Course XV - Teaching 13: The Veil of Ahehia

We cannot take for granted that the purgative face of meditation reduces any evil existing in the soul and that the loving face is the positive, or constructive, aspect of the work, for one and the other become indispensable to get spiritual aims.
Plot and foundations must be prepared before any construction. The purgative Meditation prepares the plot, and the loving meditation erects the buildings.
The meditation on the Veil of Ahehia implies the beginning of the definitive and direct work of spiritual construction, but what does symbolize the Veil of Ahehia? Ahehia is the Divine Mother of the Universe in her active and dynamic aspect, first motor, first law, vibrational focus from which any radiation of work and life of the Universe emanate; any vibratory power, slow or rapid, is in the focus from which it emanates, and this focus is Ahehia.
She is present at any non-potential manifestation; so her symbol is the figure of a Divine Woman who uninterruptedly beats a little drum, image of the vibration. Ahehia shall be then everywhere and her vibration shall fill totally the Universe.
But for a man and meditator, She is veiled, since her presence is not perceived or remains excluded, covered by the secondary manifestation. So, for instance, you admire nature, its quite intelligent laws, its powers of renewal, its unequal colors and its wonderful music, but in all this you do not perceive the breath of the ever-awake Mother Ahehia.
Meditation on the Veil of Ahehia tends to an affective identification with the divine by introducing the soul, through bliss, into the divine love, which is the loftiest expression of this divine. On the other hand, the meditator gets used to find the divine in everything, on the first plane, the closest plane to the soul, not in the rational deduction of His Presence at secondary and remote planes.
So the effect of your search, that is bliss, must be not another ordinary emotion, a common pleasant emotion, or a sensation eventually derived from the contemplation of nature, but spiritual bliss that just can be given by the divine aspect animating nature.
Certainly, is quite difficult to explain and prescribe to a meditator the proper sensation of spiritual bliss; any eventual explanation of it shall be defective; just experience shall reveal to the soul the nature of spiritual bliss. But in order explain more or less how this sensation is we may say it is subtler and fuller than any intellectual pleasure. Many times an understanding suddenly achieved in the soul, whether by reading or by simple reflection, usually is very pleasant within, but strange to our senses, as if that pleasant sensation had taken place just in the mind and had just cheered up the heart.
Spiritual bliss is even subtler; the intellectual pleasure is referred to something concrete, like certain knowledge or spontaneous revelation. Ultimately, like a definition, we would state the intellectual pleasure is a localized sensation. In spiritual bliss this limitation is absent because this bliss pervades the whole soul and gives heat to the whole being. Of course, it is difficult for the practitioner to reach this so marvellous effect the first time; so he must be slowly led to a gradual training for the spiritual bliss, as we shall see this next by a commentary on the steps of this exercise.
The best invocation to seek spiritual bliss is directly led to the source of any bliss, that is, Ahehia, and not only to entreat her, but also by repeating time and again her name, in order to associate its vibration and divine essence with the following steps.
Many, or rather numberless, are the proper imaginative pictures for this meditation. Needless to say, Ahehia is present at the entire manifestation to recognize how easily we can find her; but for technical reasons the soul must be led from the easier perception of the divine presence –observation of nature– to the innermost subtle and spiritual identification with her. So we must start with accessible pictures to see this bliss, which by themselves may give spiritual pleasure, like a natural beauty or certain immense aspects of the manifestation; for instance, the contemplation of the ocean or of the infinite sky; but bearing ever in mind that sensation must not be provided by this manifestation in itself, but by the presence of Ahehia behind this manifestation.
But before the soul gets used to this easy find, it must pass to the spiritual bliss in its non-pleasant aspect, that is, what naturally does not provide pleasure, such as the observation of death in nature, depressing aspects of certain climates, and bothersome characteristics of rains, storms and snow. In all these aspects, the meditator shall get used to the unity of Ahehia, that is, her ever-constructive aspect, and he shall fully enjoy.
But even the search for spiritual Bliss should not stop there. The spirit of Ahehia flutters over a vast field and as soon as the soul gets used to find her on pictures of both pleasant and unpleasant aspects of nature, has to look for her within, establishing a personal affinity between Mother Ahehia and himself.
Usually certain steps are observed for this close contact. So, meditator has to begin by seeing, hearing or tasting Ahehia like a Woman, Mother or Entity; he shall establish an objective connection and, after he enjoys this presence outside him, through the senses of all, just then he shall go to perceive internally the formless Ahehia by trying to enjoy her spiritual nature without sensorial contamination.
And since Ahehia comprises the entire active manifestation, also it is possible to enjoy Her by intuiting Her attributes. Admire Her omnipotence, enjoy Her omnipresence, the mind of Her wonderful omniscience, and the purest spiritual bliss shall fill the Divine Soul of Ahehia.
Also sensation has to be gradually achieved; the meditator must be trained to experience the spiritual pleasure. Neither seek in this meditation perceptible and superficial emotions nor strive to ascertain the occurrence or not of a sensation in your soul. Generally, it is an unknown sensation that neither accelerates intensely the agitated beat of our heart because is so subtle, nor gives pleasure to senses.
Training will respond to the scale of those pictures above described. The more spiritual is the picture, the less accessible to senses, and the more accessible to the soul is the Presence, the more intense and spiritual is this sensation.
Bear in mind, you do not seek emotional softness, but to tune the higher sensibility with the cosmic vibration of the Mother Ahehia, which is symbol of bliss for man.
The only purposes of this meditation are to decide your union with Ahehia by enjoying Her Divine Presence behind (and in) the whole manifestation.
The consequences should affirm the soul expansion for spiritual bliss, the Union of Mother Ahehia by perceiving and feeling what the soul has obtained during this unifying exercise.
Experience gathered throughout years by meditator shall confirm this truth in his soul. Ahehia is the Mother of the Universe and active manifestation of the Unity; Her realization by man is given by the bliss provided by this meditation.