all my thanks. the essene virgin.pdf · i offer my loving gratitude to all those who will read this...

I offer my loving gratitude to all those

who will read this sacred teaching, who will meditate it

and who, through it, will greet the beautiful Light

in their lives, and will radiate it in all simplicity in their soul,

so that wisdom and love circulate in the world of men,

for the good of all beings in the omnipresent Divinity.

All my thanks.

Through the woman who was the great dove of the Essenia temple

and of the people of the Children of the Light, I pour out all my heart

towards the intelligence of maternal love and Divine embodiment.

Marythe Essene Virgin

OlivierManitara

Mary, the Essene VirginCopyright © 2004 by Olivier Manitara

English translation copyright © 2009 by Essenia Books Publishing

Originally published in French under the title Marie, la Vierge Essénienneby Olivier Manitara, France

First English edition published in 2009 by Essenia Books Publishing

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ISBN: 978–0–9810260–1–51.Western Teacher 2. Spiritual life 3. Christianity I. Title

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9 • Introduction

PART ONE

Life and Teachings of The Virgin Mary

15 • The Acquisition of the Divine Knowledge

29 • The Mystery of the Dust that Returns to Dust

35 • Some Spiritual Practices of the Virgin

43 • Mary : A Daughter of Isis

49 • You Will Be Called Mary

53 • The Initiation of the Virginin the Garden of the Fraternity

63 • The Birth of the Master Jesus

71 • The Conflict with the Essene Priests

75 • The Inner Source

83 • The Universe in the Word

87 • Essene Cares, Maternal Love,Embodiment of the Divine in Man

91 • The Teaching of the Virgin

97 • The Encounter with the Dragon of Evil

101 • The Initiation to the Serpent of Wisdom

109 • The Death of the Virgin Mary

113 • The Pyramid of Light

123 • The Apparitions of the Virgin

conTenTs

PART TWO

Teachings of The eTernaL faTher of WaTer : archangeL gabrieL

127 • The Mysteries of the Aura, and the DivineActivity in Man

147 • The Discernment of the Two Activities in Man

155 • The Secret of the Embodiment of the Light

165 • The Preparation to Sleep and the Entry intothe Realm of the Non–Body

171 • The Initiation to Clarity

175 • The Secrets of Impregnation

181 • The Mysteries of the Living Water

187 • The Consecration to the Light

193 • The Conscious Exchanges

199 • Let Man Become a Mother for the Light inMan

203 • The Tree of Paradise

207 • The Birth of The Inner Man

221 • The Message of Simplicity : Prepare YourHouse

227 • The Force of the Commitment

231 • The Teaching of the Pearl–Making Oyster

235 • The Human Being in the Cosmic Body

More abouT The essene TradiTion

241 • The Essene Tradition Across the Ages

278 • About the Author

282 • The Circle of the Archangels™

284 • Essenia Foundation™

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he teachings transmitted in this book emanate mostly from works carried in the bosom of a modern initiatic School. Primarily, they were intended for private circles, capable of receiving such knowledge in a just way and, above

all, of putting it into practice. One must understand that they have been given within a very precise framework, and that they are inscribed in a logic of men and women, who, in their lifetime, have become the custodians of a living Tradition, of a sacred deposit, of another way of being in the world.

The Essenes do not belong solely to archeology; they are alive, and have adapted to our modern era. They have taken on a thousand faces, and it is in a thousand ways,

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that they act, and make heard the voice of wisdom, of love, and of purity in a more and more chaotic and destructive world.

It is about time that a vast thought and experimental movement be born, or reborn, around the original and timeless Christianity. We must free Christianity from its prison of dogmas, prejudices, dead habits, erroneous concepts to let it fly on its own wings, and show us the paths to heaven and true life. The one who was called the Virgin, and who, in the eyes of everybody, represented Divine motherhood, can be the beginning of this free thinking and this liberation. Indeed, who more than she was enclosed within false concepts?

Through the nature of my spiritual activities and responsibilities, I have been naturally led, over the years, to go deeper and deeper into the message of Christ and the humanity of Light. Over the course of my commitment and my service within the bosom of the humanity of Light, my capacity and my perceptions have become finer and sharper, and I have found myself with an amount of knowledge and new experiences capable of bringing about a real resurrection of Christianity and the authentic Teaching of the Masters of the cosmic Tradition.

This resurrection which is personal to me, which belongs to the reality of my inner life, I have decided to share it in friendship and freedom. Thus can

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be born a movement of reflection and, through it, another approach to Christianity, to the Essenes, to life in general. This is my wish.

