Course XLVII - Teaching 18: Here is the Regulation of Cafh (August 11th, 1956)

These are the initial words of our Regulation. They do not say, “It is written, or rules”, but “This”. This Regulation is something spiritual, abstract, undefined, unwritten, and contrary to that which one can imagine.
Our Regulation does not begin directly with rules, but says, “This is the Regulation of Cafh”; seemingly, it means that it has no form or law, and cannot clearly be reduced to something. This first sentence is as a seal of the spirit and reminds Paul’s words to Corinthians when he says: “You are letter of Christ”. He means that one is the law of Christ, the divine word is alive through us. We are the expression of our Divine Regulation. We are the Regulation of Cafh. As soon as we tread on the Path, from human men we become divine men; from human laws we pass to divine and spiritual laws. The Regulation of Cafh is not imposed laws, but a spontaneous way to live adopted by someone following the Regulation. This is not imparted at random, or determined by communities or peoples; it is imparted by the natural law and the divine law that allows Renunciation coming true. All those that renounce, live according to the Regulation. The Divine Mother has given all these intimate rules: it is the eternal law that takes form through acts of our life and leads us to the conquest of the liberating renunciation.
Laws make sense when are necessary, but later, if you tie yourself to them, we become slaves, and these laws lead us to fight against them; however, when they are spontaneous in ourselves and emerge as a need of the soul, then these laws become our second nature, and we can burn the Regulation, but the latter shall not disappear because I learnt the Divine Law as an ascetic technique to achieve my purpose that is part of myself, it is myself, and I have chosen it by vocation.
We feel the need of living our Renunciation life: but one has to fight against human nature. If one’s aim is divine, our nature darkens even the purest ideal, the most shining sun declines somewhat darkened by ordinary passions. When we speak of passions we do not mean bad passions, but a change of age or customs. This is so because still we do not posses the gift of Divine stability; so we need to write the rules. So every soul has written rules on his Path, because these rules are like a fulcrum, a memory. We do not need to open the Regulation to know how to behave. Even if this Regulation disappears, we won’t stop living like that, but when the integral light of the soul grows darker, we open the Regulation to renew our fervor.
The written teaching does not exist for vocational souls, because the Divine Mother speaks to their hearts: the Mother is the quintessence of God’s Revelation, of all mystical paths, the holy sign of our race: the Cross upon the Circle.
Just when the disciple is prepared, this voice speaks to his ear and teaches him the basic idea of the race: to go across the bridge of his reason and to develop his divine intuition. The Divine Mother says to the soul, “This bridge becomes your effort, your asceticism. I shall be close to you, and after you go across it, I shall disappear and we shall be One”
This is the sign of our race. We have to conquer the reason to be again what we were. If we fall, this is so in order to get up again by ourselves, and to know ourselves.
The Regulation is the essence of our spiritual life. To renounce means to awake, and we need efforts to awake, and rules of life such as those given by our Regulation to go across the bridge toward the intuition.
We need a written Regulation to awake every time that the rational dream drags us toward our human tomb. The Regulation does not allow us to stop; it makes us contemplate the illusory aspect of that which we left. This bridge that we have to go across is full of corpses, but the Regulation pushes us. Since human weakness tends to soften the law written on the soul, the Regulation written on our heart, which is the expression of our soul, is written by men.
But even so man forgets this law, undergoes times of great darkness, and then Superiors lead the soul bear in mind the law: they reproach us, follow our steps, and recommend us the Observance. The Regulation needs to remain written until the day in which it emerges spontaneously from the soul by the sanctifying grace that dwells in the soul. It is the expression of our works. Then we are neither ordinary people any more, nor a soul that needs a whip to awaken. We have acquired a true wakefulness of the spirit; we are about to reach the other shore of the Eternity.