Oil of Uriel

The oil of Uriel is quite simply olive oil, which, through its magical properties, has the capacity to receive and condense the Light-energy of Archangel Uriel and to convey it at any moment, once it has been consecrated by him during his presence in the temple in the course of his celebration. It is then used for the making of the balm of the Archangels, a fundamental tool of the Essene therapies. Unprocessed, it is also used to increase the concentration and the effectiveness of certain magical works and sacred rites. However, all these virtues in no way remove the necessity of being awake in the two worlds. An Essene never relies on anything outer. He can, however, use supports such as the balm of the Archangels or the oil of Uriel to activate certain forces inside him.

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov (1900-1986)

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov was one of the carriers of the tradition of the Sons of the Sun in the 20th century. This great master of Bulgarian origin revolutionized contemporary spirituality through his teachings on universal brotherhood, the personality and the individuality, the golden age... Through more than 4,500 lectures, he explored human nature in its environment, on the individual, family, social and planetary scale.

Order of the vestals

The order of the vestals is known historically in its manifestation in ancient Rome, under the reign of Numa Pompilius, who was a great initiate, trained in the temples of Egypt. But this order is much older; it has existed since the highest antiquity and was really and powerfully instituted for the first time by the great Isis, at the origin of the Egyptian civilization, several thousand years ago. Then this sacred order manifested in Greece, notably at Delphi, then in Rome, where it knew its final hour of glory, before being destroyed or reduced, for many centuries, to clandestinity.

The order of the vestals was instituted anew within the Essene Nation by Olivier Manitara, after the third great celebration of Archangel Gabriel, in February 2006.

Organ

Generally designates not a physical organ, but a part of the subtle organism of a being. An organ is at once a means of perceiving and a means of acting. For example, compassion is made possible when a man possesses the organ for it. The organs can be developed and strengthened through specific methods.

Orpheus (circa 1300 BC)

A contemporary of Moses—both were trained in the secrecy of the Egyptian temples—Orpheus accomplished in Greece what his companion of initiation could not accomplish in Egypt: he re-established the ancient synarchy of their common ancestor, Rama, by instituting the order of the Amphictyons, a kind of Knights Templar, guarantors of the protection of the people and of the activation of the temples. The Gods of Olympus of whom Greek mythology speaks were in fact the great initiates who lived in the Rila mountains, in Bulgaria, where Orpheus established his school of mysteries. And 3,200 years later, in this high sacred place, Master Peter Deunov resurrected the school of mysteries and the eternal tradition of the Light. He thus reactivated the divine memory that lived in these mountains, and everything that Orpheus had taught and passed on was able to rise from its ashes like the new shoot at the top of the tree of life. It is astonishing to note that these great masters were both geniuses of music—Master Peter Deunov on the violin and Orpheus on the lyre—as well as extraordinary physicians, of the body as much as of the soul and the spirit.

Owl

Through a theurgic alliance with the egregore of the Owl, the owl became the totem animal of Archangel Michael in the Essene lands of Quebec. The owl possesses the magical virtue of seeing in the two worlds, visible and invisible. This is why Olivier Manitara placed the seal of its vision on the staff intended for the magical works of the air worship.

Padmasambhava (8th century)

“Padmasambhava” means “the one who is born from the lotus”. Little known in our Western culture, this extraordinary being saved the wisdom and the tradition of the Essenes from the hold of the thieves of light. He brought back from Palestine to Tibet the sum of all the precious documents that absolutely had to remain out of reach of all the desecrators. The Tradition relates that he fought the demons to preserve the teaching of the Children of the Light. Padmasambhava is the first Tibetan Dalai Lama. He is the one who veritably instituted Tibetan Buddhism in the Himalayas, in the place now known by the name of Lhasa.

Paneurhythmy

A sacred dance of the Essene tradition that combines movements, music and text, and that is practised in nature. The dancers move forwards in couples and follow the rhythm of the melodies, created by Master Peter Deunov. The word “paneurhythmy” means “universal cosmic rhythm”. Starting from the Paneurhythmy of Peter Deunov, Olivier Manitara developed ieupaneurythmy, the art of Essene meditative movement.

Paradise

“Paradise” is an inner state of being of the man who has accomplished within him the body of God, of which the Round of Archangels is the perfect manifestation on earth in our time.