One must clearly understand that, in writing these lines, I do not claim anything but to share my own research and my own inner life. I did this research, above all, for myself. Then, I shared it with an initiatic School in compliance with the Tradition of the Children of the Light. Now, I am sharing it with a greater number because I am convinced of the absolute necessity of an opening of consciousness which leads to a new approach to life.

My experience has shown me that one would be wrong to consider the Virgin Mary and her life as an existence which belongs to the past, and which has nothing any more to bring to men. If one blows away the dust of superstition which covers her, one will discover a priceless jewel; one will perceive that true life has no boundaries and that the present and the future are nourished by the past and by our vision of the past. Within the past are immersed the roots of the future. A certain malevolent intelligence exerted itself to sap all that was great, beautiful and noble in the past so that the future shall be dark and meaningless.

I am delighted to have the possibility to give some teachings about the Virgin Mary so that, among the multiple voices in the world, a new voice rises to talk about her in another way, even if all the ways are beautiful when they are imbued with love and respect.

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Introduction

In coming closer to that woman, one can discover a path to the liberation and the accomplishment of the soul.

The Essenes in all peoples, all cultures and all eras are the ones who have succeeded in preserving the grand past of their Tradition and of the great Masters who embodied it. They have achieved a way to live this past in the present, in order to prepare for a Divine future. For them, the Virgin is not dead, and they continue to unite with the one who taught her, the eternal Father of the living water, the great Archangel Gabriel.

Therefore, this book will contain two parts: one will be devoted to creating a new perception of the one who was the mother of Jesus, the other will transmit the teachings of the Father of water for our era.

May the joy that lives in my heart pass into all loving hearts through the words written in this book.


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ParT one

Life and Teachings of The

Virgin Mary

he Virgin Mary was far from being the slightly simple–minded woman that a certain literature and tradition present to us. She was truly a great spiritual Master, a healer of the soul and the body, a mystic on the path of initiation

into the mysteries of God.To say that Mary was simply a human mother is to

disregard the wisdom of the Essenes. Mary bathed in this wisdom before the birth of her physical body. It was wisdom that permeated the milk flowing from the breast of her mother. Mary was an initiate in a School of Mysteries, heiress to the teachings of Zoroaster, of

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the pharaohs and of Moses. Of course, there was in her a human mother, that is certain, but it was also more than that.

To say that Mary was a divinity and to make an idol of her, an unreal being, is to deny the incarnation of the Word, of the Light into humanity. Jesus himself proclaimed he was the son of man, in order to show the necessity of the ennoblement of man. The motherhood of Mary is the motherhood of all women in all peoples. It is also the secret of the embodiement of the Light within man, and of wisdom within the world.

To say that this motherhood comes from God is to remove the part of man, and thus deny the possible divinization of man through initiation. God is present in motherhood, but it is man who decides whether he is going to bring Light or darkness into the world. The Virgin is the carrier of a grand message which sends us back to ourselves, beyond the polarity of sexes. What is our relationship with God, and whom do we bring into the world through our thoughts, our words, our attitudes, our deeds, our way of living?

Men have placed upon virginity such a poor, limited and narrow conception that it can even make people sick. The virginity of the Virgin has nothing to do with sex; it is a purity of the soul in its relationship with the Divine. This purity concerns men as well as women.

What is admirable about the Virgin is not the ‘miraculous’ side, but truly the perception of the


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fulfillment of the sacred law of a soul which, during several lifetimes, has worked to realize the Divine embodiement. She conducted all the way to perfection the sacred teaching that she had received from her Mother Isis within the confines of the temple. Through the Virgin, we can contemplate the fruit of the work of an authentic initiatic School. Any soul that enters the path of initiation to wisdom can accomplish such a work in its ray1. To conduct a work to perfection is the goal of every man coming into this world. The Virgin should not obscure all of the women who, in one way or another, have taken the path of service and devotion.

The Virgin loved to throw herself into the knowledgeless; she cultivated the love of the sacred mystery. She used to walk up the hills, and, while walking, she cultivated within herself another way of looking at the world. She did that voluntarily, as an awakening exercise. For her, the eye and all the organs of perception were a subject of study and amazement.

When she would think about her eyes and the ability to see, she would be amazed. She would say to herself, “How is it possible to see images outside oneself, to move around, and go and touch them?” She would

1 – For the author, in the image of the sunrays, each creature is unique, and all are born from one Godhead, the One Source. Each one is indispensable to the whole, and must do everything possible to be fully what one truly is. The link with the Source, the ‘ray,’ can be maintained, developed, severed, re–established. (Ed.)

