« The opposite of faith is not doubt, but fear
. » (Father Pedro Casaldáliga missionary in Brazil)
« (...) I will only live a year and a half but during this time my parents and I will learn Compassion, Letting go and Faith.
Not faith in any divinity but Faith, the one that remains when all that could be done on a human level has been accomplished.
When in the empty space in which nothing seems to exist and which scares us so much, the Essence of our being begins to be reborn, the Self that sleeps deep inside each of usExcerpt from the page: "Taking-back-control"
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Every being is connected to their inner Self, which is connected to God.
Our inner being
« In you there are two characters, one terrestrial, stuck to matter, mired in its heaviness, and the other celestial, letting itself be carried by the light. The moment you conceive your two poles, you become greedy for unity and begin your quest for purity. But that's also where the trouble begins! In the innocence of unconsciousness you found a certain tranquility, operating in the same patterns for generations, fit to taste the pleasures of the flesh.
However, as soon as your consciousness opens to greater lucidity, your thirst for clarity comes up against the shadows.
In the grip of an existential despair, your mind then plays monumental tricks on you. You become the prey of grief, terrible doubts, loneliness and your impatience.
We are with you more than ever in these wanderings. Because then we recognize in you the flame, the inner fire.
Then begins an interior dialogue between your soul, which has already recognized us, and us who are your servants, your companions on the way. At your side, ready to support you in the difficult passages, smiling at your stammerings as a child of light.
In your heart of hearts, ego of earth and soul of light manifest themselves to each other and show themselves in turn. There is no point in adjusting them with a master's hand, there is no point in wishing for their fruitful friendship. Their role is not to oust each other. Thus you grow, by making in you the union of your part of incarnated man and your part of brilliance of light. It is there, in the balanced axis between these two aspects of yourself, that you touch that you touch the new dimension that allows you to Over-Live (among earthly torments). Then your personality of light irrigates your being incarnated in matter for a happy birth: that of the new Man in you, an incarnated reflection of the Father Creator. »
(...) If you believe I have a voice – I can speak.
If you don't believe it – I'm mute.
We come down through your faith,
because faith – that's the bridge.
It's what you believe in that determines your actions. You only act within the limits of your faith. « Be careful, your coachman is dangerous and malevolent, said Rabbi Baal-Shem to one of his followers. I saw him pass in front of the church and he didn't cross himself; if he doesn't love his God, why would he love you? »
« He (the Rebbe) always celebrated what he called "our beautiful faith". When others said such things I felt uneasy, not wanting to be so closely associated with any group. But seeing it so much – what's the word? – cheerful, I suppose, at his age, was attractive. Maybe faith didn't mean much to me, but to him it did. We could see how much it allowed him to be at peace. But I didn't know many people who were. »
(Mitch Albom, "The Old Man Who Taught Me About Life")
The problem with religions is that everyone makes them say what they want.
Who to believe, who to follow?
« What is needed, everywhere and all the time, is to give love.
I try to convey that living in God is simply establishing love and gentleness, and not thinking that believing in God means taking refuge in empty rites and blindly submitting to childish superstitions. »
« There is only one law on which all the great religions of the world are built, and that is: God is one. He is One. You will love Him with all your might and with all your soul.
This universal law is the Law of One.
(...) Truth - whatever the label, or religion in "ism", or worship - comes from One Source. Aren't there trees of different species? oaks, ashes, pines? Each of them meets a need. All have a place to fill. Do not criticize any of them, but rather try to show you an excellent pine, or ash, or oak. »
« So as not to close his teaching to non-Christians, Cayce uses words other than God to say 'God'. He says: the Creative Force(s), the Cosmic Forces, the Universal or Cosmic Energies, the Universal Soul-Consciousness, the Creator, etc. »
[ Dorothée Koechlin, "L'univers d'Edgar Cayce" ]
« (...) I saw the city as it had been before the arrival of the white man. The inhabitants there led a simple life, as innocent as children, honoring the Supreme Being whom they designated by a name in their language. This is not why they venerated him less "in spirit and in truth" because their simple faith was inspired in them by the universal "Great Spirit" and property of no creed, of no chapel. »
« Sensing the Spirit early on (which is in every being), humans honored its presence with numerous rituals designed to greet and respect it. But the ego quickly reclaimed this veneration by redirecting it towards itself, transforming it into a means of controlling individuals. »
( Jean Casault - metaphysician )
« I didn't understand why, according to the religions, we had to love Him and even adore Him, when we didn't know on what basis. I was outside religion and I remain so, because it does not suit me in its principle of obligation to love God, added to this terrible sentence:God will recognize his own. »
(Maddly Bamy, "Love Without Expecting Return")Contributions by Maddly Bamy on the subject of:The WAY
, LIFE
, HEALTH
or DEATH
To you, who for all these years has been running back and forth and searching earnestly in books, teachings, philosophies and religions.
To you, who too often only caught a glimpse of this “Truth”, only to find that it vanished into nothingness, like a desert mirage, after you had pursued it and tried to grasp it;
To you, who thought you had found it in the person of some great instructor, perhaps the mentor of some Association, Fraternity or Religion; whom you yourself have recognized as "Master", however marvelous the wisdom he professes and the works he accomplishes; this to realize later that this “Master” was, like you, only a human personality with its faults, its weaknesses and its secret sins; no matter even if though this personality would have served as a channel for the expression of many magnificent teachings, which seemed to you to be the highest “Truth”;
There you are, tired and hungry soul, not knowing where or what to turn to.
To you: « I am. »Introduction of the first edition (1914):
The “I” that speaks in this Message is the Spirit within, your own Soul, that other “YOU”. It is through this channel that this inner Message was received.
THE EDITOR.
Every being is connected to their inner Self, which is connected to God.
Our double
Our inner being
« In you there are two characters, one terrestrial, stuck to matter, mired in its heaviness, and the other celestial, letting itself be carried by the light. The moment you conceive your two poles, you become greedy for unity and begin your quest for purity. But that's also where the trouble begins! In the innocence of unconsciousness you found a certain tranquility, operating in the same patterns for generations, fit to taste the pleasures of the flesh.
However, as soon as your consciousness opens to greater lucidity, your thirst for clarity comes up against the shadows.
In the grip of an existential despair, your mind then plays monumental tricks on you. You become the prey of grief, terrible doubts, loneliness and your impatience.
We are with you more than ever in these wanderings. Because then we recognize in you the flame, the inner fire.
Then begins an interior dialogue between your soul, which has already recognized us, and us who are your servants, your companions on the way. At your side, ready to support you in the difficult passages, smiling at your stammerings as a child of light.
In your heart of hearts, ego of earth and soul of light manifest themselves to each other and show themselves in turn. There is no point in adjusting them with a master's hand, there is no point in wishing for their fruitful friendship. Their role is not to oust each other. Thus you grow, by making in you the union of your part of incarnated man and your part of brilliance of light. It is there, in the balanced axis between these two aspects of yourself, that you touch that you touch the new dimension that allows you to Over-Live (among earthly torments). Then your personality of light irrigates your being incarnated in matter for a happy birth: that of the new Man in you, an incarnated reflection of the Father Creator. »
(Joseph Benner, The Impersonal Life-1914)Contributions by Joseph Benner on the theme of:The WAY
, LOVE
, LIFE
ou DEATH
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« I was asking God "what is the best religion on this planet? Which is fairer?" Almighty God said, "I do not care" . It was an incredible grace. When God said “I don't care” I immediately understood that it was only us who cared.
I wish all religions would realize this and let everyone be. It is not the end of every religion, but we are talking about the same God. »
« You are like a child who, having known only one shape of jar, considers it absolute and does not understand if he changes his home, why here we deform the jars. And so when you see forging in the neighboring empire a man other than yourself, and experiencing and thinking and loving and hating differently, you ask yourself why they deform man. »
« Is your life based on an inner strength nourished by your experiences or on the credo of a few who predigest in your place what they consider good to give? Thus, I call on you to make a clean sweep of all belief, all ideologie, all thought, even, which is not born of you. »
(D. Meurois and A. Givaudan, 'Par l’esprit du Soleil')Contributions by Anne Givaudan on the theme of:The WAY
, LOVE
, LIFE
, HEALTH
or DEATH
« What comes to you from outside is not yours until you are deeply imbued with it. »
« You accept the experience of others as gospel, literally! If there was a single sin it would be this: letting yourself become what you are because of the experience of others. »
« A man who believes in the second plan, in immortality, puts himself in tune with the afterlife. His values are turned upside down, he changes direction. »
« Everything is useful in the initiatory path: theory and practice, reading and experience, discussion and meditation. One complements the other and gives it its full value. »
« If we only look at the great religions from the outside, all we see is discord. To penetrate into the mystery of one of these religions is also to penetrate into those of the others. »
(Édouard Schuré, 'Death and beyond')Contributions by Édouard Schuré on the theme of:The WAY
, LOVE
, LIFE
or DEATH
« The higher you climb, the closer the paths get. We are where they meet, the last step before God.
