Course XI - Teaching 12: Labor of the Orator

Teaching characterizes the mission of Cafh in the souls.
Cafh benefits them with their inner recognition and sanctification, especially among souls of young persons.
This achievement consists of an intimate recognition of the soul that is led to participate in life to the full by discovering the vocation.
Orators have to be true Teaching-bearers.
They have to hold in high esteem their own grace of being bearers of these supreme good.
So, Cafh causes his Sons to participate in its intimate spiritual life; but what is the spiritual life for the world, and even for these Sons?
Many religions, philosophies and spiritualistic organizations are mere ideological concepts, which more often than not become unrealizable, since they are just a projection of their wishes and aspirations.
Spiritual life is not ideology, mental fantasy or projection of something intimate outwards; spiritual life is still certain little but intimate and essential soul participation with the existence as a whole.
Spiritual life is life of man, expression of an ideal transforming any way of thinking in the world.
When a soul contacts the spiritual life, this demands everything from his guide, wants to have his experiences and realization of his ideal. But, through this demand, the soul enters the soul of the Orator and establishes a channel that enables him to transmit the Teaching.
The Orator has to maintain this channel between him and the Son constantly open and alive.
The orator must act rightly and communicate his teaching regardless the destiny of the soul, and with no speculation about the persistence or not of the soul on the path.
Since the beginning, he must be able to communicate the Teaching upon a solid, proper and sure basis. This method will be the foundation of the future spiritual life of the Son as a whole.
The Orator will increase these fundamental concepts by studying the souls through his contact with them.
He will try to know psychological complexes of the Son trusted to him.
A soul cannot be led to Heaven if this soul does not lay previously aside his poor background and does not recover its stillness and inner peace, if it is charged with complexes of all kinds –psychological, physiological, moral or ancestral. The Orator will become a careful researcher through all those questions that a soul asks him, and will know the level of the inner state of this soul through those questions.
The Orator will assume the Teaching with fit cultural formation for matters to deal with. The Teachings acquire universal brilliance through his cultural formation and get life through his description of certain places and through examples and images narrated.
The Orator will ever have at hand graphic and symbolic examples to illustrate the Teaching, and fit concepts for answering any questions of the souls.
The Orator’s personality, over and above, has to be faithful expression of the Cafh’s Teaching, which places him on the divine state that transforms him into a receiver and transmitter of the Teaching. But apart of this divine state, the Orator can naturally increase his personality by expressing his Renunciation.
He expresses it this way: by influencing the souls inadvertently; by being ever present, but unnoticed, and by self-assertion, but not making use of his authority.
When the Orator escapes notice, his racial formation disappears. Then it is as if he forgot actually his ego in order to become only the Orator. Being detached from his social function in the world, and from his religious beliefs, the Orator only lives through the expression of Cafh.
When the Orator escapes notice, he puts fundamental concepts of the Teaching in minds and hearts of the Sons and permits that the time and a gradual inner recognition of those concepts may yield their fruits. That is why he does not make use of systematic pressure, or of an ever equal teaching, or of certain modes applied: the Orator is ever present there, by being self-forgetful and surrendering himself to the souls impersonally.
When the Orator does not manifest his authority, he enhances the divine authority granted to the Sons, and weakens and ultimately cancels the terrestrial authority. In his own surrender, the Orator finds the real authority.
The Orator has to be patient and dynamic, staunch and tolerant, kind and fair.
The Orator can gradually enter the soul with patience. Of course, a Son does not open his heart immediately. Necessarily, the Orator must be patient and wait day by day, but dynamically and tirelessly, until entering and possessing the soul.
The Orator should have steady concepts and expressions, with not changes or hesitations. He has to maintain and sustain his concepts against any criticism. If he must analyze something related to issues beyond his control, he must make use of all means to keep his position. The soul has to be ever sure that his Orator has its necessary spiritual nutrient in due time.
Also, the Orator has to be tolerant with slow and unfit sons, and with those who are not adapted to the Teaching.
The Orator has to be absolutely kind, but this kindness must be serene and just, with no weakness. He has to surrender himself to the soul with a sense of understanding. He has to carry light to this soul and to the heart, and this light will be not only that of his knowledge, but also of his warm feeling.
The most insignificant word said with love is infinitely valuable to the eyes and feelings of a Son hearing it.
It is then that the Teaching becomes source of life and Spiritual Realization.