Pentacle/Pentagram

A five-pointed star. The pentagram is the symbol of man, with his 5 senses turned towards the higher worlds. When the senses of man are turned towards the earthly world and man is spellbound by the forces of this world, his pentagram is said to be inverted.

Personality and individuality

In the Essene teaching, the personality of man is considered the “beast skin”, woven by all the various influences, astrological and karmic, that determine him and orient him without his knowing it. The individuality is already the manifestation of a higher degree of consciousness, where man becomes aware of who he is, where he comes from and what he is on earth for. Thus, man must manifest his conscious and creative individuality in the two worlds, visible and invisible, so that no influence foreign to his destiny can touch him. But before the divine world, it is not for man to assert himself and to manifest himself; God alone is. This is why he must be like a virgin, like a pure and empty cup, and “there must be in this cup neither personality nor individuality” (Gabriel 144:19).

Peter Deunov (1864-1944)

Peter Deunov is a Bulgarian spiritual master who is part of the tradition of the Sons of the Sun. The foundation of his teaching is original Christianity, which he was to restore to its purity. His spiritual influence was considerable: his ideas of universal brotherhood, of the sacred in living nature, found powerful echoes among the spiritualists of the 20th century, but also in world popular culture. He taught that dance can put man in contact with the regenerating forces of the universe. He created several sacred dances, which were practised by his students in the high mountains of Bulgaria, the best known of which is the Paneurhythmy. In the course of gatherings and congresses in the mountains, he was to give more than 7,000 improvised lectures on all subjects. He was the master of Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov. In the Essene Nation, the pillar of water carries the magical staff that is consecrated to this master.

Pharaoh

Pharaoh is an impersonal incarnation of the original Word in ancient Egypt. Pharaoh, the incarnated master, represents the Father on earth from the moment he accomplishes His will in purity. The students who gather around him shape his body of manifestation on earth and become veritable human beings. Synonym of “Son of God”, of “master”.

Pharaohs Sons of the Sun (5000-2400 BC)

It was around 5000 BC that the grandiose Egyptian civilization was born, under the reign of the great pharaoh Menes. What we know today of Egypt concerns only degenerate Egypt, the one that was governed by the usurpers of Pharaoh, who, after the reign of Akhenaten, took over the government of nations. The veritable Egypt, that of the pharaohs Sons of the Sun, was a garden of paradise such as cannot be conceived today. It was another world where a divine harmony and peace reigned, where each being had its place and could freely manifest all its gifts and virtues. Men lived in a union and a respectful sharing with all the forms of existence.

Pillar

A pillar is a priest of the 4th step. The pillars of Archangels are like the 4 visible feet of the invisible body of the Light, of which the 4 Archangels are the eternal guardians. Thus, the alliance of the pillars with the Archangels has the goal of making appear in the two worlds, visible and invisible, the throne of the Eternal One of which the book of Revelation speaks. In Egypt, this throne was represented by the pyramid, as well as by the sphinx with the 4 holy animals, which are also found in the book of Revelation and which are the 4 Archangels. On this throne the divine world must sit through its incarnated representative. For this to be possible, the structure of the Essene Nation must be perfectly set up and functional, in the concrete world as well as in the spiritual worlds.

Placenta

Archangel Gabriel is the Father-Mother of childbearing and birth, for he is the placenta of life. This placenta is everywhere; it is omnipresent; it is life itself, the ocean of our Father Gabriel. Man is permanently in this placenta, this movement of energy, this sphere of living matter inside which he is formed in spite of himself. Upon this placenta act all sorts of influences that come from the cosmos, from the sphere of men or from nature. The Essene, the one who awakens his consciousness and walks on a path of Light, must know and meditate on this law of universal magic and of the placenta that allows birth and rebirth. You were born and you will be reborn. In the meantime, you are preparing the new body, whether it is of darkness or of Light.

Planets

Traditionally, 7 planets are spoken of: the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. However, according to modern terminology, the Sun is considered a star and the Moon a satellite of the Earth.

Plato (427-346 BC)

Plato is part of the lineage of Orpheus and Pythagoras, whose teachings come straight from Egypt. In the image of his two ancestors, Plato re-established the school of mysteries, in a more hidden way, through the Academy, a kind of secular university in which all the Pythagorean teachings were renewed. He had a considerable influence that spread all the way to the West, notably through the great cultural movement of the Renaissance.

