In Renew With The Tradition, French-American mystic and clairvoyant Michel Milonnet endeavors to promote within the reader a sense of universal wisdom, and its attendant perception of awe inspiring beauty. He offers insights which will renew the reader’s link with the essence, the higher spiritual self, always present deep within them, and in all that is manifest. . These insights are based upon the Great Tradition, which is both a set of mystic teachings and, more importantly, a divine message resounding through the ages that is accessible to those on a spiritual quest and which finds expression through their lives.
In the first four chapters, the Great Tradition is discussed at length. It is the eternal transmission of the underlying truths behind all religions, indeed, behind all of life’s experiences as well. It relates equally to both ancient and modern cultures and beliefs, since according to the Tradition, it is the principle, the essence, as opposed to the manifestation, which is important. This transmission is best perceived through symbols and myths, since they relate to both our conscious and unconscious mind, and carry a superior reality not comprehensible through logic alone. Since each of us already possesses the total higher consciousness, the Tradition endeavors to remove the sediment of illusion and reveal the hidden wisdom within. The greatest symbols, the archetypes of the collective unconscious are explored, particularly the Great Mother, as viewed from antiquity until now.
Chapters five and six address in depth the nature of consciousness itself: waking consciousness, the dream state, and consciousness after death. It also reviews the notion of thought forms. To better understand the nature of consciousness the five major planes of reality are described, as well as the various “bodies” of man that relate to these planes. The teachings of Yoga regarding consciousness are presented. These teachings question the contemporary notion of consciousness as a perception of a series of events in time and space. Instead, Yoga discusses linkage to a plane where the principle of individuality ceases to exist and is no longer subject to the duality of Creation or therefore to karma, and the resulting merger with divine and total consciousness.
Chapter seven reviews the creation, focusing upon the eternal man, who is the representation of wisdom, as he finds his plenitude through the incarnation into the human form. At the beginning, this physical body remains hidden, being a body of pure light, until the discovery of the duality, and the separation of the sexes at the genesis of mankind. To be reunited with God, one must penetrate through the walls of manifestation, as to surmount the duality and transcend our egotistic personality.
Chapter eight discusses the spiritual quest of the initiate, the power of prayer and meditation in purging the soul, and the likelihood of encountering the terrifying no man’s land of the Dark Night of the Soul, when one is caught beyond materiality but short of full realization.
Chapter nine discusses the difference between traditional and modern healing, and the need to recognize the spiritual nature of man in approaching medicine, or any science.
Finally, the book concludes with some observations about civilization as it moves through the third millennium. It expresses concern about the growing imbalance between the spiritual and the temporal, and makes the observation that the advances of the scientific progress of civilization are at a speed which seems to outdo any possible single human assimilation. The goal must be to bring all the different aspects of civilization into balance, as the future of mankind does not exclusively depend on the future of science, but more so on the balance coexisting between science, culture and philosophy. He notes that the new is not meant to eradicate the old but rather to renew and re-enhance the old in ways that conform to today’s life.
The true message of the Tradition is to alert humanity to its fundamentals: to unmask the false messages disseminated by false religions; to seek and support the endeavor of the true ones, and to relentlessly monitor the cause of illusion in this world. The Tradition bases itself upon the accumulated wisdom by countless seekers, belonging to all spectrums of religious belief, in search of raising the divine love within.