The 2008 International ConferenceTwenty Years and More: Research into Minority Religions, New Religious Movements and 'the New Spirituality'
An International Conference organized by INFORM and CESNUR in association with ISORECEA at the London School of Economics, 16-20th April 2008
Aumism: Curch and Religion
by V. Vishti (Christine Amory), >President of the Association of the Triumphant Vajra Mandarom Aumism
A paper presented at the 2008 International Conference, London, UK. Preliminary version. Please do not reproduce or quote without the consent of the author.
Abstract: On August 22nd, 1990, the Mandarom’s Spiritual Master revealed Himself as the Cosmoplanetary Messiah of Synthesis and founded the Religion of Aumism. This talk will cover the following points:
- The Cosmoplanetary Messiah;
- Aumism’s basic theology, the single dogma of the Unity of God’s Faces;
- The symbol of the Hexamid which illustrates this concept;
- The aspects of the Doctrine of Aumism which are common to other religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism;
- The novelties, unique to Aumism;
- The Aumist credo;
- Aumist prayers and practices in daily life;
- The religious organization as a Church of Aumism in France;
- The administrative organization of Aumism in France, in compliance with France’s 1901 and 1905 specific legislation;
- Aumism and education, health, nature and science;
- The prophecies about the coming century and the necessity of building the Pyramid Temple of the Unity of God’s Faces.
• I. THE COSMOPLANETARY MESSIAH
• AUMISM AND THE NOTION OF COSMOPLANETARY MESSIAH
The Prophet took on a Body on this Earth to bless and save all people. The Messiah took on a Body on this Earth to bless and save humanity. The Cosmoplanetary Messiah took on a Body on this Earth to bless and save all living beings on this planet, but also in the solar system, in the galaxy, and throughout the inconceivable number of universes and dimensions of the infinite. The Cosmoplanetary Messiah’s Revelation thus concerns the entire cosmos and all religions.
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• II. THE UNITY OF GOD’S FACES
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AUMISM AND THE ONENESS OF ALL RELIGIONS: THE HEXAMID
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The Hexamid (shown hereabove) is one of the major symbols of Aumism. All Religions are considered equal. A religion is a path to reach God. At the top of the Hexamid, the sanskrit letter OM, which is the central prayer for all Aumists. OM is the first sound at the origin of all creation. For the Aumist Religion, God is a principle, present in each and every creature (see the Holy Book The Torch of Unity, p. 57).
• AUMISM AND ITS BELIEFS
Aumists respect His Holiness the LORD HAMSAH MANARAH as the Founder and as the one who revealed, who brought this new faith and embodies it permanently. Aumism considers that the spiritual progress of each one has repercussions on all of humanity and that we must evolve and transform ourselves to reach the Divine. The closer we are to the Divine, the happier we are! Aumists strive to know and understand better who they really are, in order to better understand others. Aumists pray for the evolution of all beings. Aumists do their utmost to help humanity to progress along the path of Tolerance, Harmony and Peace.
• .AUMISM AND ITS BASIC THEOLOGY
Aumism considers that GOD has many Faces, while remaining One. That all that exists emanates from Him. God is present on Earth, is embodied in His Holiness the LORD HAMSAH MANARAH, the Cosmoplanetary Messiah. He is also present in the heart of each and every human being as the Supreme Self. He awaits to be revealed more and more in each and every being. The purpose of life is to reach GOD and to help others achieve this lofty ideal.
• III. AUMISM AND OTHER RELIGIONS - NOVELTIES OF THE AUMIST RELIGION
Aumists respect every religion. Aumism understands the value of each scripture. Aumism respects all authentic religious Leaders and all Prophets, Messengers of God and Saints from various religious traditions throughout human history.
Novelties:
The Revelations in various religions must be seen as a whole.
God takes on various bodies in different places and times, until the complete Incarnation for all traditions and the entire Cosmos: The Cosmoplanetary Messiah.
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• AUMISM AND THE NOTION OF DIMENSIONS OF THE UNIVERSE
Aumists consider the dimensions of the universe as infinite. Aumist cosmogony describes the entire Creation, from the Earth to atoms of the Purusha.
Similar to Hinduism
• AUMISM AND THE REALMS OF NATURE
Aumists consider the realms of nature, represented in “the evolutionary pyramid of the realms”. The figure illustrates the Aumist evolutionary pyramid, see figure below.
Same organization in Buddhism, Hindhuism.
• AUMISM AND REINCARNATION
Aumists believe in the soul’s survival after the body’s death. Death is merely a change of state, a transition from the material world to a higher, more subtle “astral” world.
Reincarnation is also taught in Buddhism, Hindhuism, Sufism (Islam) etc.
