In spite of his good wishes for spiritual progress, continuous distractions are obstacles in the mind of a Son that usually does not respond to inner orders.
When the Son understands that his desires and interests are as those of worldly men, his entire being claims:
Emotionality is led to a high point of vibration during the Sensitive Picture. If the practitioner stops the exercise, emotionality returns immediately to its early state, and nothing occurs in the soul.
As the last step of the exercise, Consequences have a double purpose in the technical formation of the exercise.
As we said, along with the spiritual process developed in depths of the soul, the student should become self-conscious of the process, that is, he should acquire knowledge of his inner development and of the result achieved through exercise of prayer and application of the teaching to his own life.
What may represent the Black Lady in Cafh’s Symbols?
The spiritual path is traveled by stages; it neither begins nor ends in one life. It began by the individuation of the human being and shall end by his liberation.
Certainly, just the beginning of the purgative task of the soul, first step in the spiritual life of the meditator, is also the beginning of honoring the divine promise, the beginning of the Divine Union.
Generally, in observing the spiritual process of the souls, at a moment the enthusiasm for purification decreases and the meditator stops by repeating inconsistent imaginative pictures that, because of their repetition, neither arouse enthusiasm, nor make the soul progress in the purgative aspect or in the spiritual process in general.
Is there any relationship between the seven classical subjects of meditation so far analyzed? Does this order respond to the process that naturally must develop in the soul of the meditator?
Next, some examples of Affective Meditation, easy for beginners and simple by their expressive mode.
Meditation: The “BLACK LADY”. Effect: “ABHORRENCE”.
Invocation:
I ask Maitreya.
Come, I beseech you; hasten, please, we are adrift.
A man that disregards the supernatural aspect and reflects about those things that he perceives in human relations, will conclude that everything is lost for him.
For example, he will realize how words, especially those referred to moral or ethical attitudes, and said by men of today, are mere conventional sounds that express partial, superficial and most time false aspects of those attitudes.
Faith is the intimate recognition by the human being of the identity of his essence with the Divine Mother. Faith may influence a man more or less advantageously, but this is dependent upon the thickness of veils surrounding him.