Course VI - Teaching 2: Be You Foreigners - 1948

Be Souls! Live in the world as if you were not of the world!
Be foreigners! Neither language, nor likes, nor aims, nor thought forms of men are yours.
Be quiet! Your word is not of this world. Wrap your aura with the Great Silence. Be like a meteor crossing the sky and leaving their luminosity, but none knows their origin and destination.
Be souls, modest and simple souls that live in a different world from the present world, which is just an abyss of frenetic movement and destruction.
None should know you; your social personality should disappear and the luminosity of your soul should shine. In company of the souls, avoid any veil between them and you, on which your human status, your name and your worldly possibilities may be reflected. Dispose of all this. Be souls aiming at souls!
Your personality never should hurt the precious treasure offered to you by beings that surrender to you; your status, titles and name have to remain unknown; this is unimportant; but give all your teachings deposited in your souls, which you may communicate to beings by means of a simple glance of understanding.
Remain mute before the world. Your words must be reserved to those souls entrusted to you. Be foreigners among men; so you can give the entire luminosity of your internal flame to those who are waiting on the way. Wrap yourselves up in the Great Silence to stay far from the whirlpool of the world and to be fit to extend your hand and take out of the abyss those Sons that belong to you. Cover yourselves by your robes, so that none may know you or your name; do not unveil your face before none to maintain the shine of your glance just for the eyes of those who are destined for the mission of the future.
Your name is a new name written on heaven; your fatherland is that of the spiritual temple, in the Assembly of the Great Initiates.
Quieten your voice for the Message: the Message of the Great Day that is about to come and that the sages of OM HES are already chanting through the mystique of Ired.
Remain silent! Be foreigners! Wrap yourselves up by the Great Silence! Remain with your face covered by the white veil, oh souls of souls!