Novelties :
The Column of Light is a post mortem university created by His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANRAH in 1985 through the energy of prayer. This column is located in the astral plane around the Earth and is made up of 6 branches (see figure below). In the column of light, souls work to reach perfection in the various planes of consciousness..
In Aumism, the time of karma is past, and a new law is now in action: the Law of Selection of Souls. Incarnation is a priviledge and souls can be incarnated on Earth only if they accept to work in compliance with the new Divine laws.
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EVOLUTIVE PYRAMID |
In Aumism there is no metempsychosis. When a soul does not succeed in reaching God at the top of the evolutionary pyramid (see figure above), the soul starts again its evolution at the bottom of the pyramid, as a mineral.
AUMISM AND ITS FIVE SACRAMENTS
Sacraments exist in Aumism as in Christianity (see next paragrah)
• AUMISM AND EVERYDAY PRACTICE (book: Aumism the Doctrine of the Golden Age)
OM is the main prayer of Aumists.
OM is the prayer of 800 millions Hindus, 600 millions Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs
AMEN the prayer of 1.5 billion Christians, AMIN the prayer of 1.2 billion Muslims.
AMEN and AMIN are derived from OM,
OM AMEN AMIN AUM is a universal prayer.
• IV. AUMIST PRAYERS AND PRACTICES IN DAILY LIFE
• AUMISM AND ITS PRACTICAL SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
The Teachings of His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANARAH, through His 22 books, reveal more than 200 methods: exercices, meditations, original and invaluable spiritual teachings!
• AUMISM AND PRAYER
Aumism regards prayer as the key to Spiritual Liberation or Enlightenment. Prayer can take various forms: dualistic prayer, unitist meditation, contemplation, repetition of sacred sounds (“mantras”), visualizations along with conscious breathing practices, identification with Divine Consciousness, etc.
• AUMISM AND EVERYDAY PRACTICE
Aumists practise the rites of blessings, repetition of the Sound Om, the divine Name of one’s choice, meditation; they spiritualize their work during profane activities, reading sacred texts, yoga, breathing, affirmations, etc…
• AUMISM AND ITS FIVE SACRAMENTS
Aumism sacralises all periods of human life though the five sacraments delivered by its Priests and Priestesses: Baptism, Confirmation, Renewal, Marriage, Transition. The five sacraments help beings in each stage of their spiritual pathway, they are described in The Book of Sacraments of Aumism.
• V. THE AUMIST CHURCH ON A GLOBAL SCALE
The Religion of AUMISM is a Pyramidal organization.
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Worldwide centre -> PURUSHOM COSMICUM Council of 17 members
Monastery of MANDAROM
Continent UNIVERSOM Council of Bishops
Country GALAXIOM Council of Bishops
Region ANANDOM Council of Bishops
Department CELESTOM Priests /Priestesses
Locality CENTROM Priests /Priestesses
• THE AUMIST CHURCH
The Aumist Church: it is made up of Bishops, Priests and Priestesses ordained by His Holiness the LORD HAMSAH MANARAH. It’s mission is to spread the Teachings of His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANARAH through CENTROMS (Aumist Churches), to deliver the Sacraments of Aumism, to coordinate Aumist activities in various regions, countries and continents. Bishops from every part of the world gather in a Council several times a year in the Holy City of Mandarom Shambhasalem.
Every five years, a Major Assembly of Bishops from all over the world is planned in the Holy City of MANDAROM SHAMBHASALEM to coordinate different countries.
Aumists attend their local Centrom (Aumist church or parish) to take part in collective prayers, sacraments or ceremonies.
There are 160 Priests and Priestesses, 80 Bishops among the 400 members in the Association of the TRIUMPHANT VAJRA. There are around 10,000 believers in the world.
The Aumist religion is present in 15 countries over the 5 continents. There are 60 Centres for Followers of the Aumist Religion.
• AUMISM AND ITS HOLY CITY
The Aumist visits the Holy City of Mandarom Shambhasalem periodically, in the “Holy Land” to pay homage and to receive the “Darshan”, the Blessing of His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANARAH, First Hierokarantine, at the time of 17 religious Aumist Celebrations, of full moons or new moons or at the time of the annual seminars.
AUMISM AND ITS 17 RELIGIOUS CELEBRATIONS
The Aumist is keen to celebrate and honour the various Faces of GOD, whatever Its Names, Its Forms, Its Faces, in order to reinforce its Unity and its universal Love.
• VI. ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION IN FRANCE
In compliance with French legislation, three Associations were created and function in the HOLY CITY OF MANDAROM SHAMBHASALEM.
