Course X - Teaching 11: Exhortation
I hope this Retirement will be useful for the present and future of your vocations.
No doctrine is valuable if it is not based on the Vows.
We must carry clear ideas to the world in order to guide the Sons and lead them on the mystical path of Renunciation.
We must observe and understand the great problems of the world, and also we must know and determine the responsibility of Cafh for them.
Changes in the way of life, in administration, and especially in changes of ideas aiming at a definitive movement in the history of humanity, with its cyclic collective and individual variations are in Cafh signs of self-knowledge and orientation with responsibility as to the divine action.
We have wasted much time and energy with too many debates, being dragged along by different currents of ideas in the world. Let us not permit to be subject to passion in political, social and economic fields, and particularly in the spiritual field. Many times we allow these currents, opposite to Cafh, infiltrating into the Sons.
We must understand that renunciation does not mean surrender without sacrifice of the personal portion of our soul, that is, intellectual and ancestral likes defining and determining us on a section of the new world, or on an individual religion of the future.
We must sacrifice all this if we want to enter the new world.
During this Retirement we have considered any subject, from human-divine aspects to divine ones.
Humanity and even those great beings that are leading it, have traced one straight line followed by man, which is the field of reason. This made us lose the power of reversibility: power to know and not to know. The power to reason in a magnetic field, and later the power not to reason, in order to get the right idea and its entire meaning.
The new man cannot go on a straight line; he has to pass from positive to negative, reason as he is deliberately confined and go out of this confinement through his own consciousness.
If I follow a straight line, I succeed, but there I fail because I am unable to transform a definition into a non-definition, by keeping the substance of this definition, and to act according to Ired.
So, our cerebral centers shall act in expansion and contraction. They shall be at the same time straight and circular vibrations. It is time to perceive this cerebral variation of man in constant expectation by fulfilling our vow of renunciation.
As we feel renunciation in this new way, we can observe the world from afar. From afar, this is no more than separate ourselves sensibly in order to get a more intense understanding. So, from a mystical mountain we shall see the problem of the world in its past, present and future with entire clarity.
Today we can say that there is neither good nor bad, neither good nor evil; just there are upward points that lead us to rupture points. We break harmony with active disharmony.
The Consciousness has lost its light for the ascending course of the will. So, this way, the will is no more than the adorned cosmic consciousness.
To be cosmic consciousness, the will of man must renounce continuously. Otherwise, there is division, and therefore, multiplicity and explosion.
But if the will of man remains in the divine consciousness, it does not go upward, and even does not burst.
A man cosmically detached –detached from the passive portion of his soul– is a man out of himself.
We must think about to carry to the world these new ideas that involve their reversibility. Just so, with this integral method and understanding, we know how to solve the problems of the world.
The history of the world is the nothing in relation to the eternity. We need know the problems, but not to be absorbed by them. So, everything consists in perceiving the meaning of the nothing and in achieving a passionless attitude.
The value of these ideas lies on knowing the problem and on understanding it without passion; on being away of them, through reversibility of our soul, in order to know the truth, the history of Humanity.
The history of the world gives us the key to the consciousness, and with the above-mentioned method leads us to the knowledge of the akashic history. This gives us this state of a passive reception that brings about the real knowledge of man.
The main problem of present Humanity is that the man is dissociated from the Humanity and cosmos.
We must especially remember that our knowledge should not be that of the soul. Researchers are empirical in themselves, not as to themselves.
As one considers the spiritual problems with ontological methods, the problem resolves by itself. So, its resolution is human and permits its subsequent experimentation on the physical, rational field.
The union of matter and spirit shall be happiness of man on earth.
Only this way it is time to be masters, directors of souls, for we shall be in possession of a moral.
Man shall find his ruin because is unaware of the integral being: his body and his soul. One is aware of certain laws applied to the man that cannot be applied collectively. Collective law should find its possible adaptation by examining it in the man.
Now we should not take part in ethics brought by Christendom, which has flooded the world with blood and dualities.
To judge means to know the problem of the man, and this problem in the collective.
Ethics of harmony in present opposites is the man and humanity.
A harmonious act can be achieved only by a disharmonious and reactive act.
How many times an immoral act brings stimulation and gives rise to a moral act.
In a true ethics, both human and collective values must go together and amalgamated.
Let us take this example: Here, our Sons have planted the seed of an apple tree; in due time its life shall become a tree and this tree shall yield fruit. It is the final product of every effort; it is its soul result. But now we leave the fruit on the tree, this fruit withers and rots away by lack of a reaction cutting the method of the straight line, that is, if this fruit is not plucked out in order to satisfy the nutritious sense that an apple offers to the human being. This act that is opposite to that of yielding the fruit, amalgamated with it offers an example of true ethics.
Humanity fails because wants to give us an ethics whose only purpose is to see the good. Both poles must collide; the light shall be seen only this way.
The Son must know all this ethics. And because he is a man of renunciation can live in the past and for the future.
So, he must apply the ascetic and mystical field to the speculative one.
It is necessary to set aside the individual experience in order to tend with it to the collective experience by penetrating into the collective soul.