ЛУЈЗА-МАРИА ФРЕНЕТ
14.
Убавината што ја создаваме околу нас
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As the years passed, the Bonfin
was transformed. Flowers, shrubs and trees were planted, oleander mimosa and
eucalyptus, and the level area was laid out next to the old oak tree for the
morning exercises. The scene that unfolded every day at dawn must have reminded
Mikhael of his days at Rila: the stars were still bright in the sky when the
first campers emerged from their tents. After summary ablutions because of the
scarcity of the water, they dressed warmly, took up a blanket as a protector
against chilly morning air, and set off in silence for the Rock of Prayer. A
brief climb up some step boulders let to a slope of a sandy soil scattered with
pine trees which brought them to the summit where they settled down for the
meditation.
The site is beautiful. Against
the gradually lightening sky to the east, the outlines of distant mountains stand
out in a graceful succession of dark blue curves, in a clear weather the Mediterranean can be glimpsed through a cleft in the
hills in the south. An hour or so after the sun had risen, Brother Mikhael
turned to the group for a short talk. Then came the descent to the camp, the
exercises, and breakfast which was set out on three tables under an awning of
reeds.
At noon the talks sometimes took
place in a room in the old farmhouse, but usually the campers remained sitting
around the tables out of doors. And when the mistral blew and a fine layer of
dust settled on the soup, everyone was too happy to care.
But the time had come for renewed
efforts. During the first convention in 1953, Mikhael encouraged the
participants to spend a little more time in front of the sun in the morning, simply
to contemplate it, like children. Five years later, he suggested longer
meditations and emphasized the importance of the conditions conductive to real
concentration.
Brother Mikhael’s love of the sun
was contagious. As one who had been close to him since 1939 said:
“As we listened to him we were filled with the desire to be as radiant
as he was. He who had contemplated the sun since his childhood. He who ha
accepted the most terrible ordeals without losing his inner light. We knew of
Peter Deunov’s warning of the ‘narrow gate’ through which he would have to
pass, an we could see that he had, indeed, emerged ‘as luminous as the sum.”
In 1958, during the convention,
he declared that an immense work was going on in subtler dimensions of earth
and of cosmos, and that entirely new elements were beginning to appear in the
world. He prophesied the impending dawn of a new era that would endure for many
centuries, during which humanity would be free from war, disease and crime. He
often said that this new era would dawn first in the souls of a handful of men
and women toward the end of the 20th century, and that Golden Age
would manifest as love in hearts of human beings.
All his labors to bring about the
kingdom of God
“Water represents fluid aspect of
the nature. It is the earth’s blood… and this water is transformed into blood
in human beings. This is the true blood that nourishes all the creatures of
nature. You should meditate on water, for it is a very profound symbol. When
you drink it with love, respect and gratitude it is transformed into life, for
it is a bearer of life. No chemical process can exist without water; even
precious stones cannot exist without water, crystals cannot form without water.
It is tanks to a minute quantity of water that a precious stone is hard and
transparent and capable of reflecting the sun’s rays… Ask water to communicate
its transparency with you.
Sometimes at sunrise he asked
those present to join his spiritual work by praying with him to the Angel of
Air or the Angel of the Sun; and in the evenings around the fire, he spoke of
the importance of burning all that is old an obsolete within oneself in order
to enhance life. He often spoke of fire and water, the two elements that are
indispensable to life. It was his understanding of these two principles that
led him, on August 29, 1958, to speak to the respective roles of a man and
woman:
“Man possesses immense energies, but if it were not for woman, those
energies would simply return to the great cosmic reservoir. Woman has
tremendously important role of capturing the spirit, the energies of the
spirit, and creating forms that allow the spirit to act. It is thanks to the
union of these two principles that the earth and the forms that people it
exist. The spirit is so subtle that without woman it could not survived on
earth.
Toward the middle of September he
announced that he would leave shortly for a visit to India . The summer convention of
that year had been the last in a particular phase of his own life as well as
that of his brotherhood. He would remain in India for a year, and when he
returned a new phase would begin. On September 29, he talked at length about
the meaning of the feast of the Archangel Mikhael which falls in the autumn, at
the beginning of a season of apparent death.
“It is a cycle of disengagement and liberation; the advent of something
new. It is the moment when the fruit is released from it shell, when seeds are
gathered to be eaten or put in storage for the future. The feast of the
Archangel Mikhael began a week ago, and the whole nature takes part in the
festivities on that day. The Angels and the Archangels, all the forces of
nature, even the divine Mother are invited to the celebration. On September 22
an extraordinary banquet takes place. But human beings know nothing of what
goes on in nature, and very few are invited to take part in the festivities.
During the three months before
his departure for India ,
several events made a great impression on the brotherhood. One day, on
developing a photograph take during the meditation after lunch, a form could be
distinguished over Brother Mikhael’s head: it was a cabalistic symbol of the
Shin, whose vertical an horizontal lines represent the masculine and feminine
principles respectively. The same form appeared on a photograph on three
different occasions. The phenomenon, which could have been attributed to
unusual reflections of light, was remarkable because the sacred symbol was so
perfectly formed. In the brotherhood it was seen as an expressions of the
equilibrium that reigns in a human being who has developed the two principles
within himself.
On January 1, 1959, Brother
Mikhael told those gathered at Izgrev that his absence would benefit them; that
it would perhaps allow them to find their true strength within themselves. He
had been with them for 21 years, and it was now time for him to go in search of
certain sacred things that had been conserved in an oriental country deeply
imbued with a mysticism of the great spiritual Masters.
He told them:
“You are under the protection of a being who is all-powerful. It is he,
this great being from the high, who told me: ‘I have taken them under my
protection’. All powers are his. For a long time now he had taken care of me.
Several times in the past forty years I have sensed his presence, but I have
never been able to speak to him. I believe what he says. I know he will take
good care of you. I have been instructed to undertake this voyage. I am simply
obeying heaven’s orders.
Brother Mikhael was entering his
sixtieth year. This allusion to a mysterious being who had been by his side for
forty years seems to relate to the ‘extraordinary event’ that had occurred in
1920 and which he had mentioned briefly a few years earlier. All indications
are that he was speaking of the beginning of his relationship, at the age of
twenty, with the one he called his ‘true Master’.
The date of his departure for India was set
for February II, 1959. He traveled alone, but more that two hundred people were
at Orly to bid
him goodbye. As they watched his plane fading into the distance, several of
them feared that the months of his absence would seem very long without the
intense life which dwelt in him and which he breathed into each one of them.
‘Hold on to the principles of love, wisdom and truth’, he said in one of his
last talks. What a program for the coming months!
PART IV
THE MASTER
15
The Land of the Devas
On his return from a year in the
East, Mikhael told the brotherhood: “My new name is Omraam Mikhael”.
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(изв. Luise-Marie Frenette: Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov - The Life of a Master in the West; editions PROSVETA; www.with-omraam.com)
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