Course XXII - Teaching 10: Stimulating Affective Meditations

In the frame of active meditations you find the mode called stimulating meditation.
According to this classification, through the exercise and practice of this mode of meditation, the Son aims at his own stimulation by following the example and by thoroughly grasping an imaginative and emotionally powerful picture.
So far you may notice that, in this mode of affective active meditation, the imaginative picture can help creating sensations analogically induced.
On the other hand, in affective stimulating meditations, sensations are the result of a true identification of the soul of the Son with the imaginative picture.
In affective active meditations, the imaginative picture acts like a catalyst and by its only presence produces related reactions in the soul.
In affective stimulating meditations, the Son grasps thoroughly, absorbs, and spreads in the picture; so, he lives it as if he had been transmuted into the very image created by the imagination.
In affective active meditations, the Son sees an enormous stone blocking his way, and compares this stone with his own personality.
In affective stimulating meditations, this stone is the very Son concentrated on the image of the picture, and he becomes a stone and feels like a stone.
When the Black Lady uses some of her tricks, captures the Son and tries to keep him in a sea of doubts, confusion and despondency, stimulating meditations become a powerful and effective means to get rid from this situation.
So, supported by the Vow of Fidelity to the Divine Mother, the Son should strengthen his will to go out of this trap; then, he shall claim for a stimulating and exemplary sensation, by absorbing and being absorbed in the imaginative picture, and he will see how that emotional fire destroys the gross dregs of his soul, and his holy enthusiasm and fervent intentions will last in the spirit, and will help undergo this peculiar situation; eventually, the Divine Mother’s Love will expand his soul and, this way, he will re-conquer the peace and serenity of the individual being who trusts in the Real Love.