Renunciation kills man for man to live.
When men of the world observe the souls, their expressions are harsh. How many times we hear about generous people who passed away: “So it is easy to go to God, by leaving everything behind.
Renunciation, as a permanent, living holocaust, is not only a unique good and mean of salvation for a soul that has assumed it, but also the unique mean to help the world and redeem Humanity.
The Spiritual Retreat is a gift granted every year to the Sons to recover their strength and to consider and feel again their spiritual vocation in all their inner resources. In short, days of spiritual retreat are days of true graces.
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.
Meditation: The “GOLDEN TEMPLE”. Effect: “CONSOLATION”.
Invocation:
I ask Maitreya to enlighten my soul with a light of hope and grant consolation and announce constantly His Coming.
Imaginative Picture:
I see a Sun; a sparkling Sun, full of glory and majesty.
Meditation: “RESURRECTION OF HES”. Effect: “RAPTURE”.
Invocation:
I ask Maitreya: may He live alone in my soul. May He live alone; may all die, except Him alone. Imaginative Picture:
I see His Face.
Subjects started by this Teaching have, as a whole, an inspiring figure: Maitreya. Maitreya is the human and divine archetype. To request of Maitreya, to think of Maitreya, to wish Maitreya right now, is to create in us that image of perfection; it is to be more and more like Maitreya.
The “BLACK LADY”. Blood is the link that unites man with God, matter with spirit. Blood is always a token of sacrifice. Blood not only vivifies our being, but also is the strongest link with customs, family and past.
About years 1972-1977, the new Divine Incarnation of fourth category is expected on Earth.
Spiritual students, by their desire for knowing something about his life, mission and future, got carried away by enthusiasm and have written about Him, sung to his power, beautify his work and gave brilliance to every outline of his divine existence.