The construction will lead you to discover what all men have in common: the embryo of divine nature. Because that's what it's all about: the blossoming and development, in everyone, of this parcel that comes to us from the Origins
Excerpt from the page: "Why life"
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Our soul is connected to all others and is one with God.
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The human soul
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« What is the soul? We can replace this word with "inner being", "inner master", "little voice", "higher spirit"... The soul is the consciousness which persists throughout incarnations. It emanates from the Source. To learn and evolve, she chooses to have experiences in matter by incarnating in a human body.
The human personality, with its mind, its ego, its feelings, its emotions and its beliefs linked to its education and its environment, tends to move away from the soul and from what it truly expects. » « See the soul as an eagle. It flies above your head. Its vision is 360°. It sees everything, anticipates, warns you of a future obstacle and would like to guide you. »
( V. Bobée et V. Germont, 'Follow your soul, it knows the way' )
« The human soul is a part of the great soul of the world, a spark of the divine spirit. Its mysterious emergence dates back to the origins of organized matter. She had to cross all the kingdoms of nature, the whole scale of beings while developing through innumerable existences. Blind force in the mineral, individualized in the plant, polarized in the sensitivity and instinct of animals, it tends towards consciousness.
The animic and spiritual element therefore exists in all the kingdoms, although only in the state of infinitesimal quantity in the lower kingdoms. »
(Pythagoras (580-495 BC))
following.... This parcel will only be truly free in its own environment: God.
Because only fire mixes with fire. Although it seems contradictory, Freedom begins where individuality disappears. »
« To those who say aloud, 'Yes, we hear the voice of God and this is what he says', be all ears, for if you really hear the voice of God calling you, you will in fact hear his pleading heart. promote tolerance and understanding. »
« The same truths will give birth to religions quite distinct from each other.
And these differences born of human ignorance will lead peoples to war, to kill each other, in the name of God. »
« All the great religious currents draw their strength from revealed wisdom, from a corner of the veil lifted to enlighten men. And since they are men, the use they make of what is given to them ranges from best to worst.
All that unites transcends life. All that opposes, differentiates unnecessarily goes against the current of what has been revealed.
Misunderstood religion, narrow-minded belief are the major sources of the difficulties of the species. »
( Jean Casault - metaphysician )We are not on earth to serve God, nor sing his praises, but to evolve
The fulfillment of our being
« The purpose of our life during our passage on Earth, then after our death, in the various worlds of the beyond, is an increasingly complete realization of our being. »
« Every soul must become aware of itself little by little.
In evolution, the mineral will become vegetable, the vegetable will become animal and the animal will become human. It is the long chain of life. »
(Hélène Bouvier, medium, "Mission of souls in the afterlife")
« The important thing for you is to evolve in order to modify your vibrational state.
The Earth is a domain that allows the soul to modify its vibrations through more or less difficult life experiences. »
Does the practice of worship bring one closer to matter or to heaven?
« It is tragic to see that today religion means nothing to us other than certain prohibitions on food and drink, or the accepted feeling of belonging to an upper caste. »
(Gandhi)Contributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY
, LOVE
, LIFE
or DEATH
« As a child, religious services bored me deeply. I preferred to speak directly to God, in solitude.
I felt intimately connected to a higher power, so I was very picky about how others behaved towards it. At the church, the adults celebrated a certain number of values through their songs, but once outside, they did not put these principles into practice. It shocked me a lot. »
(Allison Dubois (medium))Contributions by Allison Dubois on the theme of:The WAY, LIFE
or DEATH
« In our world today there is so much materialism and so much cruelty and indifference that living by the laws of God is suspect. Living one's faith is rare; many men have a religion, but in their acts there is a gulf between theory and act. They prepare for painful tomorrows, and alas, prepare them for their children to whom they have failed to set an example. »
In many religious traditions fasting, celibacy and mortification of the body have been instituted as effective means for spiritual unfoldment. The Angel did not attach any importance to it. When I asked if I should fast on Friday, the answer was negative:
No! Let the measure - each day -
be your fast!
- Is the abstention from certain foods prescribed among various peoples justified?
- Everything that man can eat without harm to his health is allowed.- Is animal food, in man, contrary to the law of nature?
- In your physical constitution, flesh nourishes flesh, otherwise man withers away.
« The church is there, inside you, not in any pope or preacher. Not in any building but in yourself. Since your body is the Temple of the Living God. »
« Because we worship the finger that points the way (the religion that points to God) , we often forget to borrow it.
It is important today that the human realizes that he can approach the afterlife, reconnect with his soul and develop his spirituality independently of any religion. »
The practice of a cult can bring a lot to a person (its pastors who can guide, its temples where one can meditate, its offices where group prayer elevates the soul...).
