Course XLVII - Teaching 30: The Holy Gate (March 30th, 1957)

The Divine Mother granted the grace of his vocation to the Ordained Son, and this divine vocation led him to the Holy Gate of the Divine Mother’s Home. It is the Divine Mother who went through obstacles, and broke ties of the world and senses. She has made the work. He took us in her arms as innocent children, and led us in a home of mystery and love. But once we are there, she shows us another very secret door: his adorable and intimate sanctuary. But she shall not lead us in there; we have to enter alone. To go across this tiny door, we have to take the entire strength of our soul and of our will. Once we are consecrated, our duty is not only to be faithful to our Vow, but also our perfection has to reach the summit, that is, we have to penetrate into this very secret sanctuary.
We have to perform not only our duty, but also to surrender totally our heart to her; we have to be mystically total, unconditional and eternal. We should be not only good, but also perfect. But most times, the Ordained Son admires this Gate, but does not make his mind up to enter there, to enter into Happiness.
If we gave all, then we broke those chains that tied us to the world; what can stop us now? We should make of this second offering, intimate and deep, without hesitation, a true conversion. How can a generous soul remain in doubt there, for days and years, and not to make his mind up to jump? This is like a person that has to be operated and for fear continues to suffer; and one wonders: “How is it possible that, after so many sacrifices, we do not enter the intimate sanctuary of the Mother? A little thing, which becomes usual, stops us: friendship, a glance, certain vanity, or attachment to comfort. We are hungry and do not know how to control our gluttony; we are thirsty and we are in despair for drinking water. Anything can stop us outside the Sanctuary of the Divine Mother.
Generosity should be total in a Consecrated soul. We break once, and we overcome. We should say: Today I give myself, I start today. Let us not be like those servants that are ever cleaning, and never know the face of the King. Our mission is not to remain at the atrium, but to penetrate into the Sanctuary of the Divine Mother. Nothing should worry us: neither to know nor not to know, neither to possess nor not to possess, neither to make such or such work, neither stand with patience or not a companion.
Certain holy souls want to know if they are performing their duty entirely surrendered to the Mother. Many souls speak of their dryness or sadness, of their lack of concentration, of their drowsiness, or of your troubles to act. All this is quite common in consecrated souls, but… there is a “but”: a totally-surrendered soul can stand enormous dryness, but always has divine lights, flashes of understanding in which the Divine Mother appears.
If dryness does not contain these lights, then there is no total surrender, because contemplation is the fruit of consecrated souls that they all have to harvest.
If dryness never shows the divine sign, this indicates lack of surrender, because a holy dryness is paid back with the Divine Mother’s consolation.
Never say that you have to make so many things that you cannot keep mind and heart quiet since in this case one should neglect any task, because all tasks of the world are of no use compared with a minute of surrender.
To live the inner life is more valuable for the soul that to work much and to write much. Any external activity is good if you direct it from within, and if you do not put in it anything yours. How to go across this Gate that She keeps open? We should become little, without attachments or likes, however holy these attachments or likes be. We can stand temptation or dryness, but the light of contemplation will come.
Do not forget this: we can make much, but mainly to surrender, to give oneself to the Divine Love, and to be little: then we will go across this Gate.
The Mother brings us: but the realization of love and surrender is ours.