Prayer of the Father

The prayer of the Father is the prayer of the veritable self in all beings. This prayer is divine, for it does not “take” the Good, the Light, but offers it for the good of all, as a light that enlightens through wise thought, as a warmth that comforts through the beautiful word, as a strength that vivifies through the just act. Thus, to pray does not only mean to ask something of an invisible world through the word; the whole of life must be a prayer for the good of all beings.

Present the offering at the altar

From an esoteric point of view, “to present the offering at the altar” means to give one’s life back to God, whether at the moment of going to bed or of dying, of returning towards the origin, towards the Father. Thus, if man has not reconciled himself with all beings, in all kingdoms, and has not woven with them a conscious, living and true bond of soul, he will not be able to enter the kingdom of God.

“So then, if you are bringing your offering to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar, go and be reconciled with your brother first, and then come back and present your offering.” (Mt. 5:23-24)

Priest, priestess, Order of Priesthood

To be an Essene is to be a priest, a priestess in the service of the divine world. The Essenes are a people and an order of priests and priestesses dedicated to the union of the two worlds of the Father and the Mother in the perfection of the covenant of Light. Through all his sacred works, accomplished with the greatest dedication and the purest love of universal life, the priest, the priestess of the people of Essenia is a living blessing for all beings.

The consecration to priesthood takes place upon entering the Round of Archangels, and the first service of the priest, of the priestess, consists in performing daily the worship of the Angel, in which he recites the words of the Gospels of the Archangels. In a higher degree of priesthood, the priest, the priestess can commit himself or herself as a parent in the Light worship.

The activities of the priests and priestesses of the Essene Nation are numerous and varied. The service of the divine can be accomplished by reading the words of the Essene Gospels, by studying the Teaching, by practising the worships to make the Light living in the ethers of the earth, by accomplishing a work for the Light, by entering the initiations, by living in an Essene Village, by taking care of the temples... All these activities are degrees of priesthood that constitute the great body of the Light, the perfect government that is being established on earth.

Principalities

Another name for the Gods.

Pyramidal structure of an ideal society

The pyramidal structure of an ideal society in which the government is in the service of the divine world has no longer existed on earth since the Egypt of the origins, before it fell at the time of Moses, who was the legitimate pharaoh. But the throne was already usurped and the government of Egypt had toppled into politics and the quest for power and world domination. Yet, originally, Egypt—and many other peoples who have disappeared today—represented the perfect government, for the priests were really the representatives of God on earth. Thus, all the spheres of human existence, the Religion, science, the economy, culture, the family, the individual, were placed in dignity, beauty, the just and harmonious life, with respect for all the creatures of the world. It is this pyramidal structure, this holy synarchy—the opposite of anarchy—that the Essene Nation is trying to restore through its alliance with the divine world, accomplished through the Round of Archangels and the Order of Priesthood.

Pythagoras (570-480 BC)

After visiting almost all the temples of the world and gathering their esoteric teachings, Pythagoras presented himself at the gates of the temples of Egypt as a master, but was left at the door for his lack of humility. He finally bowed before the supremacy of the wisdom of the Egyptian hierophants and climbed one by one all the rungs that lead to the initiation of the Sons of the Sun. While superstition had overtaken the consciousness of the Greek people, reducing the sublime teachings of Orpheus to the state of dead letters, Pythagoras re-established the school of mysteries and instituted a veritable education of man: at once spiritual, intellectual, moral and artistic. His influence extended even beyond the borders of Greece.

Rama (circa 6700 BC)

The new era that began after the great flood that put an end to the Atlantean civilization is known by the name of “prehistory”. Six thousand seven hundred years before Jesus Christ, while the druidesses dominated men reduced to slavery, a great Son of God, a missioned one of the divine world, was born in the land of Kal (which gave its name to Gaul and to Wales). He was called Rama, the ram, because of his power of realization and his unshakeable determination to restore the reign of peace and harmony. Preferring to avoid a civil war, Rama, in his great wisdom, took with him several million men and women. He led them all the way to India and restored synarchy (the opposite of anarchy, the reign of justice) in all the kingdoms through which he passed. And humanity knew a golden age that lasted more than 3,500 years.

