You must continually seek the light and concentrate on it. Eat and drink light! Attach more importance to light than to any other treasure on earth.
As soon as you have a free moment, close your eyes and fix your mind on the image of the light that pervades all things: the source of all blessings.
While you are waiting for a train, or for an appointment with the dentist, instead of reading the rubbish you find in magazines, spend a few minutes thinking of light.
When you are out on the street, stop in front of a shop window for a few moments as though you were looking at the goods on display, and concentrate for a few seconds while you light your inner lamps. When you go on your way again you will feel refreshed and cleansed.
This exercise can be used in all circumstances: if you are cooking, writing letters, washing, dressing, or undressing, you can always take a few seconds to picture in your mind the light that bathes the whole universe. Many clairvoyants have actually seen it; they have seen that all creatures, all objects, down to the very stones of the earth, are not only bathed in light, they emanate light.
Concentrate on light as though your life depended on it
When we are meditating together in silence, put all your cares to one side and concentrate on light as though everything, even your very life, depended on it. Imagine that you are living your last moments, that you are about to leave the world and that you must cling to light, for it is the only thing that can save you. Light! Nothing else matters.
Picture it white and brilliantly incandescent, and join your voice to that of the initiates, who declare, ‘I am a particle of particles of the incandescent soul.’ You can also conjure up a vision of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, or red light; but it is preferable to work with white light, for white light combines the qualities of all the other colours in one. White light contains the omnipotence of purple, the peace and truth of blue, the wealth and eternal youth of green, the wisdom and knowledge of yellow, the health, vigour and vitality of orange, the activity and dynamic energy of red. But it is white light that is primordial.
When you are capable of being totally focused on light, when you begin to sense it as a vibrant, throbbing, quivering ocean of peace, happiness, and joy, then you will also begin to perceive it as perfume and as music – the cosmic music which we call the music of the spheres, the song of the universe.
There is no more worthy, more glorious, or more potent work than this work with light. If you really want to devote yourself to something truly great and noble, this is it; there is none other.
The light that pacifies and heals
When your soul is overshadowed by grief, difficulty, or doubt, go and talk to the light about it. Say, ‘O Light, you who are the most intelligent of all beings, enter into me and bring light to my heart and mind.' And the light will come to you and make everything bright and clear.
If you want to help those who are in difficulty, send them rays of light, imagine that they are being penetrated through and through by those rays.
And if you are in pain, call on light to come and heal you; imagine rays of light of different colours streaming from your fingers to the painful spot, and before long you will feel the pain easing.
The elixir of everlasting life is condensed light.
The light that protects
If you want to protect yourself against someone who uses violence and tries to impose certain limits on you, wrap yourself – and your aggressor – in light, and they will be unable to carry out their evil designs.
If you have to be out alone at night and are afraid of being attacked, call on the light to walk beside you, and it will come and keep you company and protect you. (Obviously, you must be sensible and not expose yourself to danger unnecessarily or thoughtlessly in the belief that heaven has nothing better to do than to watch over whatever you do!) It is not the criminals themselves who sense the presence of light; it is the evil spirits that accompany them who are terrified by it and urge them to keep away from you.
The light that brings harmony and love
If you want your family to live in harmony, picture your house bathed in light. If you want your friends to be pleased to see you when you go to visit them, concentrate for a few moments before you go into their house, and send some light in ahead of you. Most people go and see their friends when they are depressed, irritable, or worried and want to be cheered up. This is a sure way to lose their friendship!
If you want to win people's love, you must realize that the only way is to use light. All other means – money, seduction, or violence – are forbidden. The only means acceptable to heaven (and also the only truly effective means) are to send them gifts of spiritual light, to surround them with light. If you want someone to think of you and love you, therefore, send them light, and when their soul receives these beneficial waves, it will appreciate you more and more and begin to take an interest in you.
A collective exercise with light
Concentrate and imagine that you are all enveloped in a brilliant sheath of light that radiates with such splendour that our gathering forms an immense sun, a sun capable of lighting up the whole world. Each one of you should feel like a luminous sun, pulsing and shimmering with light and sending out rays that join and mingle with the light from all the others to form a single gigantic sun.
Then introduce this sun into your heart and mind and contemplate the multi-coloured rays flowing from it. While you are doing this exercise, forget everything else and, all together, concentrate on radiating light for the whole world.
Light, the image of God
Imagine a dazzling light in which everything – suns, angels and archangels – throb and vibrate as though they were fused into one infinite ocean. This ocean of light into which all forms melt and blend is the true image of God.
From A New Earth by Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov, copyright Prosveta SA 1999.
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