into being; he sees with his eyes the splendor of that light.

That is not yet Godliness.

Arriving in the ancient Temple of Solomon, each person, great or small, saw the light with such clarity that all sense of being was lost, nothing existed other than the singularity of the Infinite Light that shone openly in that place.

Yet, still, that is not yet Godliness.

In a time to come, when the fruits of all our labor will blossom and the world will attain its state for which it was created, when "I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh and your sons and daughters shall prophecy," then every small child will see more than the greatest prophet has ever seen, "and all flesh shall see"—the physical eye will perceive an unbounded divine light that has never before been revealed, the very stones of the earth will scream out, "There is nothing else but He!" in every corner of the world, even within its inert matter, "for all the earth shall be filled with the knowing of God, as waters fill the ocean basin."

There will be a world, and the world will know that it is nothing but a manifestation of the Infinite Light.

That will be Godliness.

T. Freeman

Reinterpreting the Stone

How could a human ego know it is nothing but a figment of a Supernal Mind, and yet remain a human being?

How could a finite, physical eye perceive infinite, Godly light and yet remain an eye?

How could a stone scream out that there is nothing else but God and yet remain a stone?

It must be that the ego is not the ego we imagine it to be; that the physical is not the physicality we imagine it to be; that existence is not the absoluteness of being we assume when we speak of existence.

It must be that the true reality of all these things is a deeper meaning, the purpose for which they emerged into being; that the underlying condition that allows anything the privilege of existence is to know the divine.

The ego, the eye, the very physicality of the world—we have misinterpreted all of them. They are all nothing but instruments by which God’s oneness can be known.

T. Freeman

Anything you do solely for your personal satisfaction cannot be lasting.

 "Anything you do solely for your personal satisfaction cannot be
lasting. You may get what you want, but it will eventually
rebound on you. You think you are grasping it securely, and then
it escapes. You thought it was gold, and now it has turned to
lead. Cosmic Intelligence wants to teach humans and so does not
allow them to succeed in their selfish endeavours. So why, you
will say, does it allow them a modicum of success if they are
soon to lose what they have acquired? Because it wants them to
really ponder the lesson and understand what is worth seeking,
what is worth working at.
And what is worth working at is the idea of universal
brotherhood. If you love this idea, if you are faithful to it and
nourish it and focus all your willpower on achieving it, being
true gold it will fulfil your heart and soul forever."


Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Heaven and hell are two forms of life found within ourselves.

"Before being regions of the invisible world as described by

religion, heaven and hell are two forms of life found within

ourselves. The life of hell is dark, murky; symbolically, it is

the life of the digestive tract, the stomach and the sexual

organs. The life of heaven is subtle, pure, filled with light;

symbolically, it is the life of the lungs, the heart and the

brain.

The heaven and hell within us are separated by the diaphragm,

but the structure of our body tells us they must work together.

Only, we should always ensure that the upper part controls the

lower, that our consciousness sets up home in the upper part.

Then hell will provide the materials, the brute force, which

heaven will command and make prolific. So, strive to live in your

heaven, and from there learn to command the forces of your hell.

"

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

The story goes:

"The story goes that an elderly woman was so afraid of burglars

she decided to put a certain sum of money aside in case they

visited: that way she was bound not to be mistreated. Of course,

eventually a burglar came, and the woman said, ‘Ah! There you

are! I’ve been waiting for you. I have something ready for you…’

Astounded by the welcome, the burglar went away very happy, as

you can imagine. As for her, she did not know that by expecting a

burglar she had attracted one.

There are not many people, you will be thinking, who have the

bizarre idea of putting money aside in case of a burglary. Yes,

no doubt, but on the other hand many save for a rainy day. And

that comes down to the same thing, for they are summoning the

rainy days. This is magic – unconsciously they are doing a kind

of black magic. So, never say you are saving for a rainy day,

because you are attracting it. Save for a sunny day instead. This

way, when the princess appears, you will have the money to marry

her. Obviously, the princess is symbolic. The princess coming

represents all the wonderful opportunities that can present

themselves in life. It is useful to have money to take advantage

of these opportunities."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Aucun être ne peut agir en dehors des lois

Aucun être ne peut agir en dehors des lois : même les démons, les forces sombres, respectent les lois. Ils agissent parce qu'il y a des lois qui leur permettent d'agir. Ils ont donc la bénédiction, sinon ils ne pourraient rien faire. Personne ne peut s'opposer à la Divinité. S'il y a le mal, c'est que, quelque part, le mal est autorisé par cette Divinité, parce que c'est une chute, parce que nous ne sommes pas dans l'existence divine. Nous sommes dans une existence non divine. L'existence divine est au-delà. En elle, il ne peut y avoir ni mal ni opposition, tout y est parfait, tout y est en ordre.

O. Manitara

Le bas et le haut, le grossier et le subtil, le mortel et l'immortel

Le bas et le haut, le grossier et le subtil, le mortel et l'immortel : il y a réellement deux mondes et ceux-ci sont séparés. Si tu veux t'approcher du monde divin, tu dois séparer ces mondes en toi, ne pas les mélanger : d'un côté ce qui est mortel, de l'autre, ce qui est immortel. Si tu n'as pas séparé en toi ce qui est immortel de ce qui est mortel, tu n'entreras pas dans l'immortalité.

O.Manitara

Anesthetized

God saw the fire and the ice, the storm and the narrow straits that plague our final journey, and He knew that no soul could bear such pain.

So He anesthetized our souls. Our love and fear, our sensitivity to anything Godly—all that was put to sleep. Only the very core, our essential connection to Above, was left intact.

There is a positive side to this frozen state: The deepest wonders are open to us. Wonders that souls of an earlier generation would never have been able to approach out of awe and inspiration.

At the core of the wisdom of Torah lies an unbearable fire. We can walk through it now, without even knowing its heat.

T. Freeman

Il y a tout un monde entre entendre une parole et la comprendre.

Il y a tout un monde entre entendre une parole et la comprendre. Il y a tout un monde également entre comprendre et vivre un état de conscience. Et il y a encore tout un monde entre avoir un état de conscience et devenir un avec l'objet de ta compréhension. Tel est le chemin. D'abord entendre, puis comprendre, ensuite diriger vers la conscience, et enfin te faire un corps et vivre de ce que tu sais être vrai, l'incarner. « Et le Verbe s'est fait chair et il a habité parmi nous. » (Jean 1:14)

O. Manitara