Initiation is the process of the birth of Space through man

In each initiation you grow toward yourself; you grow toward your future, your glorious future, closer and closer to Cosmos and to the Plan and Purpose behind Cosmos. As we have nine months in the birth process, so do we have nine initiations through which a Spark passes before it is born into Cosmic Space. But let us remember that the real Essence is not born because the real Essence is you. You are not born. Initiation is the process of the birth of Space through man.

-Torkom Saraydarian

New Dimensions in Healing, p.734

In the month of Leo...

This month is the month in which we can control and master all in us that devours other people. For example, gossiping about others means to eat them. When you gossip about someone, you eat his reputation, his soul, and his heart. When you hate someone, you eat him. When you are jealous of someone, you eat him. When you misuse someone for your own pleasure, you eat him. You must stop all this lion-like activity.

As long as your lion is alive, he will devour your physical, emotional, and mental energies. The secret of survival, happiness, and health is the secret of annihilating that lion.


-Torkom Saraydarian
The Wisdom of the Zodiac, vol.2

The full moon of Leo is a reminder...

The energy of Leo inspires us to look for the inner star of the Self. Unless you look for that star, you are lost. It is very interesting that people are looking for everything except that star. People are interested twenty-four hours per day in their pocketbooks, sex, drinking, eating, health....and not one minute in the Self.

The full moon of Leo is a reminder that there is a pole star within you that must be the object of your concentration. When it is the object of your concentration, you will steadily draw energy from it. When you draw energy from it, your life will change.

Once you have contact with the Innermost Self within you, you will think twenty-five hours per day (one more!) about the Self. You will reverse the direction of all the things you were doing with your body, emotions, and mind during the day, during your life, during your incarnations. The Self will become the Core or the axis of all your activities.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Wisdom of the Zodiac, vol.2

The spiritual message of the month of Leo

The energy of Leo creates sensitivity in you to the polestar, Polaris. Polaris represents the polestar of God within you. This means that Leo creates an orientation in you toward God, toward that Supreme Wholeness.

The polestar creates direction in you, and you pass through several phases. In the first phase, you sense a meaning in life. In the second state, you see a plan. In the third stage, you see a purpose. The purpose is the polestar. The fourth stage is sacrifice, which means, "I am in you and you are in me; I want to be one with everything possible." This is the message of Leo.

The lion of Leo stands for three things: that you unveil yourself, find yourself, and radiate yourself out as creativity, through which you express Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. Then your life will be a great inspiration for others, and through that inspiration, you will awaken the lion sleeping in every human being.

The lion is not necessarily found in those who are born under the sign of Leo. Leo represents the human spirit. That spirit must be awakened so that you are not a slave but a master of yourself. The goal of Leo is to see the jewel, the polestar, and dedicate your whole life to it, to look to that goal and achieve that goal.


-Torkom Saraydarian
The Wisdom of the Zodiac, vol.2

Real meditation is a process of scientific thinking

The best tool we have for transformation of consciousness from lower to higher levels is meditation. Meditation is the hammer that builds the royal road of continuity of consciousness. But meditation must be real, scientific, and esoterically tested meditation. Those who sincerely want to change their nature, to become saner, clearer, and healthier, should carefully read The Science of Meditation.

The goal of meditation is to make you mentally more radioactive, creative, and beautiful. It is the technique of mastering the whole mechanism of your mind and learning how to operate this complicated mechanism. It is not self-hypnosis or repeating a mantram until you nicely fall asleep.

Real meditation is a process of scientific thinking. It is through right thinking that we are able to expand our consciousness and build the Bridge with our compassion. It is a way to live a life charged with Beauty, Goodness, Righteousness, Joy, Freedom, Striving, and Sacrificial Service.

The greatest success a man can accomplish is the completion of the Golden Bridge. It is only across this Bridge that man can walk into supermundane realms.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Dynamics Of The Soul

Love and responsibility

Love performed without a sense of responsibility leads to sorrow and suffering. Responsibility means that you will sustain unity once you have created it and work for the progressive advancement of that unity toward more love, more light, and more life. Responsibility teaches you that other people's failures and sorrows are yours, and that you must try to eliminate them physically, emotionally, and mentally with freedom and joy, as if they were yours.

Love must be progressively expanding.


-Torkom Saraydarian
The Flame of Beauty, Culture, Love, Joy

The virtue of Courage

Courage means not to identify with your personality. Identify with your True Self. When you are identified with your True Self, nothing is impossible. Courage is the ability to make impossible things possible.

Courage overcomes the obstacles coming from beloved ones and enemies. With courage you overcome illusions, glamors, inertia, vanity, financial conditions, and health.

One of the games of life is to create obstacles. Growth only exists when there are obstacles and you conquer those obstacles by courage. Everything is a limitation so that you exercise your courage to destroy limitations and release your Self. This is your game -- physical limitations, emotional limitations, mental limitations - and the labor to overcome these limitations is called courage, which eventually makes you a liberated soul.


-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing