Course VI - Teaching 5: Inner Intimacy - 1951

Seek your realisation in the innermost depths of your heart.
Your thought must ever remain there in a continuous prayer! Your lips must whisper the name of the Divine Mother so that, like living food, may feed you, repeating mystically the Holy Name in the chamber of your heart.
The world does not belong to you, but your inner abode. You are rich in holy goods that, uninterruptedly, help and encourage you to the Mystical Intimacy.
You possess your Vows that are the Holy Gate; they impede the passion of desire to permeate your soul.
You possess your Radius of Stability, which is the purely spiritual magnetic field in which you move, free of the burden of the city.
You possess your Regulation, which protects you from mistake and from the entire world.
Over all, you posses your Superiors and Guides, men essentially virtuous, ever ready to give treasures of the Teaching and their experiences.
Make good use of any medium freely granted to you, and your continuous practice of Inner Life will be easier.
Many ways take to the feet of the Divine Mother, but Mystical Ascesis becomes the only safer medium in these awful days.
Seek your realisation in the innermost depths of your heart.
Your thought always must escape from external whirlpools, remaining there in continuous prayer.
If you move away from your Internal Intimacy, at once you run the risk of being chained by the corrupt materiality of the world.
If you go out of yourselves, then you lose your individual freedom and run the serious risk of becoming men-posts marking ways of collective bondage.
If today there are great men in the world, they are obliged to confess their impotence before the moral destruction of organised masses and, as misunderstood fellows, to escape in quest of the silence of their intimacy.
Because of your life of inner prayer, you are free souls to love and think; outside you run the risk of becoming slaves of multilateral ideas that rule the world and impede the life of mind and heart.
Intimately, you are ideal builders of the Great Work on the earth, and outside you run the risk of being destroyers of the living Temple of the Spirit.
Because you dwell on your heart, you are the potential and virginal power of the souls of the future; outside you run the risk of begetting malefic children of the Shadow.
You are Eternal Lovers of The Mother; outside you run the risk of losing Her forever.
Many ways lead to the feet of the Divine Mother, but Mystical Ascesis becomes the only safer medium in these awful days.
May your heart be your goal and abode.
Your lips must whisper the name of the Divine Mother so that, like living food, it may feed you, repeating mystically the Holy Name in the chamber of your heart.
So you will learn how to love Her more and more; you will worship Her; your mind will be unable to remove Her from it; your thought will refuse to leave Her; and you cannot go out of your intimacy.
The world will become nothing to you, because it does not belong to you.
Your realisation is in continuous prayer, Inner Life, and knowledge about the Abode of the Heart.