Course IV - Teaching 11: The Body of Fire

The Message of the Divine Mother, transmitted by Cafh, has no material body on earth but only two points of discharge to earth.
Ired is the idea, opposite and equal in value, and the Divine Voice that transmits it is purely spiritual. As such it does not stop its course but attains its final end that is the terrestrial material point.
Transformed from there, opposite but equal, different as to density but similar as to measure, again it soars toward the Eternal.
Foa’s discharge to earth is made in three ways: on a terrestrial point, on a physical body and on a detritus.
It is unavoidable the dissolution of the terrestrial point and physical body of the Son, once he served as discharge.
This occurs when certain place is not suitable any amore for the fulfillment of a mission. Christ says to his disciples, “And whosoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet. But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city”.
The lot of land that contained the discharge of the Great Current has to become a discomposed mass and return to the great cosmic deposit.
So it is flooded by waters or covered by sand or destroyed by fire or cracked by a quake.
Also this happens when a Son dies and leaves his physical body. This body rapidly disintegrates not to feed astral phantoms and give rise to ethereal forms.
The body is a match: when you light a match, the flame consumes it; when the flame is out and the match is not entirely consumed, you throw it away because is useless.
So the Son that contacts Cafh and offers his body to be a point of discharge to the Divine Voice has to be fuel until the end, if he does not become a detritus before time.
These detritus not quickly consumed are an independent manifestation that is opposite and harmful to Cafh. It is an independent manifestation because they were expelled from the Great Current but not consumed. It is an opposite manifestation because that which is not united becomes a distorted imitation of the reality. A harmful manifestation because a separate power from its renewing spring becomes intensely poisonous.
As the Son lends his body for Foa’s discharge to earth, by his continuous and voluntary offering gradually consumes the densest and grossest part of himself and transmute the subtlest parts forming like a new body: the Body of Fire.
Paul’s words “to take off the old man to dress the new man” have not any figured sense but a real sense.
Then the Body of Fire is neither the physical body nor the ethereal body, but a subtler body that at present covers the Sons with a veil, like a light overlaying the physical body but that is the beginning of how the luminous, transparent and alternate bodies of future men shall be.
As Cafh’s force is not only a real fact but also an effective force, so the Fiery Body of the Sons is real and visible.
This transmutation of bodily elements begins as soon as the aspirant contacts the Great Work.
When the Son mystically mixes with the words of offering his human blood with the spiritual blood of Cafh, he starts his transmutation: his veins are emptied out and later filled with the fiery and ethereal blood of Cafh.
“Igne Natura Renovatur Integra.”
At this moment the soul surrenders, dies to live again, becomes slave to be free and leaves his body to take a new body.
All successive offerings, vows, promises, obligations and duties shall be only confirmations of a new established conquest. This is the moment of the new birth. The Son shall soar but ever retaining his natal structure of this first initiation moment on the Path.
In Cafh, the soul has to achieve the Divine Union by total annihilation of external values.
As the aspirant enters the Great Current he becomes nothing; just like that way he can sprout again and entirely with new flesh, new energies and new thought.
The transmutation of the physical body into a Body of Fire is done in stages, and confirmed through temporary, solemn, perpetual and eternal promises, but the birth of fire is made at the crucial moment of entering.
The intense understanding by the Son of the transcendental act that he has just performed, and the transformation that has taken place in him, is what determines the place and progress of the Son on the Path.
This manifests at once in him by a sense of trust and dependence.
None can travel through the Path without a Master as his guide. None can come into being in the spiritual life without mother and father to be brought up, and none can freely fly without wings.
Trust in divinity, dependence on humanity is force that develops the Body of Fire.
This dependence of the Son, continuously exercised by assumed duties, removes his gross, material part.
Dependence overcomes his ancestral attachment to the instinctive nature, his fearful concern for self-preservation and his blood links.
An imposed human dependence brutalizes the soul, while a voluntary spiritual dependence rises and transforms it.
Those Sons who are patently free of the spirit of dependence never can transform themselves or be fit to command and lead others. To raise you have to descend, and to command you have to know obedience.
Trust acquired on the chosen Path and expressed since the first moment is sure token of perseverance and realization. To start properly is to have already made a half of the work.
The Son that trustfully surrenders to the Divine Mother’s arms and since the beginning feels although obscurely that the Path is the Path, and that for him there will not be other Path, is already confirmed by the Masters and certainly he shall attain the end. This inner, intimate feeling of trust in Cafh has nothing to do with temptations, doubts and rebelliousness shaking the Sons. External, emotional roughness is softly or strongly smoothed by the hand of an expert Superior but the fire already shines within and the new body is born.
Vocation of any kind that means enthusiasm cannot last. The concern of the soul is not always the same. But the spiritual vocation “is” and, by being that which it is, its internal confirmation is made by trust and its external confirmation by dependence.
The essential difference between physical bodies and Bodies of Fire is that they are mutually more similar, and this similarity is superior to that of men by blood parentage.
The mutual similarity of the Bodies of Fire is the result of common, internal efforts to achieve only one end.
This vision of a Son shall give an idea about this similarity:
“I was seeing a group of men and women perfectly trans-materialized on a plane of clear light. Doors, arcades and furniture were formed by lines that shadows traced on the intense light.
“Men were in simple etiquette, with black cloaks of white satin linen, and women elegantly in black. There is a notable feature in them: luminous faces, shining, reddish-golden hair and uniform and similar faces. Any roughness and characteristic wrinkle had disappeared, substituting them for peace and self-assurance, although all of them looked like middle-aged. Their work in the world was keeping them tied to the duration of their appearances.
“This group disappeared and a group of young people appeared. They were exactly like the others. The aspect of youth was perceived only by the smooth skin of their faces.
“Later the group of the oldest appeared. Their reddish-golden hair was of great light and force.”
The Sons are more and more alike according to their spiritual progress, and infinitely more noticeable than any blood similarity.
By this link of fraternity and similarity, the Bodies of Fire form a mystical chain that is indissolubly uniting them and that is light and life of the Mystical Body of Cafh’s Great Work.
The spiritual link is good, real and true, and exempt of that animal and blood preoccupation darkening the purest affections.
It is based on a healthy unconcern by which one seeks first the kingdom of God knowing that all the rest “will be added unto you” and, as one’s brother is loved through the divinity, the fruits are peace and quiet.
Where there are not vested interests, expectation for rewards or preoccupations for inheritance there is understanding, encouragement, advice and imperturbable affection. He who knows it is the only one aware of how much sweetness and effectiveness the spiritual affection contains, and how much it increases at the moment of sorrow, disease and trial.
Also the mutual spiritual link of the Bodies of Fire is supernatural force for the Son to undergo certain trials and to cross over certain passages on the Path. Unfailingly they shall be the fathers of men belonging to the future race.
The Mother Idea, transmitted through the Divine Voice of teachings and achieved by the Son in his inner life, needs a suitable channel to be transmitted. This channel is the mind, energy and Fiery Body of the Son. Then this channel intensifies its transmission force and the Body of Fire acquires new, extraordinary force.
The Master’s vibration contacts more and more the Body of Fire that becomes a living receptacle not only of the teaching but also of the energy and expression of the Master.
The Masters take the Fiery Body of the Son to manifest through it, temporarily or permanently, and even can transmit themselves from one Son to another at the hour of death until they fulfill certain mission.
Sometimes this transmission from Masters to Sons is so intense that the Son changes his aspect, manners and voice for a while and adopts attitudes that are entirely strange to him.
The Body of Fire is an outer, living confirmation both of Cafh’s power and soul realization: a permanent testimony upon earth about the impermanent spiritual conquest.