Course VII - Teaching 14: Renunciation as Holocaust

Renunciation is just a new form of selfishness if its purpose is a personal happiness through liberation detached from Humanity to which we belong.
To contribute to solving problems and evils of others is more important than to solve our own problems.
So, the Son’s experience of renunciation should be reflected on the human plan, and he can do so just in an effective way by descending to stay amid the souls.
To descend to stay “amid” is to break separateness through renunciation.
This descent would not be a transformation into a vehicle with a saving solution since this would be no more than a new mean outside men, a new intermediary; it should be total participation through perfect holocaust, which is to be entirely identified with Humanity.
Of course, it is impossible to live with a fixed volitional attitude as to human problems; on the contrary, consciousness of these problems should be translated into a state of real and effective participation as to its results.
Holocaust is to “stop being” in order to “be” in everybody. It is to be the man, not a man.
A resulting participation of the Son’s holocaust is not only subjective participation but also unification with human problems, desires and despairs. It is an integral participation –physical, mental and spiritual.
The Son participates physically and mentally through his work by removing what is superfluous, restraining his needs and using efficiently what he possesses. His Providential Economy leads him toward this. The Son shares all human miseries. The Son shares spiritually and psychically the redemption of Humanity. Any problem of the souls is condensed in his own soul.
Finally, mystique of renunciation causes the Son to feel the human suffering, but his ascetic renunciation grants to him power to share suffering. The Son remains in the human environment voluntarily, after going beyond this environment.
So, a Son that has offered his own life in holocaust becomes a co-redeemer of Humanity through his own integral participation.