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truly be in a deep questioning, and would stay in it for a very long time. She did not content herself with ready–made, superficial answers which answer nothing, which extinguish the fire of questions within the soul. On the contrary, she wanted to cultivate that fire within her in order to unite with the mystery, to be the answer. She wanted to live intensely with the Divine, whom she sensed behind all the manifestations in the world.

She used to practice exercises which may seem childish nowadays. For example, she would open her eyes, and consciously look intensely at an image. Then she would close her eyes, and contemplate the darkness inside her head. She wanted to feel with her soul how light enters through the eyes, and how it is reflected inside the head, giving rise to comprehension. She understood mysteries that are very diffi cult to put into words. She drew a parallel between light and darkness. For example, the wheat grain had to be put into the earth in order to grow, and produce a wheat ear. What she saw then was a seed which through her eyes entered her inner earth. Her future life depended on the way this seed had entered her.

If a man closes his eyes, he is in darkness. If he opens his eyes, light enters him, and impregnates him. Darkness can then get animated by what touched him. For the Essenes, darkness was the cave, the womb in which the initiation to the Mother of the world took place. The Virgin had passed the tests of this initiation,


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and it had imbued her soul, and nourished her reflective thinking. The womb was the place of embodiement, of the preparation of the body. The body was the vehicle, the receptacle, the instrument of the soul and of the universal spirit. She would make the connection between darkness, the cave, the body of man, the womb of the mother... and meditate. For her, the eye was the sex organ by which Light penetrated in order to give a body to intelligence, the logos, the Word. Darkness inside the head was not anything.

At the same time that she was concentrating on the eye, light and darkness, she would also meditate on the breath. She often repeated the Essene mantra, “All the mysteries of the universe are contained in the space which separates inhalation from exhalation.”

She would meditate while walking, and use her body like an instrument capable of leading her towards the Divine knowledge. She would inhale and exhale the air in an active way, full of questionings. She asked herself questions about the tree, the rock, the mountain she saw, about the relation between the mountain and herself, between the Sun, the light, the blue sky, the colours, and the forms in nature. She tried to unite all of that inside herself, to perceive it in her body, in her soul.

She would palpate the sensations coming to her like a peasant who touches the earth, looks at it, and crumbles it to see if it is good. One does that with a melon or a fabric... The Virgin applied this technique


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with the images that entered her eyes, and penetrated her head. Through her breathing, she would impregnate her head with sensations in order to ‘palpate’ the image. By palpating this image, she would try to extract the living information from it. Then she would make the knowledge descend through her larynx, and manifest it through a word which she radiated towards the image contemplated outside. She would think, “Through the word lives the intelligence which is inside my head, and which I have palpated with the breath of life.”

In order to live the experience of darkness, she would stay inside a cave for several days. Her whole body would get impregnated with the darkness, become one with the cave, and her soul could awaken inside the inner light. The darkness would make her say, “What lives inside the head of man is the entire cosmos; it is something which is beyond forms, but which can reveal all the forms. Thus, inside the head of man, God placed the capacity to understand the cosmos. This knowledge appears when light meets with darkness, and lives inside him.” Today, they explain to us that, thanks to the connections existing inside the brain, the light that enters the nervous system, and the diff erent senses of man, like sight, hearing and touch, is transformed into information, reflexes and actions. In fact, a language diff erent from that of the Virgin and the Essenes is used to explain the same reality.


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The Virgin was convinced that what lives inside the brain of man contains the capacity to reveal all the cosmos and the Divine knowledge. But man can also be led into illusion, that is to say be sterile, and bring into the world the monsters of the deceitful light. The one who looks only at the surfaces sees only a part of reality, and the impregnation cannot take place. Only darkness and the union of light and the night allow the acquisition of the Divine knowledge, the real knowledge that begets the true Light. That gives birth to an image within the image. Jesus said, “The kingdom of God will come when you put an image inside your image, an icon inside your icon.” One must not simply look at the forms, but perceive the image that is inside, and, through it, see the Father. Then, man can awaken inside the hidden Light, palpate it with his breath, and elevate himself towards the intelligence that is not of the world.

What do we see through the image of an advertising billboard? By really palpating what lives inside our brain, we can discover an image within the image, a hidden intention. That is not just hot air because this intention impregnates our inner life without our knowledge. It lives in us, and develops to the point of being able to take a body.

