Course XVI - Teaching 7: New Life

You cannot start the Path of Perfection if you are not born to a new life.
The past of the disciple and everything that is left behind are an obstacle. He must forget both his good and bad actions. Anyway, his past remains united with him through the essence of good and evil.
Therefore, a loving soul, yearning for perfection, asks his Divine Master:
“I would wish to forget totally my past, by closing the eyes and surrendering myself to a purifying sleep in order to find again a luminous path that I glimpse, though I have abandoned it.”
“May I become a child again, if a childish innocence can make me start the true path and find the spring of the Eternal Love?”
“Many veils and shadows cover me. My Master, can You tell me which is the surest path, among other numberless paths, toward a true discovery and conquest of eternal values?
“Oh, I am eager to hear Your voice! Your voice shall be the awakening to a new life in order to understand simply but deeply the treasures of the spirit.”
“Be You my guide. Choose my path, and help me as if I was a child, step by step, to find the light of the sublime love.”
The merciful Master, who loves eternally the souls, causes His mystical Voice to be heard:
“Become a boy, be a little child again; if possible, come back to your mother’s womb.”
“Because I give you a new mother, The Divine Mother, my holy Mother. Remain in the prenatal state, in Her virgin womb.”
“Do you remember when, after leaving the divine matrix, in your early innocence, She was holding you tenderly on Her arms’ Do you remember this, before forsaking Her for a vague and uncertain memory of the ancient Eve?”
“Raise yourself over your past, fly over it rapidly and backward to the first spring, to the generating fountain. When a sinner comes back to this place, he recovers his innocence, removes veils, heals blows, cures wounds, and is baptized again at the dawn of the first day –the day of the first light beam.”
“This is the sure and quiet port, serene and inviolable: virgin womb of the Eternal Mother.”
“It is as if you were born purified and without past; it is as if you were one with Me since I am One with God.”
“This is the most glorious purification, the holiest baptism, which makes the soul to become whiter than the snow, and even more transparent than the very rays of the rising sun.”
“Learn prayers and simple things; they contain the greatest and deepest mysteries. With the simplicity of an infant, learn how to marvel at everything and to see everything without malice: just with expectation.”
The Master keeps silent, and the disciple remains in deep reflection.
Oh, simplicity is a difficult virtue to the soul. One cannot understand easily a prayer that says, “Ave Maria, gratia plena”. The Divine Mother does not admit any blemish in Her heavenly purity if She is totally filled with grace. It is so difficult to the disciple to dispose of everything and to throw his habits away, at the feet of the altar, and just only to repeat with the Poverello of Assisi: “Our Father in Heaven”.
When you start the spiritual path, you break the amphora full of nectar at the Master’s feet; but almost always, we keep the last drop to ourselves. Sometimes is no more than a little grain of rice, kept as a souvenir of the old life; but this is enough to impede the disciple to be truly like a child in order to start his spiritual infancy.
This is so deep that this yearned simplicity remains as a pearl hidden at the bottom of the ocean.
This total nakedness of all, this mystical death followed by the awakening and rise to a new life, demands from a Perfect Lover of God an outer and inner detachment of his whole being. From his initiation on the path of the spirit, he should get used to it, and finally one day he shall reach the purest detachment where God is the only dweller.