Course XVI - Teaching 3: Initial Purification

In spite of his good wishes for spiritual progress, continuous distractions are obstacles in the mind of a Son that usually does not respond to inner orders.
When the Son understands that his desires and interests are as those of worldly men, his entire being claims:
“Beloved Master dwelling in my heart: you have called me to this spiritual path just for your great love. How dark is still this path to me. I am your Son, bound to the great divine realization, but my mind is darkened by all those images of the world and by all those influences of the past.”.
“I am the Son that defends material interests, money, position, name, nationality, language, as everybody; Beloved Master, I am not different from others at all. This is true, You know.”
“Only You know the truth. Only You know well how miserable, poor and ordinary I am amid ordinary men. How could I achieve Your Work? Verily, how could I instill into the souls an idea that is not of this world?”
“Verily, how could I instill a cold and pure breath into them? Still there is a warm breath as a result of passions and all miseries of mankind. Only You can purify, only You can clean my mind, only You can sanctify my heart.”
“Bless me, oh Master, and truly I shall transmit the Idea Mother throughout the Earth.”
And again the Divine Masters makes the sorry being listen to these Holy Words:
“You must feel the Idea Mother that mankind has to proclaim as union of every value in the world, toward the conquest of the spirit; you must transcend those human values in order to transform them into a divine recognition.”
“You have to feel how every change in life, human injustices, miseries of the world, and continuous changing ideas, feelings and civilizations are experiences leading the soul to this divine recognition.”
“Prayer shall make you take part in all those pains and changes; so, you shall understand your own mistakes, faults and ignorance, reaching the pure world of the spirit through prayer and resignation.”
“May your renunciation to material possessions lead you to mint that new universal coin eventually used by every man on earth.”
“May your renunciation to every personal thing give you the idea of that great universal family, of that great future Humanity and of those winged men who shall go across the earth and after conquering the air shall say as they look at the past: How sad was the life of our ancestors, in those confines and barriers!”
Then the Son feels a surge of new life raising him to new divine conquests, and a holy zeal pushing him to accept life as a whole in order to transform it.
It is the high time for the soul to detest everything that this soul was in the past, including the fact of belonging for so long time to the Black Lady who prevented him from overcoming his weakness.
This abhorrence shall make him glimpse, by means of prayer, a new time of understanding, happiness and love amid men.