Course XLV - Teaching 9: Impermeability to External Things

The Seminary has to form an Ordained Son in such a way that he does not reveal anything of his inner self.
If the Ordained vocation entails to live inside, in divine intimacy, then from the beginning it is indispensable not only to desire to be away from the world and to strive for being unknown to the world, but also to be cautious and to impede the world to know the Ordained Son and vice versa.
The sweet secret of the Divine Silence wants all to itself. So, it is necessary to be always impermeable to external storms. And this is not an insignificant or unimportant work.
A soul than begins should have clear explanations and no doubts about this. All is already prepared in regulations of the Ordination.
The continuous control of the Son about his behavior, in every act and emotional, cultural and external act are media tending to this.
Any demonstration, tenderness, weakness, change, struggle and temptation have to be something exclusive of the Son and of his Superiors and companions, but nothing of this has to transpire outside.
Any emotionality has to be repressed and any affection removed. An Ordained Son has to control himself in such a way that should not reveal any contraction of a muscle, a tear, or a blush.
The sweetest secret of a soul has to involve it totally in such a way that the unique demonstrable personality outside is that of personal unity of the Ordained Son.
Before those who look from outside, all this will transform the Ordained Son into a unique, general and ideal figure, even externally.
Any work must be made carefully and conscientiously during the period of Seminary.
Superiors should not forget that the souls tomorrow must be in contact with external duties, an even with the world, and that later it would be very difficult to acquire so subtle and refined habits that generally need time and exercise before being put in practice in a spontaneous way.
It would be regrettable to see an Ordained Son carried away by his emotionality or expressing it before the people; it is as if he rent his cloak.
Certainly, a careful observer would detect at once the origin, culture, possibilities and predilections of a Son by means of his much verbiage, and just the Divine Mother and his Superiors have to know all these things. When women socialize, usually they behave so discretely and correctly that is impossible to decipher them. They are correct persons and nothing more. If worldly success can produce so much self-control, how much self-control this love has to produce for the good name of certain impersonality Ordained.
An Ordained Son has to be so permeated by this spirit impersonality that nobody, however expert or psychologist be, can discover his needs.
If a good soul goes and sees his Superior and says: “I would wish to donate paper and envelops because I noticed that the Ordained need it”, or something like that, this is so because certain Ordained Son has transpired something that should not be revealed.
An Ordained Son never shows that he needs or lacks something. Superiors already know how much and how to request necessary help.
An Ordained Son should not discover his moral and physical evils to anyone. Certain souls are entirely shy, especially in regard to their physical evils; they never say or reveal troubles of human nature, but other usually complain for their evils or reveal them. The latter neither know to stand a headache and reveal it.
The Ordained Son never should be sick or to have physical disturbance before anyone, and nobody has to discover behind his ever equal aspect his physical condition, which the Son simple mentions to his Superior and to the physician for his cure.
An Ordained Son must learn in the Seminary to become impermeable and invisible before the eyes of all. Nobody must know what they feel or think; nobody must deduce his inner feelings from his external movements; in this way, the personality of a Son of Cafh will shine.
Nobody must see the color of his eyes, because constantly he will avoid fixing or concentrating them on anyone in particular.
Nobody will know too much the timbre of his voice, because the Son keeps from speaking much and speaks clearly. He speaks what is necessary and without any special modulation.
Nobody must deduce how the Son is from his external manifestations; this would be like the profanation of the Holy Temple that just is devoted to the Divine Mother.
The Sons must make in the Seminary this impermeable element to remain isolated any moment from outside.