Does this mean we have to let it take over our lives? (obligations, prohibitions, blackmail for heaven or hell, etc.)?
☞ If God exists, where is He? « Man does not have to undergo a system of thought, he must discover his own.
Man without fears, responsible in front of himself before being in front of the others, able to define his own way towards the Universal. »
« What is the foundation of the Church? In souls invaded by the fear of death.
(...) Man must understand that beings have given themselves powers and material goods, when they were there to spread charity, as Christ taught. »
« Man serves God by mastering his own 'demons', by improving what is most noble in him: his capacity to love.
Thus the religions which, by their dogmas, their rites, by the behavior which they impose on their faithful create causes of friction, risks of exclusion, ferments of animosity, betray the Current from which they draw the original inspiration. »
« For centuries you have called on My Name, waved My flag and carried crosses on your battlefields, all to prove that I love one people more than another and that I would ask you to kill to prove it. »
« In the spirit world, no guide ever imposes a strict vision of God. Atheism is accepted and respected there as an inevitable, sometimes indispensable stage on the path to consciousness. »
(D. Meurois and A. Givaudan, 'Les neuf marches')Contributions by Anne Givaudan on the theme of:The WAY
, LOVE
, LIFE
, HEALTH
or DEATH
« Faith, to be complete and true, must pass the ordeal of doubt. »
« Being can only be achieved through experience.
And for your experience to be total, it was necessary that you release, deny, forget, your bond with Me. »
« To believe with certainty, one must begin by doubting. »
(Polish proverb)
« Doubt is the beginning of wisdom. »
( Aristotle (-384 to -322) )
« There is more faith in a honest doubt than in half dogma. »
(Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809 – 1892))
« One evening when I was "chatting" with my guide, I ended up talking to him about Mrs. D., an amazing woman, full of charity and love, but who believes in nothing. So I would like to help her believe...
After having listened to me carefully, my guide said to me: "Who do you think you are? By what right do you judge this woman? Know that she will be long before you - and others who go to mass every day - on the path of evolution
The fulfillment of our being
« The purpose of our life during our passage on Earth, then after our death, in the various worlds of the beyond, is an increasingly complete realization of our being. »
« Every soul must become aware of itself little by little.
In evolution, the mineral will become vegetable, the vegetable will become animal and the animal will become human. It is the long chain of life. »
(Hélène Bouvier, medium, "Mission of souls in the afterlife")
« The important thing for you is to evolve in order to modify your vibrational state.
The Earth is a domain that allows the soul to modify its vibrations through more or less difficult life experiences. »
(R. Terral-Meyer, 'Lettres de l’invisible')
continued...."
The lesson was hard, and deserved. »
« The purpose of our life during our passage on Earth, then after our death, in the various worlds of the beyond, is an increasingly complete realization of our being. »
« Every soul must become aware of itself little by little.
In evolution, the mineral will become vegetable, the vegetable will become animal and the animal will become human. It is the long chain of life. »
(Hélène Bouvier, medium, "Mission of souls in the afterlife")
« The important thing for you is to evolve in order to modify your vibrational state.
The Earth is a domain that allows the soul to modify its vibrations through more or less difficult life experiences. »
« The true ascetic is he who lives in the world, surrounded by its temptations. »
(Dr. F. Hartmann, "An Adventure Among the Rose-Croix")
« Do not find in these teachings that I bring to you from God an exclusively mystical call to life. You must make your body serve the evolution of your soul. Let God guide you. For such an important ordeal, you are not alone. »
« As many itineraries as beings, 'normality' does not reside more in the life of a couple than in celibacy. The only standard to seek is called balance. »
(D. Meurois and A. Givaudan, 'Par l’esprit du Soleil')Contributions by Anne Givaudan on the theme of:The WAY
, LOVE
, LIFE
, HEALTH
or DEATH
« "Loneliness is not a solution", says Rabbi Elimelekh. "It is thought, not life, that must be isolated." »
« You can't make yourself an isolated being. You are irretrievably part of a community; God made us that way. Only human selfishness would like to escape this solidarity, to be able to confine itself to itself.
The Church urges the faithful to seek individual salvation, whereas the thought of salvation must apply to all of humanity. »
« I do not affirm that the act of flesh is essential to any balanced life because there are beings whose path does not require this. I am simply saying that the soul which inflicts frustration on itself by obedience to a misunderstood principle is a self-blaming soul.
In doing so, she develops an energy of dissatisfaction which is engraved on her subtle bodies and which will resurface in a later existence, perhaps in the form of a sharp impulse which is difficult to control.
