Course XLIV - Teaching 8: Superiors in Vocational Examinations

One of the most difficult tasks of Superiors of Cafh is to select vocations of the Sons to live in Community. It is as if the Divine Mother wrapped these destinies in the deepest mystery; so one can state that just the Mother knows the secret of the soul and its destiny of spiritual development. There were souls of great inner capacity, great spiritual flights, and spirit of prayer, sacrifice and detachment, which despite a foreseeable success in life of Community, failed totally in Community. On the other hand, other souls, without great mystical flights and apparent spiritual gifts, adapted themselves quickly to live in Community and became good Ordained Sons.
Superiors have adopted different methods to achieve a possible perseverance in vocations of Ordination: proper preparation, prudential time of waiting previous to any decision, and certain physical and moral tests, but no method was definitive or sure, since always there is an unknown aspect about how the soul shall react in contact with those supernatural forces animate the Community of Ordained Sons.
This increases the responsibility of the Superior, especially because these results are demonstrated by experience. Even though the Ordained Sons can return to the world and to Tables of sponsored and Lonely beings, this experience has demonstrated almost in every case that none touches the divine fire of Ordination and leaves somewhat burnt, and that most times Ordination leaves in the soul of that Son a wound that is a sense of failure, guilt and fragility.
So, since Superiors do not have at their disposal infallible ordinary means to determine vocations in Community, to select the souls they must make use of supernatural and divine media, which are continuous prayer for a while and vocational examination.
The Superior makes use of the impersonal prayer previous to any proposal or acceptance of a Son to Live in Community, and after an evaluation of every human requirement, namely, physical condition, disposition, inheritance, independence, et cetera. He sets aside any personal factor of the Son (for instance, human sympathy or antipathy toward the Son, which is ever false), his personal gifts or qualities, or disadvantages, and appeals to the Light Blue Heart of the Divine Mother so that She instructs and guides the steps of that Son toward his spiritual destination. The vocational examination of the Son is allowed just after the Superior prayed in this sense for a while.
This examination has to be made, first by Superiors of Tables, and later by Superior of Communities of Ordained Sons.
Before a request of admission to the Seminary of Ordination, Superiors must subject the Sons, for a prudential term, to an strict and detached method of life that not only is excellent preparation for the souls but also a relative expression about their eventual necessary conditions and disposition to persevere in the Seminary.
This examination should be strict, severe and in detail; after this, it is the Vow that decides in a definitive way, as if it were the Voice of the Divine Mother, when and if the Knight Great Master does not decide otherwise.
Superiors must examine the physical condition and disposition of the Soul. Contagious, mental and nervous diseases and relevant physical defects dismiss the Son from the Community, as well as certain heritage defects of the Son’s family; although certain organic diseases do not impede him to fulfill his duties in life of Community. The morality of his family must be investigated: bad examples in childhood rarely disappear from the soul, and the experience indicates that even good souls, from improper places, adapt themselves slowly to the great moral of life in Community and at the end do not persevere.
It is very important to examine the state of mind of the Son. Too much enthusiasm and haste to be ordained, fantasies about the election, and aspirations of long spiritual range always indicate an uncertain vocation. And the most convenient Sons are those who, patient in their waiting, steady in their ideas and convictions, neither boast about their vocation nor imagine an easy life in Community, and remain stable and steady in their feelings, cheerful and adaptable to all.
Also it is very important to know the capacity of the Son in every aspect. It is necessary to examine the work capacity of the Sons that must embrace an state where manual work is one of the foundation of life in Community, since they will be poor works for vocational work and participation.
If possible, they should have an office, and if not, they should learn it before they enter the Seminary.
The intellectual capacity of the Son must be examined, this is very important, but no value should be assigned to mystical practices, physical exercises and specialized courses on metaphysical subjects, made or not, because all those practices and knowledge are an impediment in the Seminary, since they must remain free of those things, with their mind and heart in blank, for they only must know and practice Renunciation; but Superiors should closely find out if the Sons know the Doctrine of Cafh and if they adhere entirely to the Idea Mother of Renunciation.
Superiors will closely watch over their voting; no strange factor to the examination must interfere and the judgment derived from their own conscience must prevail.
In case of no unanimous voting, the Son must go again to the Seminary for other six months, or another voting should take place. But over all, unanimity becomes recommendable.
Fundamental factors that must be considered: did the Son adapt himself easily to life in Community? There were ups and downs? Did he feel temptations to come back to the world? If so, how long from now did his temptations stop?
Besides, all Superiors must pray for those inspired souls who, inspired by their fervor, aim at the Supreme Renunciation.
May the Divine Mother remove any obstacle for their arrival at the goal, or delete in them this desire if they are not called to fulfill it! May She lead these souls, in the Seminary and in charge of the Ordained, get necessary example and strength to achieve the irreplaceable gift of perseverance! Superiors must teach those souls entrusted to them to correspond to the grace that they received, because so immense grace is beyond description and becomes God Himself.
An Ordained Son of Community can transform the world and all souls, and none in the world, however high his position is, possesses so extraordinary mission.