It is because they possessed this knowledge that the Essenes were very watchful about images; they protected


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themselves from them. They sought after the making of the image of God inside themselves. Thanks to this living philosophy, the Virgin found the teaching that she had received in Egypt about embodiement. The mother welcomes into her body a seed which contains the image of man. She shapes this image, nourishes it, and gives it all the elements until the image appears into the world, and manifests itself in it.

We are in the great secrets of the creative word. The kingdom of God is a seed inside the words of man. The word pronounced by the Father must be pronounced in turn by the son, filling it with his love. Through his head and through all his senses, man is an intermediary between the Father and the world because the cosmos lives inside his head.

A mountain is a word of the Father. If man perceives only its surface, then the Father remains invisible, hidden. If man sees the darkness in the mountain and also inside himself, then he can raise himself up to the Divine knowledge, and live within it. This is how the Virgin thought. She considered that the cosmos lived inside her head, and that the energies of the Earth manifested themselves inside her rib cage. The Earth gives life, but it also leads towards death. Only the seed interests it. If man does not carry any seed, the Earth destroys and recycles him. That is the meaning of breathing that lifts the rib cage. Oxygen enters man, but it is carbon dioxide that comes out of him. The word


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pronounced about carbon works upon the raw material of the world. Later, the alchemists will once again find this secret of the Essenes, and they will make carbon the raw material of their work. They asked themselves how to transform charcoal into diamond, lead into gold, the mortal word into something that does not die: Christ. When one says that Christ is resurrected, it is about mysteries which touch the inner life of every man coming into this world. It is a secret of the thought, of breathing, and of the spoken word.

I will give an example. In our French language, if I write the word DIEU1, what does that awaken in our thought? DIEU written does not mean anything; it is a lifeless concept, a dead breathing. We have concepts, thoughts about everything, but we have not put an image within the image, or done all the work to perceive what lives inside the image, to breathe, to palpate, to bring out of the larynx the light that impregnates the world... Our conceptions are not the immaculate conception.

In these exercises, the Virgin was not just content to bring the light out through her larynx. She would then draw it through her heart, her abdomen, her deeds, and her entire body. This is how she formed for herself a body of virginity, of diamond, of divinity. We find this body again in the word of four letters DIEU.

1– A French word meaning ‘God.’ (Ed.)


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In ancient Egyptian, the letter D is written by drawing a flag, and the Hebrew writing took up this symbol to express the D. This flag means: the presence of the Divine. A flag is something that one plants in the ground, that floats in the wind, and on which one can inscribe something. What God inscribes on his flag is the world. Everything that you see is on the flag of God, and, therefore, the Divine is everywhere. By concentrating on the letter D, and associating it with the image of the flag, you form inside yourself a living idea of the Divine; you begin to see it through its diff erent manifestations, to palpate things, and to know them from the inside.

The letter I represents the Sun on high, and the ray that comes down to impregnate the depths. If you approach an object in the world, it is not neutral; there is a force, an influence that comes towards you, and impregnates you.

The letter E represents the ebb and flow of life that surrounds the form. It is the breath that enters and exits. When the breath is in the body, it becomes one with the form, and life is individual. When it exits, it unites once again with the universal life and with the non–form.

The letter U represents the depth, the chalice, the physical body, the incarnation, and also the currents of involution and evolution. The depths are not empty, they are not a ‘nothing,’ nor are they the outcome; they are a way of opening up a new path to the spirit.


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We have realized an interpretation of a word, thanks to an inner knowledge of the letters of the Latin alphabet, as well as of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Hebrew letters. Why is this know–how that leads man into the inner light not taught at school? Because men refuse to apply the techniques that lead towards the true knowledge, the one that gives birth to the Light. They venerate the Virgin Mary, but they hasten to hide her mastery, her life, her teaching. They transform her into an abstract idol which has no longer any force. That goes in the direction of the interests that they wish to pursue, and of the life that they want to lead.

The technique that the Virgin used can be illustrateded with the example of the French word DIEU.

D: the flag. She would look at a form in nature with an awareness that it was a writing of God, the hidden Father.

I: the Sunray. She would perceive the emanation of the form, and gather it into the darkness of her brain. She would bring this seed to life inside darkness. She was open and without any prejudice.

E: the breath of life. She would give form to what wanted to manifest itself within herself through her own body and her own life.

U: the depth. She would make the conceived image go all the way down to her own abdomen through her spine, and give it a body. This was the embodiement of the Light.