Raphael

Raphael is the one who resurrects and animates the soul of the man who does not want to live solely for the comfort of his material or even spiritual life, but for a grandiose ideal and work that surpass his little person. Such a being becomes a blessing for several worlds, on earth as in heaven. He is a veritable therapist of the soul of humanity and of the earth. The Essenes want to live with the virtues of the Angels. This is why they celebrate and welcome each year, in spring, the breath of Raphael, which frees man from the smallness and the limitation of the physical body. Through the divine breath of Archangel Raphael, man can find again the memory of his eternal soul and remember the deep meaning of his present incarnation, his mission of Light on earth, the path of his veritable destiny. Through the breath of Raphael, the Angel carrier can rise in consciousness into the clear perception of a higher world and unite with the great thoughts, the pure ideas of the divine world. His soul then begins to breathe in another world, vast as the universe. The path of his veritable destiny opens and a deep discernment awakens in him, teaching him to sort things out in his life, so as to keep and make grow only the essential.

It is at the spring equinox, when everything is resurrected in nature, that the Essenes meet to celebrate Archangel Raphael, the one who activates the mysteries of the resurrection and the healing of humanity and nature through the divine breath of which he is the carrier. Raphael is the face of God in the air, the one who makes everything living and calls all beings to life.

Archangel Raphael offered the Essenes the green stone and the science of immortality, as well as the teachings on the Essene therapies, on the secrets of the caduceus of Hermes, on the breath, breathing, on the pyramid of Light that unites heaven and earth... He also passed on 15 commandments.

Ray-I

Essene wisdom has only one goal: to awaken God, the divine world, in man, right into the sphere of his daily life. This requires a profound awakening of consciousness and a powerful and stable bond of Light with a higher world. Essene wisdom calls this bond of Light the “ray-I” or “the veritable eternal self I-Am”. This bond of Light is a prisoner in the body of man, cut off from the higher worlds. Only a master of the Tradition can awaken through resonance what is divine in man and lead him towards his free and immortal individuality, his ray-I. When man is fully awake in his ray-I, he himself becomes a master, a carrier of the divine world on earth. The ray-I is the sacred individuality of each being, able to manifest through a mortal existence.

Recentre oneself in the middle of the pentagram

“To recentre oneself in the middle of the pentagram” means to let the 4 bodies within oneself (thought, the sphere of feelings and sensory perceptions, the will and desires, and the weight of the physical body) rest upon the Mother so that the soul appears as the fifth point of the pentagram—the one at the top—as the word of the Mother, which leads everything towards wisdom and intelligence. The soul is the fifth element, the divine quintessence of the 4 other elements.

Reconstitute the body of Osiris

In the language of the mysteries, “to reconstitute the body of Osiris” means to rebuild the body of humanity in correspondence with the eternal principles that created it. This body is always fourfold, based on the sacred science of the 4 letters of the Name of God and the structure of Light of the Round of Archangels:

- Archangel Michael is represented on earth by the Religion, through the circle of the priests and the vestals, guardians of the covenant with God, with the Father and the Mother.

- Archangel Raphael is represented by culture, through the circle of the teachers and the hierogrammates, in charge of making the light of the Teaching circulate through books, lectures, workshops, the various forms of art...

- Archangel Gabriel manifests through the social climate, by means of the circle of the therapists, of all those who work to keep the water of relationships pure and clear between all beings.

- Archangel Uriel is the culmination of the 3 preceding circles. Thus, he appears as sanctified daily life, where everything is in harmony with a higher world, in the 4 seals of Work, Health, Family and Money.

Such is the reconstituted body of Osiris—or body of Christ—that appears today through the work of the Essene Nation.

Recycling

The world of recycling is the world of the Mother. Mother Earth is not only this being who is capable of taking all negativities in order to digest them; She is also a beautiful and great light, which is the deep consciousness of all beings and the bringing forth of the wisdom that remains eternally. If you look at nature, there are two fires in it. In one of the fires, nature is beautiful, magnificent, but if you look closely, all this rests on digestion, and therefore on destruction. These two fires are inseparable from each other; they are the energy that turns the great wheel of recycling.