A being who thwarts the reality of his sexual force within him and who puts it on the index according to an ideal, certainly sows in his soul the seeds of a vast conflict.
The only chastity that should matter to lovers of Love is the chastity of conscience; because it is the passport of the being who returns to his Essence.
(D. Meurois and A. Givaudan, 'Par l’esprit du Soleil')Contributions by Anne Givaudan on the theme of:The WAY
, LOVE
, LIFE
, HEALTH
or DEATH
« As a teenager, he discovered his body and had to fight his desires. It was a grueling fight, but he emerged victorious: “Now I don't fear women any more than I fear angels." »
« Intelligence submitted to the exclusive service of the spirit can lead to the negation of earthly life. God needs man who is solid, well built, in harmony with himself and his environment. »
« I affirm it to all those who constrain themselves to celibacy for the sake of spiritual advancement: no sexual abstinence imposed has ever made one grow in spirit. »
(D. Meurois and A. Givaudan, 'Par l’esprit du Soleil')
« The Catholic Church has always taught that man is made up of a (perishable) body and an (immortal) soul. "Do not be afraid, says the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, those who can kill the body, but cannot kill the soul." The Good News revealed by Jesus was the announcement of eternal life.
"However, writes Father Martelet, when we want to talk about man these days, we are afraid to speak of his soul...". Why this fear? Because if we want to speak to an unbelieving world without risking remaining misunderstood or simply being ridiculed, we must speak to it in the language of an unbeliever. "Christians," said Louis Pauwels one day, "strive to make their message as flat as possible in order to be able to slip it under the door of the materialists".
Also, Pope Paul VI made a point of expressing this vibrant profession of faith:
"We believe in eternal life. We believe that the souls of all who die in the grace of Christ, whether they still have to be purified in purgatory or the moment they leave their body Jesus take them to paradise, all these souls are God's people in the afterlife." »
(Paul Misraki)
Patricia Darré met a Catholic priest who also happens to be a medium.
- Did Jesus appear to many people after his death?
- That's right. Similarly, King David appeared, after his death, to a woman who had demanded that he appear before her. It's written black on white in the Bible. This proves that existence beyond death is a reality. Not only do we continue to exist despite the dissolution of our carnal envelope, but we also have the possibility of communicating with the living.
The Church recognizes the existence of mystics, but she fears that evil spirits manage to enter our world through clairvoyants (Cf. Dangerous contacts
).
« We find in the scriptures a large number of references to communications which seem to relate to psi phenomena: messages delivered by angels, voices from heaven, dreams, visions. All this was considered at the time as so many divine messages.
There are many Christians who are hostile to mediums but who believe in communicating with the dead. They see in it an intervention of the demon: «No! Bishop Pike! you weren't talking to your son! » (While facing a heresy trial for his theological views, Bishop James Pike spoke about the messages he was receiving from his late son Jim)
« But then a question arises. Is it possible to believe in the Resurrection of Christ while denying the conscious survival of the deceased? How can we believe in the Gospel which reports that Jesus communicated with his disciples after the Resurrection, if communication with the deceased is considered impossible?
Saint Paul himself raised the question in Epistle 1.15 to the Corinthians: if the dead cannot rise, then Christ couldn't get out of his tomb. »
(Bishop James A. Pike, 'Dialogue with the Beyond')
« In 325 AD, the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great erased all allusions to reincarnation from the New Testament. The Second Council of Constantinople, in 553 AD, endorsed this action and declared heretical any belief in reincarnation. Apparently, the Church Fathers feared that this concept would weaken their power. The early Church Fathers however, had accepted the idea. The early Gnostics (Clement of Alexandria, Origen, St. Jerome and many others) believed that they had already lived on earth and would return. »
« The thesis of reincarnation, though rejected at the Council of Nicaea, held firm in the beliefs of the early Christians. Action had to be taken, as it eliminated the concept of eternal damnation that the nascent Church imperatively needed to ensure its hold on the faithful. So, at the Council of Constantinople, reincarnation was declared a heresy. »
( Jean Casault - metaphysician )
Allison Dubois (medium) interviewed a Catholic priest who is also a medium.- How do you reconcile the teaching you provide and what you know deep inside?
- The Bible is subject to many interpretations, but most of my parapsychic knowledge agrees with it.
- But people who commit suicide, for example, do not go to hell...
- I know it, he said, leaning towards me. I see them. I counsel the dead as well as the living.
(Allison Dubois (medium))Contributions by Allison Dubois on the theme of:The WAY, LIFE
or DEATH
Contributions by Maddly Bamy on the subject of:The WAY
, LIFE
, HEALTH
or DEATH
