Course IV - Teaching 16: Substantial Union with the Divine Mother

Constantly the soul wishes the spiritual liberation and Divine Union as its supreme and unique good.
Cafh is the mean to achieve it.
Cafh attracts predestined souls and leads them to achieve the Substantial Union with the Divine Mother.
It is Substantial Union because is union of blood, soul and spirit.
This grand end that the soul wants to find like goal of its efforts is the summit to climb just symbolically. The union starts being patent in the soul from the moment when its desire of perfection leads it to tread the path. If from his admission to Cafh and by divine correspondence established between him and the Masters, the Son takes part immediately and progressively in the Integrity of the Great Work and in the Power of the Great Current, then he establishes in the innermost depths of his being the tangible feeling of the presence and Union of the Divine Mother in Him and with Him.
The Divinity that essentially dwells on the soul emerges by this contact and there takes an expansive and visible position.
When the Master says the soul shall attain the Union just at the end of the Path, he does not deny the immediate union but indicates stages to travel for this Union to be permanent.
The contact with the Divine Mother gives a Sensible Union that purifies and transmutes the flesh, blood and magnetism of the Son.
The participation of the soul in the life of the Divine Mother by means of Gifts of Cafh and by means of Ascetic Renunciation, gives a Union of the Soul that disintegrates compounds of the soul power.
The mystique of the Heart, that is, the idea of permanence with the Divine Mother, intimately felt and expressed by obscure results through a simple and loving state of consciousness of the soul, gives a permanent Union.
This Union in which body, soul and spirit are substantially united with the Divine Mother is integral.
The contact of the soul with the Divine Mother, by means of his participation with Cafh, is a sudden feeling of liberation.
All men eagerly seek freedom and do not find it as if they were running after a shadow that is behind them. Freedom is of divine nature, and the unique intrinsic good of the spirit, while human freedom is just an external, fleeting and unreachable reflection.
But as the Son presents his first offering, renounces to something of himself and stays as a contrary value, he immediately and directly contacts the divinity and, as an unavoidable consequence, receives the inner expansion of his freedom.
This inner pre-state leads his feelings and magnetic forces to vibrate differently and in contrast to his previous vibrations.
The blood and magnetism of the Son are totally transmuted and the Sensible Union with the Divine Mother takes place.
At most in seven years, the Son has left his body and changed his blood to take a Body of Fire. The Sensible Union is not a possibility but a fact.
The participation of the soul in the life of the Divine Mother, by means of Gifts of Cafh and of the practice Ascetic Renunciation, is the beginning of disintegration of compounds in the soul.
Many Sons do not go beyond the Sensible Union in spite of the great possibilities.
The offering was presented, the contact of union consummated and the Gifts of Cafh trusted to the hands of the Son.
But the soul, that by positive previous acts is ready to convert any psychic value into a result, is ever creating all its possibilities.
The power granted to the soul becomes a positive fact and gets lost.
The updated divine force builds new methods and results, and new ties and setbacks.
The Son struggles and works for separate ends, and his results are poor and defective.
The self-denial of the Son and his offering of renunciation become goods within the reach of his hands and at once it expends them outside.
It is indispensable for the Son to make of his renunciation a continuous usual state, and he achieves it by practicing Ascetic Renunciation.
This renunciation, without expenditure of resulting energies, starts becoming favorable to the soul to achieve the disintegration of compounds that have to give it back its pristine simplicity.
Desire of living, recreation of the imagination and expansion of the intellect as personal delight of the soul are systematically denied.
But this negation does not deny the value of goods of the soul but only wants to impede the identification of these goods with the pure essence of the soul, as constantly they do.
It is necessary an end positive as to its effects but not in itself, and the Son should deny the values of the soul but at the same time must encourage the function of the will to keep these values at the same time active, agile and separate from the center of the soul as non-identifiable means.
The Son achieves this state through a total surrender of his efforts to Cafh.
The Son does not create forms or works out concepts because his only image is Cafh through the whole Great Work.
His only knowledge is the Teaching transmitted to him by the Masters and pervaded by the Power of the Great Current.
His only desire is the continuous and substantial permanence with the Divine Mother. This negative state disintegrates compounds of the soul that tarnish it and grants to it the soul Union with the Divine Mother.
Only the soul that being free of compounds remains simple in its essence can reflect and be compared with the Simple Essence of the Divine Mother.
Of course, an explanation about the Substantial Union cannot there be and cannot be given since every negative good is obscure to the mind of Man, and every spiritual state loses its simplicity when you wish to express it.
But in the Son that remains in the Substantial Union with the Divine Mother there is an aspect and state that lead to suppose his close and very secret Inner Union.
These apparent aspects and states lead to foresee in the Son a simple, loving consciousness, and they are like messengers indicating that his soul possesses the Substantial Union with the Divine Mother.