The Gospels according to the philosophy initiatic

Archangel Michael

L'Arcangelo Michele

Premise

The esoteric religions Christian, Jewish and Traditions have classified to the Michael Archangel (whose name wants to say Mi-Kha-El:""who is as God,"), since the ancient times, a role and a particular affection, considering it always present in the fight that is fought and will fight to level characterize them and collective, until the end of the times, against the forces of the evil. On the origin of the name, see chap..XI of the book True Alchemy or the Quest for Perfection.

Its cult is much diffusing to popular level: very many they are the localities in Europe that have chosen Michael like they patron, encounters are the artistic representations, the churches (often the Archangel comes represented on the guglie of the bell towers, which are guardians of the Churches against the evil) dedicated to He and the official and popular prayers that they invoke.

"Costantine emperor to leave from 313 d.C. it paid an intense cult, until dedicated the Micheleion, an imposing made sanctuary to construct in Costantinopole. Charlemagne then dedicated to the Sacred Roman Empire to it, imitated from the French monarchs who, until Luigi XIII, dedicated their reign to it. Singular and mysterious the straight line with which the main places of cult are linkable between they dedicates to you to M., all erected on the rests of peagant ancient temples, in places where in some way its presence has been manifested. Such line, traced leaving from the Mount Carmelo (Palestine) in order to end on the Mount of Saint M. (England south orients them), passes on Delos, Delphi, Sant' Mount Angel (Gargano), Sacred of Saint M. (Valsusa) and Mont Saint Michel (France north orients them, prevailing itself to the attention of the esoterism students. Its interpretation which callback to the rectitude and the absolute respect of the Laws of God is not sure to exclude (Great book of Angels : G. Dembech).

In the Jewish tradition it is in defender of the elect people, symbol of the divine protection on the people of Israel.

Tipheret
Archangel Michael
The Sefira of beauty

L'Arcangelo Michele

In the Kabbala (The Fruits of the Tree of Life -The Kabbalistic Tradition) corresponds to the Archangel ruler of sefira the "Beauty" that is Tipheret that is the sefira centers them of the tree of the Life The Splendours of Tipharet - Surya-yoga or yoga of the sun of Aïvanhov).

In the iconography it orients them and occidentali, Michele come represented in two particular roles:

*like a combatant Archangel, with the sword or the nozzle in the hand, covered from the armor, beautifulst and fulgido of light, winner against the Evil, crawling to its feet in the sembianze of snake or dredge. Role evidenced in the Book of Daniel and the Apocalypse (The Book of Revelations - A Commentary) ;

* like an Archangel that door in hand a balance (Cosmic Balance - The Secret of Polarity) in order to weigh the spirits, which Guide of the spirits at the moment of the trapasso, in how much He is to our flank in the day of the Judgment, and in fact to he the Church, in the Putting of the defunct ones, recommends the under way spirits towards "the Saint light". For such reason many cemetaries and ossari are dedicate to you to Michael. It recites the prayer in the putting of the defunct ones: "Lord Jesus Christ, free the spirits of the defunct faithfuls from the pains of hell; saint Michael, than door yours he knows signs to you, he leads them to the Saint light that you promised to Abramo and to its descendancys."

Its figure appears in the first pages of the Bible, like caretaker of the door of the land Paradise.

In Old Testament it is mentioned in particular in the book of Daniel (10,13.21; 12,1) where it is indicated like the supreme head of the celestial army that defends the order. This role remembers the indicated task of the avatar in Puranas which periodically come down on the earth in order to re-establish the dharma, the put cosmic order in crisis from the disgregatrici forces

In the New Testament, S. Michael Archangel is introduced like adversary of Dragon, winner of the last battle against I dredge and its supporters. The description of the battle and its Victoria is contained in the Apocalypse. Also in this, the image of the knight second remembers the description of the avatar attended in this age (kalki) the hindù tradition.

Philosophy of initiation into the new millennium
The mission of Michael

L'Arcangelo Michele

"At that time Michael, the great prince who affords protection to your people, will arise. There will occur a time of distress such as has not occurred from the nation’s beginning up to that time. But at that time your own people, all those found written in the book, will escape."(Book of Daniel Chap.12)

"Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But the dragon was not strong enough to prevail, so there was no longer any place left in heaven for him and his angels. So that huge dragon—the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world—was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him...(the Revelation of St. John)

The action of the Michael Archangel appears extraordinary in the sacred witnesses.

This age, in fact, a particular and huge task is carried out from the Archangel Michael in accordance with Deunov and Aïvanhov. Aïvanhov will still say: "Only Archangel Michael is in a position to win... with the aid of its army, will realize that that gives to centuries the multitudes questions from the Creator. Here why we must be connected to the Archangel Michael, beg for his protection and the possibility to operate with he in order to increase its Victoria. The light will prevail on the darkness: it has been foretold and therefore will be. Why not to participate to that event? The sons of God who will be enrolled in the number of those who will have participated to the combat of the Archangel Michael, the Genius of the Sun, this power of God between most luminous, will receive the kiss of the Angel of the fire. Such kiss will not burn them but it will illuminate them!".

