Course IX - Teaching 5: Sons

The Divine Mother wanted members of Cafh to have an original name, and the Regulation calls them Sons.
While other Orders have name their members brothers, with a prevalence of the link of those that are united by one and the same faith or ideal, Cafh does not make prevail the link of members among them, which could give rise to the word “brothers”, but the link between members and the Divine Mother: Sons and Mother, Sparks and Fire, Rivers and Sea.
The Sons form groups of Tables with 43 members, distributed into six groups of seven Sons each, under a Knight Master.
Of these six groups, three are men and three women, being the former formed by Knights, Squires and Pages, and the latter by Ladies, Damsels and Maidens.
Hierarchically, the Sons are as follows: Knights, Ladies, Squires, Damsels, Pages and Maidens.
In due proportion, the spiritual teaching, assistance and strength of the Great Current attains the souls in the world through Pages and Damsels. They are in contact with the world.
At the same time, they are the hope of Cafh.
Squires and Damsels represent the transition between the state of Pages and Damsels, and that of Knights and Ladies.
If on the one hand they live in the world that receives their help and whose evils they share, on the other hand they come into contact with Knights and Ladies and serve them; they receive continuously teaching and strength from the lips and presence of these Knight and Ladies
Cafh guides Knights and Ladies toward a superior life. Physically detached or not, they have to live in retirement in the inner temple that they must build. Bearers of the Great Current, they must preserve it pure and integral. Thence Cafh takes for granted that its Knights and Ladies are devoted to the ascetic and mystical exercise, and the establishment of spiritual forces in those environments where they are acting.
The Sons are numbered in each group, from one to seven, and every one corresponds to certain appointment. So, number 1, is Secretary; number 2, Almoner; number 3, Reader; number 4, Archivist; number 5, Orator; number 6, Assistant; and number 7, Key keeper.
As to the indispensable age so that a candidate assumes the responsibility for a Vow, the Regulation does not determines it and leaves it to the due decision of his Superiors. Candidates can flourish at any age and the years of a lifetime are relatively important, since the Superior must especially consider and appreciate the disposition of the candidate, his habits, convictions, enthusiasm and the intensity of his vocation.