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Course XIII - Teaching 4: Continuous Asceticism

The Son that lives in the world needs great outer asceticism. He can reach a rich and full inner life by transforming his outer life into continuous asceticism. The Ascetic Prayer consists in transforming a sporadic action into a permanent state.
Last updated on Jul 29, 2019 Ascetic Prayer

Course XIII - Teaching 5: Self-control

The technique of meditation exercise technique must be perfectly handled. Perfect technique does not imply mystical realization, but shows great mental and emotional mastery attained. Divine realization is impossible without an absolute control of the mind and heart.
Last updated on Jul 29, 2019 Ascetic Prayer

Course XIII - Teaching 6: Meditation and its Apprenticeship

Exercises of meditation must be known properly by the Son. First, he must be internally ready to pray; otherwise he shall acquire this predisposition by overcoming himself and persevering in his exercises.
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Course XIII - Teaching 7: Meditation Exercise

The meditation exercise should undergo a gradual simplification not only as to discourse and pictures, but also as to the mode or relationship of the discourse and picture in relation to the soul.
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Course XIII - Teaching 8: Exercise of Intellectual Meditation

A Son has to know first the exercise of meditation comprehensively. He must make of the technique, a comprehensive, rational technique. First it is necessary to discern and charge the persuasive word with comprehensive power.
Last updated on Jul 29, 2019 Ascetic Prayer

Course XIII - Teaching 9: Sensibility in Meditation

Spiritual life does not consist in sublimating feelings. So, those Sons who in meditation only are looking for higher sensibility do not go beyond certain limit and never can check their emotions.
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Course XIII - Teaching 10: Meditation and Technique of the Exercise

How can meditation on level of ordinary thoughts be differentiated from a beautiful speech that is able to arouse vivid emotions and uttered with order, method and established subject? Technique is valuable for this: one achieves meditation by means of technique.
Last updated on Jul 29, 2019 Ascetic Prayer

Course XIII - Teaching 11: Invocation

When the Son is about to meditate, he starts repeating the relative formula, and continues later with a more or less uniform invocation, in which it is only the subject that changes.
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Course XIII - Teaching 12: Imaginative Picture

In affective meditation one traces an imaginative picture, but not everybody can or must reach a picture of the same type. Certain souls see everything through some image, and others are unable to make any image.
Last updated on Jul 29, 2019 Ascetic Prayer

Course XIII - Teaching 13: Sensations

Sensations are a direct effect of the imaginative picture. Not always it is possible to get intense emotions, and this is not the purpose of the exercise, but one must aim at an emotional-mental state that is gradually purer and higher.
Last updated on Jul 29, 2019 Ascetic Prayer