To be with God the Mother is not to let oneself be touched and fecundated by negativities, not to grant them importance, not to consider them excessively and above all, not to let them direct one’s life. One must hand them over to the earth, be in alliance with it and let it take care of them and settle the problem. The earth is powerful in swallowing up and digesting everything that is dark and negative.

To recycle everything within him that is not linked with the Light, with immortality, the Essene calls upon the being of Recycling, through the statue of Recycling. Thanks to this being and to this statue, recycling becomes his ally, a strength, a blessing, a liberation. See “Statue of Recycling / statue of Benevolence”.

Reintegration

This word is part of the initiatic language of Freemasonry, whose original goal is to rebuild the temple of the divine world in man and in the world through an ideal society, whose perfect model was Egypt. But this word actually goes back to the dawn of the Tradition and was passed on by Enoch, its founding father. The Book of Enoch speaks of this “reintegration” of all the creatures of the earth into the divine world through the covenant of the people of the Children of the Light with the Eternal One, with the divine world. It is the path of awakening, of redemption, of the liberation of the soul and of the ascent back towards the Father.

Religion of the Light / Essene religion / universal religion

The Religion is the bond of life that unites man with the divine world, that allows him to know himself, to weave good relationships with others and with all the kingdoms of nature. The religion of the Light, or Essene religion, belongs to no people, to no religion of the world of men; it is solely divine. It is the higher intelligence that makes it possible to guide men in wisdom and in veritable royalty.

Religion, philosophy/education, justice, economy

In ancient times, the Religion, philosophy (or education, teaching), justice (of which medicine was also a part) and the economy (protected by the caste of warriors) constituted the 4 pillars of life on earth, manifesting in the outer world the 4 bodies of man, his 4 spheres of existence:

the Religion was the guardian and the inspirer of the soul and the spirit, what nourishes the divine body, the fire body in man;

teaching was the guardian and the inspirer of thought, what nourishes the spiritual body, the air body in man, whose seat is the head;

justice was the guardian and the protector of the heart of man, what balances the auric body, the water body, where all the instincts and the creative impulses, the good as well as the bad, have their seat;

the economy was the guardian and the protector of the will and of the physical body of man, the earth body, which must be in satisfaction and contentment in order to accomplish the will of the higher worlds.

One of the goals of the contemporary Essene Nation is to restore this ancient synarchy, this celestial order, right into the earthly reality.

Resurrection of the dead

The dead are us, the men and women who live in this world and have died to the veritable life by taking on a mortal body in it. After death, no one can be resurrected, since man lives in the beyond only the consequence of what he lived on earth. Thus, the path of the resurrection of the dead must be accomplished during the earthly incarnation; this is what Jesus and all the great masters called the path of the “second birth”.

Rites of expiation

The rites of expiation are Essene rituals that make it possible to free oneself from the thoughts, the feelings, the desires linked to the spirits, the genies and the egregores that imprison the soul and lead it into slavery, and to avoid committing the acts to which they could lead us. Through the rites of expiation, man tells the invisible worlds that he wishes to use his creative power to serve the Light and to take himself back in hand, to awaken and to pay his karmic debts. The assiduous practice of the rites of expiation sets down a concrete and magical writing in the life of the one who performs them.

Rope of the Round of Archangels

The rope of the Round of Archangels is held by the Essene Angel carriers during a great ceremony taking place at each celebration of an Archangel. It is a strong symbol of their unity and of their union with the divine world, as well as a fundamental element of the Essene theurgic practice. This rope is the visible representation of the great magical chain formed by all the beings who work for the advent of the Light in all the worlds. It is with this chain of Light that Archangel Michael strikes down the dragon of dumbness and re-establishes the balance of the worlds.

Rose Cross, Christian Rosenkreutz (1378-1484)

Master Christian Rosenkreutz was born in Germany. He travelled all over the Mediterranean basin and, upon returning to Europe at the age of 35, he had assimilated the essence of the esoteric knowledge and the magical know-how of the greatest civilizations of the world. Strengthened by this universal knowledge, he formed around him the magical circle of the 12 currents of the primordial tradition of the Essenes through twelve beings predestined for this secret mission. Like Enoch, he drew the circle of the faithful guardians of the divine mysteries. Thus was born the current of the Rose Cross, which bore its visible fruits in the world, and especially in Western culture, in the centuries that followed. Through great reformers of medicine, science, religion, education such as Paracelsus, Francis Bacon, John Amos Comenius, Jacob Boehme and, closer to us, Goethe, Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin and Rudolf Steiner, the current of the Rose Cross has ceaselessly brought wisdom and life where superstition and death reigned.

