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

The virtue of Patience

Patience puts man into action. The moments of waiting, for a patient man, are the moments of the most intense efforts to make a breakthrough. The moments of expectation of a patient man are moments recharged by the vision of the future.

Patience is always related to self-discipline. Without self-discipline, patience cannot manifest.


Patience is related not to time but to Space. It inspires man with the vision of Infinity. Once man makes a contact with the vision of Infinity, the energy flow of patience commences.

Patience is like a thread of light which relates not only the persevering efforts of weeks, months, or years but also of lives. On the golden thread of patience, man locates his most precious pearls of achievement.

Patience is the ability to see that you are the Changeless One in all changes; the ability to see that you have traversed time and you stand as duration within the cycles of the past, present, and future; the ability to cooperate with the laws of Nature. Patience is inspired by the vision of spiritual destiny.


-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing

Causes of depression - Blocked psychic energy

When psychic energy is blocked in you and you cannot express it creatively, it causes depression. This begins at childhood, for example, when your mother says, "Don't do that... I told you not to dance... I told you not to play... Don't read it... Put that violin down... I don't want it... You are ugly..." etc. What happens? You become tightly coiled up within yourself. When it reaches the saturation point, you become depressed. In your mind you think, "I am worthless," and you believe it.

It is very difficult to untie that coil and release it, but you can do so with creative dancing, expression, jumping, running, and singing.

The result of such talk is very serious, and this is the reason why you must never belittle anyone. You should never say, "What's happening to you? You are losing weight... Your color is gone..." The person's aura will go from five feet to three feet. Say a little more and it will be one foot. Continue to say more and there will be no aura. On the contrary, tell the person, "You are so beautiful... Come on, you can do it... Failure is nothing but a great lesson... If you fail one hundred times, you are still going to be successful..." In this way you are helping the person release it.


-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing

Evil forces create disunity in the family

If there is a family where the husband and wife act through ugly thoughts, words, and behaviors, we can conclude that dark forces are operating there. When you catch yourself in a moment of ugliness, immediately stop because you are opening a path for evil to possess you. You are weakening your own defenses and the evil ones rejoice at this opportunity. They will go to their chief and say, "See how I was able to make this husband and wife fight against each other? Now they are fighting, they are separating, they are divorcing, they are enemies." They will get a nice medal because they created ugliness and disunity within that family.

-Torkom Saraydarian

Money cannot buy virtues

Money cannot buy virtues; wealth cannot replace them. But virtues can bring prosperity and abundance and make man enjoy them and use them as a blessing for others. In the not too distant future, the physician will prescribe virtues to his patients and minimize the use of chemicals and even surgery.

-Torkom Saraydarian

New Dimensions in Healing

If you know many things and if your life is not changed...

If you know many things and if your life is not changed through the assimilation of knowledge, you become like a donkey carrying bags of gold. You have great treasures in you, but you have no way to use them and transform your life through them.

-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing

Causes of depression - Negative thoughtforms projected to you by others

Depression is caused when you identify with the negative thoughtforms projected to you by others. This is very interesting and occurs frequently. If a group of people are projecting dark, heavy, and hateful thoughts toward you, eventually they knock you down. You feel helpless and in inertia because their thoughtforms, imagination, and visualizations are projected into your aura and you feel that these things in your aura are you. You get horrified with the thoughtforms in your aura.

It is best not to evoke any evil thought from anyone, because the evil thought is like an arrow that is poisonous; it his your aura and collects poison there.

The effect can be on your physical body, your emotional body, or your mental body. For example, if I am thinking beautiful things about you, you feel so beautiful and you do not know why. You are happy, singing, dancing because I am giving energy to your aura. Beautiful thoughts are energy currents.

When someone is thinking evil thoughts about you, you feel narrow, irritated, and depressed and eventually you give up. Try not to evoke any evil thought, slander, or malice from anyone because they are poisonous arrows that will create total depression in your system.


-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing

Virtues have a considerable effect on our body chemistry and health

Virtues have a considerable effect on our body chemistry and health. For example:

-Compassion strengthens the heart and harmonizes the digestive system.

-Fearlessness strengthens and corrects the kidneys and urinary system.

-Solemnity purifies the spleen.

-Ecstasy and great joy evoked by beauty and art performances energize and harmonize the spleen.

-Service purifies the toxins from the muscles and helps to regulate the lymphatic system.

-Generosity and love strengthen the flow of electricity in the nervous system, which contributes to longevity.

-Forgiveness dissolves the ulcers found in the mental and astral bodies.

-Patience energizes the generative organs and heals many disorders found in these organs.

-Optimism is a great remedy to the pancreas. Every bit of optimism gives a new electric shock to the pancreas.

-Discrimination strengthens the eyes.

-Silence or right speech are tonics for the thyroid gland.

-Compassion is the best tonic for your eyes.


-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing, p.677

Causes of depression - Distortion of polarity

Another cause of depression is related to electrical exchange, or polarity, between you and others or between you and objects and locations. The Law of Polarity states that identical energy fields repel each other, and non-identical energy fields attract each other.

When the polarity of your physical, emotional, and mental bodies fuses with the greater magnetic field, you are expanded, joyful, successful, and powerful. When the magnetic field of thoughts, persons, objects, or locations repels your magnetic field, you are sick, weak, and confused. Sometimes even the non-identical energy field changes, or it changes you and creates frictions. That is why it is proper sometimes to change locations, furniture, etc. Sometimes it is good to move away from those places where you feel depressed, confused, or bewildered.

Stay away from radioactive waste, nuclear power plants, locations of radioactivity, heavy electrical cables or stations, and buildings or persons which lower your energy level, limit your horizon, and dim your light.

