Course XXII - Teaching 7: Affective Meditation on “Resurrection of Hes”

The Old Man hardly lives, even after he developed entirely his possibilities as a human being.
A human being lives; the Old Man hardly lives. Can you consider it an integral life if he lives disconnected from the Divine Source?
The New Man lives or strives for gaining an integral life with a way of life that aims at being internally in tune with divine and human values.
It is his personality that lives in the Old Man, and as such he is manifest in the world like a separate, selfish and limited entity. He builds two separate worlds –human and divine– by the influence of his acquired habits, both external and internal.
He installs his own person and other men considered alike in the human world, and certain beings apparently human in the divine world, but that he simply calls saints to differentiate them from his own human species.
He admits in these saints, who live in the divine world, self-denial and renunciation regarding power and glory of material things for Love for an abstract and ideal Entity called God, who is like a creator and preserver of this divine world. He admits it, as if this was a task, a compulsory and inherent responsibility in a saint. This is why, in case of personal self-denial and renunciation, he runs away and says, “I am a man; I am not a saint”.
A Son who now recognizes himself as an immortal soul, and longs for a divine glimpse, must die to his own ego.
The Son knows that his personal ego is many obsolete clothes necessary for his experiences in life, which he wore as mistakenly remained attached to them, eventually to believe that those clothes were his own person.
It is an urgent task for the Son to get rid from habits and internal prejudices that insist on this belief. It is the false internal life of these habits that must die.
It is just the Son’s loving obedience that gradually leads to the internal death of these habits, and this death takes place through renunciation.
Self-renunciation must be cherished and loved by the Sons; it leads to this state of internal death, which shall make them fit for a glorious Resurrection to the New Life.
So, dissociation disappears and becomes One and Saint Paul’s words will be fulfilled, “I am not he who lives, but it is He who lives in me”.