"Moses climbed the summit of Sinai to speak with the Eternal One, the spirit of the heights. He does not abandon his people of birth who await him below. No, he carries them in his heart but detaches himself from them to go receive the new covenant that will precisely resurrect his people, awaken them and transmit to them a positive orientation."

The supreme vocation of the Essene tradition is to create the right conditions so that great masters capable of balancing worlds can incarnate themselves. The Essenes have called these exceptional beings "the Sons and Daughters of the Sun", for they are born a second time in the divine world, which alone can bring answers to all problems of humanity.

Master Peter Deunov had isolated himself during his lifetime for three weeks in a cave situated in the Moussala mountains. Then he had gone to its summit and had united himself with the sun during three days through ardent prayer and purity. During this initiation, he had let himself be guided by the inner light that inspired him. He was not really conscious of what he was doing, he did not know that he was opening the "door of the Sun", the door of the divine world, and that a lineage of masters would be able to walk in his steps so that the Light continue to exist in humanity, but he had the intuition and the strength to listen to what came to speak to him and to put it into action by triumphing over doubt. Then the Light awakened in him and conducted him on the path.

Olivier Manitara chose in turn to withdraw and to remain three weeks in complete isolation, prayer and meditation. It is thus that he too could enter the "temple of the Sun" and remain there three days so as to receive the fecundation of the spirit and so that the Sun form in him a new body.

In the intensity of this retreat and of this solitude in the plain of Salem, Olivier Manitara accedes to awakenings and revelations of primary importance. First of all, he understands the offence to God that the world engenders. He grasps the extent of the imbalance of humanity and sees clearly through the eye of God that man, not knowing how to make fructify what has been given to him by the great intelligence, has had himself usurped and stolen everything that constitutes his life. Beings are subjected in slavery by hidden forces and there remains on earth only a great illusion, a lie, voidness.

Before this imbalance, Olivier perceives a salvatory path, a logical continuation to the work that he has begun to set down. He sees that homage to God could evolve and grow in a concrete alliance between the Essenes and the Angels. This alliance of Light between the two worlds would take form through the conscious union of awakened men with the Angels, with the finality of taking care of an Angel, of engaging oneself with him to protect him and serve him.

The magic of a sacred round binding these two worlds opens to Olivier's eyes, revealing to him the great mystery of the "Round of the Archangels", which asks to be born. He understands that it is a will of the Gods, of the Mother and of the spirits of nature. Only this act will be able to liberate from the seals of the Usurper the Essenes who will engage themselves in it, in consciousness, with all their heart and all their soul. By realizing this common work, they will enter another aura, another atmosphere, another world.

"When I passed my initiation of the Sons of the Sun in the plain of Salem, just below the temple of water and its magical spring, I felt throughout this discipline the love and the rigour of Archangel Gabriel envelop me and guide me. It is during this initiation that were transmitted to me the great practice of the Round of the Archangels as well as the sacred teaching of the forgiveness of trespasses.

Indeed, thanks to the Round of the Archangels, the path can truly open to honour God and each one will be able to participate, through prayers to the Archangels and through calls to the Angels, in a work that is great."

Olivier senses that an entire nation will be born from all these acts set down by the Essenes. Their will, their determination and their engagement will bear their fruits. And indeed, the Essene Nation will be founded three years later.

It is also during this initiation that the four-leaf clover, which symbolizes the four Archangels and which will become one of the emblems of the Essene Nation, appears to Olivier.

"While I found myself in the temple of initiation, an immense four-leaf clover appeared to me as a blessing. I understood that this was bound to what I had to do on the earth. This clover is the symbol of the treasure of treasures: through the Round of the Archangels, it is possible to unify the four Archangels, the four leaves of the clover in a real harmony. Indeed, in nature, four is a sacred number. Within our tradition, the four-leaf clover evokes the Mother. It is a representation of the perfect soul, the soul that embraces perfection in all worlds. It is a powerful symbol of our alliance."

Thus Olivier is conscious, at the end of his experience, of the acts that he will have to set down to pursue his path in continuity with what he has already accomplished.

It is at the end of four years of work, at the age of 38, that under the guidance of his Angel, Olivier passes the third step of Initiation, which symbolizes the absolute mastery of the tempting serpent. During seven days, the initiate must show to the serpent of the world of men that he is capable of dominating the forces and influences that are bound to its negative aspect. It is a work and a discipline that he must offer to God so as to succeed in the final phase of this initiation.

Olivier has the great merit of having accomplished the ascension of this step and his Angel is happy with this:

"You have triumphed through your alliance with the angelic light of the Father and you have shown to all worlds your fidelity. Now, it is necessary that in the circle of your daily life, you confirm what has been done and accomplished in the higher and subtle worlds of your being."