Agni means fire. Thus, Agni Yoga means Yoga of Fire. It is the science which controls fire - the foundation of life and evolution. Evolution is the cosmic law which forces everything that exists to move towards a continuous perfection. This movement can be a slow process, even with retrogressions, or a progress with gigantic steps, like a huge thrust wave.

Just now, in the dawn of the New Age or the Age of Fire, we are confronted with fiery energies of a tremendous power. In this lies the great opportunity and, at the same time, the deadly danger for humanity, because whatever does not adapt to the new facts is condemned to destruction. Practically, adaptation means the application of the fiery energies in terms of new values and ways of living. For this, the Guardians of the Plan of the Planetary Evolution furnish the saving Ark, which can lead humanity safely to the harbor of a new, more perfect world - the Ark of the Teaching of Fire.

The New World can not exist without a New Mankind. But new Mankind presupposes a new consciousness. And the new consciousness is nursed by the new way of thinking. Agni Yoga cultivates exactly this new way of thinking, which harmoniously relates the human individual to the Universal Whole. Thus the human fires harmonize with the cosmic fires or energies. Otherwise, the cosmic energies manifest themselves as natural catastrophes and serious diseases.

There are many worthy Paths or Yogas of spiritual attainment. Agni Yoga or the Yoga of the Era of Fire, constitutes the synthesis and the crown of all Yogas, since it contains all other Yogas. Therefore, it is the fastest but the most demanding way also. The applied knowledge of this Teaching leads to:

• the kindling of the human fiery centers, namely to perfection,
• healthy and happy existence in the earthly plane and in the higher worlds too,
• breaking of the boundaries of the earthly world and the opening of the ways towards the higher world.