Discursive Meditation

Course XVI - Teaching 1: Prayer is Love

Love and feeling must be brought into motion toward their summit since otherwise no soul power, idealistic dream or realization can be possible. We would fail if we had to achieve just a great mission or to give a great idea, and we would lack the fit feeling to make it live, fructify and lead to a happy end.

Course XVI - Teaching 2: Clear Idea during Prayer

The soul is alive and present in the depths of one’s being. But the soul remains covered by veils. The Son should do a great work, that is, to destroy those veils.

Course XVI - Teaching 3: Initial Purification

In spite of his good wishes for spiritual progress, continuous distractions are obstacles in the mind of a Son that usually does not respond to inner orders. When the Son understands that his desires and interests are as those of worldly men, his entire being claims:

Course XVI - Teaching 4: Heavenly Ladder

When the Son perseveres at prayer, the Master drives away the shadows of ignorance and fills him with holy happiness. The Son asks the Master to discover His presence, and as soon as His Divine Image appears clearly before his mind, affections and holy wishes flow from his heart.

Course XVI - Teaching 5: The Perfect Holocaust

The soul wishing for the transformation by God and also the perfect life of the Divine Master must dive in the blood of the sorrowful passion, and suffer intensely so that the human nature is redeemed, and the personality destroyed and dead, with a super-individuality shining in the soul.

Course XVI - Teaching 6: The immortal Book

You can compare spiritual life with a long journey to the Holy City of God. So, the disciple must go forward and learn how to travel through it patiently and constantly, without return or deviation, always on a fixed route.

Course XVI - Teaching 7: New Life

You cannot start the Path of Perfection if you are not born to a new life. The past of the disciple and everything that is left behind are an obstacle. He must forget both his good and bad actions.

Course XVI - Teaching 8: Sanctified Work

God, great universal worker, teaches daily to man His lesson on work through Nature, but man achieves it with sweat, blood and strenuous sacrifices; it is hard to him to overcome obstacles on the line of duty.

Course XVI - Teaching 9: Divine Presence

The one that some time was visited by the Divine Master and gave ear to His Voice, never can forget it. He desires continuously to be in His presence and to talk to Him in order to understand Him and love Him every time better.

Course XVI - Teaching 10: The Eternal Hour

When the Apostle Saint Paul says: “We all shall be transformed”, and Christ says to Peter: “You are Peter, and upon this stone I shall build my church”, they teach upon the stone of our own being, such as it is, with its mistakes and its past, God wants to build His Temple.