So many people have come to me and said, ‘Why did I find your teaching so late in life? I have spent my whole life in doubt and error, and now not only is it too late to undo my mistakes, but it is too late to really start a new life.' It is true ...
Novices in the spiritual life often plunge headlong into schemes that are too ambitious, and this inevitably leads to accidents or disillusionment. If at your first attempt you try to jump a chasm that is too wide, you will fall in and by the time ...
However great your other achievements, nothing you do will ever have the same importance as your spiritual work, even if at first nobody notices it. For if you respect the rules, the results of your spiritual work will be millions of times more ...
Except in very rare cases, human beings need to be influenced and encouraged by others in order to persevere on the right path, for a time always comes when their zeal falters. Of course, some people say that they have no desire to be influenced; ...
It is always possible to find the means to satisfy a spiritual need precisely because it is spiritual, and because the spirit, which is immense, free and infinite, is not bound by material conditions.You may be deprived of a title or a rank in ...
... enter your physical body; you have opened the doors of your mental and astral bodies* to impure thoughts and feelings. So do not be surprised if the spirits of light are reluctant to visit you, let alone the Lord, for his dwelling is absolute ...
Nothing is more precious than to be visited by the Holy Spirit. Its coming is like a bolt of heavenly lightning. There is nothing more sublime or more meaningful. However, this celestial lightning does not immediately make those who receive it ...
Human beings continually transgress divine laws, and as they do not immediately notice the damage occurring inside them, they imagine that they can carry on with impunity. The thing is, when worms or termites get into the beams of a house, there are ...
Nothing in nature indicates that the spirit would like to rid itself of matter. On the contrary, we can see that it works on and through matter, and causes it to evolve. From the very beginning of the world, the spirit has shown that it wants to use ...
Initiates teach that instead of spending our lives trying to acquire external powers, which will never really belong to us, it is far better to work to acquire those powers inwardly. This is the task before us, this is what we must work at, for true ...
If there were laboratories equipped with sufficiently sophisticated instruments, it could be proved that some humans exude fluidic emanations so strong that they can asphyxiate small animals. It could also be shown that the opposite is true, that ...
To show an interest in and an understanding of the various forms of spirituality is perfectly acceptable. What is dangerous, however, is to dissipate oneself, to fail to choose one method of inner work in which to engage oneself. The question is not ...
You should not ask that a spiritual master be all-knowing and all-powerful. You have the right to ask only one thing of them: that they serve as a link to heaven for you, that they guide you on the path of light, that they show you the way to God. ...
...es to listen to their master or who immerses themself for a few hours in studying their master's thoughts, feels themself transported into a world of light, purity and love. But then, unavoidably, they return to everyday life where they are obl...
Matter tends towards the spirit; it wants to rise to meet it, in order to become purer and more subtle. And, conversely, the spirit descends towards matter in order to incarnate and manifest through it. In this way, the beloved departs to meet her ...
In itself, the need for change is not a bad thing, but in certain aspects of life, it can be detrimental to your development. In terms of a friendly or amorous relationship, it is best to hesitate in the beginning in order to weigh the pros and cons,...
How many opportunities are we given to transcend the mediocrity of daily life! But do you bother to pay attention to these occasions? The silence of the night, the starry sky, and the immensity of space offer us the best conditions for distancing ...
Why belong to a spiritual brotherhood? There are many reasons; one of them being that a spiritual community gives its members the best conditions in which to transform themselves and to advance. Even if they wish to improve themselves, those who ...
Some people take on the role of spiritual guide without realising that they lack the necessary faculties and qualities of wisdom, love, disinterestedness, discernment and patience. They don't know how dangerous it is to shoulder this overwhelming ...
...n beings can be compared to bottles of perfume, in that their bodies are separate but with their thoughts and feelings they are able to meet with other human beings and even with entities from the invisible world. Only, we do not meet with anyo...
In the physical realm, human beings have made gigantic achievements: we cannot help but see how scientific and technical progress has transformed life. But this is not enough, and humanity is now called upon to realize achievements that are still ...
...deal of overcoming the domination of their selfish tendencies and to control and orientate their thoughts, feelings and desires, is on the royal road. They inspire respect from all those who come near them because they have not only power but a...
All the beings and things round us may help us, but we must never count on them absolutely. Since they are exterior to us, they may not always be available; one moment they are there, and the next they are elsewhere, or someone may even come and ...
Animosity and hatred arise between human beings because face-to-face with one another they are never conscious that they are in the presence of a spirit, a spark that is seeking to manifest itself and that, in order to help this spirit before them, ...
A man who has made his fortune in business will not always tell you he is happy. Most often, he will find all sorts of reasons to complain. He will tell you that he is stressed, that his wife spends all his money and takes advantage of his absences ...
If you are insignificant and little known in society, you are powerless to intervene in the affairs of state. To be able to do so, you must try to reach the summit, where the king or president is to be found, and become their minister. Then, yes, ...
On the grounds that charlatans and crooks can pass themselves off as initates, many people systematically reject the idea of a spiritual master. But what odd reasoning! Do these people stop listening to music because some musicians compose awful ...
We are in the habit of separating the physical plane from the spiritual plane, but the truth is that there is no separation between the two. There is a continuous progression from the physical plane to the etheric plane and beyond this, to the ...
...nd matter. We start taking a distance from ourselves, and gradually we not only realize that the thoughts and feelings with which we are able to do this work are merely instruments at our service, but we also become aware that our true self exi...
When the decision to follow a certain path is etched deeply into your being, it becomes like an instinct that prevents you from straying and shows you how to avoid or overcome obstacles. If you too often forget the good resolutions you made, it is ...
Some people complain that spiritual practice does not have much to offer them. But how would they be if they had never made any effort to discipline their inner life? At least, the few rules they try to apply and the exercises they do set them on ...
If you are looking for a spiritual guide, you should at least be aware of what to expect from one. A spiritual master will do all they can to open up the path that is in your best interest to follow. But the desire to walk on that path can only come ...
...g to come to them from outside, human beings have the ability to act within, by means of their thoughts, willpower, and spirit, and to capture the elements they need to support their physical life and especially their psychic life. This is why ...
Spirituality does not consist in despising or neglecting the physical body but in making it an instrument of spirit. That is why the teaching of the Universal White Brotherhood provides numerous methods to purify and regenerate the physical body. ...
Why do you limit yourselves to the contacts you make on the physical plane with human beings? There are other beings to encounter in the universe and with whom you can establish relationships. Every day you have the option not only to link ...
...u return home you bring with you a whole wealth of revelations, of richer and more expansive thoughts and feelings....
Doing nothing has never been the best way to rest. The best way is to change activity. And spiritual work is actually by its nature very different from all your usual activities. It is not like going to a building site, a factory or an office every ...
As you leave your house in the morning to watch the sunrise, be thinking already that you are going to meet a living being, as alive as all of nature around you – the birds, insects, trees and flowers. For the whole universe is alive, populated by ...
Spirituality is such a vast, rich and complex area that after years of practice many people still do not know how to find their way in it. But who says they have to venture into the most mysterious arcane knowledge of Initiatic Science? They can ...
When Jesus was brought before Pilate to be judged, Pilate asked him, ‘Are you the King of the Jews?', and Jesus replied simply, ‘You say so.' But he added, ‘My kingdom is not from this world'. For Jesus had no earthly ambitions. For him true ...
True freedom for human beings lies in their God-given potential to find everything within. This is what a spiritual Master strives to impress on his disciples. So people are very much mistaken if they imagine a Master to be a despot, solely ...
Do not imagine that heaven is so impressed at your becoming members of a Church or some spiritual movement that it is going to make your life easier and spare you any hardship. No, you will come up against all of life's difficulties, just like any ...
Before you meditate or pray or watch the sunrise, say to yourself, ‘I am in purity, in the light, with my beloved Lord and my beloved divine Mother. This moment when I can communicate with them must be all that matters.' Leave your baggage and ...
... is not the practices themselves, it is the determination to purify themselves: to improve their thoughts, feelings and actions. Anyone who has not decided to carry out this work would do better to leave spiritual practices alone, for they woul...
In reality, the light we see is the materialization of primordial light. And this primordial light, the first emanation of God, is the cosmic sun, the Christ. For the spirit which manifests and speaks to us through the sun is the spirit of Christ, ...
Even the most powerful entities of the divine world cannot act directly on earth to install order and peace. Why? Because they are not made of physical matter. In order for them to intervene, human beings themselves must give them the opportunity. ...
In themselves, the forces of nature are neither good nor bad: they become one or the other according to how we use them. And the same is true for the spirits of the four elements: the gnomes, sylphs, nymphs and salamanders. All these entities that ...
Now that you have set foot on the divine path, you must continue walking it tirelessly. For those who do not stop on the path, the obstacles ahead disperse one by one, for they will have set the powerful laws of life in motion. The spiritual life is ...
‘Keep awake therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour', Jesus said at the end of the parable of the five wise virgins and the five foolish virgins awaiting the arrival of the bridegroom. Here, ‘keep awake' does not mean, ‘do not go to ...
Spiritual exercises are nothing much in themselves. They become truly effective and beneficial only if they are carried out in the light of a teaching that gives knowledge about the invisible world – about the different beings that live in it, the ...