Course XLV - Teaching 5: Blood Sublimation

Many souls called to perfect life cannot achieve their purpose because their blood links are so pressing that hinder their separation.
Just those who sublimate their affections and transform them into a loving offering to the Divine Mother can surpass this impediment.
Any human being has holy duties toward his relatives, and you cannot dispose of them as if they were useless things, because this would mean a serious lack of charity.
An aspirant, before his vocational decision, has to consider all in depth and hear wise advices about his future behavior, procedures and decision regarding his relatives.
But as soon as you leave all in order and make your steady decision, now you will not look back. Many continue to delay their departure by extreme affection and sentimentalism, and others create responsibilities that are already solved.
Although the best thing is to leave your family joyful and in total agreement, it rarely occurs: relatives hardly understand the value of Renunciation. But even if they do not agree, you should try to leave in them a good impression and with their minds quiet.
Those relatives who although do not need urgently your company are against your departure to follow your spiritual life, should be left in their stubbornness, entrusting them to the help of the Divine Mother who gradually will appease their hearts and shape their wills through the sanctifying grace of understanding.
Once the aspirant puts his foot on the Holy House, he must bravely surrender his relatives to the Divine Mother; from that day on, he has to find them again just during his prayer.
But it is during the first weeks in the Seminary when physical parts claim more than ever for his food of blood.
Then a deep sadness and a great longing invade the soul of the Son, and his mind remembers his relatives and events related to them.
Sometimes he realizes that, although already in the Seminary and joyful in it, his heart remains at home against his own will. This state of mind, which reveals a strong union with his relatives, quickly disappears after the first shadows, because it is rather a question of habit than of attachment.
A Director has to know this state of mind during the first days and should not impede the Sons to cry and relieve his feelings because this will be quite good to them. An aspirant that during his first days in the Seminary misses and cries is demonstrating that he is a good son and, as such, also will be a good Ordained Son.
Later, the trial of responsibility. Family states appear in the soul of the Son and his heart starts wondering whether his parents and acquaintances truly were not in urgent need of him.
He sees that his relatives fell, are sick and even died for his fault. All this brings a heavy unrest and he cannot pray and fulfill properly his duties.
Just then his Superiors have to teach him the Act of Sublimation.
Over all: he is not responsible for what already is consummated.
If the Son does not see any urgency to remain at home when he surrenders to spiritual life, then he is not responsible for events that will occur later.
Moreover, through his surrender, this Son became responsible of a spiritual responsibility before the Divine Mother, which because of its divine nature is higher than a blood responsibility. So, a Son who is ever worried by conditions and circumstances referred to his relatives, does not observe his true spirit of Ordained Son; so, he neither can help his relatives nor realize properly his vocation.
A soul that renounced to all and is dead to the world and to any affection humanly cannot do anything for them.
But divinely, this soul can do much for them.
An aspirant left his old mother who was modestly supported by her daughters. Several years later, he came back to see his relatives and could hear joyfully this statement of his sisters: “God has helped us visibly from your departure. All got better”.
Ordained Sons are messengers of the Divine Mother. They cannot do anything, but can get all from Her, since they have left all for Her Love. She takes care of their needs without any request: “But seek ye first the kingdom of God…and all these things shall be added unto you”.
But this divine communication requires constant sublimation of blood and human affections; this is an internal and mystical state that is fed by suffering, detachment and Renunciation that becomes our blood and flesh.
Through this continuous offering of relatives to the Divine Mother, love of children toward parents and relatives will become purer and greater than never before.
Saint Therese of Lisieux sublimated constantly her love of relatives and reached so pure and lofty love of them that she maintained them continuously united with her in the presence of God.
Son: do not believe that your Ordination moves you away from your relatives or forces you not to love them. The Vow of Renunciation increases this love, since you love divinely your relatives.
Then your memory of relatives, instead of being an obstacle, becomes an incentive to spiritual live. As soon as your relatives experience hard trials or disappointments, instead of declining, they feel that their souls and event their bodies are comforted and divinely helped.
Son: your family love becomes true when you offer it to the Divine Mother through sublimation in a continuous act of human separation and divine approximation.