A great many people today feel the need for some

practical methods that will help them to grow spiritually.

A New Earth responds to that need. It contains a

number of simple, effective, spiritual exercises taken from

the thousands of lectures given by the Master Omraam

Mikhaël Aïvanhov over a period of nearly fifty years.

Some concern our everyday life: nutrition, breathing,

hygiene, purification, and our relationships with nature

and other human beings. Others touch on questions

that are more directly spiritual: meditation and prayer,

the development of our psychic centres, or chakras, the

aura, the body of glory, and so on. All these methods

grow out of that immense body of knowledge known as

initiatic science, the principal goal of which is the advent

of the 'new heaven and the new earth' announced in

scripture.

'In the language of initiates, the language of

eternal symbols, a "new heaven" means new ideas, a

new perception and understanding, a new philosophy;

and a "new earth" means a new behaviour, a new way of

doing things; in other words, a new way of thinking and

a new way of living. Our heads are in heaven and our

feet are on earth. Our feet follow the lead of the head into

terrain that it has already explored. The "new earth" is

man's new behaviour. The things man does and the way

he does them are going to have to change in order to

conform with his new philosophy. All these new methods

you are learning constitute the "new earth".'

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov