Course VII - Teaching 1: Renunciation and Renunciations

Renunciation is one; Renunciation is Substantial Union. The soul aspires to find this grand end as the goal of its efforts –it is a summit to climb just symbolically, since the Union begins to be obvious in the soul as soon as the desired perfection leads him to tread on the Path.
When the Son makes his first offering, denies something of him and affirms himself as a contrary value, he contacts at once the divinity essentially dwelling in the soul and by this contact emerges by taking there an expansive position.
But the soul, that by its positive habits is ready to convert every soul value into a result, is ever shaping its own possibilities as a whole. That is why we are told the soul will achieve the Union only in the end of the Path.
This denies not the immediate Union but indicates those stages to traverse in order to get a permanent Union.
Renunciation is supernatural; Renunciation is Being. Being is a simple and dark state; it is disappearance in the soul center, is to be a soul in the Great Soul.
Renunciation is true impersonality; it is complete loss of to our own will; it is absence of every personal desire in order to remain in the Divine Will.
Renunciation is; when one is all, here is a power in se. So renouncing to everything outer instead of “doing nothing” means not include personal will in our doings.
What one does is not ours. The important thing is not what one does but that the act should be perfect through renunciation; so the act is divine.
On the other hand, renunciations are the way and preparation for Renunciation.
Every fight, every thought, every feeling of man ever unveils translates something else defined and concrete, and determines him more in what he is. Although the individual is given negative realization means, at once he transforms them into positive self-affirmation elements by tracing an insurmountable line between him and the value he wants to attain.
Our self and means should not be converted into an opposite value, and the sense of fight and conquest of good should be inverted so by not incorporating something else to oneself, the inner negative state disintegrates it as a compound.
Renunciation cannot be just a mystical way or an ascetic realization mean; it must be lived, experienced and known exhaustively to lead it to be a liberating integral state.
Not to become a mere ascetic way or an ascetic realization mean, Renunciation should become a science, and the renunciation science starts as asceticism becomes technique, that is, when its exercise attains mathematical perfection.
It is unnecessary to overcome a resistance in order to renounce, but one renounces systematically. This leads self-analysis to be real intuitive knowledge, and sets free renunciation from the personal frame in order to make of it a universal value.
Renunciation that is perfectly and technically applied results in renunciation science.
When renunciation technique is not a positive value becomes a habitual state whose consequence is highest inner simplicity.
Its mystical work is inner par excellence and you achieve a negative transcendence –totally inner, essentially divine– through that immobility, through that inner fixation.
That is why this entirely inner work has a cosmic range. So the renunciation message is message of life, divine life itself.