COMPLETE WORKS
Several hundreds improvised talks by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov from 1938 until 1986.
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The Second Birth – Love Wisdom Truth
$30.95 Add to cartTo be born a second time is to be born to a new life, the life of the Kingdom of God, the life of the great Universal White Brotherhood.
Two thousand years ago, in Palestine, Jesus gave us the key to all spiritual work, when he said, Unless a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. Today, the Master Omaam Mikhaël Aïvanhov interprets these words for our benefit. The water Jesus speaks of is Love; the Spirit, fire, is Wisdom, and Love and Wisdom unite to give birth to Truth which is the new life. In his commentary, the Master Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov shows how these three virtues of Love, Wisdom and Truth, correspond to man’s psychic structure composed of heart, mind and will. Explaining that our physical bodies mirror our psychic being, he shows how Cosmic Intelligence has inscribed the secret of love in our mouths, that of wisdom in our ears and that of truth in our eyes.
This volume, which is the first of a series, sets out the essential foundations of Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov’s Teaching and reveals the vast scope of his thought in which Holy Scripture, esoteric symbolism and the sciences of man and of nature meet and complete each other in one all-embracing synthesis.
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Spiritual alchemy
$30.95 Add to cart‘True Alchemy does not consist in the spectacular transmutation of base metals into gold, but in the spiritual transmutation of man’s own matter. Grains of sand are transformed into pearls; summer sees twisted, blackened vine-stocks burst into leaf and bow beneath the weight of their grapes; caterpillars are metamorphosed into butterflies; galvanoplasty transforms a drab piece of base metal into a golden ornament… All these different ways of transforming things are familiar to us but we have never studied them sufficiently closely to realize that they contain the secret of our own inner metamorphosis. If a tree, for instance, is capable of transforming the raw mineral nutrients it draws from the soil into the sugarsap which enables it to produce flowers and fruits, why should man not do likewise ? Why should we not be capable of transforming the raw juices of our instincts and passions so that they produce a rich harvest of flowers and fruit, in the form of vitality in our physical bodies, love and joy in our hearts and understanding and wisdom in our minds?’Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
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The two trees of Paradise
$30.95 Add to cart“For thousands of years, human beings have tried to understand the origin of the world and the emergence of evil, as well as the suffering resulting from it. They have often presented these concepts as myths, which is why the sacred books of all religions contain symbolic stories that must be interpreted. The Christian tradition has taken the account of Moses in Genesis, where it is said that on the sixth day of creation, God made man and woman and placed them in the Garden of Eden among all the animal and plant species. Moses names only two trees in this garden: the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, whose fruit God had forbidden Adam and Eve to eat.
‘The Tree of Life represents the unity of life, where polarisation is not yet manifested, that is, where there is neither good nor evil – a region above good and evil. Whereas the other tree represents a polarized world where we are subjected to alternating days and nights, joy and sorrow, and so on. More than just plants, these two trees are regions of the universe or states of consciousness. And if God instructed Adam and Eve not to taste fruits from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, it means that they were not yet ready to enter the region of polarisation…”Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
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Alchemy, Astrology, Magic, Kabbalah – Aspects of esoteric science
$30.95 Add to cart“When Jesus said to his disciples: ‘If you have the faith of the mustard seed, you will say to this mountain: Move from here to there, and it will move’, obviously this mountain is symbolic. The mountain represents the great difficulties of life that faith alone allows us to move, that is to say to resolve. In one year, two years, ten years, stone by stone, we will succeed in moving mountains. You think that this is a long time and you would like it to be done immediately. Then, in that case, copy the ants which manage in very little time to move great heaps of seeds, proportionally they represent mountains for them! Yes, but an ant does not work alone, there are multitudes of them working together.
In isolation and egotism, we will never move mountains. If great things have been achieved throughout history, it is because humans were united in working together. Moving mountains means to remove in ourselves and in the world the obstacles which oppose the coming of the Kingdom of God. This is possible only if all spiritual people unite in faith and love to undertake a great work of light and peace; they will obtain many more results and the link created between them will be more powerful.”Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
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Life force
$30.95 Add to cart‘Human beings come and go, work and play, and busy themselves with all kinds of things, never realizing that their life is growing dim and dirty because they do nothing to protect it. They think that the life they have received is theirs to dispose of, and that they have a right to use it for pleasure or become rich, learned or renowned, as they please. So they draw on their reserves without restraint until, one day, they find themselves utterly spent and obliged to abandon all their activities. It is completely senseless to behave like that for, once we have wasted our supply of life, we have no other resources to fall back on.
The Sages have always said that the only thing that is essential is life itself, and that we must protect, purify and sanctify it and eliminate whatever may hinder or prevent it from developing. And, if we do so, life will give us everything else: health, strength, power, intelligence and beauty – every thing ! The highest form of magic, the highest form of White Magic is to lead a pure, luminous life.’Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
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Harmony
$30.95 Add to cart‘Meditate on harmony, love it, long for it so as to introduce it into your every gesture, every look, every word. Let the word “harmony” impregnate you; keep it within you as a kind of pitch pipe, and when you are feeling worried or upset, take it out and listen to it and do nothing until your whole being is in tune with it once more. In the morning, when you wake, remember to begin your day by tuning yourself to the world of universal harmony… When you enter a house let your first thought be: “May peace and harmony reign in this house.’
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The mysteries of Yesod – Foundations of Spiritual Life
$30.95 Add to cart‘Yesod, the ninth Sephirah on the cabbalistic Tree of Life, is the symbol of a pure life. Taking purity as the basis of his spiritual teaching (Yesod means ‘base’ in Hebrew), Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov renews in our times the sense and significance of the ancient Initiations enriched by his own innumerable discoveries. He has personally practised and experimented at length with the rules and exercises he proposes for our use ; their purpose is to liberate man and awaken in every fibre of his being the vital, harmonious forces of Divine life.’
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The splendour of Tipharet – The Yoga of the Sun
$30.95 Add to cart‘When we focus our attention on the sun, the center of our universe, we draw closer to our own centre, our higher self, the sun within; we melt into it and begin to resemble it more and more.
But to focus our attention on the sun also means to learn to mobilize all our thoughts, desires, and energies, and put them to work in the service of the highest ideal. He who works to unify the chaotic multitude of inner forces that constantly threaten to tear him apart, and launch them in the pursuit of one, luminous, beneficial goal, becomes a powerful focal point, capable of radiating in every direction. Believe me, a human being who masters the tendencies of his lower nature can benefit the whole of mankind. He becomes as radiant as the sun. His freedom is such that his consciousness embraces the whole human race as he pours out the superabundance of light and love that dwell within him.
The world needs more and more human beings capable of dedicating themselves to this work with the sun, for only love and light are capable of transforming humanity.’Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
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The key to the problems of existence
$30.95 Add to cartThis book shows us that our ‘personality’, that inner force of which we are all aware and which so often leads us astray, can be a precious ally rather than an enemy. Instead of waging a losing battle against our lower nature, we can learn to control and use it to elevate ourselves. In doing so we gradually discover the existence of a higher psychic power within us, our ‘individuality’, which is above all contingencies and conflicts and is capable of using them to create inner harmony and true fraternal bonds.
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Cosmic moral law
$30.95 Add to cartTrue morality is everywhere manifest in Nature, the extension of the natural laws that govern our psychic life. When human beings break these laws they pay by suffering or illness. The reader will no doubt be surprised to learn that true morality is not a limitation; on the contrary it confers tremendous freedom and increases our power of action. If we obeyed these laws both in our own lives and in our dealings with others, the result would be the ideal society.
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A New Earth – Methods, exercises, formulas, prayers
$30.95 Add to cartA great many people today feel the need for some practical methods that will help them to grow spiritually. A ‘New Earth’ responds to that need. It contains a number of simple, effective, spiritual exercises taken from the thousands of lectures given by the Master Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov over a period of nearly fifty years. Some concern our everyday life: nutrition, breathing, hygiene, purification, and our relationships with nature and other human beings. Others touch on questions that are more directly spiritual: meditation and prayer, the development of our psychic centres, or chakras, the aura, the body of glory, and so on. All these methods grow out of that immense body of knowledge known as initiatic science, the principal goal of which is the advent of the ‘new heaven and the new earth’ announced in scripture.
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Love and sexuality I
$30.95 Add to cart‘Sexuality tends to be self-centred. It drives man to seek only his own pleasure, even to the detriment of others. Love, on the other hand, thinks of the other’s happiness above all else. It is based on self-denial and sacrifice: the sacrifice of one’s time, energy and money, even the sacrifice of one’s gratification, for the sake of helping the other, of allowing the other to blossom and develop his full potential. Nothing is more beautiful than love, when you are ready to do without, to give up what you have or what you enjoy. Spirituality begins precisely at the point where love prevails over sexuality, when a human being is willing to wrest something from himself for the sake of another. As long as you are incapable of sacrifice, you will be unable to love.’
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Love and sexuality II
$30.95 Add to cart‘There are several possible attitudes towards love. You can eat it, you can drink it, and you can breathe it, but you can also live in it. Those who eat love remain on the physical plane and are never fully satisfied because they are content with pleasures of a lower order. The pleasures of those who drink love are less crude, but they are still confined to the delights and satisfactions of the astral plane. The philosophers, writers and artists who have managed to reach the mental plane are those who breathe love; love is the constant source of their inspiration. Only those who live in love, in the subtle, etheric dimension of love, truly possess it. For them it is light in the mind and warmth in the heart and they can pour out that light and warmth on those around them. Those who live in this love possess all fulness.’