1) Association of the TRIUMPHANT VAJRA, MANDAROM AUMISM since 1995 (“1901 Law”)
It is a cultural Association in charge of the Holy City of Mandarom Shambhasalem,
This association is in charge of commercial activities: accommodation of the members in the Holy City, publication of the Holy Books, book sales, visits of the Holy City, etc.
This Association pay all taxes due to the French Government.
2) WORSHIP Association of the TRIUMPHANT VAJRA AUMIST RELIGION, since 1997 (“1905 Law”)
This is a worship association, exclusively dedicated to Religious practise. This Association has no commercial activity. The French government has been refusing the status of “Worship Association” (“Association cultuelle”) to this Association for the past 11 years.
3) CONGREGATION OF THE TRIUMPHANT VAJRA, AUMIST RELIGION since 1997 (“1905 Law”)
It is an Association for monks living throughout the year in the Monastery of Mandarom Shambhasalem. The French government has been refusing the status of Congregation to the monks and nuns of the Monastery of the MANDAROM for the past 20 years.
• In France
4 TRIUMPHANT VAJRA WORSHIP - AUMIST RELIGION Associations, in various regions of France: Ile de France (Paris area), Eastern France, “PACA” region (Southeastern France), and Midi Pyrénées (Southwestern France);
• 20 CENTROMS -> “1901 Law” type of Associations;
• In every country, the administrative organization of the Aumist church complies with the laws specific to that country.
• VII. AUMISM AND EDUCATION, HEALTH, NATURE AND SCIENCE
• AUMISM AND SCHOOL EDUCATION
• Aumism does not seek either to create or to run any independent or parallel school system; the children of Aumists go to the same schools as other children (public/secular schools or religious schools), in accordance with the choice of their parents.
• AUMISM AND PUBLIC HEALTH (Book: The Law of Evolution for all Souls)
Although very open to the recognized benefits of naturopathy and thousand-year-old traditional medicines, Aumism respects all fields of application of modern medicine: vaccination, use of antibiotics, transplantions, transfusion, etc.
• AUMISM. CHILDREN AND YOUTH
His Holiness the LORD HAMSAH MANARAH expresses in His "Code of Honour for Young Generations” the respect, the confidence, the benevolence and the hope that He places in young people.
• AUMISM AND EDUCATION
The Aumism recalls that education starts during gestation, continues during the first years by the exaltation of the possibilities of expression of the intelligence of the children, then by their encouragement supported by the training of discipline and the development of a taste for efforts.
• AUMISM AND SCIENCE (Book : A Law to Destroy Evil)
The Aumism considers that science is a good thing insofar as the purpose of it is to serve mankind, to facilitate the happiness of the man and his wellbeing while making him available for spirituality, this in the respect and harmony besides the reigns of nature.
• AUMISM AND ECOLOGY
• His Holiness the LORD HAMSAH MANARAH expresses in His “Code of honour of the Initiates with respect to the realms of Nature” the true notion of ecology, respect and love for all realms.
• VIII. PROPHECIES
• AUMISM AND THE PYRAMID TEMPLE OF UNITY (Book: A Law to Destroy Evil)
The Pyramid Temple - the construction of which was unfairly prevented in 1995 - is the Temple of Unity where all Religions are to be represented. The reconstruction of this temple which existed well before the Flood is essential for the protection of the Earth and in its survival, into this new millennium. It guarantees the Golden Age! We pray and hope that it can be built!
PROPHECIES
In 1990, His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANARAH revealed Himself as the COSMOPLANETARY MESSIAH. The Earth has entered into a new Golden Age. He prophetized the following periods for all the souls incarnated on the Earth and on all the planets entering in the Golden Age (the Golden Age is the Age with the majority of the souls incarnated in Unity with the divine laws).
The Revelation of the COSMOPLANETARY MESSIAH is the starting point of the 10 years of judgement followed by one century of transition and one millenary of confirmation.
Decade of the Last Judgement: each soul must choose:
1) to follow the Divine Laws of the Golden Age
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2) Dissolution
Century of transition: during this period the majority of the souls have passed through the column of light and as the incarnation became a priviledge, only souls who have accepted the divine Laws, can take on new bodies. Therefore the Golden Age settles into the Earth (and all planets entering into the Golden Age)
Millenium of confirmation: the selected souls must develop the Golden Age on Earth in accordance with their promise.
If souls are successfull during these 3 periods, the Golden Age prevails on Earth.
References
Some books among the 22 books written by His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANARAH
Aumism, the Doctrine of the Golden Age
A Law to Destroy Evil
The Law of Evolution for all Souls
The Book of Sacraments of Aumism
The Torch of Unity…
Aumists organize every two years an International Colloquium in Paris (2008 was the 6th Colloquium)
The announcement of the Colloquium as well as the public prayers can be found on the Aumism's website : http://www.aumisme.org
