Daily Meditation: Monday, December 23, 2002
Our spirit is an immortal spark issued from the bosom of …
Our spirit is an immortal spark issued from the bosom of the Eternal. All the powers, all the knowledge of the Creator are contained in it, and if it cannot manifest these powers and knowledge it is because it is restricted by the opaque, crude matter of our physical body. But that is no reason to despise our body, to torture it, as Christians have done for centuries. God has constructed our body using great knowledge and wisdom. It is the greatest instrument we have been given, and if we are able to work on it every day to purify and refine its matter, we give it the capacity to vibrate in harmony with the spirit. People who despise and neglect their body, and those who seek only to derive sensual pleasures from it, are mistaken. Only if we understand that our body's mission is to manifest all the splendours of the spirit, to become the living temple of the spirit one day, only then are we on the right path. How can people imagine that the body God has given us has only one purpose, which is to oppose the spirit, to extinguish the flame of the spirit, the very flame that makes us sons and daughters of God?
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
