Course VIII - Teaching 2: Inner Life

It is indispensable for man to recognize himself deeply and intimately in order to realize the Spirit’s life in his own soul.
A Bishop called Silesius says, “Your soul shall go astray although Christ is born one thousand times in Bethlehem but not in you. In vain you are in quest of the Golgotha’s Cross if and when this Cross is not erected in yourself”.
The Eternity’s germ is in the soul –in the Innermost depths of Being. The more distant is the soul from the outer turmoil, the more clarified its true thoughts and feelings are in it.
The world runs at high speed toward the summit of the Intellectual Divinity, but what shall this world find on this summit as soon as it possesses all and is unable to comprise anything?
It is indispensable for some few men not get carried away by the huge whirlpool of human progress and remain such as they are by developing their spiritual living, because men –as thinking machines– cannot go on without the light of the spiritual life.
There are many spiritual movements in the world but very few people realize them. Every speech, book and practices are vain and tiresome for him who does not practice the spiritual life on his own, and this is impossible if the individual being is not intimately self-absorbed and remains deprived of the living experience of the teachings received.
Intimately, the man finds himself again, thinks intuits, loves and looks again for God alone. Moreover, the man discovers this absolute, unique truth: that this Unknown God –so much looked for and so little known and so living and abstract at the same time– is palpitating and alert therein, in the secret of his soul. God is exactly therein, and Man finds exactly therein those divine words between Humanity and the Divine.
These concepts are hard to understand despite their simplicity because present generation is educated for intensive action, continuous movement and practical and immediate results.
But, certainly, some few escape from this current and learn how valuable is to stop and see within, even just for a moment inside them.
Self-discovery means to find the Good Way of the Inner Life.