"The so-called ‘sexual liberation’, so applauded by the young,
could actually have been a great step forward. However, what we
see at present is not progress but a collapse of moral
standards. The increasing tendency of boys and girls to sleep
together, because they can’t find any better way to pass their
time or experience pleasure, is very detrimental to their
psychic life. They’ve hardly met, they don’t know each other,
they don’t love each other, and they make love… for want of
anything better to do, as if it were no more important than
playing cards! And then, just as they would after a game of
cards, they separate and begin again the following day with
others. Such behaviour is very serious, and not because they’re
disobeying rules invented by a few moralists; it’s serious for
them; it’s not morality or moralizers they are harming, it’s
themselves. There is nothing reprehensible in the sexual act itself, evenwhen it doesn’t have the aim of creating a child. But it’simportant to know all the entities and forces that come into play during this act, so you can give the act spiritual meaning and direction; otherwise, all you do is destroy yourself."

"Everything you ask for you will one day receive. Yes, you will
receive it, whether it’s good or bad, because, according to the
laws established by cosmic Intelligence, every request must be
granted. These are laws of physics and chemistry: the law of
correspondences, the law of affinity, the law of the echo.
And be careful, for, eventually, you always attract what you
wish for. If you ask for burdens and end up being crushed
beneath their weight, there will be no point, afterwards, in
your blaming other people or the Lord. It is up to you to know
the long-term consequences of your requests. It’s normal to wish
for things, to want things, but you must also think seriously
about how things may turn out, for then you will understand that
once certain wishes have been realized you will be disappointed,
unhappy or ill, so it would be wiser to abandon them. The first
thing true disciples of initiatic Science must learn is that
there are certain things they should desire and others, on the
contrary, they should reject with all their might."

"God has given all creatures life, but it’s up to them to make
efforts to become more alive each day. To become more alive
means to give your light and warmth. It is so good to meet
people in whom you sense everything is alive and full of light!
We love a tree for its fruit, we love a spring for its flowing
water, we love flowers for their colour and scent. In the same
way, we love those who open themselves to give something pure,
luminous and warm. So, learn, then, to cultivate this source of
life within yourself. Make a habit of smiling, of looking at
others with love; try to extract a few particles from your heart
to send to others. You are the one who will feel richer and
happier.

All religions have recommended fasting as an exercise in
purification. But fasting must not be understood only on the
physical level. If impurities have taken hold in the physical
body in the form of physical problems, a physical fast will be
able to get rid of them. But impurities can also take hold in
the astral and mental bodies, in the form of coarse feelings and
desires, and erroneous thoughts and judgments. Now, these
thoughts, feelings and desires are dark entities that force
humans to absorb the foods that they, the entities, need. Yes,
thoughts, feelings and desires are living entities.
In order to get rid of these entities, people must stop feeding
them; in other words, they must try hard not only to cease
entertaining inferior thoughts and feelings but also to replace
them with pure and luminous ones. If they deprive these entities
of their food, the entities will be forced to fast and, faced
with the threat of death from starvation, they will leave. That
is also how you should understand fasting, by transposing it to
the different planes of being."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

"Even the most sophisticated machinery is incapable of giving us
an idea of what human beings are. There will always be something
more to them than what we can see. This is why they have no
knowledge of themselves yet and why medicine doesn’t know them
either. Yes, medicine has no understanding of the creatures it
works upon! How many doctors tend still to see human beings as
machines! They are unaware that humans are inhabited by forces,
entities and intelligences capable of producing elements in
their organism that were not there previously. They are unaware
that, beyond the physical body, humans also possess subtle
bodies: the etheric, astral, mental, causal, buddhic and atmic
bodies. They do not understand thought or will, much less the
soul and spirit. So, how can anyone imagine doctors will be able
to find the right way to take care of people?
For the sick to be healed, it is not enough to deal with their
physical body; you have to reach those elements and entities
that are higher up, in the subtle realms, and on which the good
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"Observe yourself clear-sightedly and object ively in order to know which of your faculties are most developed and which are most lacking and need to be acquired. Once you have achieved this, here is some advice: start working with your most developed faculties, and then, from time to time only, try to remedy what you lack, what’s missing. Don’t force yourself to work with your weakest faculties, on the pretext that you need to develop them. It is better to look for the strongest factor
in oneself to act with and then, from time to time only, try to remedy one’s inadequacies.
If you embark on tasks you are clearly not cut out for, if you abandon your riches to attend to your poverty, you won’t get very far, and you will become discouraged. Do the opposite, work
with your talents, gifts and faculties, because riches attract riches, and once you have gained a great deal you can focus on what you are lacking."371d36d75e05eda735858f8e467be99c

It's a long time I haven't written on this journal. Too many things to do, too many people around, too many places to visit. One of these days I'll come back and start posting again. As for now I'm filing my digital library at aNobii. Link: http://www.anobii.com/galloway God bles you all!371d36d75e05eda735858f8e467be99c

"The journey we set out on, a very long time ago, will not end with our present life. This life is only one stage on the path along which all beings have had to travel since they left the bosom of the Eternal. And how many different regions they will have to visit before returning one day to the Source! We must never forget we are only travellers on earth. But even amongst spiritualists, very few are capable of keeping constantly in mind the idea that they are travellers and must therefore never stop anywhere to put down roots. The road to be travelled is long, very long; if you are to continue in the right direction, you must continually observe, study and draw conclusions. And if you don’t want to lose heart, you must keep your eyes fixed on the goal ahead."

"Whatever our external conditions, we can always feel free in our
inner world, the world of thought. But when we wish to express
ourselves on the physical plane, we are dependent on conditions
and are therefore limited. We must not be distressed if we do
not obtain the results we hope for; we know that inside we have
everything we need to live a life that is rich, beautiful and
vast, a life that is useful to all creatures. Our thoughts and
feelings reach far into space and allow us to come into contact
with the entire universe, whereas our actions affect only a few
people. Even the most powerful being is limited in the realm of action.
But if we improve our inner world, if we strengthen it with love
and faith, we will also have more and more influence over the
external world."

"Truth is not an individual discovery, and humans can only claim
they have found the truth once they have succeeded in living
together in harmony. Yes, truth is not an abstract thing; it is
the expression of a state of order in which everyone is in
harmony and at peace with each other. Of course, to achieve this
requires a great deal of adjusting, adapting and fine-tuning, and
that is the work we all have to do.
You must understand, the only truth that exists is universal
truth, and therefore truth only exists within unity. And how
will this unity be manifested? When all humans feel they have
the same fundamental needs, when they experience the hardship
inflicted on others as their own suffering and the wrongs done
to others as wrongs also done to themselves. "

"Our inner difficulties are analogous to a swamp. For as long as
the swamp is not drained, we live in fog and are assailed by
mosquitoes, because the swamp provides the best conditions for
them to proliferate. Our life then becomes nothing but an
endless struggle against fog and mosquitoes.
When you see certain people struggling for years with the same
insoluble problems, displaying the same inner unrest and
complaining about the same things every day, you would like to
help them free themselves, but how? You talk to them, you
explain to them that the external situation will not change,
that it’s up to them to change, but it’s no good; they remain in
their swamp with their mosquitoes. This happens to a greater or
lesser degree, of course, but each one of us has swamps to drain
and fill, so that the mosquitoes – our anxieties and suffering –
can no longer live there."