Course XLVII - Teaching 37: Perpetual Vows (February 11th, 1958)

Today, in such solemn day for this Community, words are unnecessary, but I must say some words to these two Ladies.
Renunciation cannot be expressed. It is better not to speak of Renunciation. What for a human being is Yes, it is No for Renunciation.
Renunciation is the law of the opposites. What is positive for a human being, it is negative for Renunciation.
What is potential for a human being, it is active for Renunciation.
When a lamp is alight, here there is darkness in the astral plane; when the glass of the lamp is broken here, it appears in the astral plane. When we are children in our mother’s arms, one’s being has astral life; later, as we become men and fill ourselves with humanness, our being grows harder and even our physical body grows harder. The form of our skull confirms this. Later, our being lives on this plane and forgets the astral one.
When he is old, then he begins to forget these things, and we say: Poor old man, he does not recall anything, he does not know anything. The point is that the starts living again in the astral plane.
Your great Renunciation started when you arrived in the Seminary.
When you renounce to certain feelings (to live your home in which you stayed 20-25 years) and when you leave the smile of your mother, ¿is it something greater for a human being than to renounce to be a mother?
To renounce to the motherhood is self-renunciation; your seed is purely astral and spiritual, because when you renounce to a child, you become a mother of all children of the world, and of many souls. All children of the world are yours, When we renounced to your homes, you became the owners of many homes; you have ascendants in every home.
When the Seminary ends up, then renunciation begins for seven years: knowledge renunciation. You leave desires of knowledge; to know languages or new laws, the book quest, or travels. Even people shall see you and say: “They do not know anything”; “knowledge for the world is non-knowledge for renunciation”.
As a result of this you acquire more knowledge.
An Ordained Son should not have a title because he knows all: he knows how to speak or teach; wherever the Ordained Sons go, they are able to behave, work and produce.
Renunciation is so immense that you achieve it by stages.
So far, all your actions were successive renunciation acts, which are no more than preparation for the Great Renunciation. We cannot speak of this, because until that time the soul understood spiritually any renunciation act, but now had to renounce even in case of understanding renunciation. It is better not to speak of this Renunciation.
Certain newsreader said that human armies shall disappear. If one man with atomic power can destroy the world, one consecrated soul can save the world. What is the use of many vocations if just one truly-surrendered soul can save the world?