In Budapest in 1943, ecological issues were not on the agenda at the meetings of four very close friends, three of whom were to be swallowed up by the Jewish genocide. And yet, the extraordinary spiritual teaching they received from one of them - transcribed in the Dialogues with the angel - is also aimed at our times, which are confronted with problems that are no less crucial. Today, the very existence of humanity is threatened by the over-exploitation of a nature that has become a slave to mercy.

The man is on the wrong track

The warnings are few in the Talking with Angels, but they already announce the moral and ecological crisis in which humanity is sinking today: excess of technology, predation, overconsumption, race for wealth, misery, wars...

- A whole network of concrete roads
travels the earth in all directions.
They are vast, wide and smooth,
and madness rides them.
There are many ways, many.
Don't be surprised,
if man has forgotten the small, the narrow, the only one!
(Talking with Angels, interview 20 with Lili, p. 118)

matter explodes,
nausea from saturation and excess, from "too much".
Let the “more” come!
(Talking with Angels, interview 63, p. 303)

Now it's the will of man
and not His.
Man is the most ferocious of carnivores.
His hand is worse than a predator's claw.
He who takes it will be taken,
because he's not worthy of having hands:
the hand is not intended to take.
(Talking with Angels, interview 35 with Lili, p. 215)

The New Harvest is Light and not shiny metal.
Man has racked his brains so much
to know how iron would become gold,
that gold has become iron,
And the iron fell on him...
(Talking with Angels, interview 23 with Gitta, p. 136)

A narrow but exhilarating path

"Man has forgotten the small, the narrow, the only way.

Talking with Angels is first of all a spiritual teaching, but it would be mutilating it not to raise its cosmic, material, human dimension. The angels warn us: it is not a question for man of "rushing into the spirit" by getting rid of matter, as certain spiritual paths propose, but of being the bridge between matter and spirit, to connect them and give birth to "new matter, Matter-Light".

The word “matter” is to be understood here in the broad sense. The living, whether plant, animal or human, is part of the world of matter. But in man and through man, matter is spiritualized. Man is at the hinge between the two worlds, both a creature kneaded in matter and a creator kneading matter. It cannot be accomplished by confining oneself to one shore: neither by betting everything on matter, nor by aspiring to a disembodied existence. It is the bridge that connects by relying on the two banks.

At the forefront of evolution, it has an essential role to play. “Man is the soul of creation”.

From mineral to divine, seven degrees mark out the path of evolution. Man is the four, placed at the heart of the universe between the three degrees of the created world – mineral, vegetable, animal – and the three degrees of the creative world. He is called to bring about Man, that is, the seven together.

The old image of man placed at the top of a creation at his disposal is giving way to a new paradigm. Creation was not made for man, once and for all, but it continues, with man and by man. Man is no longer invited to dominate and submit. He must no longer “use” himself, but serve, put himself at the service of the divine plan by making the connection between matter and spirit.

The Talking with Angels call for a “total ecology that forgets nothing, no one, no God, no men, no angels, no animals, plants and all living beings and not even inanimate beings. » [*] An ecology that goes beyond the simple protection of living organisms. An ecology which, if I may say so, raises the standard of living.

One loaf, many loaves,
it's no longer a miracle,
for the earth is filled with bread!
Of the multitude of men: MAN. -
This is the new miracle.
It's the new bread that satisfies every hunger,
because everyone will have it.
(Talking with Angels, interview 34 with Lili, p. 207)

And for that, we are invited to a radical personal transformation, a reversal, a new birth, to bring about the new world.

Man can no longer live like an animal, centered on himself, seeking only his own satisfaction. For man, the act par excellence is to give, not to give what one has taken from nature, but to “give oneself”.

Sow the seed that you are YOURSELF,
don't keep it!
(Talking with Angels, interview 56, p. 287)

Be careful, do not sow the seed in the ground!
There is enough wheat,
the attics have been full for a long time,
but Heaven is empty.
No one has sown any grain there yet.
Sow the seed where no one has dared before.
(Talking with Angels, interview 48, p. 264)

And if he follows the narrow way, leaving behind him the old, then "his joy will have no measure."

The animal is hungry, it gets its fill and that's enough.
The man is full, he radiates -
and that is never enough,
so his joy has no measure.
(Talking with Angels, interview 31 with Lili, p. 191)

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[*] According to the formula of Falk van Gaver

It's at Gitta Mallasz that we need to know the Talking with Angels. Having managed to leave communist Hungary in 1960 to settle in France, she never stopped translating or having translated her notes, into French then into many other languages, and later commenting on them at conferences. Here is what she said shortly before her death about the responsibility of man towards the Earth.