Course XX - Teaching 6: Affective Meditation on the “Temple” and the “Veil”

Meditation: The “GOLDEN TEMPLE”. Effect: “CONSOLATION”.
Invocation:
I ask Maitreya to enlighten my soul with a light of hope and grant consolation and announce constantly His Coming.
Imaginative Picture:
I see a Sun; a sparkling Sun, full of glory and majesty.
I see a Sun; sparkling, luminous, resplendent, stainless.
I see a Golden Sun, shining with magnificent brilliance of infinite suns.
I see a Sun never seen before; a large, immense Sun. A Divine Sun.
Sensations:
I sense all human affections and consolations to be small and poor things deprived of life, light and heat.
I sense all past struggle to be a continuous race after illusions and chimeras.
I sense there is only one consolation and not two: consolation emerged from the spiritual life. The only heat that is able to comfort one’s soul comes from God.
Purposes:
My purpose: not to grant vain and false consolations to my soul, insignificant alms that impoverish instead of making it rich.
My purpose: to look for nothing, except divine consolation.
Consequences:
I succeed in living by the consolation and hope of the Liberation day.
I succeed in fixing my eyes on the Sun of Justice, the throne of the Divine Incarnation; Divine Maitreya will come to us from there.

Meditation: The “VEIL OF AHEHIA”. Effect: “BLISS”.
Invocation:
May the veil of the time be raised for our blissful contemplation of Divine Maitreya.
Imaginative Picture:
I see a light, an incomparable light.
No light can be clearer, more diaphanous, purer, simpler and more beautiful.
I see a clear light; I see a diaphanous light; I see a pure light; I see a simple light. I see a great and beautiful light.
Sensations:
I sense the time to the New Redemption near me.
I sense the influence of the Divine so near that I feel beforehand transformed. I am ever the same being, full of defects and miseries. But I cannot help sensing the Divine Day so near.
I sense how my soul flooded with light and the whole sorrowful humanity disappear being influenced by the Great Light.
Purposes:
My purpose: to enjoy the bliss of God. Human pleasures are impermanent and bitter, and do not last. And they become sorrow. My purpose: to look only for the Divine and insensible enjoyment of the Divine, which totally transforms human life into Divine life.
Consequences:
I get absolute insensibility in regard to all human and external things.
I succeed in thinking that the only enjoyment is inner, Unique, Divine bliss.