Christian Rosenkreutz had concluded an alliance with Archangel Michael, who revealed to him the greatest secrets of life through the mystery of fire. Thus was born the symbol of the rose at the heart of the cross, the rose representing the fire of the beauty of God, of the mystery hidden in all the manifestations of nature.

Roses of Light

Man possesses 7 centres of consciousness, which are present inside him as 7 increasingly subtle bodies.

The Rose Cross, who knew and mastered this science to perfection, called these centres and subtle bodies of man “roses” and taught how to awaken them through 7 degrees of learning and initiation until reaching the Angel.

The first degree, that of the etheric body (the rose of the Moon), was called the “rose of the temple”, for man had to enter the temple of the Mother and be set upon a sacred, pure wisdom and tradition.

The second degree, that of the body of feelings and senses (the rose of Venus), was called the “holy liqueur”, for man had to awaken his inner life and enter an inner happiness free from all outer conditioning.

The third degree, that of the body of thought (the rose of Mercury), was called the “golden dawn”, for in man the sun of a new thought had to awaken, capable of perceiving the worlds and influences hidden behind the veil of the visible world.

The fourth degree, that of the body of consciousness (the rose of the Sun), was called the “rose of the heart”, for man had to awaken his individuality (the sun of his veritable self) within the community, in mutual support, through the offering of a work of Light for the Common Good.

The fifth degree, that of the body of destiny (the rose of Mars), was called the “creative word”. Having reached this degree of awakening, man became a mage, that is, an awakened being capable, through his life consecrated to God, of acting in the universal, beyond his personal sphere, working in hiddenness to fecundate the future of the earth and of all humanity.

The sixth degree, that of the body of the soul (the rose of Jupiter), was called the “eye of God”, for having reached this stage of Initiation, man was no longer to live in his body and for his mortal life, but to awaken the higher and universal vision of the soul, which opened to him the gates of immortality.

The seventh degree, that of the body of the spirit (the rose of Saturn), was called the “wedding of fire and Light”; it was the crowning of Initiation and man could at last celebrate the wedding of his soul with the divine bridegroom, the Angel, the messenger of the Father.

Round of Archangels

The Round of Archangels makes it possible to live in communion with an Angel and to take care of it by becoming an Angel carrier. The Angel carriers of the Round of Archangels honour the 4 Archangels through the round of the year and the 4 seasons: Michael in autumn, Gabriel in winter, Raphael in spring and Uriel in summer. This practice is part of the restoration of a contact with nature, which leads to a rediscovery of one’s own inner nature, of one’s soul, and also to a reconnection with the higher divine nature. The solstices and equinoxes are then moments of celebration and of union with the forces of nature. Within the framework of the Round of Archangels, the Angel carriers thus gather four times a year to celebrate life.

Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)

Rudolf Steiner is a philosopher, occultist, scientist and visionary of Austrian nationality. He was able to show and reveal to the world, through his works and his results, a glimpse of the universal scope of the reform of the Rose Cross, whether in medicine, education, sociology, singing, dance, art, nutrition, etc. He is the founder of anthroposophy, a path of knowledge aimed at restoring the bond between man and the spiritual worlds, which is at the origin of projects as diverse as biodynamic agriculture, the Waldorf schools and the Weleda cosmetic products.

Sacrament

A sacrament is a religious act of consecration and blessing accomplished by a priest with the aim of placing an important moment of the life of man under the authority and in the presence of a higher world. So it is with birth through baptism, and also with marriage or death. Through the sacraments of baptism, marriage or death, man unites his life with the will and the wisdom of a higher world. In perfection, and for a sacrament to be truly operative, real, the priest who seals the act of consecration must himself be linked with this higher world through the alliance with an Angel and within the framework of a living tradition, animated by one or several living masters.

Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine is one of the founding fathers of the Church of Rome. Originally, the young Augustine was a disciple of Mani, one of the greatest Essene masters the earth has known. He venerated the great Mani to such a point that he wanted to consecrate his life to Manicheism by committing himself to the path of Initiation. But the Manichean initiation was very demanding and Augustine quickly showed signs of weakness, which is not a problem in itself. The problem is that instead of entering into humility and work on himself, Augustine turned violently against his companions of initiation. He therefore rejected Manicheism and ended up entrenching himself in a personal mystical way, where he would not be accountable to anyone. He elaborated a whole lot of spiritual and mystical theories behind which he could hide to justify his weakness and his ignorance. And still today, his irrational and mystical teaching constitutes the basis of the Catholic catechism.

Saint Augustine is also, although indirectly, at the origin of the genocide of the Cathars and of the murder of all the beings who were judged heretics in the Middle Ages; these judgements were indeed pronounced and carried out on the basis of the doctrine that he elaborated on his own authority against all heresy, in other words, against all those who would not think like the “great Augustine”.

Saint John the Baptist, the apostle and evangelist Saint John (1st century BC - 1st century AD), Jesus (0-33)

Saint John the Baptist, Jesus and Saint John, trained from their earliest age by the great master of the Essene brotherhood on Mount Horeb, are like one and the same being. Saint John the Baptist prepared all the conditions for the advent of Christ, whom he had prophesied as Elijah. At the moment when Jesus appeared “at the forefront”, as the living incarnation of Christ, Saint John the Baptist disappeared, beheaded by order of King Herod. After three years of public mission, Jesus disappeared in his turn, crucified by the people who were to welcome him and crown him king of Israel. The covenant with Christ—the master in all masters—was then entrusted to the beloved disciple Saint John, who became the new great master of the Essene people, the carrier of Christ and the guardian of his doctrine for the 2,000 years to come. Indeed, Saint John incarnated in all the initiatic currents that preserved the teaching of Christ in its original purity and wisdom. From the school of mysteries of Christ, which he resurrected and founded with the help of the Virgin Mary, was born a new river of Essene wisdom that continued through the brotherhoods of the Manicheans, the Bogomils, the Templars, the Cathars and the Rose Cross, all the way to the Essene Nation.

Satan

One must not see in this name what Christian superstition has made of it. “Satan” comes from the Egyptian name “Seth”, the personification of the desert, of death, where nothing can grow any longer. Whereas the Mother is the fertile earth, Satan is the sterile, dead earth. The Mother is recycling, and Satan is the waste that does not get recycled.

Satan is also the principle of the condensation of matter, whereas Lucifer is the principle of the expansion of matter.

School of mysteries / school of God / school of wisdom / initiatic school / school of Light

The schools of mysteries were created by the envoys of the Father, the great masters of humanity, as a clear and structured path to allow all beings to return towards their veritable and eternal self.

When humanity had fallen from the divine world, certain human beings began to ask themselves the great questions about life, death, the stars, the earth... Inside them grew the aspiration to find again the path towards the original homeland. This aspiration rose like a prayer towards the land of the Light and came to awaken compassion in the heart of the other part of humanity, the one that had not fallen from the divine world. It is from this original humanity that the great masters of all traditions were sent, those who have been called the envoys of the Father. They descended onto the earth as the answer to the prayer of their brothers and sisters who had fallen; this is the origin and the raison d’être of the schools of mysteries. They were created by the envoys of the Father as a clear and structured path to allow all the beings imprisoned in darkness to straighten themselves up and return towards their original consciousness, towards their veritable and eternal self.

Enoch drew on the earth the circle of the Light by creating the school of mysteries as the centre of the new life of a new people, the people of the Children of the Light. Into this school, into this people, were invited all the beings who, with a pure heart and intention, were ready to study the great mysteries of life and to become the servants of a higher world for the good of all beings. Enoch thus engendered a lineage of men and women guardians of the tradition and of the people of the Light on earth.

Second death

Just as the death of the physical body can be seen as a new birth, in another world, so the birth into the body of a newborn can be considered a death, for man then loses the memory of everything he lived in his soul before incarnating. The Essene tradition, and notably Saint John in his Revelation, calls “second death” this moment when man reincarnates in the body of a newborn. This death is “worse” than the first (that of the body), in the sense that man loses the memory of what he came to earth for. Aware of this mystery, the Essene sees life on earth take on its full meaning, for he understands that he must work on himself and participate consciously in the work of God on earth until he attains immortality, that is, continuity of consciousness, which delivers man from the curse of the second death.

