Alphabetical index

A brotherhood is a community that possesses a luminous consciousness

• A brotherhood is a community that possesses a luminous consciousness

A decree

• Devoting one’s life to something useful

A diamond

• The image of an initiate who thanks to his trials and love has become a pure, sparkling light

A drop of water

• Each human being can be compared to one, and must sacrifice them self

A living cell contains infinite possibilities for the future

• A living cell contains infinite possibilities for the future

A magician

• How to become a black magician or a white magician

A sense of the sacred

• By respecting the divine, you respect human beings

A sublime idea leaves the door wide open to all the spirits of light

• A sublime idea leaves the door wide open to all the spirits of light

A true artist takes themselves as the material for their creation

• A true artist takes themselves as the material for their creation

A true disciple has learned to ascend and descend

• A true disciple has learned to ascend and descend

Abandonment, the feeling of

• Requires us to seek support in the world of the soul and spirit

Absurdity

• A notion that is alien to the philosophy of the initiates

Abundance

• Is only found in the spiritual realm

Academic knowledge

• Useful but superficial

Accusations and criticisms

• Why make matters worse?

Achievements, of spirit

• Only they can truly transform life

Act of lovemaking

• It should improve, uplift and strengthen your partner

Action

• Setting off forces

Actions

• Always the fruit of our thoughts and our feelings
• Are good or bad depending on the quality of the thoughts and feelings that inspire them
• Thoughts and feelings that must accompany them
• We must consciously harmonize them with our beliefs
• Working until they express our ideal

Activities

• Make them converge towards a single goal: perfecting yourself
• That give rapid results are not always the best; example of the seed

Activities (artistic)

• And spiritual work

Activities, daily

• Must be organized about a centre: our spirit

Activity

• And passivity; the ajna chakra

Activity of any kind

• Requires a method

Acts

• They provide more joy than thoughts and feelings do

Acts of kindness

• As reactions to annoyances

Adam and eve

• The fall is the origin of the misunderstandings between humans

Adam kadmon

• The body of the universe of which human beings are a part

Adaptability

• Knowing how to adapt without abandoning one’s ideal

Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

• The four ages of life

Adjustments

• Needed to find the right direction

Admiration

• Gives life flavour, but criteria are needed
• Gives life meaning, but criteria are needed

Adults

• Are responsible for children’s development
• Leading young people astray
• Like children, they prefer that which is pleasant
• Their part in how the young behave
• Their responsibilities towards their children

Advancing

• By imitating those who surpass us

Adversaries

• How to consider them in order to evolve

Affection

• Its demonstrations must be conscious
• Must be expressed consciously

Affinity, psychological and intellectual

• Necessary condition for lasting love

Ageing

• Inevitable on the physical plane but not on the spiritual plane
• Inevitable on the physical plane but not on the spiritual plane
• Is inevitable for the physical body, but not for the heart

Aggression and sexuality

• Mastering them makes us stronger

Aging

• Remaining young at heart

Agitation

• Stop from time to time to instil a harmonious rhythm within you

Air

• Feeds the fire of life

Ajna chakra, the

• Our inner eye

Akasha chronica bears the imprints of every creature and event

• Akasha chronica bears the imprints of every creature and event

Alchemical work

• Know how to suffer to become a creator

Alchemy

• Is not unknown to the bible - the episode about the flood
• True alchemy is spiritual alchemy

Alchemy, astrology, magic, cabbalah

• We find the basis of these four sciences in the actions of everyday life

Alchemy, spiritual

• Knowing how to transform the harm done to us

Alcohol and drugs

• A harmful illusion of freedom

Alive, becoming more

• By rejoicing in everything that exists

Alpha and omega

• Living letters of creation

Alphabet, cosmic

• Its resonance within us

Alternations

• Accept them and learn how to use them

Alternations on the physical plane and on the spiritual plane

• Alternations on the physical plane and on the spiritual plane

Ambiance

• It brings out people’s good or bad side
• Its importance for our spiritual development

Ambition

• Do not confuse it with the high ideal

Ambitions

• Accomplishing heaven’s plans
• When you have achieved them, will you measure up to them?

Amends (making) for one’s mistakes

• Is the only way for the guilty to be freed

An initiatic teaching gives us the means to improve our future incarnations

• An initiatic teaching gives us the means to improve our future incarnations

Anarchist

• Someone who refuses to recognize the divine order

Anarchy

• If a disciple accepts anarchy, disorder will take hold deep within them
• We will be the victims of the resulting disorder

Anarchy (inner)

• Or the illusion of being one’s own master

Anarchy, inner

• Illusion of being one’s own master

Ancestors and descendants

• We help them thanks to our spiritual work

Androgyne

• Symbol of those beings who bring together the two principles within themselves

Androgynous –the true nature of our psychic being

• Androgynous –the true nature of our psychic being

Angel of air

• A prayer

Angel on one’s right and devil on one’s left

• Symbols of human beings’ dual nature

Angelic entities

• Attracting them by giving them favourable conditions

Angelic hierarchies

• Beacons on the path leading to god
• From human beings to god
• Giving them a place in our spiritual life
• Their role in our spiritual work
• Through which we connect to god

Angelic orders

• Connections between humans and god

Angelic orders, the – intermediaries between god and humans

• Angelic orders, the – intermediaries between god and humans

Angels

• Though discarnate, are also polarized as masculine or feminine
• What makes them different from humans and what brings them closer

Angels (guardian)

• Appreciate the adults who help them in their task with children

Angels of the four elements

• Communicating with them through our food
• Communing with them through our meals
• Contained in food

