Renunciation

Course VII - Teaching 5: Participation

The Son’s spiritual path aims at participating in the Great Work, whose task allows achieving the Substantial Union. Participation means to take part in a thing or to share it.

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 VII- Teaching 7: Renunciation through Vows

The Son’s efforts to attain the final verities and achieve the real vision of God allow him achieving new conceptions about the divinity but no to be this divinity. The Son cannot achieve the conquest of the divinity through a positively affirmed will.

Course VII - Teaching 9: Fidelity of Fidelities

Renunciation, offering and love are the Path of the Cafh’s Sons. It is a path of renunciation because takes part in the fundamental law with which Cafh develops the spiritual vocation.

Course VII- Teaching 11: Intimate Obedience

The Vow of obedience is essentially an act of mystic and spiritual love. The Son can travel through certain stretch of the spiritual path with will effort, but he must set aside his will at certain point where routes acquire a transcendent character.

Course VII - Teaching 12: Reversibility

The Idea Mother reflects the Divine thought but as this thought takes form on the human plane it acquires diverse forms and animates different trends. Launched as a unique light ray, a diffracted Idea Mother touches the contingent plane of life.

Course VII - Teaching 13: Initiatory Renunciation

The Son’s practical renunciation leads him to discover the secret of the Universe. So, eventually the Son becomes renunciation. The whole secret of the Universe lies on one word, on one simple vibratory movement that is essence and existence of harmonious divine and human values.

Course VII - Teaching 14: Renunciation as Holocaust

Renunciation is just a new form of selfishness if its purpose is a personal happiness through liberation detached from Humanity to which we belong. To contribute to solving problems and evils of others is more important than to solve our own problems.

Course VII - Teaching 15: Real Priesthood

An invariable and unavoidable question arises about the motive of renunciation when, even with unusual ecstatic fullness, certain people experience pleasures of the material world, which are as much sensual as intellectual.

Course VII - Teaching 16: Divine Reversibility

Cafh takes active part in forming the future man by molding this man in its bosom even now. The image of the future man is realized on the Initiated Son, Priest of Cafh.