"In the ocean of life a wave is preparing itself. It is still invisible and yet, it is forming itself in the heart of the ocean and of the earth. It is the culmination of the confusion and of the inner war of humans. By feeding itself with the energy of the old love cultivated by men, it will become a tidal wave.

2003 must be for our school the year when the servants of the flame must incarnate themselves so as to protect the earth from this wave filled with anger. It is the new ark of Noah, a boat of Light and love built by the free alliance of awakened men. It is the responsibility of the servants of the flame to make the Light shine so that it spread throughout the entire world."

In January 2003, Olivier Manitara, who has not ceased to work and to labour concretely for peace by transmitting a great number of methods, teachings, books, is named messenger of the Manifesto for Peace of UNESCO. This recognition was attributed to him principally thanks to the ardour and assiduity of the disciples who knew how to gather their voices.

"You can say that you are for peace, but this means nothing if you do not work for the peace of God. The ideas, thoughts, concepts that motivate your acts are fundamental. They engender a destiny in correspondence.

Be genitors of the intelligence that brings peace. It is a state of consciousness and of being, a virtue that you must cultivate ceaselessly and render omnipresent in the water of your lives."

A month later, during the Rose Cross seminar, an exceptional event occurs. During a ceremony, Olivier Manitara sees in the invisible world, in the middle of their circle of Light, that the spiritual being of the eagle, which is the king of the land of Light, unites itself with that of the serpent of the Mother-Earth. He grasps the importance of this message. This eagle that descends in the midst of them comes to bear witness that it approves and accepts their work and elevates the serpent into the kingdom of the pure heights.

Olivier knows that it has been several millennia that this event has been awaited in several schools and traditions on earth. This alliance had not been sealed again since the initiations in the temples of ancient Egypt. The signs are present to confirm the rightness of their work.

In the etheric of the earth and its invisible structure, Olivier Manitara sees that his school is changing and that major transformations are operating themselves in the students. He perceives that an evolution flows back upon all and that they are writing a historical page in the sacred book of life.

The Order of Priesthood takes on importance within the Essene school of mysteries. The priests know how to act in the invisible worlds in a creative way so as to vivify the words, prayers, melodies, movements transmitted and so as to reinforce the bonds with the higher worlds.

The role of priests has always been to maintain open the path towards the Angels, Archangels and Gods and to clear the sky of all the forces of fear and doubt that seek to take hold of men. They represent the guardians of the Essene magical and theurgic knowledge. They activate and protect the temples, sacred texts, ceremonies. They know more and more how to put strength into their thoughts, their words and their acts so as to constitute together the body of Light of the School.

At the full moon of May is celebrated the feast of Beltane, the queen of flowers and of nature. This full moon corresponds to the union of the purified inner life with the higher self. For the Celts and the Gauls, it was the great feast where Beltane, nature, united itself with Cernunnos, the man who communes with God. This feast is that of flowers, of spring and of rebirth to life and it consists in reuniting the sacred fires of the Father and of the Mother so as to call chance, prosperity and blessing into one's life.

"All these mysteries unfold within nature and they must also take place inside spiritual students who strive to live in an inner harmony with the Mother of the world. The earth rejoices with all her soul to carry the man who resurrects, who unites himself with the sun and who welcomes the I-Am fire at the centre of his consciousness. She is thus fecundated by all that emanates from the soul of man."

A circle forms itself so as to offer help, healing and relief through the power of the Angels. Set down and structured in June, it will grow from year to year and this mutual support will be practised on a large scale in several countries.

"We cultivate mutual support as an Essene art of living and we are always ready to help one another. It has been decided to enable all those who desire it to receive the energy and strength of this mutual support."

The book "God the Mother" appears in the month of August, revealing the feminine side of God. Olivier teaches there that the Mother of the world must rise up in each one of us so that all the kingdoms of the earth be protected.

"It is for the daughters of the Mother of the world, for wives, mothers, grandmothers to hear the call and to set themselves in movement so as to take care of all the children of the world.

Let woman awaken her own thought, let her plunge into her heart, into her body as mother and let her nourish her word and her acts with the fire of her soul. Then femininity will shine with its veritable light in the heart of a regenerated humanity. And the new epoch, that of the Mother of the world, will be able to appear and live in the midst of us."

During this year 2003, Olivier Manitara initiates six Essene priests into the Six Moons and into the angelic alliance. Thanks to the benefit acquired through this work, which reinforces the whole structure, he himself succeeds in passing the fourth step of Initiation, the one that enables one to reach the world of the Archangels. It is on this step that the greatest guides of humanity have stood. It represents the portal of eternity and the elaboration of the body of the Light in man. This will be one of the greatest ordeals of his life as man and he will take several years to stabilize himself there. This step was the first step of an entire path that would become a veritable adventure.

"My Angel appeared to me so as to announce to me that it was time to present myself before the Archangels, for it was the will of God. He explained to me that so as to be able to speak with the Archangels of God, one had to stand on the fourth step.

I thus crossed all obstacles so as to make grow the Light that I was able to contemplate through my takings of consciousness and my perceptions. This took years before I met the Archangels who represent the face and body of God."

Olivier Manitara presents himself at the portal of the divine world and becomes then an intermediary, an impersonal interlocutor whose mission is to make known to the world the will of God. Because of this, during the seminar of Archangel Michael, during which a sacred fire remains lit day and night as is customary, maintained so as to call and invoke the Archangel, Olivier truly manages to unite himself with him.

This union represents the culmination of a whole life of work, a victory due to his integrity, his will and his uncommon perseverance. He had received then very precise indications on his part:

"Archangel Michael was the first, when I succeeded in the stage of my fourth step, to ask me to celebrate him by forming for him a body for several days. He gave me the indications of all that I had to do in the smallest details. He asked me to light a fire and to feed it day and night.

He showed me that my students had to place themselves around this fire, all the while remaining active and taking care of the hearth from a material point of view, but also in their thoughts and their feelings. He also asked me to call his presence into the fire. This stage was the beginning of a new cycle of work.

The words of my Angel brought me new elements that had their importance: 'By lighting the fire of Archangel Michael in the middle of the circle of your students, you will seal the Covenant. If your students accept the Covenant, in consciousness and truth, they will constitute the holy congregation and will be able, in their turn, to transmit it to the earth and to humanity by constituting the body of God on earth. You will stand in the midst of them as the messenger and will reconstitute the alliance of humans who awaken themselves towards the divine world. The life of all the participants will change. All those who will commit themselves with you will make appear a new world in the world, a new way of being and of living on earth, which will enable the opening of an authentic path of evolution for humanity and the entire earth.'"
Michael is the fire of the first alliance of man with God. He remains faithful to God. He is the alliance and also the temple of man perfectly purified and consecrated. He knows the secret of creation and also the role of man, who must create himself in accord with God.

"What the Angel calls the 'Covenant' is the body of an egregore. We are all in egregores and alliances. The Angel says that the alliance of God is fire, that fire is the highest manifestation of the divine spirit and that earth united with fire makes God appear."

The year 2003 marked the first jubilee of the Essene Nation through the first seminar of Archangel Michael, even though it was not yet officially called the Round of Archangels.