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When she inhaled, she would chant the sound M, and make it resonate inside her head. It is through this sound that she tried to lighten, and perceive what lives in the darkness of the head. In this way, she entered other worlds which were much more subtle and spiritual. Afterwards, she would concentrate on exhaling while chanting the sound N. Later, the Christians made of these two sounds the magic word AMEN1. AMEN was already considered as a divinity by the Egyptians; it was the word that allows anything to be realized.

For the Virgin, the letter M represented the Tree of life and the ocean of God, while the letter N was the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The M was chanted on inhalation, and the N on exhalation, on the carbon dioxide. Thus, it is man who was bringing death or life into the world.

Man would naturally become an agent of evil if he was no longer connected to the living ideas, to the flag of God, to the impregnation from on high, to the breath of life, and to the real significance of his body. Then, he would enter himself the death of his soul, and it is death that he would bring into the world.

1– The words that are called ‘sacred’ can also be called ‘magical.’ Indeed, the sacred, magic are conscious or unconscious ways to connect the invisible worlds. The quality of the sacred, of the magic depends on the consciousness of the human being, on his knowledge in this area and on the way he applies it, as well as the level of the invisible beings and worlds that are contacted. (Ed.)


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That is why, in Egypt, only the initiates had access to the sacred writing, and they only could correctly pronounce the names of the divinities. To pronounce the name of a God is either to bring it alive within oneself, or else to profane and pollute it. Only the immaculate conception is authorized for a God.

God said to Moses, “You will not pronounce my name in vain.” The Virgin said, “You will not live in vain.”

She sanctified the name of God all the way into her physical body in order to bring life and the Light into the world.

One finds fragments of this science practiced by the Virgin, in India, in the pranayama, which is the teaching of breathing, and in the pronunciation of the mantra AUM.

AUM is a name of God. There is a parallel between the AUM of India, the AMON and ATON of the Egyptians, and the AMEN of the Essenes and the Christians.

The sound AU, which, in reality, is pronounced EU, means ‘eye.’ The great rishis of India pronounced ‘eye,’ which, in the language of the Essenes, means ‘the Being,’ the supreme Godhead. The rishis and their disciples pronounced ‘eye’ in their head, and, while exhaling, they sang the M to unite themselves to the ocean of God. Inside the darkness in their head, they gave birth to the Light that did not come from the world. Through


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this Light, they united themselves with the Divine and communed with it in wisdom. Jesus will say, “I am the Light of the world,” “I am not of the world.”

The Virgin Mary was really a Master in this practice. Every day, for many years, she performed these exercises until all the rocks, the plants and the clouds began speaking to her. She rediscovered the universal language, that of the Sun, that of love and goodness. As a result of this, she became a great healer because she knew the secret of plants, as well as the secret of sounds. She knew that sounds were alive, and that, through them, one could not only explore one’s internal organs but also model one’s inner life. For her, sound led man towards the inside, and the light that he met within himself pushed him towards the outside. That is why she gave birth to the Light. Her body became the door opening up onto the mystery. She was an instrument on which nature played, and, behind nature, it was the Divine that manifested itself. Then, all the images would become alive and intelligent in God and in man. Man himself would become the Word, the word of God, a presence, a writing of the Father on the Earth.


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A world specialist of the Essenes, and himself an Essene Master,

Olivier Manitara transmits the time-honoured wisdom of this

ancient people. Author of more than two hundred books, including

a teaching series, he also has at his credit hundreds of improvised

lectures on the most diverse subjects.

For the past twenty years he has been providing a precious, rare,

and personally experienced teaching. He facilitates intensive

training seminars, and gives lectures in Europe, Africa, and North

America. A simple man, genuine, and concrete, he knows how to

reconcile the two worlds, that of matter, and that of the spirit.

He is a member of the French Society of Writers, a Messenger for

the “Culture of Peace Manifesto” of the Unesco, and participates

in the Meditation Room of the United Nations.

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Was the Virgin Mary really the naive woman established religions have

depicted?

No, Mary was an Essene, a high level initiate, a healer, an authentic Master.

What do we truly know of the one whom history calls the Mother of God?

Thanks to his capacity to penetrate the ‘soul’ of a being, the author raises a

corner of the veil, and blows away the dust of all the false beliefs that we have

been inculcated about her. With him we plunge into the richness, the beauty

of her inner life, at the heart of her experiences, and we discover a fascinating

world of sensitivity, joy, ecstasy...

This remarkable woman is a genuine jewel, a genuine source capable of

enriching our life.

A book to read, and read again, and meditate...

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