Course XI - Teaching 4: The Mystical Body

Cafh is essentially divine, and undetermined in itself. So, it manifests itself through the Mystical Body as a whole.
Cafh is a simple idea multiplied by reversibility, expanded by participation, and determined as presence manifested.
The Mystical Body of Cafh reveals its divine power.
The divine potential of Cafh is not certain potential because the Mystical Body of Cafh is undetermined. The Mystical Body of Cafh is certainly determined by reversibility. Cafh does not make –Cafh moulds and shapes.
As a human activity, in this sense Cafh is not materialization of an idea, which always means death of an idea –Cafh is ferment, shape of the Idea, which is life of Idea, because is reversibility.
An idea, made something, disappears as a power. An idea that takes shape remains, and its power is always divine in the sense of its projection and death in order to permit another idea-life.
Cafh is not against a human activity, as divine power. Cafh does not reduce the Divine Idea, as Mystical Body.
Cafh is Ired, Renunciation, life, as Mystical Body: Divine Life that is activity in itself, creative force and infinite power.
Cafh is not only an Idea, force, feeling or organization. Cafh is; so, Cafh has no body but a Mystical Body.
The spiritual body, the mental body and the magnetic Body of Cafh form the Mystical Body of Cafh.
The Mystical Body of Cafh is Simple Idea.
The Idea of Cafh is not a new, a doctrine or a peculiar thought form. The Idea of Cafh is Simple Idea.
This Simple Idea does not belong to a detemined mental field. In fact, it has no sites or attributes: simplicity lays aside any characteristic polarity. So, Cafh is not something that one can grasp or understand as Idea; you can realize Cafh only as integration into Cafh, as State of Consciousness in Itself.
Realization of the Cafh’s Idea is Spiritual Enlightenment, and not identification with an idea. Spiritual Enlightenment is not understanding, or even a transcendent understanding. Spiritual Enlightenment is integration of values into a simple element; reduction of compound to unity.
Divine Union is not union itself, it is disappearance of every duality. Divine cannot have attributes: it is disappearance of unity into simplicity.
Renunciation is Divine Union, because it is the simple, negative state.
That is why the Idea of Cafh is Renunciation.
Pure act is divine act, the act in itself; it is the element of every act, of every shape, of every realization. It is realization in itself.
The Son participates in the Divine through the Pure Act.
The Son becomes simple through Renunciation and eventually becomes a potential generative act. The Son is not a reflection of the Divine: he is the Divine itself.
Usually Sons do not understand the simple soul state. They feel that Renunciation is like contingent renunciations, and that simplicity is the final trajectory point. Trajectory exists in every act, except in Renunciation. The apparent trajectory of contingent renunciations is not Renunciation; it is predisposition to Renunciation, which is static permanence and not movement. But this permanence manifests itself throughout stages and successive achievements.
The Simple Idea contains power to take shape as a whole. It has it because is simple and reversible –it Is.
Union with the Simple Idea is not identification with the highest aspect of its own shape but identification with itself through its consummate state as a whole.
Identification with the Simple Idea in itself is only possible through a state of similarity that never can be simple in itself, since it is a part of a compound. But it can unite through reversibility, through identification with its consummate state as a whole.
A whole identification with the Eternal is not of this world, but certainly it is so the union with It through reversibility, through Renunciation.
Although the Divine Union is a static state because it is reversible, it takes shape through states of holocaust, suffering and offering; it is permanent Renunciation. It is not so in the ordinary sense of these terms: it is a spontaneous and simple state. You achieve the Divine Union by permanent Renunciation and surrender: the Divine Mother gives Herself to Her Son, and the Son gives himself to the Divine Mother.
An idea does not take shape; an idea takes shape from the Idea.
The Idea is Light; an idea is non-existent as something that takes shape; ultimately, it is a reflection.
The Idea takes shape by dint of realization, which determines an act.
The Idea is pure act; the Idea takes shape as an act that dies by creating the Idea.
As the Idea takes shape by establishing a line, order, trajectory and organization.
The power of Cafh is not a human force. It is not the result of movement or thought. Even it is not the result of capacity or human efforts.
However the purpose and forces aiming at an objective are high, the man cannot create a supernatural power. But he can cause the supernatural aspect to come to him. But this does not link compulsorily the supernatural aspect to a man, group or organization.
The power of Cafh is supernatural because it is the result of Renunciation.
The Sons cannot denaturalize or transform the power of Cafh; they can participate in it or not. A Son cannot ever denaturalize Cafh, but certainly he can denaturalize Cafh in himself.
The Son participates in the Idea through Renunciation; a Son is power and Idea, as a simple element. But if Sons have in Cafh other support apart of Renunciation, they participate in Cafh only humanly, are an idea, and have a force. And this idea and this force are not enough to keep Sons in the ideation of Cafh as a whole; they participate in a mystical body, but not as a whole. This is not so because this mystical body has no force or spiritual element, but because the latter will not be spiritual in themselves any longer; they shall be a human expression of spiritual yearning.