We must know that man is a magnet. He has an electromagnetic form. He is an electromagnetic field, and any distortion and disturbance in this electromagnetic field creates problems and eventually leads the man into depression.

You must watch your polarity with people, locations, objects, and times. Wherever and with whatever and whomever you are most creative and healthy, choose that location, that person, that furniture, that food, that material, that color, that sound, and so on.


-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing

Causes of depression - Fatigue of the brain

A major source of depression starts from the brain. If the brain is tired, you will have continuous problems leading you into depression. The brain needs rest, rest from the conversations of others, from various kinds of sound and light. Cyclic rest in darkness, in the mountains and deserts helps your brain recover. Often you must give up reading, watching television, or listening to the radio.This will bring great relief to your brain.

Your nose also sends very potent impressions to your brain. You must stay away from certain odors and the smell of chemicals and gases which often injure the brain and prepare it for depression.

If your office or home is in a state of chaos and things are not in order, and when you pressure your brain to follow an order through the chaos, this contributes to the fatigue of your brain. Orderliness is a great help to your sanity and joy.


-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing

Causes of depression - Chemical imbalance or deficiency in the brain

The third cause is a chemical imbalance or deficiency in the brain. This is what the medical professors or medical doctors say when certain amounts of calcium, potassium, magnesium, or other elements are lacking in the brain and when the chemicals are imbalanced. This causes depression.

We are told in the Ageless Wisdom that all chemicals in the body are under the influence of your states of consciousness. For example, if you have a state of consciousness which is called fear, your calcium slowly fades away; if you are in greed, your magnesium is depleted; if you are in revenge, your hemoglobin is exhausted.

It is your state of consciousness that creates the secretion of your glands and increases or decreases the chemicals in your body. If you change your state of consciousness, you can change the amount or increase the chemicals you want within your body. As you become more balanced mentally and spiritually, the chemicals in your body automatically balance themselves, but as you become more unbalanced mentally or spiritually, the corresponding chemicals become imbalanced in your system.

The constitution of man is not physical; it is etheric, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

When Christ, Buddha, Zoroaster, Mohammed, and all the Great Ones were talking about virtues, They were not talking about religion but about science. Hate, for example, hardens your arteries and creates imbalance in the thymus gland. The electrical palpitations of the gland are distorted by hate. But if you love, the thymus gland readjusts, organizes, and harmonizes itself.


-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing

Causes of depression - Having a great vision

The second cause of depression is to have such a great vision about which you can do nothing, and you get depressed. You can feel this in a different way when you visit a great man and think to yourself, "What am I? Nothing..."

When you feel that there is a great power, Infinite Space, and you feel small, you may feel depressed. This is why so many people are depressed -- not because of their guilt but because they confront something beyond their comprehension.

Instead of falling into depression, you can take one small step at a time. One little step will take you closer to your vision.

You love humanity. Then you turn on the television, and everybody is killing each other. "I don't want to write and read and pray any more. It's not working," you say. This is spiritual depression. You try to solve a mathematical problem, but it is so big and you cannot solve it. This is mental depression. You love somebody so deeply, but she hates you. This is emotional depression.

All such depressions at various times play their games with you, but because you do not really know what your depression is, you do not see that you are really depressed in certain moments, in certain levels. The causes, you know now, are guilt feelings and great visions you cannot reach.


-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing

Causes of depression - Guilt

The first cause is the feeling of guilt. When you feel, think, and know that you did something wrong to yourself or to others physically, with your feelings, or with your thoughts and words, you feel guilty. By thinking about your wrong doing, you build an image of yourself, and this image builds an etheric, emotional, and mental layer around your aura and isolates you to some degree from life currents circulating in the Universe.

You also create a cleavage between your personality and your Real Self. Such an isolation and cleavage deprives you of these vehicles, and they fall separately or collectively into inertia, into depression.

Guilt leads to inertia and depression. That is why when you clean your conscience, you will never be depressed. But our conscience gets loaded and loaded by small things that we do. For example, we know that evil talk is no good, but we talk, gossip, criticize, and it accumulates. Then we steal a little, lie a little. Then we do something else. Eventually we become physically, emotionally, and mentally out of order, and we fall away from conscious contact with our conscience. When these things accumulate and come to their saturation point, depression starts.

The first thing you must know is that the cause of depression is moral and spiritual. It is related to the conscience and to your sense of righteousness, purity, and beauty. When that sense is strong in you, you are unfolding through the sense of beauty, unity, purity, synthesis, cleanness, and wholeness.

But when you act against these things you depress yourself because anything you do against the principles and laws of Nature is a load that you put on your nervous system. You decrease your spiritual Self and increase your material self, and this creates a tremendous imbalance in your system.

How to get rid of guilt?

The first thing is to repeat the following mantram with concentration and faith:

More radiant than the Sun,
Purer than the snow,
Subtler than the ether
Is the Self,
The Spirit within my heart.
I am that Self.
That Self am I.

No matter what you did, no matter what you are in this stage of your evolution, God is within you. And God cannot make any guilt. It is your physical, emotional, and mental bodies that make mistakes, but not the God within you. You are God within you, not your bodies. If you develop this philosophy, you have a way to come out of depression.

Avoiding guilt feelings does not mean to imply that this should encourage you to fall into error. On the contrary, it will create a reverse reaction. Guilt means identification with your bodies, but as you think about your Self, you will be protected by Its light.


-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing

Love makes you live the future

Love gives you direction. Direction is the link between what you are now and what you can become in the future.

Love makes you see the future; love makes you live the future in your daily life. Health is living the future. Joy is the awareness that you are living in your future visions and achievements.


-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing