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

Subjects started by this Teaching have, as a whole, an inspiring figure: Maitreya. Maitreya is the human and divine archetype. To request of Maitreya, to think of Maitreya, to wish Maitreya right now, is to create in us that image of perfection; it is to be more and more like Maitreya.
When we request of Maitreya his redemption of Humanity, in fact the human nature is being redeemed and transformed into the image of the purest ideal.
The subject of the Black Lady sees Maitreya as the winner over shadows that cover the soul. If one succeeds in making the image of Maitreya permanently objective internally, we shall affirm a constant abhorrence to the Black Lady, and will prevent the darkness of the soul from arising in our beings. The image of Maitreya is a polarity axis that will enable to direct powers of the soul and gradually expel the Black Lady.
In the “Abyss”, the second subject, Maitreya’s figure affirms abhorrence achieved in the precedent meditation by means of sustained spirit of desolation, which is slowly purifying the soul.
This desolation is not that desperate momentum of him who has lost all hope; it is not that strong desolation that destroys violently worldly illusions; rather, it is a type of inner moderation and cooling of these illusions. This desolation, produced by the image of a big shadow, does not exasperate; it calms down and lowers the rhythm of the inner sea. It is like the soft dusk after a labor day; little by little, some patent negative values, which we loved till yesterday, are now extended in our being but we do not care for them; we want one thing: to rest, sleep and forget, and by this oblivion throughout the time, a slow and steady transmutation of our being is taking place.