Also Rudolf Steiner in numerous conferences (The Archangel Michael: His Mission and Ours : Selected Lectures and Writing by Rudolf Steiner) is stopped on the new spiritual cycle (of the Michael Age) " Michael cannot fulfill his mission without humanity's cosmic vocation of freedom, individuality, and love. Human beings, too, depend on Michael for the fulfillment of their task . . . His great joy is helping those who of their own free deed enter the ranks of those collaborating in the great work of the invisible".

" Michael did not fight the present dragon in ages past, for then the dragon now meant was not yet a dragon. . . . Michael overcoming the Dragon is an important imagination. To receive the inflow of spiritual life into the sense world: this is the service of Michael from now on. We serve Michael by overcoming the Dragon that is trying to grow to its full height and strength in ideas, which during the past epoch produced materialism and which now threatens to live on into the future. To defeat this dragon means to stand in the service of Mi-cha-el. That is the victory of Michael over the Dragon."

Also the 'last conference held from R.Steiner in the 28/9/1924, is dedicated to the Michael Archangel. We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes towards Man, out of the future. We must acquire serenity in all feelings and sensations about the future. We must look forward with absolute equanimity to everything that may come. And we must think only that whatever comes is given to us by a world-directive full of wisdom. It is part of what we must learn in this age, namely, to live out of pure trust, without any security in existence - trust in the ever-present help of the spiritual world. Truly, nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us. And let us seek the awakening from within ourselves, every morning and every evening." (R.Steiner)

Also the sacred witnesses of India contain meaningful indications on the age in which we live called "Kali yuga" that is age of the iron, in order to evidence that in this age the humanity has caught up a dangerous point of removal from the Sky, the spirituality, just advanced Himself. According to these sacred witnesses after the age of the iron new age of the gold would have been come true one thanks to the participation of a great being that will have to come down on the earth helped from other disciples (Kalki-avatar).

For a total vision of the role of the Archangels and meant of the cardinal feasts, see chap..XVII in The Fruits of the Tree of Life -The Kabbalistic Tradition.

Further work of O. M. Aïvanhov

The Book of Revelations: A Commentary

"A great many scholars have given us their interpretation of the Apocalypse, but to my mind not one of them has ever understood what it is really and truly about. Why? There are several different reasons, but the main reason is that they have failed to recognize its essential message: a description of the elements and processes that are common to our own inner life and the life of the cosmos. They have been more concerned with trying to identify the historical characters, countries and events portrayed in it.
I too have interpreted some passages from the Apocalypse for you, but you can not benefit from what I tell you if you have never worked or made an effort to acquire the true foundations of the spiritual life. It is not enough to understand these symbols intellectually, you must be able to make them come alive within you. As long as this preliminary work of purification, self-control, and inner ascent has not been done, the marvels of the Apocalypse will remain a closed book to you." Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Table of Contents

The Island of Patmos
Introduction to the Book of Revelations
Melchizedek and Initiation into the Mystery of the Two Principles
Letters to the Church in Ephesus and Smyrna
Letter to the Church in Pergamos
Letter to the Church in Laodicea
The Twenty-Four Elders and the Four Holy Living Creatures
The Scroll and the Lamb
The Hundred and Forty-Four Thousand Servants of God
The Woman and the Dragon
The Archangel Mikhaël Casts Out the Dragon
The Dragon Spews Water at the Woman
The Beast from the Sea and the Beast from the Land
The Wedding Feast of the Lamb
The Dragon is Bound for a Thousand Years
The New Heaven and the New Earth
The Heavenly City

THE FRUITS OF THE TREE OF LIFE The Cabbalistic Tradition

The Sephirotic Tree, the Tree of Life of the Cabbalah, is an image of the universe, inhabited by God and impregnated with His quintessence. It represents the divine life which circulates throughout the whole of creation. Here is a system which prevents you from becoming dispersed in your spiritual activities. If you work for years on this Tree, if you study it, if you taste its fruit, you will create stability within yourself and harmony in the cosmos."

Cosmic Balance the Secret of Polarity

"On September 23rd, the Sun enters the sign of Libra (Scales or Balance), and this is the autumn equinox. After the ascending phase, from Aries to Virgo, comes the descending phase, from Libra to Pisces.
Libra is the seventh sign on the zodiacal belt. Why, you may wonder, are there scales in the heavens, and what do these scales teach us? This is the only sign of the zodiac that does not represent a living being, human or animal. It is an inanimate object, and not just any object, but an instrument that serves to weigh things. It is as though its two pans were there to maintain the balance between the powers of darkness and light, of life and death. Libra, the Scales of the zodiac, is a reflection of the cosmic scales, the equilibrium between the two opposite and complementary principles, thanks to which the universe came into being and continues to exist. The symbol of the scales, which we find also in the sephirotic Tree of Life, dominates the whole of creation."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Table of Contents

Cosmic Balance and the Number Two
Oscillation of the Scales
One and Zero
The Role of The Masculine and The Feminine: I.Adam and Eve: Spirit and Matter - II.Adam and Eve: Wisdom and Love - III.The Mental and Astral Planes - IV.Man and Woman
God Transcends Good and Evil
The White Head and the Black Head
Alternation and Antagonism - The Law of Opposites
"To Work the Miracles of One Thing" - The Figure of Eight and the Cross
The Caduceus of Hermes - The Astral Serpent
Iona, Principle of Life - Horeb, Principle of Death
The Triad Kether-Chesed-Geburah: I.Sceptre and Orb - II.Mind and Heart - III.A Straight Line and a Curved Line
The Law of Exchange
The Key and the Lock
The Work of the Spirit on Matter - The Holy Grail
Union of the Ego with the Physical Body
The Sacrament of the Eucharist
The Androgynes of Myth
Union with the Universal Soul and the Cosmic Spirit.

THE SPLENDOUR OF TIPHARETH

When we focus our attention on the sun, the centre of our universe, we draw closer to our own centre, our higher self, the sun within; we melt into it and begin to resemble it more and more.
But to focus our attention on the sun also means to learn to mobilize all our, thoughts, desires, and energies, and put them to work in the service of the highest ideal. He who works to unify the chaotic multitude of inner forces that constantly threaten to tear him apart, and launch them in the pursuit of one, luminous, beneficial goal, becomes a powerful focal point, capable of radiating in every direction. Believe me, a human being who masters the tendencies of his lower nature can benefit the whole of mankind. He becomes as radiant as the sun. His freedom is such that his consciousness embraces the whole human race as he pours out the superabundance of light and love that dwell within him.
The world needs more and more human beings capable of dedicating themselves to this work with the sun, for only love and light are capable of transforming humanity.

Extracts from the Sacred Texts

Daniel

Chap. 10:21 However, I will first tell you what is written in a dependable book. There is no one who strengthens me against these princes, except Michael your prince. And in the first year of Darius the Mede, stood to strengthen him and to provide protection for him.Now I will tell you the truth.

Chap.11. 11 Then the king of the south will be enraged and will march out to fight against the king of the north, who will also muster a large army, but that army will be delivered into his hand. When the army is taken away, the king of the south will become arrogant. He will be responsible for the death of thousands and thousands of people, but he will not continue to prevail. For the king of the north will again muster an army, one larger than before. At the end of some years he will advance with a huge army and enormous supplies.

Chap.12 (1.2.3.4)

12:1 “At that time Michael, the great prince who affords protection to your people, will arise. There will occur a time of distress such as has not occurred from the nation’s beginning up to that time. But at that time your own people, all those found written in the book, will escape.

12:2 Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake— some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence

12:3 But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever

12:4 “But you, Daniel close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will dart to and fro, and knowledge will increase

Revelation 12

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “The salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the ruling authority of his Christ, have now come, because the accuser of our brothers, the one who accuses them day and night before our God, has been thrown down. But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die. Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them! But woe to the earth and the sea because the devil has come down to you! He is filled with terrible anger, for he knows that he only has a little time!” Now when the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

But the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, to the place God prepared for her, where she is taken care of—away from the presence of the serpent—for a time, times, and half a time. Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood, but the earth came to her rescue; the ground opened up and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth. So the dragon became enraged at the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, those who keep God’s commandments and hold to the testimony about Jesus. And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore."

Enoch

Chapter 20

And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus. Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men. Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries. Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind and over chaos.

Chapter 20

And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones and he raised me up, and when he had raised me up my spirit returned; for I had not been able to endure the look of this host, and the commotion and the quaking of the heaven. And Michael said unto me: Why art thou disquieted with such a vision ? Until this day lasted the day of His mercy; and He hath been merciful and long-suffering towards those who dwell on the earth. And when the day, and the power, and the punishment, and the judgement come, which the Lord of Spirits hath prepared for those who worship not the righteous law, and for those who deny the righteous judgement, and for those who take His name in vain-that day is prepared, for the elect a covenant, but for sinners an inquisition.

Chapter 68

1 And after that my grandfather Enoch gave me the teaching of all the secrets in the book in the Parables which had been given to him, and he put them together for me in the words of the book 2 of the Parables. And on that day Michael answered Raphael and said: The power of the spirit transports and makes me to tremble because of the severity of the judgement of the secrets, the judgement of the angels: who can endure the severe judgement which has been executed, and before 3 which they melt away ? And Michael answered again, and said to Raphael: Who is he whose heart is not softened concerning it, and whose reins are not troubled by this word of judgement 4 (that) has gone forth upon them because of those who have thus led them out ? And it came to pass when he stood before the Lord of Spirits, Michael said thus to Raphael: I will not take their part under the eye of the Lord; for the Lord of Spirits has been angry with them because they do 5 as if they were the Lord. Therefore all that is hidden shall come upon them for ever and ever; for neither angel nor man shall have his portion (in it), but alone they have received their judgement for ever and ever.

Chapter 71

And the angel Michael [one of the archangels] seized me by my right hand, And lifted me up and led me forth into all the secrets, And he showed me all the secrets of righteousness. And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of the heaven, And all the chambers of all the stars, and all the luminaries, Whence they proceed before the face of the holy ones.

.....And these blessings which went forth out of my mouth were well pleasing before that Head of Days. And that Head of Days came with Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel, thousands and ten thousands of angels without number