Matter tends towards the spirit; it wants to rise to meet it, in order to become purer and more subtle. And, conversely, the spirit descends towards matter in order to incarnate and manifest through it. In this way, the beloved departs to meet her ...
In the book of Genesis, it is said that Adam and Eve, having disobeyed God were driven out of Paradise. But this is only a symbolic story of the descent of human beings into matter. This descent, in fact, was neither a mistake nor an accident; it ...
Every day we must fight against our own darkness, our own sluggishness. Yes, we must struggle every day. You might say, ‘But how long will this go on?' As long as human beings incarnate on earth, they will have to take on a body and because this ...
Spirituality does not consist in scorning matter, but in descending into it to give it life and organize it. And by ‘matter' we should also mean the physical body. If we neglect it, under the pretext of devoting ourselves to the nobler functions of ...
...You say you pray and meditate, but do you really know how to use your thoughts? Both within us and around us there exists a subtle but unorganized matter that has not yet been given form. Our thoughts have the power to shape this matter, and it...
No matter where we investigate nature, we will never find spirit seeking to become free of matter. On the contrary; since the origin of creation, spirit has shown that it needs matter. Why? Because it needs to transform matter, to purify it and make ...
...er of the spirit. And that also implies work on ourselves, for we too are matter: even our thoughts, our feelings, our wishes, our states of consciousness are matter that we must transform and make purer and richer. At the same time as we are w...
It is said that human beings were created in the image of God. So in essence they are pure spirit. Then why do they come to incarnate on earth? To explore matter – because that is how they will succeed in developing all the capacities of the brain, ...
Human beings come to earth to work on matter – their own physical matter, but also, and particularly, their psychic matter. Those who aspire to living the spiritual life must never lose sight of this idea. Whenever they meet some obstacle or ordeal, ...
The divine Spirit dwells in every human being as their higher self, but in order to feel its presence they have to place themselves in its service. By doing so, not only do they clear a path for it to their awareness, but they allow it to come down ...
Matter is inert and formless, and spirit, by coming down and entering it, gives it life and shapes it. This is a process that can be seen everywhere in nature in many different ways. Spirit comes down to animate matter – this is involution – and ...
Pause from time to time during the day, and analyse yourself to see which is taking precedence in you – spirit or matter. We cannot avoid the hold matter has over us: we all have a physical body that needs to eat, drink, take exercise, relax and ...
The two principles of spirit and matter appear to be in conflict, but in reality they work together to serve life. And while the principle of matter develops, day in, day out, expanding its territory in humans, the spirit, which does not remain ...
The Creator has given his human creatures the mission of transforming and sublimating the substance of his creation. The food we eat, the air we breathe, all the matter that passes through us – we have the task of working on it all. What does this ...
In the book of Revelation, St John recounts how he was transported in spirit before the throne of God. ‘Around the throne, and on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind; the first living creature like a ...
The physical matter we know is just one aspect of matter. It is not true matter – even chemists and physicists do not know what that is. When they start breaking matter down, they merely note that energy is released. If their tools were more ...
Spirit and matter… This is an endless question, since spirit and matter appear in many different forms: as masculine and feminine, positive and negative, emissive and receptive, heaven and earth. Nothing is more important than these two principles – ...
There can be no evolution without prior involution. Thus what science calls the ‘evolution of species' has to have been preceded by a movement of involution. This is true for creatures, and it is true also for matter. Before the evolution of matter ...
The origin of all imbalance is the lack of balance that exists between spirit and matter. It is this lack of balance that brings in its wake all the other kinds of anomaly we see in existence. Spirit and matter are two poles, two principles which ...
Ever since they left the bosom of the Lord to undertake a long descent into matter, human beings have needed all the resources matter has placed at their disposal in order to survive. Now that they are so far from the divine Source, it is impossible ...
It sometimes happens that great spirits, turning their gaze towards earth, will go before the lords of destiny, the twenty-four elders, and say, 'Although I am free to stay here and enjoy all the splendours of heaven forever, grant me permission to ...
