Continue tirelessly with the spiritual work you have started and let this work speak for you. Try not to impress others and attract their attention; it is your inner work that must speak, not you. You must not hide your aspirations for a new life of ...
Those who truly wish to progress on the divine path try to remain on the sidelines, in the background, for as long as possible. Neither do they push themselves to the fore, nor are they in a hurry to be singled out by others who claim to have ...
While the two principles of spirit and matter – the masculine principle and the feminine principle – originate in the celestial regions, they take action in all regions as they manifest their polarity on all planes. When you yourself work, you are ...
I want to help you, I want to see you happy; that is why I go back over this fundamental question of nourishment for the soul and spirit so often. Until you learn to nourish your soul and spirit, you will feel unsatisfied, empty, and in a void. You ...
The wood we use to make a fire is said to be dead: branches that are lifeless, black, and twisted. But once they are alight, the fire transforms them into light, heat and energy. You might say, ‘We know all this, but what do these branches have to ...
Why do you always feel hunger and thirst within yourself? Through thought, you could attract all the subtle elements given out so abundantly in space, all the nourishment longed for by your soul and spirit. These elements are at your disposal with ...
The history of Christianity is full of accounts describing the suffering of saints and mystics who discovered that their irresistible impulse projecting them towards the Lord did not spare them certain physical sensations. On the contrary, the more ...
A flame is so weak that it takes only a breath to put it out. But if you nourish it, it can become a real inferno, and the same breath that threatened it before, will on the contrary, intensify it so that nothing will ever be able to resist it.The ...
The marriage of spirit and matter, of heaven and earth, is celebrated every day throughout the universe. So, be sure you are invited to take part in the festivities given by the heavenly Father (the spirit) and the divine Mother (matter), who are ...
Humans too often seek nourishment in what is not essential. They spend the good part of their time in occupations which bring nothing to their spirit, and they justify themselves by claiming that their daily life, their responsibilities, their ...
A summit is not only a point that is higher than others. Every summit, of whatever nature, is a living centre of pure energies. Such a summit also exists in all human beings: their spirit. This is why when they pray for help, they must first seek to ...
The purpose of the spiritual life is to give birth to the divine principle in our soul. But to give birth to this child, everyone must be both man and woman, father and mother. As a father, they trigger the process of conception, and as a mother, ...
Each year, when spring returns and the warmth and light increase, all the seeds in the ground begin to sprout and grow. It is a time for us to think about all the seeds within us: they are also ready to germinate and grow under the light and warmth ...
So many ascetics and mystics have taken on a life of deprivation on the pretext that the physical body is the tomb of the spirit. No, it is simply up to humans not to let their body bury their spirit. To do so, they must put their body in service of ...
Some people seek a spiritual Master because they believe that by living close to someone who has achieved great elevation, they will be favoured: not only will they be protected when they are with him, but merely through his presence they will ...
Those who decide to go within discover that the source of their wealth – their spirit – is inexhaustible and that with very little, they are replete, fulfilled, and their thirst is quenched. It always comes back to the same question: how to free the ...
The psychic space surrounding the earth naturally rids it of the inferior entities that encumber it; they are warded off and absorbed into the underground depths. However, there still remain a few, and it is often they who manifest during ...
The Holy Spirit descending upon the human soul is a symbol that can be found in all spiritual traditions in one form or another. But even if it is said that the Holy Spirit ‘descends' upon humans, it is not an entity external to them: it is their ...
So many people of faith beg the Lord to do away with evil spirits. But the Lord does not grant them their wish, because evil spirits are doing their job, they are authorized to tempt and mistreat them. It is up to the faithful to become more ...
We say that some people are good, and that others are bad. But in truth, every human being is a mixture of both good and bad in different proportions. It is the good in each of us that urges us to examine ourselves in view of correcting and ...
Our Heavenly Father sent us down to earth to work on the advent of his kingdom, and the beings of light in the invisible world constantly provide us with favourable conditions for this work. But because these conditions rarely present themselves as ...
When you invite friends over, you know how to welcome them if you want them to feel comfortable in your home and for them to want to come again. Not only do you offer them your best food, you serve it on the best china you save for special ...
A true spiritual Master does not turn their back on sinners and criminals. Like a tree that transforms phloem sap from the xylem sap which rises from its roots, a spiritual Master draws energies from uncultivated and disinherited people and ...
To fully understand the different manifestations of life, we must study them in the three planes – the physical, psychic and spiritual planes – that correspond to the division of body, soul and spirit. This division into three also applies to our ...
People are rarely aware that fire puts them in touch with and activates primordial powers. Nor do they understand what fire represents on the psychic plane. We can say that on the psychic plane there are two sorts of fire: the astral fire of lower ...
The dangers that lie in wait for the followers of a spiritual teaching are weakness and vulnerability. Too often, because they have chosen the path of light, they tend to imagine that, as they progress, they will be protected by powerful entities ...
The spirit works constantly on matter by fertilizing it, and as new creations appear it discovers its powers and comes to know itself. So, when some people ask why God created the world, we can reply, ‘To know himself'. He created suns, planets, ...
Just as children want to be at least the equal of their father or mother, so disciples take their Master as their role model. But the ideal they should be aiming for is not their father, their mother or their Master but God himself, who created them ...
Receiving a new philosophy that opens new horizons and presents an increasingly high ideal to attain, supposes you are able to harmonise yourselves with it and therefore reinforce not only your brain, but also your stomach, lungs and your whole body,...
To be able to work on humanity, a spiritual Master needs a collective body. In this collective body, some of his disciples represent the eyes, the ears or the mouth; while others represent the brain, the heart and so on. For as long as he cannot ...
The relationship between the spirit and the body has, from the very beginning, been one of the questions that human beings have struggled to solve. So many so-called spiritualists consider the body to be ‘the tomb of the spirit'. They must learn to ...
...ities, because they will be attracted by the food that is there for them: all those feelings and thoughts inspired by the person's lower nature that they have been unable to master....
On the pretext that it is impossible to meet true living spiritual Masters, some people go to spiritualist meetings and ask questions of masters from the past so as to benefit from their light. Let them be under no illusions: it is not masters but ...
When God created human beings, he laid in them the seeds of all the qualities and virtues as well as all the gifts. They are there, still dormant, and to develop them, humans must first use their thought, then vivify this thought with feelings, and ...
Last night, as you left your friends, you wished them good night, saying, ‘I'll see you next year!' And now, only a few hours later, it is next year. You already speak of yesterday as ‘last year'. All day yesterday, until the very last second before ...
When disciples sincerely embrace the spiritual life, it doesn't matter to them whether or not people know about their work; they are not interested in playing a role or letting others know what they are doing. The only thing that counts for them is ...
Disciples know that as they are on earth for a very short time, it is not worth wasting their energy seeking honours, titles and possessions that they will only have to abandon when they leave. Instead, they try to concentrate on everlasting, ...
...tablished between you and the being or place on which your thought is focused.
All those whose thoughts are always chaotic and conflicting are bound to have unfortunate encounters because they come into contact with entities that correspond to ...
Those who work tirelessly to beautify, enrich and harmonize their inner being feel at ease within themselves. They may even welcome guests to this splendid dwelling. Yes, luminous spirits are delighted to pay them a visit!Look how receptions are ...
A spiritual Master, an Initiate, bears enormous responsibilities but he is not crushed by them, for spiritual responsibilities are not heavy or burdensome. If you want to spread light in the world, it may seem as though you are burdening yourself, ...
...eing; the truth about someone encompasses everything about them – their soul and spirit, their thoughts and feelings, their plans for the future and so on. As long as you do not know all these things, you do not know the truth about a person. Y...
Nowadays, human beings are mainly interested in cultivating their intellectual faculties, which is fine. Unfortunately, they do so at the expense of other means of exploration, and as a result, the subtle life of the universe, the soul and the ...
Why do you always set your sights on attaining easy successes that do not last? Instead, why not work to achieve something of unimaginable splendour? You are willing to devote five, six, or even ten years to becoming a lawyer, an engineer, a ...
The older people get, the more lucid, luminous and powerful they can become. If this is not what we typically see, it is because human beings are so used to identifying with their physical body that they submit passively to all its trials and ...
Plants do not grow in winter, even though the soil is full of seeds, because there is not enough warmth and sunlight. But in the spring, as warmth and light increase, all those seeds begin to grow. You know this, you have seen it, but you still have ...
Concentration and meditation are exercises that allow us to gather and store up spiritual energy, which we can use for our work. However, for this exercise to be truly fruitful, you must be able to remain completely still, so as not to make the ...
...es them from other people is the extraordinary unity they have achieved within themselves: their thoughts, feelings, and actions are coordinated and directed towards a single ideal; nothing is at odds within them. While in ordinary people, this...
The creatures of the divine world love and respect only those who are rich. If you want to attract the attention of the entities of light and the forces of nature, you have to be wealthy, because not only will they give nothing to the poor, they ...
Matter is the form that contains, confines, and compresses the spirit. An atomic explosion for example is actually the spirit erupting in the form of heat and fire. For the explosion to happen, the spirit must be compressed within matter, for of ...
God has given inertia to matter and impetus to the spirit, and human beings are placed between the two. They are outwardly covered with matter, but the spirit dwells within them. This means that they are subject to a twofold influence: at times they ...