A few days ago you met a friend, who was very much alive

"A few days ago you met a friend, who was very much alive. But

since then, they have had an accident, and now you see them laid

out on a bed, dead. It is still the same person, but something

invisible has left them, something that allowed them to walk,

speak, think and love. And you can place all the food and

treasures in the world next to them and say, 'It's all yours, be

happy!' there's nothing doing, they won't move. How, then, can

one question the existence of the invisible world?

If for us the world exists, if we can see the sky and the sun,

it is thanks to this invisible principle in us that allows us to

discover them by means of these visible instruments, our eyes. If

this invisible principle were not there, the fact that we had

eyes would be of no use; we wouldn't be able to see. The visible

world is merely the outer wrapping for the invisible world, and

without the invisible world we could know nothing of what exists

around us."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Une loupe peut concentrer les rayons du soleil pour enflammer des brindilles

Une loupe peut concentrer les rayons du soleil pour enflammer des brindilles. Quels secrets inouïs pour la vie intérieure de l'homme ! Oui, il y a en l'homme un pouvoir qui passe inaperçu : la pensée. Une fois concentrée, elle peut tout enflammer, tout transformer. La pensée est une manifestation de la Lumière dans l'homme. S'il sait concentrer cette lumière, il peut obtenir tout ce qu'il veut.


O. Manitara

Who Will Win

Ultimately, the waters of confusion cannot drown the soul,

but only lift it above them

-for, in truth, this is the purpose for which they were created.

T. Freeman

The Rainbow

Our world is a world where a rainbow could be.

At first, there was a world that only received and returned no dividends. Its inhabitants took no ownership. They lived with their Creator’s benevolence, they did what they did with no need for excuses, and eventually died as they died. And that was it.

With the Flood, this world was re-created. The earth was cleansed, the atmosphere purified. It became a world that could take the sunshine that poured in from above and refract it into many colors.

It became a world where a created being could be born, take the soul, body, share of the world and all the sustenance its Maker gave to it, use that, do something with that -and then return it, saying, “See what I have done with that which you gave me!”

And so, God vowed to never destroy the world again. For, if the inhabitants would go wrong, they might always turn around and clean up their own mess.

T. Freeman

pieces of paper are all-powerful

"In the society we live in, not to know how to read and write is

unthinkable. Even with cooking, it is assumed you know what is

written on a tin of food, for example, and that you can also

decipher a recipe in a book. Not to mention the complications for

anyone who can't read the name of a street or underground

station!

But this doesn't mean that humanity could not have progressed

without being able to write. Reading and writing may represent

great advantages, but the importance given to pieces of paper

also has many drawbacks: we rely on them alone, they are all that

counts, and we are incapable of seeing beyond them. If a piece of

paper says you are guilty even though you are innocent, no one

will be able to see the innocence that's written all over you.

They read the piece of paper, and you are blamed; they point the

finger at you and put you in prison. Nowadays, human beings are

nothing, and pieces of paper are all-powerful!"

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

l'homme

Il y a le chemin intérieur, celui du libre éveil, de la soif de perfection, de la quête de l'homme véritable. Ce chemin est celui de l'ennoblissement de l'homme terrestre dans la conscience supérieure de l'homme céleste. C'est le chemin de l'homme marchant vers sa propre grandeur : vers l'homme qui a trouvé le Père et qui s'est uni à Lui. En parlant du Maître Jésus, Pilate a dit : « Voici l'homme », et deux mille ans après, l'humanité n'a pas encore trouvé l'homme.

O. Manitara

A la fin de toute culture

A la fin de toute culture, alors que les forces sombres sont

déchaînées parmi les humains, que la guerre, la haine, le mensonge

règnent en maître, il se trouve toujours une minorité d'âmes qui

refusent de pactiser avec le non-humain et qui dans le silence,

s'efforcent de préserver leur intégrité. Devant la puissance des

ténèbres, elles se tournent de toutes leurs forces vers la Lumière.

O.Manitara~

(adapted)

Even though there are all kinds of writings encouraging the public to embark upon psychic experiences..

"Even though there are all kinds of writings encouraging the

public to embark upon psychic experiences, do not do so. Do not

try to make contact with the beyond until you have acquired

mastery over your thoughts and desires. That is the only kind of

mastery that can make you strong and protect you from danger. For

you should know this: the risks you run in the psychic world are

as numerous and formidable as those of the physical world, if not

more so. If you are neither informed nor practised, you will be

vulnerable, and your only recourse will be to search around for

someone to free you from your anxieties and your obsessions.

So many people who claim to be on a spiritual path end up being

the victims of entities and forces they have unwisely provoked!

They feel they are being pursued by monsters, they experience all

the torments of hell, and of course they don't know how this

could have happened to them. And yet it's simple: through seeking

to enter the astral world out of curiosity, an attraction for the

fantastic or a desire to acquire powers, they have attracted

entities that really make their life hell. For that is what hell

is - the lower astral world. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Conscious Creation

He creates with Consciousness.

