Course XXXV - Teaching 15: The Mystical Wedding

IHS is the man liberated, the man who does not need activity, who can reincorporate himself to the potential state of the Universe.
The white seamless robe symbolizes him.
The name “Albas” indicates the being reincorporated to the point from where he started or emerged: the Dawn of Eternal Manifestation.
The three promised wives are the three states of EHS above described: control of matter, mind and spirit.
To break the ring is to liberate oneself; and the three “no” correspond to the affirmative negation of Absolute God.
And if we say is Universal Mind, Universal Energy or Universal Substance, we limit him; only negation can affirm a God.
Gods is what Is.
He is known by expansion of being to Him and in Him, not by association.
The twelve-fold centre refers to the ethereal plexus, which in the physical body corresponds to the heart plexus and to the heart.
As we said above, this centre is the perfect image of the Universe, the sacred place where the Divine Potential is ever present.
It is convenient to remember the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who shows His heart as if he wished to say: here is the whole secret of love that moves the Universe and returns the Universe to this primary state.
When a man recognizes himself and understands there is no difference between him and the Absolute, all veils of universal forms disappear and he identifies himself with It.
The white elephant is image of generating potentiality, which has collaborated in liberating the being. It is symbol of an immaculate conception of being, which comes into being from differentiation to the Absolute.
When we want represent the limitation of the Divinity and its descent into matter, also we symbolize it with a white elephant.
A white elephant converted Devaki (Buddha’s mother) into the mother of the lofty Being.
The veiled bride symbolizes the farthest eternal limit, the last illusion, and the last veil to draw: EHS.
The Becoming begins through Divine Manifestation, through the Divine Mother. She turns to the Eternal One through Her.
Christian exegetes never knew how to interpret this Biblical passage: “Here is my closed orchard, sister and wife of mine”. Some of them believed this image were taken from Pharaohs, who got used to marry their children between them to perpetuate the dynasty.
But this has another meaning, very spiritual and simple at a time: it represents the Divine and Humanity intertwined; and Divine Union just can be called with the name of a chaste wife, of an orchard never opened by profane hands.
And EHS manifested with his whole splendor.
The splendor of EHS is lightening, is brilliance of the last illusion, which sums up in it all the history, since the being going out of the womb of God until the moment when he is about to reincorporate to Him.
Before throwing himself to the Eternal Abyss, IHS looks at his whole past, sums up all experiences made, to live there, on the bank, his own seed, which he will collect again with he emerges from the Eternal One to begin another Round of manifestation.
Worthy wedding of Spirit to Spirit.
The dual rhythm of the Cosmos is symbolized by two keys, the two pairs of opposites, which accompany the development of the universal labor.
The scepter is image of continuous movement, of constant power of creation of life and relaxation of it; while the ring is image of limited forms, from the greatest to the tiniest.
The three costumes are a symbol of cosmic energy, which sustains the Universe with its mental, energetic and physical differentiation.
And the Seamless Robe represents the Divine Spirit that vivifies all things.