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Friday, October 12, 2018

AUM Mantra



AUM. One wards off bad influences when one says it in the right way; it connects man with the creating Godhead, the three Logoi. The evil beings who want to tear men away from the Godhead can't stand it. AUM must be spoken with the awareness:

Primal Self from which everything came,
Primal Self to which everything returns:
Primal Self that lives in me,
Towards you I strive.
Peace-peace-peace = AUM

A is Atma, U is Budhi, M is the wisdom that directs the Higher Self to AUM.

-Rudolf Steiner, Esoteric Lesson, 29-1-1907



"OM also represents the trinity of the upper, spiritual members of the human being Atma, Budhi and Manas, including the igniting ego spark and the associated levels of consciousness. 

"It is related to the thousand-petalled crown chakra and the two-leaved forehead chakra, the I-point, and according to the Mandukya Upanishad is decomposed into the sound components A - U - M, so it is synonymous with the Old Sun sound AUM. 

"A is our earthly waking consciousness, U the dream-consciousness of the Old Moon, M the dreamless deep sleep consciousness of the Old Sun and all three together in the OM are the all-consciousness (trance consciousness) of the Old Saturn. Only the waking consciousness (ego-consciousness) becomes aware of us today, but it is initially bound to the physical body. Consequently, Om is therefore assigned to the body. At the same time, OM is an invitation to purify and spiritualize the lower three essences in order to come to true Buddhahood, through which one no longer needs an earthly incarnation for his further spiritual development. This will be realized already in the Sixth Post-Atlantean Cultural Epoch for a larger number of spiritually aspiring people.

"Through rhythmically repeated speaking of the sacred syllable Om, one can put oneself into a state between waking and sleeping:

"The o is the confluence of a and u, is the confluence of waking up and falling asleep." 


"The moment of either falling asleep or awakening is the o. When the Oriental instructed his disciples not to sleep nor to watch, but to that limit between waking and sleeping, where one can experience so much, then he told them to speak the syllable Om; and who often repeats the syllable Om comes into an experience between waking and sleeping." 

-Rudolf Steiner ( Ref : GA 282, p. 24 )


My God come closer to me,
My God I am here in Thee,
My God be closer in me,
My God only in Thou I be,
My God in You I reside,
My God right here You abide,
My God move closer in me,
My God come forth to me.

The above is the signature theme for the favored AUM mantra decreed. One may wager that the monk's constancy in repeated effort does work inwardly the desired connections.

The etheric body overall is strengthened by repeated meditation or repeated incantation, providing that the material is compatible to a healthy soul-life. Intuitively, many do already know this and practice hard with their favored piece. The discipline of such exercises may need time to develop to such a degree that progress is marked and apparent; however, progress there will be, whether appreciated or not.
Many martyrs having to endure torturous episodes, have relieved themselves by coordinated decrees.


-B.Hive 




Omraam M. Aïvanhov canta AUM (Music by Peter Deunov):