Archangel Gabriel Throughout the Ages
Archangel Gabriel is a mystery: he is an immaterial being and yet, his influence on the concrete history of humanity is colossal.
He appeared to Enoch as one of the 4 faces of God, which makes of him one of the founding Fathers of the Essene tradition. This tradition is the most powerful and mysterious there is since it is found as the original foundation of all traditions of the Light in all peoples, cultures and eras of the world.
Archangel Gabriel is found in India, in Sumer, in the Gathas of Zoroaster, in the ancient Chinese civilization of the Sons of Heaven, in Egypt, as one of the Fathers who inspired and created the great pyramid of Cheops in which the celebration of the mysteries and the initiation of the Sons and Daughters of the Sun took place. He is also found in the sacred texts of the Hebrews, the Christians and the Muslims. He is the one who announced the birth of Jesus as that of a Son of the Light. He also transmitted for 22 years the surahs of the Quran to the prophet Muhammad.
Even if an Archangel is a divine being without a physical body, he can manifest himself on earth through a living tradition. Through the centuries, it is the Essene teaching that has been the gateway of the Light on earth and in humanity.
Today still, Archangel Gabriel continues to speak to the Children of the Light within the framework of his annual celebration, which takes place at the winter solstice. Each of his words is a spiritual treasure of humanity entrusted to seekers from all horizons. Indeed, the word of an Archangel is a word of God, and God is the Father of all beings without exception. His word is universal.
It is men who, in their ignorance, their smallness and their personal interest, invent boundaries, limitations and dogmas, but in its essence, earth is without borders, like water, air and light.
The function of the Sun is to shine in the universe for the good of all. The same goes for Archangel Gabriel who announces the birth of Jesus, dictates the Quran to Muhammad, and teaches Mani the path towards the land of Light.
In His love, the Father of life is above the limited creations of men. He offers Himself to all beyond all divisions, beyond quarrels, hostilities or misunderstandings.
Rewriting the History of the World
This message, this universal life that comes from the divine world are a strength and a goal for a positive and constructive future. The future will be what we make of it. Perhaps the most important is to prepare it by transforming ourselves from inside and by opening our awareness inside subtlety. The outside changes nothing; it is interiority that, alone, can engender deep mutations. For one who passively waits for everything to come from the outside, nothing new truly ever happens.
Indeed, day after day, the Sun rises on the horizon. Everyone sees it, but only one who perceives that the Sun also rises inside him will understand the real significance and the real value of the rising of the Sun in nature. He will be able to say: "This morning, the Sun is new. For the first time, I saw it rise, for it also rose inside me."
If the Sun does not rise inside you, then it does not truly rise outside you either; it rises only to illuminate a world of appearances. Thus, even the most sublime words of an Archangel can seem dead and without great interest. But if you strive to understand the true significance of such words, of such a presence and of such a continuity on earth, perhaps your inner centre will be touched, awakened, and transformation will take place. Then hope will be reborn on earth and in the heart of humanity. This hope is the strength of the Light inside man. This is why Gabriel is called "the strength of God" and also "the birth of man in the Light". It is an inner birth that lets a new awareness appear, and that engenders a transformation of self.
Some transformations are positive, and others are negative. The words of Archangel Gabriel engender a new awareness on the sacred and eternal laws that govern existence. This new awareness can only be beneficial and bring about a positive transformation. The way we approach such a teaching shows who we are and what our future is. The goal is for this future to be positive, constructive, for the good of all beings and the triumph of a new way of being in the world.
By receiving the sacred words of Archangel Gabriel in a right way, we rewrite our own personal history, and thus, the history of the world.
The Great Essene Celebrations : Building a Body for the Light
It is with this intention that the Essenes unite 4 times per year to honour, through the 4 Archangels, the 4 letters of the Name of the Father, which must be sanctified inside man through his thought, his senses, his will and his acting. They gather together to build a body for the Light so that it can live and manifest itself in the world of man.
An Archangel is a guardian of the Light who comes from a world where the Light is an infinite and immortal ocean that no one can extinguish. In this world, it is darkness that is weak. He comes on earth through the intermediary of a master, within an Essene tradition and school to honour the promise of God, who does not want to abandon the Light that shines in darkness and wants to become aware and conscious. An Archangel comes because a master is present. He tells men to turn inwardly so as to find the origin of all beauty, and of all Light that appears on earth as a star in the midst of darkness.
If your inner light is awakened, you thirst for beauty, wisdom, greatness. This thirst is the light inside you that aspires to find its origin again. It is by making a body of Light inside you that you will be able to rejoin the great light. The Round of Archangels is the path that enables this, for by elaborating inside you a body for an Archangel, you call within you the body of the Light, the temple of the Most High, which is built stone after stone on a sacred land.
For 4 days, the Essenes assembled in the temple of Archangel Gabriel invoked the Light to build a body for the divine world. The 24 psalms that follow are one of the numerous fruits of this work. We meditated, sang, prayed, danced, celebrated, studied during these 4 days for the glory of what is eternal and the victory of our tradition. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than such a gathering to sanctify all that is true and good on earth.