Course XX - Teaching 4: Affective Meditation on the “Black Lady” and the “Abyss”

Next, some examples of Affective Meditation, easy for beginners and simple by their expressive mode.

Meditation: The “BLACK LADY”. Effect: “ABHORRENCE”.
Invocation:
I ask Maitreya.
Come, I beseech you; hasten, please, we are adrift.
I call you so that You do not delay your coming because it is time to Redemption.
Imaginative picture:
I see a large void, immense, wide, deep and shadowy.
I see darkness; more and more obscurity; more and more darkness.
I see the very darkness in front of me; it includes, covers and carries everything.
Sensations:
I sense it is time to the Great Darkness for all men; no salvation for them any more; no man will be able to do anything for them.
All evils in the world are enormously increased.
I sense all worldly things must inspire deep abhorrence; nothing counts any more among so many ruins. I sense here an assistance that is not of this world only to count, help from Heaven, Divine Redemption. Purposes:
My purpose: to intensify in me this deep abhorrence to human and earthly things so that my soul just may claim for raising and aspiring to a Liberator, and living and expecting this Great Day.
Consequences:
I succeed in claiming for, aiming to and living only for the Coming of Maitreya.
Day and night, in good or bad, I succeed in being anxious and excited for an abhorrence that leads vividly me to claim for His coming and liberation of Humanity from the black evil in which it is sunk, and for its revival and sanctification.

Meditation: The “ABYSS”. Effect: “DESOLATION”.
Invocation:
Please, oh Maitreya, seal my soul to the world, so that nothing may exist for me apart of You, oh Future Liberator!
Imaginative Picture:
I only see a large shadow; shadow of the nothing.
I see in front of me the nothing of the human life.
I see the large shadow of the nothing.
Sensations:
I sense a serene desolation in my soul.
I sense that nothing is in front of me, that I do not recall anything, that I want nothing.
This desolation is pleasant and ecstatic, because makes me understand better than whatever lesson about the impermanence and unreality of the human life.
I sense that I am not in the world or even apart of the world, and what happened yesterday, what happens today or even what shall happen tomorrow is not my business.
I sense a calm desolation, since I understand the nothing of impermanent things.
Purposes:
My purpose: not to lose this desolation and this is why I will empty my thought out of any useless ideas, my heart out of any affection, and my soul out of any shadow.
My purpose: to move away and detach myself from all outer things, and not to let my yearnings in. Consequences:
I succeed in making my soul stay sealed, with no human interference.
This desolation lets me come from the nothing of life to my innermost being, and to wait for the coming of the Future Liberator.