Course XIII - Teaching 16: Resurrection of Hes

If concentration is necessary in every exercise, in meditating on the Resurrection of Hes, you need to achieve a complete abstraction from the environment; there must take place a true surrender to meditation. You get this concentration through invocation.
Here the steps are only an orientation; but there is a technique, and in this meditation you can measure where you are able to arrive with technique during the exercise.
Now it is not only an objective technique, but also an inner technique on management of emotions, sensibility and inner states, through super-consciousness hovering, as it were, over the entire inner process, but hardly manifested, indispensably, to give sense to the exercise.
In this subject, you can ascertain how a technique can lead to the experience of a super-natural state.
The imaginative picture is indirect. Attention should not aim at the image, but at the direction of the image. The image should be suggested instead of being presented steadily, as you do with other subjects of meditation.
Images: the tomb of the Divine Mother, the black and square stone. For less imaginative persons, images that make intuit the potential aspect, as the moment before dawn, a seed… et cetera. These pictures are not very effective, but need intellectual interpretation to be placed in meditation.
There are more direct pictures, for instance, a dark and undefined feeling of her non-visualized Presence, until you get a spiritual identification with the loftiest expression of the Divine Mother.
Meditation also can be achieved through a picture of successive negations of senses, not to see, not to feel, not to hear… et cetera. It is not difficult to get this if at the same time your attention is concentrated on looking for the divine presence non-visualized or perceived in a sensible form. It is as if you were moving ahead in the dark with your arms stretched but finding nothing, and a time knowing it is there, until the moment of your own transformation in that Divine Presence.
In the awakening of sensations there is an upward graduation, while the steps of meditation succeed without break in continuity. You see; you foresee; you become sensation; and a sensation that is you, expands to embrace everything.
In this meditation, discursive intellection is out of question; you should achieve a higher mental state than the intellectual state and it is impossible to get it through discursive intellect.
Active pictures give active sensations that are unfit for this meditation. You should make passive negative pictures, until you achieve a subjective picture, get a non-image that immobilizes the comprehensive mind, and leave the soul free before the Divine.
Meditation on the Resurrection of Hes acquires sense only through passive exercise with subjective image.
Now in subjective states you cannot experience external emotions, and everything becomes a super-comprehension.
Since meditations on illuminative subjects are more difficult than the exercise of purgative subjects, many times there is a trend to let the beginners to remain in these subjects too long. It is a mistake; it is true that you should purify your sensibility, but at the same time you should induce loving meditations, which lead the soul to mystical states.