Course XLV - Teaching 4: Adaptability

An unmistakable internal motion determines the vocational state, but this divine gift must be assisted to make the best possible use of it.
Vocation can be assisted by usual media, which are of physical, psychical and spiritual kind.
These means adapt a person to be entirely fit to fulfill his vocation.
In case of Ordained Sons’ vocation, the first means is achieved by adapting themselves to the Radius of Stability.
The Psalmist says: “Only one thing I asked of the Lord, and this I will ask of Him: to live in the house of the Lord all days of my life”.
The most eager souls for perfection have ever sought deserts, forests and monasteries as their abode. Houses of Community, especially those of Seminary, very often are far away from towns and bustle, and surrounded by the serenity of nature, which affects the nervous system of the Son in a powerful way. It is as if the body were adapted to the environment and disposed of any worldly bodily toxicity.
How many times we hear from those who arrive for the first time at a House of Ordained Sons: “What a beautiful place! What a peace!”.
This adaptation to the place, to the Radius of Stability where the House of Community is located, is so powerful and gradual, that sometimes you do not notice it. Those who should leave sometimes perceive this so intensely that cannot live in peace and calm, and wish to go back to the beatitude of their Retreat. This happens always to them like that women of Shangri-La, who as soon as she left the place, lost his attractive and youth.
This physical-environmental adaptation invigorates the organism of the Son, passions of his souls acquire quiet, and he controls the whirlpool of his mind: the day passes quickly and sweetly, and all those things that were important in the world disappear in the uniformity of the environment or are idealized by memories.
Often you observe how persons who were stuck to their relatives, customs and habits in the world, and that suffered so much in the beginning of their life in Community, have adapted themselves to the new life radically and definitively.
In the Seminary, psychical adaptation goes one together with physical adaptation.
To understand its character you need to have experienced in yourself the power of the Great Current. This is an adaptation of your senses to certain peculiar pleasures and internal refinement that the world cannot understand¸ for instance, reverential love for Superiors and companions, sensibility to perceive certain states of mind in companions and pupils entrusted to the Ordained Sons, intense suffering before a reprimand, and ability to enjoy very little things or events.
To persons of the world, this state of mind seems to be childish or affected; because they cannot understand that the psychical adaptation of the souls is such that any deep emotion emerges and on the surface becomes a beautiful silk skin.
And in Community you experience not only a psychical adaptation, but also that of senses, intelligence and intuition.
One day, a Superior asked an Ordained Son what was his opinion about the power of the Teaching imparted in Community, and the Son replied wisely: “To the Sons of the world, hours of Teaching are all; they expect anxiously to be gathered, drink the Teaching from the lips of the Speaker, and there they feel the Power of the Great Current. But here, in Community, the period of Teaching and Teaching itself lose their primordial importance. Our day, whether praying, studying or working, is totally permeated by the divine sense of the internal and continuous Teaching”.
In Community, the psychical adaptation of the soul to the Great Current becomes effective and, over all, during the period in the Seminary, the Son possesses a means for spiritual adaptation.
When the Son knows that he found his vocation and definitive purpose, and over all soon after worries and afflictions of the first days, he is breaking loose subconsciously.
Wisdom of all times is that of Cortes: “To burn the ships”. Then the Son burns ships within, and destroys bridges of worldly fantasies and illusory aspirations. And the light of the Spirit and life of the Divine Mother enter the soul gradually.
The spiritual idea is established; all other things that formerly were important now are unimportant and, little by little, the great spiritual adventure is in the foreground and becomes a central and unique point.
This process of adaptation to life in Community and realization of his vocation is sometimes slow and sometimes quick in the Ordained Son; sometimes becomes imperceptible and sometimes quite visible by his Superiors. But it is indispensable for the Perseverance.