Cafh is, but a Son may not be Cafh.
Renunciation is the only condition so that the Idea takes shape in a force. It is so because Renunciation is the only effective means of the individual being to participate divinely.
The Idea is in itself; but it takes shape because the Idea responds to a movement. This movement is not a directional movement in itself; it is a movement in itself, the simple movement.
To participate in this simple movement you must be entirely like it, and you achieve this similarity through Renunciation.
The Son participates in this divine rhythm only through Renunciation, which is Substantial Union with the Divine Mother. He never can think that he has another basis for his own spiritual life. If Sons establish their spiritual life on a basis that is not entirely supernatural, they shall form only a natural body, with human characteristics, limited in the time, and subject to the cycle of human things. Where something takes shape, you need light not to lose the whole participation in the Idea. The downward movement must be ever upward; otherwise it stops being Ired and becomes a movement with certain potential, with certain range, and nothing else. That is why you need light-darkness not to materialize the idea, but to shape it.
Cafh is not Cafh, but an expression of Cafh.
The power of Cafh does not consist in being something, but in taking shape. But there where something takes shape, there is an apparent separation.
The objective reality is not a set; it is the gross part of a set.
So, to keep the purity of the Idea you need permanence in the spiritual aspect of the idea, since the starting point is its material aspect.
The Work of Cafh is only spiritual, as pure act, as Ired. That is why this Work manifests itself in the world. It manifests itself as work in the souls and as work through the souls. And that particularized labor soars again to both the simple and divine through participation in the Spiritual Body, which is Spiritual Enlightenment.
This apparent movement, source of all movement and life, enables the souls of Cafh to achieve the Substantial union with the Divine Mother and, at the same time, causes works of the Sons to take shape in the Idea of Cafh, which is always divine and universal. So the Sons achieve a divine work in the world through their efforts and surrender.
Those Sons who do not understand the divine ideation of Cafh, waste their time and do not participate in the Mystical Body as a whole. They always believe that the Work is their work, idea and personal job, when in fact this way they stop participating in the Great Work by limiting their divine chances to a human field leading always to failure.
A Son has no other Work, except his total integration into Cafh, which is absolute surrender of his being, chances and efforts to Cafh. But at the same time this Renunciation makes the divine surrender of the Son divine by increasing divinely his possibilities and granting him the gift of a substantial participation in the Great Work as a Whole.
All souls participate in the Divine Ideation, and all of them shall achieve the final liberation. But each individual soul determines his present participation in the Great Work according to his own efforts.
Separate individual values do not participate in the Mystical Body of Cafh.
The Work is always made through participation, which means disappearance through Renunciation in the Work itself. An independent value lays aside any participation, and not only it does not participate, but also is against the Work as irreducible personality point. A personality is the precipitation point of separate human values, which always are against an expansive participation movement.
True surrender is not personal effort to achieve certain good; it is impersonal renunciation effort as a whole by virtue of love for a common work.
Souls participate in the Mystical Body of Cafh according to that unity in their surrender. If this surrender is integral, then it means liberation; because where there is holocaust, there is Divine Union.
Is this capacity of surrender determined by a natural mood of the individual being or is dependent upon the will effort?
An individual being reaches easily certain point, even with fights and efforts, but he needs extraordinary efforts and renunciation to go beyond that point. Very few persons achieve it; but all this does not deny the freewill –it proves it.
A very poor view about freewill is a possible variance in the intensity of one’s effort or choice. This quite small chance of freedom in a fixed trajectory cannot be understood as freedom, although it is so in its own circle.
The true freewill can break the limit of certain possibilities in order to possess possibilities of another kind.
Man fights to conquer a non-existent freewill, and collides with his own real possibilities. Only he who jumps over his contingent possibilities causes the real possibilities to come to be true. But most people understand for liberation the achievement of contingent possibilities.
Of course, a jump over contingent possibilities does not mean an absolute realization, because new possibilities become contingent later; but if you are able to remain in the Renunciation, the line is not broken until the end. Then it is infinite expansion beyond real and contingent aspects: participation is reversibility, and perfect reversibility is Renunciation; a straight line is a curve; a curve is a circle; and a circle is a cross.
Through your wishes of surrender you become powerful within. This power, increased by a persistent wish, and not transmuted into pure spiritual power by a negative state of Renunciation, brings about a need of action –to make something, to “do good”.
Action always exists, but this action that you are looking for, is only a useless expenditure of certain potential that could have reached an undetermined expansion if sustained by permanence.
Obviously, an inner act of surrender, if it is divine, cannot translate certain attitude. A negative inner state is entirely against positive action-expenditure states and has no support. That is why Renunciation can be understood by similarity alone, and if Sons participate in Cafh, their participation not always entirely comprises its Divine Ideation, which is Renunciation.