Course X - Teaching 9: Cycles of Passive Asceticism in Cafh

Asceticism considered in Cafh could seem harmful or helpless, but this is not true at all.
Individual asceticism is harmful, but asceticism practiced (even by the Son) by the man in order to attain an experience and later put this asceticism in the mystical body, is helpful. 20 to 25 years ago, an aviator was valuable; today aviation itself is valuable.
In asceticism, the experience applied to the exercise is valuable, not the experience applied to the exercise.
Cafh rejects healers, clairvoyants or fakirs, that is, individuals with developed powers for themselves, but Cafh has good healers and clairvoyants, and the former act for the Work. So, these powers acquired through asceticism are harmful if they are not poured on a mystical body.
The ascetic road to follow in Cafh is that of passive asceticism. It is the asceticism within the reach of every Son. We have seen how the entire success in passive asceticism lies on a total surrender. Of course, nowadays, it is very difficult to get surrender to the Superiors’ arms since an affective state prevails in human beings.
Necessarily, the Sons must surrender mentally. The first step is surrender to Cafh: to obey.
Men get used to act as they like and are self-determined. The spiritual life in Cafh is non-determinant.
If some time a Son is truly identified with active asceticism, his Superior shall find in due time a measure for his exercises, whose results shall increase the courage and strength in the Mystical Body of Cafh.
We receive continuously souls to our care, and many times by our lack of experience to receive such treasures we are unaware of what to do. The law is to remove any possibility of yoga, religious sacraments or strange practices to this negatively-active passivity of asceticism in Cafh.
Passive asceticism in Cafh, as soon as the Son is admitted, removes from him all his desires, likes, knowledge and prejudices. In short, we demolish his gods, idols and traditions. And this with the only purpose of performing the first cycle of this passive asceticism: to be established in himself and rooted in the Great Current. This work lasts for years. We must make them feel and adapt to the Stability Radius, constantly watched over by the Superior.
This passive state of permanence in the Stability Radius is very important and fundamental for the spiritual life in Cafh. There are many Superiors that did not understand this that way yet.
It brings physical stability, later, mental stability, and finally magnetic stability, and then becomes self-centered and spiritual; all this thanks to the practice of a passive ascetic exercise.
Gradually, this stability is more and more strong. The successive control of the Son by his Superior in order determine the ascetic work of the soul depends on this participation of the Son: he can buy nothing if he is not authorized, cannot change jobs or marry, cannot have a sweetheart and cannot impart the teachings.
This annuls his senses to make them internally receptive. It is like a tank filled drop by drop, not like a jet filling and discharging it at the same time. It is the result of patience, routine and boredom, but with effective results through a negative method.
So, the soul possesses certain unmatched strength or power.
The ascetic power of the stability is gaining new life, which is not mental again, since Cafh is a spiritual force and has to integrate life and not to become a part through certain expression of this life.
When the Son does not take part in clubs, strolls or new studies, these facts make him able to acquire certain power through a method that is ours, and does not derive from books or personal experiences, but that the Son drinks in the source itself –the Divine Mother.
In an analogous way, as a Tibetan master with his disciple, sitting him on a box and prohibiting him to abandon this position, at the end the disciple is passively charged with energies but for a great jump to achieve the effect that his master expects. You notice the same example on the inner heat that melts the snow.
Many Sons want to see more works in Cafh. Routine and boredom bring to them eagerness for realization, but, how can they give if they have nothing to give? What peace do they have, what love? And so on with all those things that one can give to Humanity.
Our life is of patience, with little expansion or no expansion, so that later the Son tries the great jump.
Patience, routine, stability and adaptation to the environment are the first passive cycle in asceticism of Cafh.
The second cycle or state used by Cafh is the impersonality in order to a further development of the apparent inoperativeness.
In the beginning we see how our individuality disappears; this way our strength is focused on the spiritual community of the Great Work.
The name of the Knight Great Master is more and more strong, and that of Santiago becomes less strong, because the former is impersonal strength of the Cafh’s head, and the latter the personal attire of the one that animates it for his old friends. Here is the ascetic result of this movement; the Knight Great Master is devoted to the Mystical Body of Cafh. His experiences live totally in his individuality if they did not result in permanent life with all its possibilities in the Mystical Body of Cafh.
The individual being shall not get real clairvoyance about the universe, but possibly he shall get it in the Mystical Body.
One cannot kill or give life to a man, but in this mystical body, with this ascetic exercise that is so permanent and warm, it is the possibility to realize it.
So, perhaps an individual fails but the possibility is in the mystical body.
It is very easy to remove one’s enemies, but if we do it constantly, then we neglect our course; thence, it is the mystical body that must create a permanent possibility to remove them.
Here is the list of beings that were our exemplars during the Teaching: Sri Aurobindo, Vivekananda, Saint Therese, et cetera; they are individual forerunners that, with no individual success, traced the ascetic road at this great culminating moment of their passive methodology in a Mystical Body, unique entity where the practice is permanent, and not that of a man that always needs a device to represent effects of his practices.
In nature there are thousands of abortions and failures; exactly through their negative action on the longed success, they form the mystique as a whole.
An individual shall fail, but he will be the guide in a community that later shall overcome.
The mystical body never creates because is impersonal.
As the Son feels that he neither does anything nor progresses, it is then when he truly progresses. He was blind, and as he begins to have a real vision, his light is such that he feels to go on in state of blindness.
After years, this asceticism shall give the Sons the power of the Great Current that shall lead them to the cosmic expansion, not to the individual one.
The Great Work of Cafh is negative and invisible because of the apparent inoperativeness of its Sons, but certainly prepares internally and slowly the souls in order to achieve the permanent value of an asceticism that adds a value to the soul for his divine re-encounter and action for the progress of Humanity.