Divine Presence

Course VI - Teaching 1: Worship of Love - 1947

In the name of the Holy Masters. They take from our hands lilies of the offering to plant them in the closed orchard of the Great Current, taking for sure that they will multiply on fertile lands blessed by the Divine Mother.

Course VII - Teaching 6: Redeeming Participation

It is indispensable and indisputable that the Son must take part in the redeeming task of the Divine Incarnation for the salvation of beings and the individual being. But this potential redemption of the Divine Incarnation can be effective by updating it on each being; to this purpose, the Divine Incarnation has to be transformed and made effective in him.

Course XIII - Teaching 1: Ascetic Prayer

Inner life must be centered on God, not on attributes of God, which move away from the primordial end. A specialized progress of rational faculties in certain way has moved man away from the fundamental Idea of God.

Course XIV - Teaching 13: Contemplation

Contemplation is the definitive step of the soul from Asceticism to Mysticism. It is called Secret Science of God and Divine Gift because at this point of spiritual development, the soul is directly enlightened by the Masters; that is why some believe and state that it is a gift, a grace of certain privileged souls, but not of all, and even the most advanced souls cannot intend to reach it.

Course XIV - Teaching 13: Mystical Death

Contemplation can be Shadowy or Illuminative. In fact, these divisions are arbitrary because these two states cannot be accurately determined. The soul becomes rather contemplative and remains absorbed by this holy exercise for a longer and longer time.

Course XVI - Teaching 4: Heavenly Ladder

When the Son perseveres at prayer, the Master drives away the shadows of ignorance and fills him with holy happiness. The Son asks the Master to discover His presence, and as soon as His Divine Image appears clearly before his mind, affections and holy wishes flow from his heart.

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.