Course XI - Teaching 15: Dimensional Time and Expansive Time

To renounce is to live.
To renounce is to transcend the dimensional time in order to remain expansively in the time itself.
Of course, this statement makes no sense, except through experiencing and living it. The sense of the time is, to a Son, the present moment that comprises past and future, according to the expansive-dynamic intensity of the Son.
The dimensional time traces a positive real trajectory that begins and finishes; a soul identified with the dimensional time begins and finishes; but if the soul remains in itself through a voluntary Renunciation act, then there is no to-and-fro, beginning or ending in this soul; this soul is in itself; it is not identified with the dimensional time; it is the time in itself.
Renunciation frees intellectually the soul from the dimensional time. As soon the soul understands that all things are illusory, its mental attitude changes unilateral courses of its mental waves: simply its way of thinking is changed, and stops remaining continuously identified with its thoughts, which to a soul are like rails through which the dimensional time runs.
Renunciation frees substantially the soul in the dimensional time.
More often than not, souls make use of their time by attending their vegetative, instinctive and rational needs; they call all these things to be free, to know themselves, and to act according to their likes or dislikes.
All this implies just to become slaves of the dimensional time, determined by the tyranny of so many personalities that the soul possesses. A soul frees itself of its wishes leading to be continuously devoted to travel through multiple secondary ways traced by those wills.
But a vegetative, sensitive and rational mind fulfils automatically its mission through Renunciation and now it cannot interfere with a higher mind.
The mind remains concentrated egoentically in itself through Renunciation, out of the dimensional time, in possession of the time in itself. It does not change its feeling but its unique feeling expands more and more, continuously.
Through Renunciation, eventually a soul gets rid of the dimensional time, through permanence of the soul in an ecstasy of the time itself, through Substantial Union with the Divine Mother.
The Sons achieve Renunciation in itself through mystical asceticism of Renunciation by means of Vows, Teaching and fulfillment of the Regulation and established rules.
The first ascetic act of Renunciation that a Son fulfils is his oath and vow of Renunciation; the two restrict him in the Stability Radius of his Table and soul. The first Teaching he receives is that of keeping himself quiet and listening to the Masters’s voice stopping and keeping him steady with expectancy. He is given the first rule: a method of daily life tying him to the time. In this sense, in this first ascetic act, the secret of success in the Ascetic-Mystic Renunciation Way consists in being tied to the time in order to get free of the time.
You overcome the dimensional time by identification with it, not dependently, but by transformation. Through absorption of the time, certain very tense or very loose lines of the dimension are deleted, and through intensity of living experience a fleeting moment is transmuted into the eternal hour; the dimensional time is transfigured into expansive and incommensurable time.