Course IX - Teaching 1: Spirit of the Regulation
As the Son enters the Great Cafh’s Current, he promises to carry out faithfully his duties and responsibilities that the Regulation establishes. His permanence in Cafh is only conditioned by the strict observance of the Regulation that the Superiors shall offer him; but if his early craving for God and liberation are greater, if the Divine Love hurts his chest and the Divine Mystery further inflames his mind, a mere observance of articles and clauses of the Regulation shall not be enough, but he must contact the very Spirit of the Regulation.
The Regulation, like the Teachings, is one and multiple as to its aspects. It talks to the souls with different tone according to the level of understanding and development that these souls have achieved.
So, if to certain souls it is a mere enunciation of rules to carry out, to other souls is a source of possible realizations.
Externally, it looks like an organic statute containing severe demands and heavy burdens; but as its Spirit makes feel life palpitating in the Mystical Body of Cafh, it grants to beings, named Sons, the bliss of an intense spirituality. All lies on the perfect contact of the Son with the Spirit of the Regulation.
Love to observe the Regulation leads this Regulation to unveil its Spirit.
The Spirit of the Regulation deletes pain of rules and disciplines, and brings the soul into contact with Freedom: unique Freedom, which looks for the union with the Divine Mother that is within our self.