Rapture

Course XX - Teaching 7: Affective Meditation on the “Resurrection”

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.

Course XX - Teaching 14: The End of Stimulating Affective Meditations

Meditation: “RESURRECTION OF HES”. Effect: “RAPTURE”. Invocation: Oh Jesus of mine, I beseech You to unveil me the secret of your death, of death, and of all deaths. I beseech You, in shedding till the last drop of your blood and truly dying, to tell me why individual beings die and we do not see their resurrection.

Course XXI - Teaching 7: Affective Meditation on “Resurrection of Hes”

Hes' resurrection is the hardest meditation subject, but fundamental for the inner life. Six precedent subjects are nothing more than instruments to achieve the mystical rapture of the spiritual resurrection.

Course XXI - Teaching 14: Other Stimulating Affective Meditations

The “RESURRECTION OF HES.” Those who think of death, perhaps refuse to form an idea about it, or conceal it with the idea of a more venturous hereafter, as if it were impossible to sustain the thought about death itself.

Course XXII - Teaching 14: End of Stimulating Affective Meditations

Subject: Resurrection of Hes. Effects: Rapture. An evening, a daybreak, the sight of a tranquil valley from the peak of a mountain, moonbeams over countless sea waves, the pure smile of a child, in short, the whole beauty of the world penetrating and permeating limited boundaries of the individual being, and liberating his soul who, although fleetingly, gets a wonderful glimpse of his identity with the whole Creation.