Harmony and Health

Michaël Ivanoff, known as Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov since 1960, born January 30, 1900 in Serbtzi, Bulgaria; died December 25, 1986 near Fréjus in France. Bulgarian spiritual master, French-speaking, who gave a "strictly oral teaching", both esoteric and initiatory, in the tradition of the Bulgarian School of Peter Deunov (1922), and of Christian tendency in the broad sense.

Michaël Ivanoff from a very modest family. His father has a lumber business. Today Serbtzi is in Macedonia. "After the looting of his village by the Greeks in 1907, the family settled in Varna, on the shores of the Black Sea, in eastern Bulgaria". [1] "In 1909 he discovered the Book of Proverbs of Solomon, which made him want to become a prophet."

At the age of seventeen, Michaël Ivanoff met the spiritual master Peter Deunov. He studied and put into practice the esoteric Christian teaching of this one during twenty years, under the terms of which the one whom he considered as his spiritual master sent him to France in order to preserve his work from the communist threat. He then left his post of director of a college near Sofia, his relatives, as well as his native country.

Arrived in France on July 22, 1937, he learned French, he gave his first public lecture in Paris on January 29, 1938. He was called "Brother Michaël". In 1946, a first collection of lectures from 1938 was published under the title Love, Wisdom, Truth, with an introduction by Lanza del Vasto. In February 1944, he learned of the death of his master, the one whom he believed until then was preparing to come to France.

Arrested on January 21, 1948, he was sentenced on July 27, 1948 to four years in prison by the 12th correctional chamber of Paris. Some documents cite an accusation of "espionage (based on fabricated accusations)" [ref. necessary], others speak of "rapes committed on forty women (having given false testimony)". In the background, we find, in 1947, "an adventurer who called himself Prince Cherenzi Lind, Maha Chohan (Grand Chief) and Supreme Regent of the Kingdom of Agartha" [4]. Ivanoff was released in March 1950 and rehabilitated on September 28, 1960 by the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal. The Minister of Justice, the Keeper of the Seals, Edmond Michelet, will send him a letter of apology [ref. necessary]. But he will not obtain French nationality.

"Brother Michaël" resumed his teaching activity until his departure for India on February 11, 1959. According to his testimony, he met there various spiritual masters including Shrî Neem Karoli Bâbâ (died in 1973), Mâ Ânanda Moyî (1896-1982), swâmi Nityananda (1896-1961), Anâgârika Govinda (1898-1985), the fabulous Mahavatar Babaji, who calls him the French sadhou (the French sage).

Under the name of Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, he returned to France a year later, on February 9, 1960. From that day, he was called master. During the following years, he divided his time between travel and teaching, visiting the holy places of the planet, giving more than 5,000 conferences. In January 1984, "he meets President Ronald Reagan and the medium Jeane Dixon".

He died at Bonfin, near Fréjus, on December 25, 1986.

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