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ʻFarmers were the first moral philosophers; they don’t expect to reap if they have not sown, and they know very well that if they sow cabbages they will not harvest carrots. How can someone who sows nothing but hatred and strife hope to reap a harvest of love and peace? If you want a marble palace you are not going to start building with clay bricks. If you want a healthy body you are not going to give it poisonous food. How can anyone expect to develop a healthy, sturdy psyche, a lucid mind and a generous heart if he is seething with anarchic thoughts and feelings poisoned by his own greed and resentment? Exactly as we sift and select suitable food or building materials, we have to sift and select the thoughts and feelings that present themselves to us. The laws that govern the psychic life are the same as those which have already been seen to govern other aspects of nature or technology. It was neither man nor society as a whole that invented morality: it is intrinsic to nature, to every aspect and dimension of nature.ʼ Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

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.

A 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.

Contrary to most esoteric thinkers, whose aim is to give their disciples a better intellectual understanding of religious and philosophical doctrines, the Teaching of the Master Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov points in another direction, to a higher goal that is more important for mankind. His ideas are accessible to everyone and applicable to their daily lives as well as to the life of the spirit. This volume presents a choice of talks given by the Master Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov which are pedagogical in nature: the reader will be surprised to see himself reflected in this light, his behaviour is explained to him in a way both graphic and highly imaginative. He will be able to size himself up and overcome the faults and weaknesses that are his limitations. That force within us which leads us astray is our ‘personality’, and thanks to the wisdom contained in this volume we can learn to use it properly so that instead of being our enemy it becomes a precious ally. Instead of condemning ourselves to certain failure by struggling against our own nature, we can learn to control and use it in order to rise to greater, nobler heights. Little by little each one of us can discover his own higher Self, his ‘individuality’ which not only is above all the contradictions of his lower nature but is capable of using them to create inner harmony and truly brotherly relations amongst men.

The knowledge contained in `Angels' enables seekers to make real spiritual progress. It sheds a new light on the cabbalists' Tree of Life, describing its ten regions with the colours and divine qualities they represent and the virtues and forces they help us to develop within ourselves. Each region is associated with one of the ten names of God, corresponding to a divine attribute and inhabited by an order of luminous spirits under the leadership of an archangel.`Meditate faithfully on the Tree of Life and your thoughts will no longer stray haphazardly. By referring frequently to the Sephirotic Tree you will be lighting your inner lamps, and those lamps will not only illuminate you, they will purify and strengthen you; they will also make you more beautiful and alive.'

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.

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.

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.