Course XLIV - Teaching 16: Superiors Custodians of the Sons before the World

Superiors will try that the Sons may appear before the world like a living image of perfect Renunciation and, as such, unattainable to those who did not renounce.
Sons: your faces must be affable before all and your aspect serene, without currents of sympathy or particular friendship.
Greet with courtesy, bow your head and do not shake hands. Do not be too much accessible with anyone during your conversation, to avoid any familiarity; do not be too much familiar and avoid handling, over-familiar language or undesirable sentences.
Stay at prudential distance of your interlocutor; distance is the door of dignity.
Talk the least possible to persons by needs of the work. Just speak of the matter and needs of your concern. Avoid any personal friendship and preferences, and do not be affectionate in your greetings. It is not easy to be a good Ordained Son in so boisterous world, especially when you must work in direct contact with it.
An Ordained Son has to keep ever in mind that to reach perfection is a work that does not admit interruptions.
In their relationship with people, the Ordained Sons must behave such a way that, however the former be long time with the latter, these never could know their inner mystique or the secret of their inalterable serenity and of their peculiar way they are.
In the street they should walk in two or three, but if there are too many people, then they will walk one after the other, close to the wall, to slip by. Walk and do not make noise, avoid movements of arms and heeltaps and go close to the wall in corridors or rooms; this is very useful to disappear.
Neither Superiors nor Sons will go out alone, but always accompanied by other Son or by a very reliable person. During journeys, never make friendship or converse with strangers or accept anything to eat or drink, except with previous permission of your Superiors.
If you travel on your own means of transport, you will be in your uniform, and on general transport means, in civilian clothes.
During your spiritual lectures in Temples or Halls of Lectures you will wear cloaks or veils.
In house of your relatives, keep a proper demeanor, do not accept strolls or entertainment, be moderate and exemplary when you eat, talk, et cetera, do not pay visits and be in uniform.
Women alone never must visit the Sons, and men alone never must visit the Daughters. The Superior or other Sons must accompany the Son during every visit, but in case of visits of parents and brothers, the Sons can be alone and feel at home with them.
With the rest of visitors, they will be laconic and concise, without any intimacy.
Sons: never allow to be photographed by strange persons to the Community. Do not receive objects or books, or gifts. And over all, do not receive clothes even from your relatives.