The Master Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov was born in 1900 in Bulgaria. He went to France in 1937 and he has lived there ever since. What is striking from the very first in this book is the large number of ways the single question of how man should work to perfect himself is tackled. Whatever the question raised it is invariably answered in terms of how man can better understand himself and better conduct his life. And if the Master's words carry so much weight it is because he himself provides the finest living example of his Teaching. A disciple who has met his Master has found a mother who will carry him in her womb for nine months so that he may be born into the spiritual world. Once he has been born, once his consciousness has awakened, his eyes will discover the beauty of creation, his ears will hear divine words, he will taste heavenly food, his feet will bear him throughout space on errands of good and his hands will learn to create in the finer, higher worlds of the soul. -- Omraam Mikhael A'wanhov