Course X - Teaching 3: Renunciation as Asceticism

Ascetic paths lead a persevering soul toward a positive result.
Asceticism is an acquired power that decreases when the exercise is discontinuous.
Asceticism does not set free the practitioner from contingencies and death.
Asceticism is not such if it is not permanent and usual in the practitioner.
Ascetic renunciation (passive asceticism) is the only one that becomes one with the soul.
Passive asceticism cannot be achieved if you do not reject any fruit of success, and if your soul does not adapt its mental, emotional and physical condition before you start the mystical Path. One needs to clean entirely desires, attachments and defects; one needs to surrender totally in the hands of Cafh and the Master.
Asceticism based on books, powers and results is harmful although effective.