Curso XVII - Teaching 3: State of Absorption

To speak about absorption does not mean a sensible state that a soul enjoys in certain type of prayer without distractions.
Even absorption is not a natural self-concentration produced by activities that require of attention, or of more or less intense concentration on daily duties. Absorption nothing has to do with that of states of prayer, though the latter prepare us to it. Absorption cannot be characteristic of a state; absorption is the state itself. The so called states of absorption are only more or less lasting manifestations, produced by certain persistent type of prayer and life. Absorption as a state is a visible expression of Renunciation, which is produced by an inverse soul movement. It is an inverse movement not only in regard to an attraction toward worldly things, but also inverse movement to any determined sense.
An inverse movement is not a movement in opposite sense, but a movement without an apparent sense: negativity as spiritual state. So, absorption is permanence, because of its non-determined characteristic.
What is determined is always within pairs of opposites and within a cyclic rhythm. What is non-determined is a real state that is independent from time, dimension and orientation. This might be more properly expressed as “depth”.
All usual states of absorption develop in another dimension, that is to say, in a dimension. They have orientation, so they also have a beginning and end; so, they are not absorption.
Absorption is an inner soul movement, which is Renunciation.
Seemingly, all this is disconnected from the reality, which needs states, actions and stimuli leading to absorption, but this is not so.
Absorption as a state does not negate different states of absorption, since by being a state, it cannot have a position. All is valid and necessary, but one must know what the spirit of Renunciation is, not to lose insensibly the essence of the Son’s life. Absorption is a token of the Divine Mother’s love for all Her Sons, because it is a token of the Son’s Renunciation.
The level of absorption is the first signal you have to look for in order to know on what plane a soul lives and develops.
Even the most wonderful tasks and actions do not acquire a transcendental level of existence; only one thing grants divine character to a work: the spiritual level of inner life in those souls that achieve such work.
While the souls develop, think and live in dual thoughts, aims, sufferings and problems, their circle becomes potentially worldly-spiritual.
Movement in this circle does not make any sense in Cafh.
Cafh would have no real value without the divine sense, which is given by the transcendental trait of Renunciation.
Transcendence as a mere mental attitude does not make any sense because it causes our soul to adopt a false position, but a transcendental inner position is certainly useful because it makes each thing to occupy its own place, and likewise does with the soul, that is to say, in the Divine Mother’s heart. The spiritual Son’s gaze must aim upwards always, and even more: it must remain absorbed and fixed there.