Course XLVII - Teaching 5: Devotion to Our Divine Mother (October 5th, 1955)

Devotion to our Divine Mother grants to us an advantage: easy contact with the Divinity. God is something abstract, and we are unable to understand Him and penetrate into Him with our poor mind. The idiosyncrasy of present man demands something adapted to our humanity: a bridge between Earth and Heaven.
Our race has reached the highest grade on intellectual level: it cannot reach further. But because of their excessive inclination to reason, they have left the intuition aside and static. We expect the Maitreya to get strength and direction toward the intuition, and to develop it.
We get used to communicate by our senses and to live externally. In his progress, man follows an upward Teaching: that of his intelligence; he reached a point in which everything is possible to his reason, but the Teaching of his intuition remained static. So man develops his sciences, can explain all, but the Divinity leave him there: he cannot account for the Divinity, understands the Divinity with his intellect, but does not live this Divinity. And then his mind is impotent in front of questions about life, and experiences the deepest desolation because he disconnects divinity from humanity when he prays.
Man should pray while he works, suffers, or enjoys.
God dwells in the hereafter. He is something abstract for reason. We cannot penetrate into this mystery, if the Divine Mother does not direct us toward Him. She is Manifested God, and is closer to us because of our idiosyncrasy.
So, may we be devotees of the Divine Mother’s Image; just as religions have their Jerusalem, so we have Her.
May we be true devotees of the Divine Mother: may She be our Teacher, Confidant, Adviser and Friend. We must tell Her everything, and everything will be solved if we trust in Her. She can solve any troubles. We must make Her descend from the altar, and to keep Her close to us always. We must make of Her something actual and living, not something abstract and distant.
May the Divine Mother be the art work of the spiritual life; may every Daughter make her own image of the Mother, and dress her with all those things that she loves and wants to be: purity, kindness, obedience, silence and fidelity that we wish for us. Let us put our virtues in Her. May her Hands, her Feet and Her Face be created according to our ideal of beauty: “May she have those hands that I love”; may she come along with us always.
Let us see in Her the perfect Ordained Woman of our dreams.
She has taken our hands to direct us toward the Eternity by a very humble act of love. Once should not make of Her something abstract and inaccessible. We must cross the bridge between humanity and divinity to reach the abstract aspect, and this bridge is the image of our Divine Mother. We cannot arrive if we do not go across this bridge.
This image is everywhere around. In Nature, in beings, or in a tree.
Once Lady Vye gave Knight Great Master an image of Jesus raising His gaze to Heaven. This image is a reproduction of a painting made by a woman. This woman was about to die when Jesus appeared to her and, showing Heaven, said that she would die as soon as she ended the painting of His Face such as she was seeing it at that moment.
Recovered, this women started her work, but never finished it because always had something to retouch or improve. Twenty years later, as soon as she made her last touch, she passed away.
Like her, we must achieve a perfect image of the Mother, and as this happens, we can pass away because we will be perfectly identified with Her.