In terms of his soul and spirit, the human being is divine in essence, and he appears as such in the higher worlds. But he must also create the possibility for his soul and spirit to be known and to manifest themselves below through the matter of ...
In the Book of Genesis, Moses recounts the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise after they have disobeyed God. But this is only a means of explaining the descent of human beings into matter. This descent, in fact, was neither a mistake nor an ...
Matter tends towards the spirit; it wants to rise to meet it, in order to become purer and more subtle. And, conversely, the spirit descends towards matter in order to incarnate and manifest through it. In this way, the beloved departs to meet her ...
The marriage of spirit and matter, of heaven and earth, is celebrated every day throughout the universe. So, be sure you are invited to take part in the festivities given by the heavenly Father (the spirit) and the divine Mother (matter), who are ...
Every earthly manifestation has its source, its roots, on high in the divine world. Nothing that we build on earth can survive if we do not first take care to secure its foundation in the spiritual realm. Since this holds true for political and ...
Having sought to explore matter for thousands of years, human beings have reached the point of getting lost in it. Matter is so diverse and so rich that there will always be things to see, hear, touch, taste, accumulate and so on. And with all its ...
The marriage of spirit and matter, of heaven and earth, is celebrated every day throughout the universe. So, be sure you are invited to take part in the festivities given by the heavenly Father (the spirit) and the divine Mother (matter), who are ...
Matter never ceases to oppose the spirit within us. Even when, after much effort, we succeed in dominating it, this victory does not last and we must continually start over again. And when I speak here of matter, it is not only about physical matter,...
Every day, humans must engage in multiple occupations that force them to descend into matter. But they must only descend, not fall – the distinction must be clear. To avoid falling, they must remain connected to the spirit that dwells within them. ...
God has given inertia to matter and impetus to the spirit, and human beings are placed between the two. They are outwardly covered with matter, but the spirit dwells within them. This means that they are subject to a twofold influence: at times they ...
If your one desire is to settle yourself comfortably on earth, you will be obliged to bury yourself in matter, that is to say, to burden yourself with more and more responsibilities, commitments and relationships, and you will not have a minute left ...
...y work with them. In fact, we do work with them; you all work with them, but unconsciously. Your thoughts, feelings and states of consciousness are all material processes, but they are so subtle that their projections, the material movements th...
It is a mistake to believe, as some thinkers do, that only matter exists, that everything is material... With knowledge of the respective roles of the two principles, masculine and feminine, it is easy to understand that in reality, matter (the ...
What matters first and foremost in human beings is their moral qualities. If they can reason well and control themselves, whatever comes their way, whether success or disaster, it bodes well for them. Ordinarily, when someone inherits a lot of money,...
Matter is so diverse and rich that there will always be things to see, hear, touch, taste and acquire. This is why human beings, who first began to explore matter many thousands of years ago, sometimes forget themselves and become lost in it; our ...
Ideally, we should possess both form and force, that is to say, matter and spirit. It is bad to crystalize yourself in matter, because events will break you. However, if you abandon matter to live only in the spirit, it may be wonderful, but you ...
...lf in matter. A perfect artist is one who has successfully established order and reason in their thoughts, and brought peace and love into their heart, so that everything they do is beautiful and harmonious....
Human beings left the womb of the Eternal to undertake a long descent into matter, so they need everything that matter has placed at their disposal in order to survive. Now that we have become so far separated from the Source, it is impossible to ...
Matter restricts and imprisons us. It is an obstacle between us and the spiritual world, which was not meant to paralyze or bury us under mounds of rubble, but to oblige us to carry out special work on it. For those who moan, ‘I feel so limited and ...
The spirit descends towards matter and matter rises towards the spirit. This is why human beings, who through their links to the physical plane represent matter, must reach up towards the spirit, their own spirit, God.A river flowing down from the ...
If you meditate on the phrase from Genesis, ‘God said, Let there be light', together with the opening words of St John's Gospel, ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God', you will discover that light is the ...