"In former times, men lived with the seasons, the natural rhythms of life, the great celebrations of nature, which contain a message and a wisdom accessible to all. They knew that the true message of God, the great book of knowledge, was nature, and that it is she who, through flowers, wheat and the abundance of all that comes out of the soil, shows us that there is a higher life.

In our days, the Essenes thus pursue this ancestral tradition by connecting themselves during four celebrations to the great Archangels Raphael, the Archangel of spring and of air, Uriel, that of summer and of earth, Michael that of autumn and of fire, and Gabriel, that of winter and of water."

The Round of the Archangels is the fruit of thousands of years of evolution. It inscribes itself first of all in the restoration of a contact with nature. This contact brings about a rediscovery of our own inner nature and also a reconnection with higher nature, divine, eternal, for there are in us cycles that are living in nature, in our soul and also in the divine manifestation of higher consciousness. The Round of the Archangels is bound to these cycles and puts them to work so as to re-establish a harmony and a perfect balance in life. The sun, by traversing the round of the year, crosses all signs of the zodiac, which are the four elements, the four faces of the mystery of God. These four faces are represented by the four cardinal points, called solstices and equinoxes. These solstices and equinoxes are magical doors that enable to accomplish a great work in invisible worlds.

"This round of seasons, round of the year, Round of the Archangels sanctifies the Name of the Father through the seasons and the four cosmic forces that animate them. All ancient peoples have venerated and honoured these four great forces of nature. Our ancestors gathered to pray and invoke so as to make them appear in subtle worlds. And in fact, our school, after years of effort and intensive work, has received the beginning of the great method that could renew divine life on the earth and propose to all a new way of being in the world. It is a great victory of the Light and a magnificent work that is accomplished."

This round is the great circle of creative life that animates all. During his initiation of Son of the Sun, Olivier perceived that the School would become on the earth the pure and living receptacle of the intelligence of the divine sun thanks to this angelic round. Henceforth, it has never ceased to grow, and over time, from celebration to celebration, it has taken on strength in visible and invisible worlds.

In September 2005, while Olivier unveils to the Essenes his desire to set down this round in a more concrete manner, the most determined respond to the call and engage themselves in the Round of the Archangels by uniting themselves with an Angel and his virtue. In this angelic alliance, by uniting himself with a virtue, man can rediscover what is true in him and renew bond with what he is from all eternity. He will then have to connect himself every day to his Angel, take care of this virtue and study passages of the Essene Gospels.

"True intelligence is the light of the Angel in man. You must understand this wisdom and awaken yourselves in it so as to open the path of veritable education of humankind. This education must be a sacred space into which one enters through the door of the Round of the Archangels, then the alliance will be able to be sealed. A higher world will be able to act on man to deliver him from the hold of certain worlds that retain him in lower spheres. All the great masters of our tradition have accomplished this work on themselves and this liberation from lower spheres, and you too, you can enter on this path."

The Round of the Archangels is a circle of mutual aid, of protection, of mutual support. Its great mission is to support the Father and his Light, in all worlds and in the seven kingdoms of creation.

"For the divine world will be able to come on the earth only through the affectionate devotion of awakened men towards it who know how to gather to set down a sacred space. This is a path of Light that must be opened. Then our circle will become a veritable sun that will have a real influence on the secret life of the earth and of humanity. The Round of the Archangels has for function to re-enchant the world."

The Angels are a higher reality that guides man in his life and acts on him in the same way as the earth that nourishes him, water, air and fire. The virtues are living and intelligent beings, such as love, goodness, peace, who wish to conduct man towards union with the Father and the Mother.

"Union with the Angels is truth. Make this alliance live in your life. The Essenes who engage themselves concretely as Angel carriers offer themselves as living earth for the rooting and fructification of the Light and enable the virtues and all Angels to be able to live on the earth and to manifest themselves there in the midst of men.

When you enter the Round of the Archangels, you receive a sacrament, an ordination. You climb the first degree of priesthood. A seal, forces, lights manifest themselves around you."

To represent their tradition, the Essenes have often used the image of the bark, of the boat. Noah's ark, for example, speaks to us of this work of safeguarding each form of life, while the world was sinking into chaos. Today, in a certain way, the Round of the Archangels is a boat of Light in which the Angels are invited to settle themselves to find a space of life on the earth. It renews itself at each celebration as a veritable opportunity of Light for the one who wishes to take care of God in his life. Olivier knows that this action can truly change the world, that it marks a turning point and will remain forever in the history of humanity.

"The Round of the Archangels is the body of resurrection that has been brought to you by God Himself. It is the religion of religions, the source of all culture, of all civilization, of beautiful and healthy life, of perfect discipline."

In the ancient mysteries, the student had to brave the four unleashed elements and cross trials without losing his calm, his peace, his serenity, his Light. It is the same today through the practice of the Round of the Archangels, veritable sphinx of present times. Indeed, during his year of probation, the Essene who engages himself to carry the virtue of an Angel and who wishes to journey towards his soul must present himself before the four doors of the divine world, guarded by the four Archangels of fire, of air, of water and of earth. This purification of the 4 bodies of man (body of thought, of feeling, of will, of acting) through the 4 divine elements of the Father inevitably engenders upheavals and tensions in the personality and habits of the candidate for Essene, Christic initiation. The outcome of this year will reveal whether or not the candidate is ready to engage himself in the process of the liberation of the soul and the construction of the body of immortality through the three ulterior phases of Essene initiations.


The Round of the Archangels and the Alternation of Seasons

Autumn - Archangel Michael

Archangel Michael enables man to awaken inner discernment, to separate truth from illusion. He ignites an inner flame that delivers from conflicts, from confusion, from karma to heal and awaken energy centres.

Before the sacred fire of Archangel Michael, consciousness can awaken and inner life illuminate itself with a new day. It is the preparation of the earth for winter. Only the seeds of eternity are preserved.


Winter - Archangel Gabriel

Archangel Gabriel enables man the awakening of the soul. The Essenes have from all time worked with the healing energies of Gabriel for the liberation of the soul through water.

A ritual of inner healing and reconnection takes place during each celebration of Archangel Gabriel. The soul receives the impulse enabling it to reconnect itself to the divine source. It is a magical work of purification of sick energies, of cleansing of magnetic fluids and of the etheric body.


Spring - Archangel Raphael

Archangel Raphael enables man to weave in full consciousness a magical atmosphere constituted of the purest ethers. The divine energies can then incarnate themselves on the earth through us. He heals heavy, weighty atmospheres and psychic pollutions.

Archangel Raphael is the eternal Father of divine air and of the breath of life, the inspirer of all medicine, the carrier of the caduceus of Hermes. Through his breath, he animates the flame and gives the power to heal all ethers.


Summer - Archangel Uriel

Archangel Uriel helps man to remove the veil of death, of illusions and to construct his body of Light. He makes appear the energy of perfection even into the physical body.

Uriel is the marvelling in the work of man. He enables to open the inner eye of the soul and to set down another look on the world. He is the Archangel of joy, of celebration and of festivity and he is celebrated at summer solstice.