Course XXXV - Teaching 3: The Beginning of the Way

The Earth still is under the Zodiacal sign of Pisces and Humanity continuously experiences its influence; men still live in an era of pairs of opposites, of ups and downs, of absolute collective and personality and, even if the new race of Aquarius is already glimpsed, which will start by the years 1972-1977, still it is not established upon the Earth.
Since the beginning of the sign, the Moon’s 28th February, this sign was the most magnetic on the planet because of its Zodiacal conjunction; therefore, this day is very proper to begin this psychical labor and to start metaphysical studies that require certain magnetism to collaborate with the human will.
This new race of Aquarius, however, already appeared, with its new sign, with its new personality and mentality; doubtless, the barge, bargeman and jar of Aquarius rapidly proceed.
But before this new Humanity is established, necessarily many beings of the old sign must disappear and the silver cord must be broken –the cord with seven knots at the level of the sixth knot– and the sixth sub-race will reign on the planet.
By strenuous efforts, man should get rid of the burden of his instincts to reach the freedom of the Spirit. A man alone, brick by brick, must build his inner temple and make there an altar to the soul liberated by the truth, a truth so far just known through symbols and images.
The High Priest, sitting on the stone, is the image of this definitive spiritual triumph, since the glorious and liberated soul, as it arrives at this so lofty state, does not transcend to the undifferentiated state but remains at the Threshold of the eternity waiting for all beings reaching his perfection in order to go back to the Eternal.
Through multiple evolutionary stages, by a Divine Law of Consequences, thanks to the infused grace acquired by the mind, after efforts and fights, the mind understand the value of Realization and even succeeds in glimpsing that this higher soul state is not the purpose of its destiny.
The Tomb of the Sleeping Divine Mother reveals to his alert consciousness a quite superior and undifferentiated state.
The soul knows that, after the passage of rounds, after the liberation of all beings, it will be merged in the Undifferentiated Eternal Spirit, that negative and absolute power that is beyond the field of mind. So, from the exile, it chants already the Hymn of Liberation as soon as it threads on the Path.