Ascetic Mystic Courses

Course XVI - Teaching 9: Divine Presence

The one that some time was visited by the Divine Master and gave ear to His Voice, never can forget it. He desires continuously to be in His presence and to talk to Him in order to understand Him and love Him every time better.

Course XVI - Teaching 10: The Eternal Hour

When the Apostle Saint Paul says: “We all shall be transformed”, and Christ says to Peter: “You are Peter, and upon this stone I shall build my church”, they teach upon the stone of our own being, such as it is, with its mistakes and its past, God wants to build His Temple.

Course XVI - Teaching 11: Redeeming Passion

Before being able to fly, a disciple must remove entirely the root of evil from his own heart. Really, this is a painful and great death. It is not death taking your body out, but death taking evil, raising from the earth, driving miseries away, and liberating.

Course XVI - Teaching 12: Holy Union

What his flesh demands is quite painful to the soul wishing to be liberated. Instinctive nature is hard to overcome and a tenacious enemy against the Son’s purposes. So, the Son attacked by his lower nature, as soon as in sorrow loses heart, implores his Master’s help like a castaway wailing for a safer and steadier port:

Course XVI - Teaching 13: Inner Solitude

A Son that desires peace and quietness finds a source of continuous sorrow in the atmosphere of a city. Then he looks at the sky in quest of the Divine Master, and finally confesses sorrowfully:

Course XVI - Teaching 14: Mystical Death

Under the Divine Master’s loving glance, the Son wakes from his lethargy, with his eyes dazzled by this Divine glance. But as soon as his initial enthusiasm decreases and becomes stable, he discovers he still is very far away from the ideal he dreamed.

Course XVI - Teaching 15: The Master’s Teaching

As the disciple glimpses the hidden power living in him and treads on his path of inner realization, he claims, moans and invokes the Mystical Presence: “Master of mine: You are here, You are, and I am not.

Course XVI - Teaching 16: Need for Loving

The meditator should expect the hour for his deep introspective journey as joyful as a man who leaves for unknown lands, and as anxious as a person that feels attracted by the unknown, –he must expect that moment when his fullness transforms the whole day into an act of continuous meditation.

Course XV - Teaching 1: Affective Meditation and its Purpose

The spiritual work in the soul is mainly made by educating the sensibility. The main concern is not so much to acquire knowledge or to increase mental powers during the first stages of the spiritual process, but an inner transformation.

Course XVIII - Teaching 1: Introduction

Motives Cafh gives to its Sons not only tools for their spiritual health, but also what they need to keep and increase their physical strength by themselves and by their own efforts.