Course XXII - Teaching 16: Preparatory Imaginative Monologues for Meditation

In the way of life of present men, all things are prepared for living externalized and wasting energies. Most men do not have or follow any rule of life; on the contrary, they act and exist in an improvised way, compulsively pressed by their need for meeting their anguishing desires.
Advertising on large scale under the motto, “We should create further desires”, public spectacles and collective entertainment are born to gather certain excessive energy that the individual being does not know how to use for higher and transcendental purposes, and as the time passes by, social life has experienced monstrous aberrations, and from simple effects of a poor individual inner life we pass to a demanding need that by lack of satisfaction, creates frustrated and neurotic men.
The misfortune of a neighbor may move them in such a fleeting and superficial way like when they cannot get tickets for a music hall, a low cultural and moral entertainment which is equal to its recommended high-sounding publicity.
Their emotion is superficial when, on the way to cinema, they read in newspapers reports about slaughters, tortures and plunders committed by others and, after a while they roar with laughter at witty remarks of a comedian in vogue.
But even in this external living, in the midst of all these men who jump from a satisfied passion to another desired passion, many persons can be free of this maelstrom. By certain mysterious predestination, they are able to stop his crazy race, to get rid of certain rationalism directed from outside, and at this sacred moment of spiritual introspection, to enjoy a glimpse of other greater horizons. It is in one of these sublime moments that, for instance, a man surrenders to certain creative humbleness and gets the Divine Grace that enables him for his first Vow to transform him into the Son of the Divine Mother and into a part of the Mystical Body of Cafh.
But although he is a Son, the environment and his own habits of life do not stop pressing him. Even the collective subconscious –really a swamp with instinct, aggressiveness, will-to-power and racial possessiveness– finds for its thick vibrations an almost perfect correspondence with similar heavy vibrations of his own personal sub-consciousness. But, despite all this, now he knows the only thing to love, the absolute ideal of Love and perfection: The Divine Mother; also, now Cafh offers him a new Method of Life, which exclusively aims at teaching him how to use his inner powers and to widen the angle of consciousness of his divine identity.
Instead of old ways leading nowhere, now he has a Sacred Goal, a Path, and a Method teaching him how to travel through it…
So, by virtue of his love for the Divine Mother, may the Son love the Regulation and Method of Life by practicing the rules enthusiastically. May he daily renew in the heart his own Vows and convert them into a vivid experience of the soul.
So, his internal virtues, strengthened and sublimated by the Divine Love, will govern his lesser acts, and the power of his example in daily living will undoubtedly attract other souls, confused but also eager for resting and fusing in the loving bosom of the Divine Mother.
All this considerations made by the Son according to his personal individual experiences and reactions against that crazy and superficial characteristic way of living in the valley, offer an inexhaustible collection of subjects for monologues to prepare the exercise of meditation.
If the Son practices the preparatory monologue, and also exercises his reasoning that naturally will make his concepts more acute in relation to the Ideal that supports his faith, then he will get a permanent source of imaginative pictures.