Course XX - Teaching 12: Other Stimulating Affective Meditations
Meditation: The “GOLDEN TEMPLE”. Effect: “CONSOLATION”.
Invocation:
Jesus of mine, let me see you; let me see you in the glory of Your Cross, crowned with your Diadem of Thorns, adorned with the precious stones of Your Stigmas.
Jesus of mine, let me see you in the glory of the Cross.
Imaginative Picture:
I see the Cross of Christ on the Mount Calvary, and He appears within the sight of everybody; his adorable wounds are bleeding.
I see Christ on the Cross, on the Mount Calvary. And on the horizon, behind Him, the whole sky at dawn: Dawn of the human Redemption Day.
Sensations:
I sense ineffable consolation because I am a man undergoing all sorrows in my poor humanity with courage and patience, since this way am like my sorrowful Jesus. His happiness consists in pouring all His Blood on the Cross, and not in occupying a glorious throne.
He establishes there His Throne of Redemption for ever and ever.
His consolation is of sorrows of the Cross because through this Cross he gives life to dead souls.
I sense that the highest consolation and happiness consists in understanding this Divine Truth, in appreciating suffering and sacrifice, in being able to suffer in silence, and in being with Jesus who suffers on the Cross and pours His Blood.
Purposes:
My purpose: to find consolation in sorrow; to find satisfaction in suffering.
My purpose: when my flesh feels repulsion and disgust for its trial, I will look at the Calvary to transforming my bitterness and affliction into enormous joy.
Consequences:
I succeed in staying on Mount Calvary, at the foot of the Cross.
I find consolation in sorrow and succeed in reaching the height of Christ, being participant and co-redeemer with Him, and acquiring powerful Divine Consolation.
Human consolations, which give pleasure and possession of transient things, are fleeting and leave boredom, but consolation derived from sacrifice and sorrow occupies the sovereign Throne of Mount Calvary, and lasts for the Eternity.
Christ’s blood, exalt me!
