Humans are also capable of taming and domesticating the wild beasts within, but in order to do so they need to develop other qualities, and in this case, to understand the rules of Spiritual Alchemy, how to transform base matter into spiritual 'gold'. Continued from 'The Rules of Spiritual Alchemy', (three days ago) 'So be glad: you [...]
‘So why not be like Taras Bulba and take pride in your son who has become so strong? It was you who made him strong by feeding him with your thoughts and desires, so you must be very strong yourself. And now I’ll tell you how you can beat him. What does a parent do [...]
'Somebody comes to consult me about a problem: they tell me that they have a terrible vice and that they are miserable and completely discouraged because although they have been trying for years to overcome it, it always gets the better of them. When I hear them explaining all this I exclaim, ‘Oh, but that’s magnificent! Wonderful! That just proves [...]
In later years Mikhaël often spoke of having been profoundly influenced not only by Jesus, but also by the Buddha, the two great luminaries of his youth. He must have striven to enter the mind of the Buddha as he had with Jesus, since he would say later that he had succeeded in communicating with [...]
- Events in the world are simply the result of interactive forces We can never stress enough the importance of creating focal points of light and peace to neutralize the dark, chaotic currents circulating in space. It is time human beings learned how cosmic forces work. Physics shows us how to calculate the result of two interactive [...]
- Rejoice, for there is a bright future ahead of you! People struggle desperately against their own destructive tendencies, without at all realizing that if they are in such dire straits today it is because they are extraordinarily strong. The stronger the enemy within, the more it shows how strong you yourself are. Yes, this is [...]
- Be grateful to God for having created you just as you are The greatest tragedies of mankind are not caused by something intrinsically evil that appears out of nowhere, but by the misconceptions of human beings who have decided to label certain things ‘good’, because they please them, and other things ‘evil’, because they [...]
- God is more than Good Good is sustained by evil, and without realizing it, good, in turn, often sustains evil. Good and evil are both yoked to the wheel of life, and both help to keep it turning. Evil does not exist in itself. Evil is a good that is not understood. Even the best [...]
- The polarization of the One From the point of view of initiatic science, the number Two is the result of the polarization of the One, and this means that the two poles, which are so often considered to be antagonists, are, in fact, contained in the One. We call them masculine and feminine or positive [...]
