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The Sun Gazette THE SUN GAZETTE Voice of The International Sun Imbibers' Society (ISIS) Summer, 2008 (Vol. 2, Issue 3) FREE www.angelfire.com/moon2/isisaz and terrorism; the moral bankruptcy of large Solar Healing Meditation segments of society; the failure of education to Part I -- Techniques & Science of the SOLution Contents prepare students for real success; the starvation The SOLution is Here 1 of millions of people in third world nations; the 1. Why Absorb Sunlight? pandemic of obesity in developed nations; the Let The Sun Shine In Omraam 1 oppression of billions of people by totalitarian Imbibe Sunshine for a Natural High Sungazing and Eyesight Paneurhythmy Workshop 3 regimes; the lack of emotional harmony in fami- Nude Sunbathing lies; the slavery of people to the rat race in the A Cure for Obesity vain pursuit of material happiness; the hypocrisy 2. Basic Techniques and Tools and divisiveness of religion; the overcrowding of How to Sungaze prisons and the failure of capital punishment as a Sungazing Tools deterrent; and the rise in chronic depression re- How to Sunbathe THE SOLUTION IS HERE Sun-charged Water sulting in increased incidence of suicide. But the Barefoot Walking on Sun-warmed Sand underlying problem that is at the root of all these Grounding problems is this: We have lost our connection with God. We feel separated from God by space Part II - Suns of God Who Gave us the SOLution (we’re down here and he’s way up there) or by 1. The Mysteries of the Sun TheThe SOLutionSOLution sin (God is perfect and we're miserable sinners). 2. Serapis Bey If we feel alone and worthless, if we don’t see 3. Kuthumi that God is in our hearts, we won’t treat our- 4. Lanello selves with respect. If we don’t see that God is in 5. Zarathustra everyone else as well, we won’t treat them with 6. Lord Ling 7. El Morya respect either. 8. Jesus 9. Hilarion The problems we face are the same as those 10. Omraam faced by people in every society in every epoch of history. If we carefully scrutinize the historical Part III -- How to Become a Sun of God record, we will see that social, political and reli- 1. Amrita, the Elixir of Immortality gious institutions have not provided solutions to 2. The Deathless Solar Body these problems, and, in many cases, have wors- 3. The Alchemy of Transfiguration ened the problems. Throughout this dark pageant 4. Into the Heart of the Sun of wars, sectarian strife, plagues, famines, slav- Appendix A – Spiritual Sungazing Techniques ery, materialism, ignorance and perversions, we Appendix B – Songs, Prayers, Affirmations and can glimpse brief periods of peace and enlighten- Mantras to the Sun Laying the Foundation for a Solar Civilization ment. In every case, these bright interludes have Appendix C -- Testimonials by Wayne H. Purdin & Jeanette Wallen been brought about by the establishment of a new religion, based on the sun of our system, nd A PERSPECTIVE ON THE CUR- On June 22 , 2008 I published the first copies of Sol. Sol is an interesting word. Add a “u” for RENT GLOBAL SITUATION IN my audio book The SOLution: Laying the Foun- you, and you get soul, the sun of your being. Add dation for a Solar Civilization. I decided to an “o” for one, and you get solo, which means THE LIGHT OF THE TEACHINGS publish it in audio format because it contains a alone or all one. “We are all one in the sun” is crucial Solar Healing Meditation and instructions not just a fanciful New Age expression. It is the for advanced sungazing techniques that are best key to the New Age and the SOLution to the absorbed by listening with eyes closed or fo- problems of the Old Age. The continuing failure cused on the sun. And the appendix on Songs, of religion, modern medicine, education, and Prayers, Affirmations and Mantras to the Sun government to solve problems will sooner or lat- can only be appreciated in audio. An audio book er lead people to consider trying the SOLution, is much less expensive to produce, so I am sell- and the lost teachings of the great avatars and ing it (four CD with over five hours of record- masters, the suns of God, will once again en- ings) for only $12, which includes shipping. lighten people, this time on a global scale. It is Available from 4142 W. Park View Lane, Glen- toward this effort that I have written this book. dale, AZ 85310. Send check or money order payable to Wayne H. Purdin with return address. It's true that you can't judge a book by it's cover, Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov although the cover design by world-famous graphic artist