"‘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.’

"‘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.’ You

will sometimes hear Jesus’ words quoted by those who want to

condemn the rich, but it is by no means certain that his words

have been properly understood, for in order to understand them

you have to interpret them from the perspective of Initiatic

Science.

What is the main characteristic of the rich whom Jesus was

speaking about? Their inflated astral body. The astral body, in

other words the desire body, of the rich is monstrously inflated

because of their greed, to the point where it becomes like a

tumour, preventing them from passing through the door of the

kingdom of God. Whereas a camel, being abstemious, has a very

slim astral body, which is why Jesus says it can go through the

eye of a needle. Because it makes do with very little, a camel is

able to cross the desert, keeping going in conditions where

others would die.

This is how Jesus’ words should be interpreted. Those who are

obsessed by the need to acquire and possess create huge tumours

in their astral body. Disciples must, therefore, be careful to

control their wishes and desires so that they are able to pass

through the door of initiation, which is the door of the kingdom

of God."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

The Highest High

There's nothing higher than finding truth on your own.

All worlds were made, all barriers put in place, every veil over Godliness hung, and the soul plummeted from its pristine height into the confusion of this harsh world—

—all for this one thing alone: That you should uncover truth on your own.

T. Freeman

Trust, Not Faith

People ask, “How can I have confidence in G‑d? Confidence that He will take care of me, that everything will work out for the best? Perhaps I don’t deserve the best. Perhaps I’ve already messed up so bad He no longer cares about me?”

These people have trust in G‑d all mixed up.

Trust is not faith. Faith is something you may or may not have. But trust is something you do. Hard.

Trust is when you are dragged by the currents of a mighty river and you cling with all your might to a rock you trust will not move. Trust is when, in times of trouble, you cleave so unshakably to the heavens that you pull them down to earth.

Trust is a mighty and heroic bonding of love. And, as with all love, it is reflected in the heart of the beloved. You bond with the Eternal Rock above, and the Above bonds with you. Then you are a fit vessel for all kinds of good.

Trust changes who you are. It changes your whole world. And it is available to anybody, at any moment, no matter who they were the moment before.

T. Freeman

Le Bouddha a médité sous son arbre pour chercher le chemin

Le Bouddha a médité sous son arbre pour chercher le chemin: « Pourquoi la souffrance, la maladie, la mort, la misère, alors que le monde est splendeur ? » Il a décidé de ne plus bouger tant qu'il n'aurait pas atteint l'éveil, des jours sans manger ni boire. Sur le fleuve passe un bateau dans lequel on est en train de jouer de la harpe. Et là, le Bouddha a la révélation : si la corde n'est pas assez tendue, il n'y a pas le son juste, si la corde est trop tendue, elle casse. Il a découvert la loi du milieu. Le monde divin lui a parlé à travers une manifestation extérieure et, d'un seul coup, cela lui est apparu évident. Il aurait très bien pu entendre quelqu'un jouer de la harpe pendant des heures sans que rien ne se passe. Mais là, d'un seul coup, comme il était dans la pureté, le travail et la discipline, le monde divin s'est mis à lui parler. Quelque chose de banal est devenu le support de la révélation de la plus grande vérité.

O.Manitar

L'eau

Si l'eau n'existait pas, nous ne pourrions pas exister sur la terre. C'est comme un Bien commun, qui n'appartient à personne mais qui est pour tous une bénédiction, une joie. C'est tout un monde de poésie, de beauté, de grandeur. C'est vraiment un être merveilleux, un monde parfait et grand. L'eau est vivante

(.....) Car il y a un être qui nous parle à travers l'eau, qui nous transmet un message; il y a un Dieu dans l'eau. En t'approchant de l'eau, tu t'approches de ton âme, tu t'approches vraiment de toi. Alors tu peux te connaître, tu peux te regarder dans le miroir. Tu peux écouter l'eau chanter, elle va te parler et te régénérer. Quand tu marches près d'un lac, d'une rivière, ou que tu écoutes une source couler, tu te sens mieux, tu te sens lavé. L'eau nous éveille et nous parle : elle a un message à offrir au monde.

O. Manitara

Behold ! God the Lord passed by !

Behold ! God the Lord passed by ! And a

mighty wind rent the mountains round, brake in

pieces the rocks, brake them before the Lord :

but yet the Lord was not in the tempest.

Behold ! God the Lord passed by. And the

sea was upheaved, and the earth was shaken : but

yet the Lord was not in the earthquake.

And after the earthquake there came a fire :

but yet the Lord was not in the fire.

And after the fire there came a still small voice :

and in that still voice, onward came the Lord.

1 Kings, xix. 11, 12.

Il y a en chacun de nous des désirs

Il y a en chacun de nous des désirs, des aspirations et une capacité à les réaliser. Les plantes sont l'incarnation, l'âme de cette capacité, de ce désir fondamental d'évolution. La plante est en toi la force capable de passer de l'obscurité à la Lumière. Pense par exemple à la petite fleur du perce-neige, si fine et délicate et pourtant capable de traverser une croûte de glace. Pense aussi à ces immenses arbres dans les forêts : tous ont d'abord été de petites graines, faibles, fragiles, posées dans l'obscurité froide de la terre. Cette force habite en l'homme. Elle est une énergie considérable qui fait que nous pouvons accomplir des miracles... ou des calamités. Vers quels buts orientons-nous notre volonté, notre capacité d'action ? La plante connaît le secret : la lumière. Elle suit l'appel de la lumière et ainsi réussit à s'orienter, à trouver le chemin.

O. Manitara

Truth Anywhere

Truth can come from anywhere—there is nothing that does not have its truth. Because, without a spark of truth, nothing can exist. Not even falseness.

Therefore, the wise man is he who knows how to learn truth from every person and discover the truth of each thing.

T. Freeman

Life's Roots

We are trees, living two lives at once.

One life breaking through the soil into this world. Where, with all our might, we struggle to rise above it, grapple for its sun and its dew, desperate not to be torn away by the fury of its storms or consumed by its fires.

Then there are our roots, deep under the ground, unmoving and serene. 

They lie deep within us, at our very core. For them, there is no storm, no struggle. There is only the One, the Infinite, for Whom all the cosmos with all its challenges are nothing more than a fantasy renewed every moment from the void.

Our strength is from our bond with them, and with their nurture we will conquer the storm. We will bring beauty to the world we were planted within.

T. Freeman

Conviction

All the elaborate proofs, all the philosophical machinations, none of that will never stand you firmly on your feet. There's only one thing that can give you that, and that's your own inherent conviction.

For even as your own mind flounders, you yourself know that this is so, and know that you believe it to be so. It is a conviction all the winds of the earth cannot uproot, that has carried us to this point in time, that has rendered us indestructible and timeless.

For it comes from within and from the heritage of your ancestors who believed as well, back to the invincible conviction of our father, Abraham, a man who took on the entire world.

The doubts, the hesitations, the vacillations, all these come to you from the outside. Your challenge is but to allow your inner knowledge to shine through and be your guide.

Inside is boundless power.

T. Freeman

Les règnes de la terre vivent en l'homme

Les règnes de la terre vivent en l'homme mais d'une façon différente de leurs manifestations extérieures. Les Dieux, les Anges, les Animaux vivent aussi en lui. Ils forment l'anatomie de base de l'homme. La vision moderne de l'être humain et de son anatomie est tellement pauvre, mesquine et rabougrie... Selon elle, l'homme est un assemblage d'organes que la science a découpés et dont elle possède une cartographie parfaite. Cette vision réductrice est totalement dégradante pour l'être humain, elle mène à tous les excès, tous les abus et à une réduction de la condition humaine dans tous ses aspects.

O.Manitara

L'univers que décrit Jésus

L'univers que décrit Jésus l'Essénien dans sa prière secrète est constitué de sept règnes qui forment comme une échelle entre le Père-ciel et la Mère-terre, une harmonie originelle. Mais le Père dont parle Jésus, est-il le père avec lequel vivent les hommes ? Les hommes sanctifient- ils le Nom du Père ? Le Père règnet- il dans leur vie ? Accomplissent-ils sa volonté ? Reçoivent ils leur pain quotidien de la main du Père ? Leurs offenses sont-elles pardonnées ? Sont-ils libres de toute tentation et sont-ils délivrés du mal ? Les hommes respectent-ils la Mère Terre ? Tu vois bien ici que l'humanité s'est séparée de l'ordre et de l'harmonie originels, qu'elle a quitté le jardin d'Eden. Non seulement l'homme s'est plongé dans l'obscurité mais, on le voit aujourd'hui, il plonge le monde entier et tous les règnes dans la destruction et le malheur. Il est indispensable de regarder clairement la situation dans laquelle nous nous trouvons aujourd'hui afin de mieux comprendre comment en sortir.

O. Manitara

Forbidden Water

Sometimes the sages tell us, “This wisdom is out of bounds. This contains truth for which you are not yet ready.”

If the soul is intact, it will thirst all the more to attain that wisdom. In truth, that is the inner reason we are told such things.

T. Freeman

Youthful Wisdom

Wisdom lives in the future, and from there it speaks to us. There is no such thing as wisdom of the past.

Wisdom preceded the world and wisdom is its destiny. With each passing moment, wisdom becomes younger, as we come closer to the time when it is born and breathes the air of day.

Our ancient mothers and fathers, the sages, all those from whom we learn wisdom—they are not guardians of the past. They are messengers of the future.

The truth can never be old-fashioned. It was never in fashion to begin with.

T. Freeman

« Pardonne nos offenses »

« Pardonne nos offenses » : En se séparant des règnes supérieurs, les hommes se coupent de la sagesse, de la source de vie. Malgré tous leurs efforts, ils ne sont plus dans la grande harmonie originelle, ne jouent plus leur rôle dans la chaîne de la Création. Ils offensent Dieu, c'est-à-dire engendrent la dysharmonie. Ils privent alors les règnes inférieurs de la belle Lumière. Le premier règne déséquilibré est celui des Animaux. Déjà à l'époque de Jésus, les animaux étaient les victimes de ce déséquilibre. Et aujourd'hui encore, il est toujours d'actualité pour l'homme de demander le pardon des offenses lorsqu'il observe ce qu'il fait subir au règne animal.

O.Manitara

Only You

All this universe was made only for your journey. And all this universe was made only for the other guy’s journey. And for mine as well.

In our mind it is impossible. We are finite. When we put our minds to one idea, there is no room for any other. If one point is at the center, there is no center left for any other.

God is infinite. He can have as many points of focus as He wishes without diminishing the centrality of any of them in the slightest.

Each one of us is absolutely the most important thing in the universe.

T Freeman

Compassion

What is the difference between kindness and compassion?

Kindness gives to another.

Compassion knows no “other.”

T. Freeman

Intolerance

Intolerance lies at the core of evil. Not the intolerance that results from any threat or danger. Not the intolerance that arises from negative experience. Just intolerance of another being who dares to exist, who dares to diminish the space in the universe left for you. Intolerance without cause.

It is so deep within us, because every human being secretly desires the entire universe to himself. Our only way out is to learn compassion without cause. To care for each other simply because that ’other’ exists.

T. Freeman

Nothing is more important than our consciousness at the beginning of a process

"Nothing is more important than our consciousness at the beginning

of a process, and this truth is valid even in domains you know

nothing about.

Take the example of war. When a war breaks out, you can be

precise about the date. Yes, but it was in preparation for years,

and that’s when it began, long before hostilities were triggered.

And when does a war really begin? When the bombs are being made.

The day they are dropped, the end has already arrived. We cannot

say to the bomb, ‘I beg you, don’t go falling on innocent people,

on those we love,’ for it will reply, ‘For months, you have been

getting me ready, knowing full well what you were doing, and I

was all ears. You don’t want to see me do any damage? Then you

shouldn’t have made me. Now it is my turn to act.’ And you can no

longer control the situation."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Waiting for Fruition

If the world did not need you and you did not need this world, you would never have come here. God does not cast His precious child into the pain of this journey without purpose.

You say you cannot see a reason. Why should it surprise you that a creature cannot fathom the plan of its Creator? Nevertheless, eventually the fruits of your labor will blossom for all to see.

T. Freeman

This is why Eve, living among flowers, eventually herself gave off a scent of flowers.

"According to tradition, when the Creator placed Adam and Eve in

their earthly paradise, he entrusted Adam with the care of

animals and Eve with the care of vegetation. This is why Eve,

living among flowers, eventually herself gave off a scent of

flowers. But at the time of the first sin, she lost this power.

Before the fall, she emanated all kinds of delightful perfumes,

because she possessed the qualities and virtues that manifest on

the physical plane as fragrances. In fact, all psychic phenomena

correspond to something in the physical world: a fragrance is the

physical expression of a virtue, a nauseous odour the physical

expression of a vice.

And now, if women experience such a desire to wear perfume, it

is in remembrance of the time when they lived in paradise and

possessed this gift of naturally exhaling fragrances. But wearing

perfume is not the best way. There is nothing wrong with wearing

perfume, and even make-up, but if women learned to develop

certain qualities and virtues, they would have no further need of

artifice: they would regain their true fragrance, their original

beauty. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Adulthood

Three things you must know to be an adult:

Don’t fool yourself.
Don’t fool others.
Don’t let others fool you.

—and do it all without trying to impress anybody.

T. Freeman

True Ideas

A thought that helps no one, not only is it not true, in the final result it never was. For all that is, physical or spiritual or Divine, was only created to be part of the repair of this world of action. And once that repair is done, all that will be true are those things that made it happen.

In every thought, look for the power to change the world.

T. Freeman

This

What is a blade of grass?

A blade of grass is infinite light expressing itself as a blade of grass.

What is an atom?

An atom is infinite light expressing itself as an atom.

What is a universe?

A universe is infinite light expressing itself as a universe.

In each, the Infinite Light says, “I am here and I am not here. I am this and I am not this. Through this thing, know its Maker, that which cannot be known.”

T. Freeman

The Promise Inside

No matter how much you distrust your own sincerity or question your motives, there is no trace of doubt that at your core lives a Godly soul, pure and sincere.

You provide the actions and the deed—just do what is good.

She needs no more than a pinhole through which to break out and fill those deeds with divine power.

T. Freeman

Force and Counter-Force

For every power for good in your soul, a counter-force crouches within to oppose it.

There is only one place that stands beyond assault, as it also stands beyond reason or need. It is the simple power to choose good and not bad, and it is the place where the soul meets God and there they are one.

In that place, where that resolute decision is made, the counterforce dissolves and dissipates. Indeed, it was created from that place, with the purpose of returning you to there.

And you have returned.

T. Freeman

Vacation

When people want to free themselves from their humdrum workaday life, they go on vacation. They rent a cabin with half the rooms they have at home and sacrifice many of the conveniences they generally rely upon. They rough it. And then they feel free.

As it turns out, everybody agrees: When you let go of those material things you have become attached to, then you can start to be free.

T.Freeman

Perpetual Struggle

Some think life is all about doing good and keeping away from evil. To them, struggle has no purpose of its own -- to have struggled is to have failed. Success, they imagine, is a sweet candy with no trace of bitterness.

They are wrong, very wrong. Struggle is an opportunity to reach the ultimate, when darkness itself becomes light. In the midst of struggle, an inner light is awakened. Light profound enough to overwhelm the darkness, encasing it and winning it over.

But if darkness never fights back, how will it ever be conquered?

T. Freeman

So many people complain about the bad conditions they are forced to live in

"So many people complain about the bad conditions they are forced

to live in! They feel they are victims of fate, of society, of

their boss, even of their family… No, they must understand that

first and foremost they are their own victims: they are the ones

who consciously or unconsciously created their present conditions

in life by having particular thoughts and feelings in their past

lives and taking the actions they took. If they alter their

behaviour and their state of mind, conditions will change in

their next life, and even in this one.

Yes, depending on your attitude, conditions can change now. So

long as you think your external, material situations are the

deciding factors and you improve nothing within yourself, you

will continue to attract the same deplorable conditions. But if

you give priority to the spirit, to light and strength, your

conditions will eventually be modelled on these divine

principles. Since what is below is like what is above, in time

what is above will also be realized below."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Virtue and vice, strength and weakness, beauty and ugliness

"Virtue and vice, strength and weakness, beauty and ugliness are

different aspects of the good and evil we see expressed all

around us. But instead of learning how to behave in relation to

these two poles of the one whole, humans constantly ask

themselves why God allows evil to exist. They must no longer ask

this kind of question but understand instead that good and evil

are intimately connected, because as complementary poles they

have matters they must deal with together.

Our life on earth is wholly conditioned by the alternation of

day and night, and this alternation, which governs the life of

all of nature, also governs our physical and psychic life. We

would not know what light is if darkness did not exist, nor what

wisdom, justice, beauty and joy are if we were not forced to come

up against stupidity, injustice, ugliness and sadness.

Understanding is born of comparison and confrontation. If

opposites did not exist, we would live in an undifferentiated

state. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Childish Joy

The natural state of man, the way God created us, is to be happy.

Look at children and you will see.

T. Freeman

It can happen that you suddenly feel flooded with light

"Quite unexpectedly, it can happen that you suddenly feel flooded

with light, that all of a sudden you are being projected upward,

all the way to your higher self. You are dazzled by this beauty

and immensity, and it feels as though from this moment on nothing

could bring you down from these heights. Unfortunately, this

doesn’t last. You have to pick up the threads of your everyday

life, with its same worries, its same temptations, its same

weaknesses. You feel cut off from your higher self, like a

fragment cast aside, rejected. Some time later, you again feel

enlightened, illumined, but once again it doesn’t last long, and

you begin to feel discouraged.

No, you must not allow yourself to be discouraged by the

fluctuations in your consciousness. If you persevere in your

spiritual work, one day, after all the highs and lows, the light

that comes to visit you will no longer leave you. You will have

crossed to the other shore, and you will be saved forever."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

le goût, au niveau subtil, n'est pas dans la bouche, il est réellement dans le coeur

Contrairement à ce que l'on pourrait penser, le goût, au niveau subtil, n'est pas dans la bouche, il est réellement dans le coeur : tu goûtes les choses dans ton coeur. Le coeur, c'est là où le mal est inexistant, là où le mal ne peut pas entrer. Jamais le coeur ne peut être mauvais, ce n'est pas sa nature, un coeur peut être blessé mais jamais mauvais. On peut dire de quelqu'un qu'il a « bon coeur » mais pas qu'il a « mauvais coeur », cela n'existe pas ; on devrait plutôt dire qu'il est un « sans-coeur », c'est à-dire qu'il n'a plus de coeur, plus d'âme.

O. Manitara

Les paroles ont un goût.

Les paroles ont un goût. Tu dois goûter ta parole car celle-ci sort du coeur à travers la bouche, dans la salive, et ensuite elle est donnée comme un fruit qui a bon goût ou qui n'a pas bon goût. Tu dois voir que dans ta parole il y a une saveur. La parole qui a bon goût est la parole qui vient du coeur pur, qui est avec l'âme ; si ton coeur est avec ton âme, ta parole aura une âme. 

O. Manitara

All of Him

That force that holds electrons in their orbit and planets in theirs, explodes incessantly within the stars above and is the darkness that fills the empty space—-that force is a single whole and it is God.

It is not all of God. It is an expression of God. All of it could disappear in a single instant, and for Him nothing would have changed.

Where is it that you can find all of God? Wherever He wishes to be found.

Right now, He hides within some scattered branches placed upon an autumn hut.

T. Freeman

‘The Father and I are one’

"When Jesus said, ‘The Father and I are one’, he was summarizing

the greatest mystery of religion. And one day we too must be able

to say the same words.

Some will say, ‘Yes, but we’re not Jesus. He was the son of God,

whereas we are sinners.’ The Church has tried to make Jesus the

equivalent of God himself, the second person of the trinity, the

Christ, a cosmic principle, thus creating an infinite distance

between him and human beings. But is this the truth? Jesus

himself never said such a thing; he never claimed to be

essentially different from other people. He said he was the son

of God, but he did not claim this divine lineage for himself

alone but emphasized the divine nature of all humans. Otherwise,

what would be the meaning of the phrases ‘Our Father in heaven,’

‘Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect’ and also ‘The one

who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact,

will do greater works than these’?"

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

The number 2

"From the point of view of Initiatic Science, the number 2

represents the 1 polarized as positive and negative, masculine

and feminine, active and passive. As soon as there is

manifestation, there is partition, division. In 1 there can be no

creation, because no exchanges are possible. In order to manifest

and make itself known, 1 has to divide. Unity is the privilege of

God himself, his exclusive domain. In order for God, the 1, to

create, he had to become 2.

In order to create, therefore, God projected himself beyond

himself by polarizing, and the universe was born from the

existence of these two poles. The positive pole exerts an

attraction on the negative pole, and vice versa. This is the

mechanism of action and reaction, which activates and sustains

the movement of life. The cessation of this movement would bring

stagnation and death, a return to the state of original

non-differentiation. The first lines from the book of Genesis

reveal that creation proceeded through successive separations. On

the first day of creation, God separated the light from the dark.

On the second day, he separated the waters above from the waters

below. On the third day, he separated the waters from dry land.

The 1 is an entity closed in on itself. To leave this state, this

entity must become 2. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Explosive Joy

Joy is an overflowing, an explosion. Something enters a person's life for which he could never be prepared and his previously tidy self erupts in song, dance and joy.

Approach the Divine with a calculated mind and there is no window for joy. Embrace the infinite beyond mind and let joy surprise you.

T. Freeman

Le goût

Le goût est ce qui cherche quelque chose d'autre, sans arrêt. C'est pour cette raison que tu manges : toujours pour goûter. En réalité, tu vas vers la perfection du sens du goût, qui est la soif d'un monde supérieur : vouloir goûter et expérimenter une conscience supérieure. La perfection du sens du goût est la soif du savoir qui éclaire et du feu qui agit, la soif à la fois de voir et de faire apparaître. Tu veux voir un monde supérieur, non pas avec tes yeux, mais en le goûtant, et tu veux le réaliser.

O.Manitara

Dance with the Other

As a mother and the baby she holds in her arms, as a father and child, as two in courtship or in marriage, so we are with Him. One chases, the other runs away. One runs away, the other chases. One initiates, the other responds. The other initiates, the one responds. It is a dance, a game, a duet that plays as surely as the pulse of life.

Until one falls away and becomes estranged. Then the other looks and says, "This is not an other. We are one and the same." And so, they return to each other's arms once again.

It is a great mystery, but in estrangement, there is found the deepest bond.

T. Freeman

Time Machine

If you could travel back in time, what could you change? The world, its past and its present all belong to the Creator. All is as He wills it to be.

Perhaps you could replay some crucial scenes and distance yourself from the mess that occurred. Perhaps you could jump in and grab credit for some of the good.

But for that, you don’t need a time machine. All you need is to stand right where you are and say, “I messed up. I lost my chance. I learned my lesson and now I will do things differently.”

You will change yourself. You will change your past. You will say, “I am no longer the person who lived in that past.”

In fact, you do have a time machine.

T.Freeman

We Are the Child

Your child is not like everyone else; your child is you.

And yet, your child is not you; your child is his own person. A paradox.

Our souls are that paradox—on a greater scale: the nexus between God and His universe, where His own breath becomes His creation.

That is why we are called His children. And we call Him our Father.

T.Freeman

God’s Fishing Net

The soul begins in an intimate, essential bond with a Source Beyond All Things. Even as she invests herself into a material world, into a human form, that primordial bond remains imprinted deep within her.

It is that bond that pulls her constantly to return, like a magnet pulling its lost other half. Our incessant search for meaning, all our striving for that which we cannot grasp, all is an expression of this dynamic, this thirst to return.

This desire to return is innate, yet it must be awakened. The soul must first realize she is distant. Return in all its strength and passion is found, therefore, in the soul who has wandered far from her true self and then awakened to recognize she is lost.

We are like the child being pushed on a swing by her father—the further our souls are thrust away, the greater the force of our return.

As well, the drive to return is God’s fishing net. For in its search to reunite with Him, the soul finds God in all the matters of this world. And so, these too are pulled in. And the deeper the descent, the greater the treasure.

T. Freeman