Divine Mother

Course XVII - Teaching 5: Contemplation and Exercises of Prayer

The exercise of meditation is an organized mental movement to produce certain effects in the soul. In questions related to love and enlightenment, this exercise leads to lofty feelings and considerable experiences so far unknown.

Course XVII - Teaching 6: Contemplation

Renunciation leads naturally to contemplation. One cannot define Renunciation itself. There is void between perfect state and ascetic state, and a continuous Renunciation of the soul should fill this void.

Course XVII - Teaching 7: Eventual Trials during Mystical Death

In the beginning of his path, the soul is too much busy with his troubles and sorrows, and that is why worldly evils are to him just a mere consideration to which he sticks by attachment or sympathy.

Course XVII - Teaching 9: Prayer and Vows

You talk, you think and you feel always in dualistic terms, and life is unity. You should not understand this unity as only one thing, but as an organic totality, indivisible and simple in itself, and composed as attribute.

Course XVII - Teaching 10: Simple Knowledge

Simple knowledge is a state of unity and similarity between subject and object. This unity cannot be achieved through an active state of your mind, which is always dual. Knowledge or rational understanding is dual always.

Course XVII - Teaching 12: Simple Witness

A prayer cannot be complete and total if our whole being is not devoted to it. When we say “whole being”, this does not mean an intense sensible flight, but a being as a whole.

Course XXI - Teaching 9: Other Passive Affective Meditations

The “GOLDEN TEMPLE”. To reach the Temple of the soul, we need to undergo innumerable difficulties related to inner activities. You reach the purity of the soul as you conquer the peak of a mount; you remain there some moment, and later you come back to the valley.

Course XXII - Enseñanza 9: Otras Meditaciones Afectivas Pasivas

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.

Course XXII - Teaching 15: Preparatory Monologue for Meditation

A man that seeks God can become, by his own freewill, a machine automatically moved by the apparent purpose of achieving this end. It is sufficient for him to replace his first love with routine –love that someday will make him realize the sacrament of his first Vow.

Course XXII - Teaching 16: Preparatory Imaginative Monologues for Meditation

In the way of life of present men, all things are prepared for living externalized and wasting energies. Most men do not have or follow any rule of life; on the contrary, they act and exist in an improvised way, compulsively pressed by their need for meeting their anguishing desires.