Intimacy of the Perfect

Course XLV - Teaching 11: Perfect Observance

When the Son arrives at the Seminary, he finds a method that is entirely new and different, even on its formal aspect, from that that he used to follow. It is convenient for the Son to adapt himself to this new life and to acquire a habitual and strict Observance.

Course XLV - Teaching 13: Purifying Void

Ordination, and over all, Ordination of Community, is the most perfect practice of the Vow of Renunciation. And perfection in this Vow is a constant practice of the same steady effort of will to achieve it up to that moment when, by discarding any effort, grace and understanding of Renunciation permeate the soul.

Course XLV - Teaching 14: Spiritual Life

An Ordained Son has to synthesize and demonstrate spiritual life. No suitable word can express it. Its name should be Life, but the term “life” relates only to physical and sensorial forms of man.

Course XLV - Teaching 15: Love and Sacrifice

Here are the greatest gifts of Ordination: capacity to love and suffer in silence, which the Sons acquire by being detached from things. Seemingly, on first sight, life of Ordination is a decision of certain little sensible souls who abandon the world and any affection.

Course XLV - Teaching 16: Women’s Ordination

Women’s Ordination is peculiarly and basically different from that of Men. Women as Ordained Daughters and to become Ordained Daughters, have to live in Community. Otherwise, may an Ordained Daughter do something that a Daughter of Table of Lonely Beings cannot do?