"Again, in the Holy City of Shambhasalem, I have balanced the energies of each religion to crystallize  the Ideal of Unity, of Tolerance and of Divine Love."

His Holiness Lord HAMSAH MANARAH

Heroic beginnings.

In 1962, upon returning from India, His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANARAH, renewing the tradition of the Christian Fathers of the Desert and of the great Tibetan Yogis such as Milarepa, spent the rigorous winter of 1962-63 in a cave of the Vaucluse region, Southeastern France, where He prayed, meditated and perfected personal techniques to enable the seeker to achieve Union with the Divine.

He then renounced His life of retreat, His states of samadhi, to make Himself available to all and to answer the demand of souls thirsty for Light. He taught His disciples, wrote His books on Yoga, created His first centers and an Initiate Order centered on the quest for Spiritual Liberation.

In 1969, His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANARAH founded the MANDAROM or "Holy Mountain", merging the first three centers that had been created, the Centrom (near the Cave, in the Vaucluse), the Celestom (150 kms. from Paris), and the Anandom (30 KMS. from Marseille).

The beginnings were heroic. When, accompanied by His most courageous disciples, He settled in the South of France, in a side-road of the one running by the Lake of Castillon oin this new terrain 1200 meters high, there was no water, no electricity. A large tent bought in an Army Surplus store was used as a Temple, a dormitory and a workshop, all at once. One had to fetch the water from a spring one kilometer away.

Today, the Holy City of MANDAROM SHAMBHASALEM, entirely built by His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANARAH and the Knights, is a true open air Temple for the Unity of all Religions. All traditions are represented, manifesting this universal synthesis, this unitive religion : AUMISM.

" The CHRIST looking into the eyes of the BUDDHA, merged in a common gaze, is the symbol of tolerance and of peoples brought close together."

His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANARAH

Temples, statues and symbols

« In the fact of placing statues in the Monastery, one has to refrain from seeing a return to idols overtaken cult. Image is only a support of the worship. However, it helps in the visualization, facilitates spiritual exercise, leads to a better concentration, especially when it comes along with a recitation of prayers. Multiple divinities are so many aspects of the Unique. Gradually, the gods base themselves in a single GOD and everyone, whatever its religion may be, has finally to transcend all mythologies to end up in the big "Vacuity". Because the formulated Name leads to the Nameless, the Shape to the Shapeless, the Word into the Silence... to the serene realization of Peace in the Absolute." His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANARAH

The LOTUS TEMPLE (1997, 11 meters) symbolizes the restored Order of the Cosmic Lotus, the 1008 Petal Golden Lotus of the MAster of Creation. It is the Home of the PRIMORDIAL HAMSAH OF ABSOLUTE, the Residence of the MESSIAH, the Ideal of Spiritual Liberation and of Illumination contained within the symbol of the Lotus Flower.

The Statue of the BUDDHA MAITREYA (1981, 22 meters) is the synthesis of the spiritual energies of the East. Its Vajra symbolizes the lightning of enlightenment, the Diamond expresses meditation and its Crown of 5 Wisdoms, spiritual elevation. By the height, the Buddha is the first of all in the West and the fourth sitting Buddha in the world..	The Statue of the COSMOPLANETARY MESSIAH (1990, 33 Meters) is the receptacle of the energies of the return of GOD into matter, the testimonial of the Unity of the Faces of GOD, the Victory of the Messiah against the Anti-God of the 4 Ages. Crowed by the Tiara of Diamond of Unity, the COMOPLANETARY MESSIAH crosses on His Lotus Heart the Vajra with 1008 rays and the Sceptre od Diamond manifesting His power over the whole of creation.	The Statue of the COSMIC CHRIST (1987, 21 meters) gathers in itself the energies of the mystical West. Its Sword symbolizes Divine Justice, its shield of mirrors, the expression of the True and its Crown of Fire, the purification of the universes. The advent of the COSMIC FIGURE OF CHRIST terminates the age of god's sacrifice and it is the reason why it appears crowned with the Divine Power.

« Rendered alive and vibrating by the prayers which succeed one another there from morning till night, by the meditation of those who turn around Statues while telling one's rosary bead silently, the huge Buddha and the Cosmic Christ, of concrete and iron, become condensed masses of spiritual energies, real lighthouses accumulating friendly thoughts to restore them in vast bundles of light, circulating on the Monastery, on the region, on the Earth and in the complete Universe, in the Infinite for the good of all the beings... The glance of the FIGURE OF CHRIST merged in that of the BUDDHA, is the symbol of tolerance and link of the peoples.»

His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANARAH

The Temple of the GOLDEN AGE TRIMURTI (1988) gathers the receptacles of the High energies of the PARA TRIMURTI : PARA BRAHMA, PARA VISHNU, PARA SHIVA, arisen from the original PARAMA HAMSAH.

The Statue of MARIA COSMICA (1989) represents the Primordial Divine Mother. It possesses the Torch of the Light of the Cosmic Christ and brandishes the Shield of the Faith.

The Statues of the four ARCHANGELS OF AUMISM (1989) are charged with the protection of the MESSIAH'S Mission.

