Course XLIV - Teaching 12: The Superior and the Inner Spirit of an Ordained Son

The spirit of Observance must be in Community like an adamant block in relation to activities and uses, and every external expression of the Ordained Son must be unique, but this external union has to accompany the internal union.
A Community achieves its internal union by means of harmony of the souls, namely, through an internal sense of unity in all of them.
This state become somewhat difficult to understand and acquire, because consecrate souls do not achieve internal harmony through acquiescence, sympathy or disposition, but through spiritual and consecrated life of the Ordained Son in Community and absolute fidelity to vocation and Vows.
All Sons are good and obedient, and even fulfill wholeheartedly any duty of their vocation, but fidelity between the Divine Mother and the Son devoted to Her, in the innermost depths of the soul becomes something absolute, unique, secret and intimate; and this intimate fidelity and love between Divine Mother and soul brings true union of souls in Community.
But although the Son, because of his spiritual vocation and Vows lives the Eternal Hour, he is a divine being wearing a human garment, subject to reactions of his soul and of physical-chemical kind and to unexpected external events, which hinder to maintain that internal fidelity.
Man is subject to time, and this is the most awful factor to overcome and to remain in his stable love. So, the Son must remain very attentive and watchful to maintain an entirely divine fidelity, super-spiritual, super-mental and super-emotional.
As time goes by, elation fades away, everything is not so easy, and enemies of the fidelity come into action.
Here are two main enemies of fidelity: fantasy and sentimentalism.
Human nature gets angrier with the Ordained Son because his vocation calls to a super-mentality and super-feeling; fantasy tries to control his mind, and sentimentalism tries to control his heart. Always fantasy is the first to come into action.
Fantasy makes its work little by little because time is its great ally.
After the first enthusiasm and elation for the new life, the habit appears later. During the first years, attention was tense because of its adaptation to all, but now this great concern disappeared and something filters through attention: always little things, tenuous, light and innocent. Later dryness comes, and then this spiritual being is somewhat in the dark.
These images are sometimes real and sometimes fictitious; poor that Son who permit those images to accede.
Fantasy is a serpent that gradually crawls, an image of the past, a memory, a visual expression of something that you would want to see. All this passes through the mind of that poor Son, despite the fact that he fulfills all. But now his internal fidelity is not complete and absolute.
Fantasy makes you see all rose-colored; a past that perhaps was dark now appears with lights that are entirely unreal.
Even when the soul externally fulfills its duties, internally it is not centered on its duties, does not abides in the innermost depths of its heart, where the Divine Mother reigns supreme.
Sentimentalism is other enemy of fidelity.
The vocation of an Ordained Son is divine; he is dead to the world; if his Vow is true, nothing exists of his past.
But sentimentalism, which is slow but persistent, sometimes controls entirely the heart if the soul is not entirely devoted.
Sentimentalism tends to blood links.
Gods says all human beings have to be lovingly obedient and submitted to their parents who gave them life.
But later, the Divine Master says to the soul: “Leave all and follow me”.
When He says the former, He speaks to man, but when He says the latter, He speaks in an exclusive way to consecrated and chosen souls.
If a soul of vocation finds troubles to be faithful at home, those troubles must be faced like a trial, overcoming them; but if vocation is absent, then the parents suffer because of the bad action of that soul. A soul called by God must die to the world and blood, and death is something ineluctable. When death arrives, despite cries and tears, one must surrender to it.
A consecrated soul dies to the world, after a total fulfillment. The Divine Mother strengthens the heart, marks the route of the vocation by means of awful pains, and breaks any tie that he left in the world.
The Son has chosen his vocation and life willingly: he has surrendered. Blood ties never will be what they were; only Divine ties are important.
But sentimentalism makes a very secret work and appears little by little.
Sometimes even the soul does not realize what happens within. The soul loves to live in Community, but allows sentimentalism to move internally. Then, desires of visits, of conversations and new from the world emerge in the soul.
The Son knots again bonds formerly broken. He left the world, cried and suffered a lot, but in silence is building a new bridge as if he wished to go and come back, to be in the Holy House and in houses of the world: to break the mystical internal cloister.
And then his heart is closed: now it does not beat for the Divine Mother. His entire being is of Her, except the secret cell, internal and unique, that the Divine Mother wishes.
Fidelity is not perfect and absolute; one does not understand in a sublime way his vocation if does not allows the dead to bury the dead.
Harmony is broken and the link decreases when human elements enter the soul. Seemingly there are several defects and several states of progress in the soul; there is a difference between one Son and the other.
All this occurs because the doors of sentimentalism are open.
The consecrated soul achieves the divine harmony just when it hears the silent voice that is immaculate love and secret understanding, but if strange currents enter, this decreases and disappears because the soul does not remain on its super-mental and spiritual level.
A consecrated soul cannot feel, think and see like beings of the world because must multiply its love and its feeling must become entirely impersonal.
External Observance and absolute internal fidelity to Vows grant harmonious stability in spiritual life, which multiply the power of the soul until a superhuman point.
Just one man can save mankind.
A soul makes everything if and when keeps this close link between the soul and the Divine Mother. External discipline means nothing if is not impelled by that intimate fidelity that removes everything from within: no affection can remain in the soul. Even though that soul can act on the earth like a human being, possesses divine and saving means.
Superiors: remain ever watchful over the intact internal fidelity of the Sons, like in the day of their wedding of love; Sons: defend with tenacity your fidelity, because what is not bad to the world is bad to those consecrated souls who abandoned all to live a spiritual life.