Secret chamber

In no case does an Essene master enter the secret chamber of his student. On the other hand, when such a master prays for his students, it activates in them the presence of the inner master, of Christ, of the veritable self that awakens and begins to speak to them directly. Thus, the master outside awakens the master inside through resonance; this is the secret of the tuning fork.

Serpent

The serpent, in the language of the mysteries, designates the creative force and power that live in man, but of which he is no longer aware. This serpent is not negative in itself, for it is the same energy as the serpent of wisdom. Simply, when man “fell” from the divine world, this primordial force that animated him and united him with the Source found itself shut up in a single world: the physical body. Man, thus deprived of the purity of the divine world and of the knowledge of its sacred laws, did not know how to transmute it into the light of wisdom. This force then became blind and destructive, seeking by all means to return towards the Source. Thus were born all the vices of man, like an unleashing of uncontrolled forces, but also like a call to the awakening and the straightening up of man. The most cunning of men learned to use this energy under deceitful appearances, for their own glory, by crushing others, whereas the wisest learned to tame it so that it would become again what it is originally, a servant of the Father and the Mother.

Serpent and eagle or falcon

The Egyptians knew and mastered to perfection this ancient science of the serpent and the eagle (or the falcon), whose mysteries they had hidden in the story of the battle of the God Horus (the falcon or the eagle) against the God Seth (the serpent). Seth represented the underground forces that live in the earth and in the spiritual water, which constitute the world of unconscious, usurped men; Horus incarnated the higher forces and intelligences of the sun and the sky, of fire and air, the world of the Angels, the Archangels and the Gods. This battle takes place in each man, in each woman who wants to walk towards the Light, for man belongs to the world of Seth, to the world of the fall, and must do a whole work on himself in order to be redeemed by Horus, the world of the Light, which is also the symbol of the Angel of God. Jesus himself, initiated into these mysteries in the temples of Egypt, spoke of this sacred science of Initiation when he said: “Be cunning, wise as the serpent (Seth) and guileless, pure as the dove (Horus, the falcon, the eagle).”

Serpent of wisdom

This is what the Essenes call the great cosmic fluid, the universal soul that the Father emanated from Himself at the origin of time so that Creation would be possible and that spirit and matter could be united in perfect harmony. It is the primordial ocean of energy of the divine Mother, which bathes the worlds and leads them towards the Father through the path, the river of wisdom. It is often represented as a serpent of Light that rises behind the spinal column of all the authentic masters, for it wants to keep pure and living this sacred bond that unites the Father and the Mother. It is the guardian of the gates of the invisible world, watching permanently so that nothing human (the sphere of good and evil mixed together) can enter the higher worlds.

In the contemporary Essene Nation, several means are offered to help approach the serpent of wisdom: 1) an in-depth teaching; Olivier Manitara addressed this subject in many lectures, and the book Awaken the Serpent of Wisdom within You presents it in great detail; 2) the gymnastics of the depths and the 8 arcana of the serpent of wisdom; 3) the initiation to the serpent of wisdom, which can be done after the initiation of the 5 senses; 4) the initiation of the third step, which consists in removing the tempting serpent; 5) staffs of the serpent of wisdom made by Essene priest-craftsmen according to the rules of the art of the Tradition; 6) the fire and Light worship, which integrates the serpent of wisdom.

Shadow of God

In the secret teaching of the Essenes (which is found in the Bible and in all the other sacred texts), the masters are called the “shadow of God”. God the Father is pure light; He is at once everywhere and nowhere, in the sense that He cannot be found outside of us, in limited forms, for He is precisely the Unlimited One, the Eternal One, the Nameless One. To manifest Himself in the world, He needs a body of Light in his likeness, in his image. This is why it was said that Jesus was the body of Christ, the Word made flesh, the intelligence of God in action, manifested right into the reality of the earth and of the limited world of men. Thus, the Essene masters are the “shadow of God”, for through their magical presence, awakened men and women can have access to the light of the Father, to his cosmic intelligence. They have also been called the “door”, for through their words of wisdom, men can begin to conceive something of the divine world of the great intelligence that created the universe.

Sickness

Dysfunction of one or several bodies due to too great a separation from the Light.