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Hrani Yoga – The alchemical and magical meaning of nutrition
$30.95 Add to cart‘The foods we eat every day obviously contain life, but they don’t yet possess the spirit. So we must, when we eat, concentrate on the food so that our spirit participates in this act. On eating the food, the spirit impregnates our own matter which it transforms, enlightens and regenerates.’
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
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Know thyself: Jnana Yoga – Part 1
$30.95 Add to cart‘“Know thyself” was the maxim inscribed on the pediment of the temple at Delphi. What is this ‘self’ that we have to know? Is it a question of knowing our own vices and virtues, our strengths and weaknesses? No: to know oneself is to know the different bodies (the physical, etheric, mental, causal, buddhic and atmic bodies) of which we are formed and what each of these bodies needs. If the initiates of old insisted so much on the necessity of self-knowledge it was because this knowledge opens up tremendous possibilities for growth, progress and success. As long as man is ignorant of the needs of his higher self, he will continue to surfeit his physical body while his soul and spirit suffocate and die of hunger and thirst.’
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Know thyself: Jnana Yoga – Part 2
$30.95 Add to cart‘”Know thyself”! All science and all wisdom lies in knowing oneself, in finding oneself, in the fusion of one’s lower self with one’s higher self. The symbol of the initiate who has succeeded in finding himself is the serpent with its tail in its mouth. A serpent forms a straight or wavy line, and a line is limited. But the serpent with its tail in its mouth forms a circle and a circle represents the infinite, the limitless, the eternal. He who succeeds in becoming a circle enters a world without limitations where the ‘above’ and the ‘below’ are no longer separated, because all the powers and all the riches and virtues of the true, higher self have been infused into the lower self. The higher and the lower become one and man becomes a divinity.’
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A New Dawn: Society and Politics in the Light of Initiatic Science I
$30.95 Add to cart‘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 for 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 Mikhaël Aïvanhov
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A New Dawn: Society and Politics in the Light of Initiatic Science II
$30.95 Add to cart‘What is evolution? A change of form. To manifest itself, the mind always needs new forms, because form does not change and must be replaced. When we say that time destroys everything, it only concerns forms; over principles time has no power.
The forms are useful, necessary, but after a certain time even a religion must abandon them to welcome new, purer, more elaborate forms. This is why Christendom should not seek to perpetuate forms inherited from a distant past; such an attitude goes against the decrees of Cosmic Intelligence which shatter old forms to make new ones happen. So, may the Church not be surprised to be jostled; whatever she does, her old forms will be broken. Christians must understand that the forms in which their religion was given to them centuries ago have lost their effectiveness and must be replaced, so that the content, the spirit of Christ, can be better expressed.’Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
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On the art of teaching from the initiatic point of view
$30.95 Add to cart‘Parents and teachers have every material means at their disposal for the proper education of children, but they still lack the means of regenerating humanity. This is what the Teaching of the Universal White Brotherhood brings us: the means parents need to bring healthy, gifted children into the world, the means educators need to turn them into men and women ready to work for the good of society. But these methods can only be applied by adults who have already changed their patterns of behaviour in such a way as to be living examples for their young charges.’
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Life and work in an initiatic school I
$30.95 Add to cart‘We are here between the four walls of this room at the Bonfin, but we are also in the town of Fréjus. Fréjus is in the Var; the Var is in France; France is in Europe, and Europe is one of the continents on earth. The earth belongs to the family of planets in the solar system; the solar system belongs to a galaxy, and that galaxy is a tiny part of the whole cosmos. Yes, the prodigious truth is that we are here in this room and, at the same time, in the cosmos. What conclusion – if any – can we draw from this? The conclusion that, as cosmic beings, we must not eternally confine ourselves to our own petty interests. We must open our eyes and remind ourselves that we have cosmic work to do. What is the use of belonging to the Universal White Brotherhood if we do not work for broader, more far-reaching goals? For the welfare of the whole worid? Henceforth, try to change your mental habits, to adopt a broader point of view; try to become more aware of being part of the cosmos, of being linked to the whole universe; try to see that this means that the things you do as well as the way you do them must change.’Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
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The fruits of the Tree of Life – The Cabbalistic Tradition
$30.95 Add to cart‘The Sephirotic Tree, the Tree of Life of the Cabbalah, is an image of the universe, inhabited by God and impregnated with His quintessence. It represents the divine life which circulates throughout the whole of creation. Here is a system which prevents you from becoming dispersed in your spiritual activities. If you work for years on this Tree, if you study it, if you taste its fruit, you will create stability within yourself and harmony in the cosmos.’
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