Course XLV - Teaching 14: Spiritual Life

An Ordained Son has to synthesize and demonstrate spiritual life.
No suitable word can express it. Its name should be Life, but the term “life” relates only to physical and sensorial forms of man. Because there is no specific word, one must compound and call it Spiritual Life.
Spiritual Life is integral life of man, true life: physical, mental and spiritual, known through combined manifestations of these fundamental and inseparable principles of being.
Many persons speak of spiritual life, but it continues to be something theoretical, objective and chimerical, while man goes on to live as if corporal life was his unique life.
Spiritual life cannot be expressed, explained or demonstrated objectively; you can grasp and know it just by living it; and it can be lived just by means of a total communion of the individual with it. An Ordained Son is able to live and demonstrate it through his total surrender.
An Ordained Son must keep ever in mind his Ideal and maintain it high: his spiritual life is neither something hypothetical nor a beautiful castle on the clouds, which is reduced to theories and projects. He is palpitating spiritual life in his entire being and in every expression; this spiritual life leads all his thoughts and actions, and is his unique aim.
His voluntary Withdrawal from the world is not a disdainful act addressed to those who live in it, but an effort to build internally a new world, a spiritual world.
Mystique of the Heart, which absorbs a Son and causes him to centre on himself and to consider himself continuously, is not a speculative act of self-control that places him on an unreal position, but an effective act of constant will and love. It is an inner quest that tries to achieve an integral man in the deep of being.
Discipline and organizing acts of the Son are not an imposition of superior powers on eager instincts that try to preserve their prevalence, but an harmonious exercise between different values and potentials of being.
The Son is tired of bombastic theories, erudite books and high-sounding sentences: although all this is beautiful, its results were not imminent. Therefore, he decided to achieve his aim in a direct way, through personal identification, practice and transformation, not through considerations about spiritual life, but by creating and being Spiritual Life.
Spiritual Life is non-existent as long as is in conflict with something or is considered like something different. But it is Spiritual Life as long as is located within, in the intimate and deep part of the soul, in the secret chamber of the heart; Spiritual Life acquires its own life from that place: it feeds by blood, magnetism and mind power of being; later, it appears splendidly on any external manifestation of the Son that has conquered it.
This is why Ordination is in essence spiritual life. This is so true that all observe and look at the Ordained Son as if he was something outside the world or strange to an ordinary way of living.
A Son said: “The Ordained are something out of my reach and beyond”.
It is true: the Ordained are out of reach of other men, because they do not live, rather they live spiritually. Saint Paul says right: “I do not live, but Christ lives in me”.
A new being lives in an Ordained Son who is a perfect and complete expression of Spiritual Life.
A slow but continuous process, which is totally real, achieves this transformation; and an Ordained Son must do his best to be on that level.
Not only others have to see him beyond, but also he has to be truly beyond.
Men live in a way that is more physical than spiritual, which granted to them a heavy and materialistic world; but those who strive to live an integral life, in tune with physical and spiritual values, will build a new world, a spiritual world round.
This new world, which is a fervent aspiration of the Ordained Son, will become more usual and permanent as the time goes by, and finally will be a tangible reality.
Ordained Sons: never deviate your glance from this guide; keep ever in mind this aim.
An Ordained Son cannot be ambivalent in relation to life and Spiritual Life; all that moves him away from his unique aim is entirely relative and truly unimportant.
An Ordained Son who understood entirely this inner concept of Spiritual Life realized completely his divine vocation.