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.
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.
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.
Generally one notices a cut in the exercise when we reach the purposes. Sensibility is increasing its tone until its culmination as a unique emotion, but when one should make the will to continue in certain direction, we lose easily the state of meditation.
Despite recommendations of their Spiritual Directors, certain Sons are not constant in their practical exercises of meditation. Laying aside indolence, which is a common cause of this carelessness, there are other motives leading to abandon the exercise.
If concentration is necessary in every exercise, in meditating on the Resurrection of Hes, you need to achieve a complete abstraction from the environment; there must take place a true surrender to meditation.
Indian peoples have been driven to practice Mysticism from the beginning of their civilization. From early disciples of Great Initiates of the new race to mysterious dwellers in the Himalayas, numberless men have devoted their lives to study and practice Divine and ecstatic things, leaving for posterity examples, writings and documents as the foundation of every ascetic school until our days.
It is very important to know Christian Mysticism and be able to see how the West practices in its own way and with its own names, every ascetic exercise to reach the Divine Union.
Mystical Asceticism means the process by which the soul strives or is driven by its ancestral destiny to realize God.
“Asceticism” refers in particular to the controlled exercise or effort, while “Mysticism” refers to the act of joining partially or totally the soul with God.
On the Ascetic Road, particularly during the first times, a Spiritual Director must guide the soul through his proper path to reach the Mystical Union of the soul with God.