and long-time sungazer, Elan Sun- The title of this book begs the question: What’s He was born as Mikhael Aivanhov to a poor star is a good visual summary of what The SO- the problem? I could list a dozen or so problems family in Serbtzi, Macedonia. Like many great Lution is about. To give you a better idea of what that this book could solve: the worsening health initiates, he had a humble beginning but was des- it's about, I am copying the Table of Contents: crisis at home and abroad; the escalation of war tined for greatness. Three famous mystics made Introduction prophecies about him. One was Nostradamus anything he later learned from books. “Child- Sophia, concentrating on psychology, philosophy who wrote: hood,” he noted, “determines the whole of one's and the natural sciences. During the 1930s, he life.” held a professorship at a university and subse- To a humble family will a fair child be born quently became a college principal. In 1937, De- From a Balkan country will this Eagle fly, During his adolescence, Mikhael devoted himself unov seeing the rise of fascist and communist To dwell in the land of the Rooster, to spiritual practices involving meditation, yoga, regimes, decided to export his teachings to West- His name, the same as mine, the world will breathing exercises and light. One day when he ern Europe. Out of 40,000 disciples, he chose long recall, was 15 he was doing the surya yoga practice of Mikhael to take his teachings to France. So on His voice the peoples of the earth will hear, sungazing when he was suddenly plunged into a July 22, 1937, during the Universal Exposition, And following upheaval and disaster, mystical experience of God as a most beautiful Mikhael arrived in Paris with only a handful of A new age will begin. being of light. Later, he commented: “It was so French disciples to help him. beautiful that I was beside myself. To see such a France has the rooster as its emblem, and that is being, with all those colors, all that light! He was For ten years he worked hard to spread Deunov's where Mikhael traveled to from Bulgaria, a almost invisible in the extraordinary luminosity teachings and in 1947, he created the French Balkan country. The eagle represents the lofty that surrounded him. I found myself flooded with chapter of the Universal White Brotherhood. In sun - a fitting symbol for Mikhael, who boldly light. I was in a state of bliss, of ecstasy so im- the summer of 1953, the first convention of the soared in the dimension of Spirit, close to the mense, so powerful, that I no longer knew where Brotherhood was held at the Bonfin near Frejus. source of all light. I was. It was a delirious joy; it was heaven; it It was attended by all those who, in spite of the was the universe! Ever since then I have felt that difficulties of the past five years, remained true Another prophet was Rudolf Steiner who said, “I if God were not all beauty I could not believe in to Brother Michael. The Bonfin is still the inter- bring you a complicated language for the intel- him. It is beauty that remains in my mind as the national headquarters of the Universal White lect, but after me will come Michael, who will one essential: neither power, nor knowledge, nor Brotherhood and people from all over the world bring a simple language of images.” If you read wealth, nor glory. Only beauty!” attend conferences there in the summers any of Omraam's books you’ll find that they’re full of imagery and easy to understand. This was a turning point in his life, for he real- A tradition which Brother Mikhael began and ized that in order to regain that experience he which people continue at the Bonfin and other And lastly, around the beginning of the 20th cen- would have to give up his self experimentation centers today is the sunrise meditation. This is a tury, someone asked the Theosophist Charles and learn from an enlightened master. This tran- very powerful meditation that is well worth get- Leadbeater who would bring the energy of scendent sun gazing experience was the begin- ting up early for. Mikhael told his students, Archangel Michael to the Earth. Leadbeater ning of a new life; his quest for perfection was “Learn to bathe in this river, in this immense replied “His name will be Michael and he will ar- now channeled in a more definite direction. flood of morning, for this is your true bath, a rive in France after the first third of the century When the student is ready, the teacher appears, bath of light, the only one which can truly wash is past.” Mikhael came to France in 1937.
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