First, He is conscious of a world from beyond that world, of time and place as concepts that might be, but might not as well. And so, that world exists, but it is not a thing. It exists as no more than a dream, a passing fancy.

Yet then He is conscious of that world from within. He judges, He makes distinctions. He says, "It should be like this and not like that. This I like, this I do not." He plays the game that He has made by the rules of that game, so that in this consciousness, a true world is born, a place that feels, "Yes, I exist."

So, does our world exist, or does it not?

That He leaves up to us. "Do something," He asks, "that compels me to believe you truly exist."

T.Freeman

Near & Far

He hides; we must search for Him.
He is here now; our hearts may speak to Him.
He is distant; we are small and insignificant.
He is close, we are His children, his beloved, his joy.
Indeed, He does not fit into our neat cubbyholes of close or distant, of hidden or present. He is all of these, all in perfect oneness.

T.Freeman

Growing Up

There is a time that He relates to us as a father relates to his infant child. We can cry and spit and make those little messes babies make -- but He loves us, just because we are His child.

And then there comes a time when we have to grow up and do something.

T. Freeman

The Unlikely Pair

His world is woven with the threads of cause and effect; she makes her choices with no need for reason. He questions every premise; she accepts with complete certitude. His world revolves around his own good; hers around that which has greater gravitational pull.

Yet, without one another neither is complete, neither can find it's own essence or know its own truth.

Superficially, they seem impossibly incompatible. In essence, intellect and faith are the perfect marriage.

T. Freeman

Awake at Night

Just as we learn to walk by falling down, so we learn to be awake by groping in the dark.

When there is no support, no brightness to keep us on our toes, when we are all on our own, that is when we learn to be awake.

Truly awake—not because it is day, but because we are awake.

T.Freeman

Intelligence Liberated

Blind faith is intellect's most deadliest foe. Intellect that would surrender to faith has forfeited its very nature, its right to be.

True faith, however, is not blind. On the contrary, it is an affinity with that which is higher than its own being, a sense of nothingness before the Infinite. It carries a vision that cannot be attained by intellect on its own, yet one that opens windows for the mind, so that it too can see beyond its own self and choose from a higher perspective.

And so, the mind that fears faith will choose that which is best for itself, while the mind that has found a partner in that higher vision will choose truth that is absolute.

T.Freeman

Another Chance

There’s no such thing as defeat.

There’s always another chance. To believe in defeat is to believe that there is something, a certain point in time that did not come from Above.

Know that God doesn't have failures. If things appear to worsen, it is only as part of them getting better. We only fall down in order to bounce back even higher

T.Freeman

L'arbre s'est élevé vers le ciel à partir du sol

L'arbre s'est élevé vers le ciel à partir du sol et l'homme s'est développé sur la terre en prenant racine dans le ciel des Anges, des hautes pensées divines. A bien y regarder, l'homme est un arbre inversé. Il puise sa substance nourricière dans le royaume de l'esprit infini et universel et

offre ses fruits à la terre par ses pieds qui en marquent le sol.

O. Manitara

Is God in Heaven?

People imagine that since God is not physical, therefore He must be in heaven. But the heavens -- and all things spiritual -- are just as much creations as the earth. Less dissonant, more harmonious, more lucid -- but finite realms nonetheless.

God is not found due to the capacity of a place, but by His desire to be there. And what He desires most is to be found in the work of our hands, fixing up His world.

In the heavens is God's light. In the work of our hands dwells God Himself, the source of all light.

T.Freeman

Freedom of Will

We are all captives of our egoistic nature. Freeing ourselves means to overstep the limits of our world and enter the Upper Reality. Since we are entirely in this world’s grip, we can get free only if, in spite of our natural egoistic environment, we artificially surround ourselves with people, who share our views and aspirations, and fall under the power of the environment ruled by the laws of the Upper World. Freeing ourselves from the egoistic bonds and revealing the property of bestowal is our realization of free will.


Freedom of Will
Michael Laitman, PhD

There are no mysteries, ever

There are no mysteries, ever -- once you understand these points: Well-being abounds. You are the natural recipient of Well-being. You get to ask -- and Source Energy is answering -- and all you need to do is be in the place of allowing. Once you get those things lined up and you've had an opportunity to practice them, here and there, everything makes sense to you. Everything makes sense in your life, and everything makes sense in the lives of those that you are watching. Because as you know their moods and attitudes, you understand exactly why things are turning out for them the way they are. There are no mysteries ever!

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in San Francisco, CA on Saturday, August 18th, 2001 #583

We can either be egoists or altruists

We can either be egoists or altruists, either think of ourselves or think of others. There are no other options. Freedom of choice is possible when both options are clearly visible and equally appealing (or unappealing).

If I can only see one option, I will have to follow it. Therefore, to choose freely, I have to see my own nature and the Creator’s nature.

Kabbalah Revealed

Michael Laitman, PhD