The Mosque of the IMAM MAHDI (july 1989) represents renovated Islam. It is the symbol of the regeneration of Islam and the expression of the Union with the No Face and its planetary physical repercussions.

The Temple of the Column of Fire of the AVATAR KALKI (August 1989) is the presence of purified Hinduism.

The Golden Temple of the Lord MELKITSEDEQ, King of Justice and Peace (October 1989) represents Judaism illuminated by the Great Atonement.

The Symbol of the HEXAMID, pyramid with six branches with its rainbow colors represents the various Traditions merging into the withe light of synthesis of the OM.

« It's through union in the OM that the Unity is brought about. »

The Pyramid Temple of Unity

The symbolism of the Pyramid Temple

The Pyramid Temple of the Unity of the Faces of God existed on Earth well before the deluge. Its memory persists in our civilizations, even parcelled out. With the Golden Temple, the Jewish people kept the basement of the Pyramid Temple. With the pyramid, the Egyptian peoples, the Incas, the Aztecs kept the recollection of the summit and the Greek and Roman Temples preserved the triangular pediment...

The Pyramid Temple collects and reinstates in itself the elements of origin which had been scattered in the big monuments of the history of the humanity. Although not looking like any existing Temple, the Pyramid Temple of the Unity of the Faces of God contains them all.
Four towers represent the anchoring in the four cardinal corners of the Planet, its 108 carrying columns, connected among them by bows and vaults, echo the sacred sounds and harmonizing waves on all the Earth.

The glass Pyramid permitting the sunlight to penetrate symbolizes the spiritual ascent, its square base represents the material succeeding to converge on a point, the summit, which seen of at the top, represents the Absolute in which everything ends and of which everything is created. The more a being spiritualises itself, the more the soul kicked away of the multiplicity of the material tends to merge gradually in the point of Unity of the Absolute.

The Pyramid is the most perfect and the most sober image of the synthesis. It is an universal symbol of the inseparable Unity of all the beings, by the convergence in a single point of its four sides.

Why we aspire to build it

The Pyramid Temple of the Unity of the Faces of God will be built in France in the heart of the Holy City of Mandarom Shambhasalem. The first stone was laid down on August 22, 1992 by His Holiness The Lord HAMSAH MANARAH.

The Pyramid Temple will welcome all those, believers or non believers, aspiring to see harmony and brotherhood reign in the world, beyond the races, the classes and the religions.

The Pyramid Temple of the Unity allows to reconcile the humanity because it is the most perfect symbol of the Unity between GOD and man, between man and the Nature kingdom. It is a symbol of unity between religions, peoples and civilizations.

The Pyramid Temple of Unity is a sensor, a receiver of Cosmic Energies, capable of re-balancing the bipolar Earth.
By its very presence unbalances, wars and divisions are evacuated at the single condition that in its heart the Law of Selection of the Souls be applied.

This law of Truth only admits entrance to those souls who are purified, and who have sufficiently knocked the rough edges out of the raw stone of their own personality. Earth needs a Temple of Justice in order to remain within the realm of applied serenity.
This is why the Pyramid Temple frightens Humans and the Entire Evolutionary Pyramid of the Realms of Nature

The Pyramid Templ is a transformer of Cosmic Energies. Through its architectural Shape, it balances Cosmic Energies just as much as telluric vibrations.
These Cosmic Vibrations can create life just as they can destroy it, this is why the Pyramid Temple captures them, canalizes them, transmutes and harmoniously spreads them out over the entire planet Earth, a little bit as an electriv transformer would by distributing energy to an entire city. »

The role of the Holy City

Tourist and economic role:

we make our contribution to the economic life of the region
It is because we had the courage to show our opinions that we fitted out the Centre in this original and unique way in Europe.

Cultural role:
we study all the religions with their esotericism, the symbolism of figures, forms, numbers, colours, music, art in various traditions.

We study all which allows to maintain the Temple of the soul: Hatha Yoga, art of the breath, naturopathy, phytotherapy, aromatherapy...
The possibilities of craft realizations as a mean of free expression.

Spiritual role:

• 30 to 35 persons pray permanently in the Centre.
• Numerous Knights meet by waves, during summer.
• We pray for the Peace in the world, for the spiritual evolution of the humanity, for more brotherhood
  For the link of churches, sects and religions.
  For the growth of the forces of Love in the world.
• We pray for our friends, our relatives, our enemies, for those that understand us or do not understand us.

Cosmic role:

we pray for the universal harmony; we incite those that follow us to work at their own perfection, because the improvement of every being echoes on the universe, as every good action, every good thought enriches the humanity.
We help hundred thousands beings through our books; we work in the redemption of worlds and play consciously a positive cosmic role.

Our Initiatory Centre is widely opened on the various horizons of thought. It helps the man to escape twisting and neurosis, to become reconciled with himself, to seize the sense of his destiny.

His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANARAH

Initiate Order and Monastic Order

« The Holy City of MANDAROM SHAMBHASALEM is a Monastery, a Spiritual University, a Religious Community where monks and nuns from diverse origins live together.
The initiate Order of the kinghts of the Triumphant Vajra includes an inner monastic order and an external priesthood. Men and women have the same functions.

His Holiness the Lord HAMSAH MANARAH