Anger

• And its excesses
• How to control it
• How to use the energy

Animal instinct within us that we must control, the

• Animal instinct within us that we must control, the

Animal kingdom

• An enigma for humans

Animal sacrifices

• Sacrificing our inner animals

Animal soul

• With which a human soul can cohabit

Animal, instinctive nature

• Standing up to it

Animals

• Consequences of the bad treatment inflicted by humans
• In which evolved souls undergo a period of training
• What their character traits can teach us

Animals and humans – they will one day make peace

• Animals and humans – they will one day make peace

Animals, inner

• Taming them so they participate with us in cosmic harmony

Annual cycle of vegetation, the

• Teaches us about the secrets of life, death and resurrection

Answers

• To our problems; a way to obtain them
• To the questions we ask ourselves when we are being tested lie within us
• We receive from the invisible world
• We receive from the invisible world

Answers from god

• Are only received by those who feel that god lives in them
• Are within us

Answers from heaven

• Conditions for receiving them
• Preparing to receive them

Answers from heaven, the

• Being attentive in order to receive them

Antipathies

• Overcoming them in order to live in harmony

Antipathy

• A sage surmounts their feelings of sympathy and antipathy

Anxieties

• Resulting from a loss of contact with universal life

Anxiety

• A feeling you should immediately react against
• A feeling you should immediately react against

Anxiousness

• Identifying its cause and taking action

Appetite for easiness, an

• Dulls our vigilance

Appetites, lower

• Satisfying them turns humans into slaves

Aquarius bring the ideas of brotherhood and universality

• Aquarius bring the ideas of brotherhood and universality

Aquarius directs human beings towards the divine world

• Aquarius directs human beings towards the divine world

Archangel gabriel

• Genetic heredity
• Presides over the region of yesod

Archangel michael

• He is celebrated at the beginning of autumn
• Take part in his victory against the dragon
• We should link ourselves to him and ask him to protect us

Archangel michael overpowering the dragon

• Symbol of victory over the lower self

Archery

• Its link with the zodiac sign of sagittarius

Army of good, the

• In which we must enlist

Art

• Artists must create works that inspire the human soul
• Must draw inspiration from the world of light
• The need for language that is clear
• True creation is to sculpt our inner selves

Art must be elevated in order to capture particles of beauty

• Art must be elevated in order to capture particles of beauty

Artificial paradise

• Testifies to the needs of the soul deprived of its true food

Artist

• As understood from an initiatic point of view
• Each of us is called to be one
• Must see themself as material for their creation
• Precondition: you have to work on yourself

Artist, an

• The definition according to initiatic science

Artistic creation

• And moral life cannot be kept separate

Artists

• Meditate to receive the revelation of true beauty
• Must seek their inspiration in the spiritual world
• Their mission is to make human beings return to their celestial homeland
• Those who have destroyed their own masterpieces have harmed themselves
• Using artistic talents to save souls

Artists and initiates

• Open up the divine world to humans

Artists and intellectuals

• React differently to criticism

Artists must make the spirit descend into matter

• Artists must make the spirit descend into matter

Asceticism

• Is not necessarily proof of spirituality

Aspirations (spiritual)

• Always provide support

Asserting oneself

• By means of light, love and gentleness
• Gently and kindly

Astral body

• Of the rich person and the camel

Astral body, it is the

• That opposes entry into the kingdom of god

Astral body, the

• It is awakened during adolescence

Astral fire and spiritual fire

• Astral fire and spiritual fire

Astral light

• Substance in which everything about us is imprinted

Astrology

• An art of interpretation
• Birth chart, chart of conception and chart of the second birth

Asylum

• The right to it: the application of a reality from the spiritual world

Atheism

• Only considers the superficial side of beings and things

Atheist

• Like someone who sees only the anatomy of another human being

Athletes

• Claiming inner victories every day

Atmosphere

• Poisoned by the improper stories being peddled around

Atmosphere of harmony

• In which our higher nature can develop

Attacks (psychic)

• We resist them by purifying our own matter

Attention

• An attitude that allows us to sense passing celestial currents
• Practising paying particular
• Self-awareness of our inner realm
• To the smallest things in everyday life

Attention, pay

• Whenever we are given something

Attitude

• Adopting the right attitude towards the creator to receive his blessings
• It is by our attitude that we attract or repel the spirits of light
• You choose the conditions of your existence according to your attitude

Attraction and repulsion

• They are never reliable guides

Attraction and repulsion, instinctual

• Controlled by divine love

Attuning

• To the heavenly entities in the morning

Attuning oneself with the powers of the universe

• Attuning oneself with the powers of the universe

Audacity

• Despite hostilities, continue to work for the light

Aura

• Develops through practising the virtues
• Fire that protects us from dark spirits
• Its colours are a pass to enter the regions to which they correspond
• Its colours are nourished and maintained by the virtues
• Its quality depends on the way we live
• Our spiritual atmosphere
• Spiritual skin that effects exchanges
• The practice of divine virtues attracts the corresponding colours
• The spiritual emanation of the inner being
• Work on it to attract every blessing

Aura, our

• Brings our words alive

Aura, the

• Attracts entities of light
• Is strengthened by love
• Our spiritual clothing
• The threads we must use to weave it

Authority

• Is acquired through inner work of unification

Authority (true)

• Is obtained only through kindness and patience

Autumn

• Its correspondence to human life
• Separation
• Under the influence of michael, archangel of tiphareth
• What it corresponds to in human life

Autumn equinox

• Presided over by archangel michael

Awareness of universality preserves us from solitude

• Awareness of universality preserves us from solitude

Awareness, our

• Of the presence of god and the universe within us must be reclaimed