Course XIII - Teaching 14: Purposes

Generally one notices a cut in the exercise when we reach the purposes. Sensibility is increasing its tone until its culmination as a unique emotion, but when one should make the will to continue in certain direction, we lose easily the state of meditation. It is like a quick descent to the plane of human achievements.
So, one loses the chance to animate a purpose with a super-natural power. The power is there at soul’s disposal, but it is not used.
Also here, by this cut, there is a duality between meditation and purposes, though in themselves they can be excellent, they are not natural outcome of the practical exercise; all the energetic force, moved by the invocation, picture and sensation, falls away.
Meditation is unity, even as exercise. It is not arbitrary unity, but a breakdown of the natural stimulus-reaction mechanism in the human being. Instead of reacting arbitrarily in an uncontrolled way, one should reach an automatic reaction lead beforehand. To achieve it, answers must pass through the spiritual consciousness of being. Also, the method one follows permits the creation of the integral power that the soul needs to transcend and reach a higher state of consciousness. One cannot expect natural energies arising spontaneously: one stimulates, controls and leads their transformation into natural forces, or the production of super-natural effects and of a divine result. In the exercise of meditation, the art of purposes consists in canalizing the spiritual power not touching it, that is to say, not losing in the application of will the expansive consciousness so far achieved. Internally, its expression is a change of hue in the same state of consciousness, and the inner spiritual clarity becomes pure energy shaped in vital, integral activities, instead of being limited to mere actions of the individual being.
Fundamentally, the vital attitude of the individual must change. As soon as this is achieved, his actions are consistent and his outer change is spontaneous.