Course XLVII - Teaching 43: Solemn Vow Ceremony (January 1st, 1960)

In the path to Realization, a Solemn Vow is an act extremely important, vitally important and solely important for the Sons. Personally I do not believe in successive Vows, but in the Vow at the moment of the first surrender, of the first act of love that unites us with the Divine Mother. But I believe in the extraordinary importance of these Vows that make us responsible for ourselves, before the Holy Order and his member, and before the Humanity.
So the Solemn Vow is extraordinarily important.
A soul before the Divine Mother’s altar for this wonderful holocaust is offering the best piece of his life, the most extraordinary part of his human-divine externalization.
Daughter!, to take the Sublime Vow, to give unconditionally seven years of your lifetime to the Divine Mother is an act that the divine beings, and even the Divine Initiates envy.
But one is a poor human being, made of mud, flesh and blood, that becomes a supernatural being by means of one’s offering; because, perchance is not a divine being the one than offers the best years of his youth, the one that renounces to any possibility of life, the one that says goodbye to any worldly illusions, the one that puts out the lantern of any apparently transient illusions, and offers any expectation and hope of change in the events of his life?
Seven years represent one’s youth; they are many years, the best years, in this life that is not very attractive or beautiful, and among few things that rejoice the hearts of the human beings, you are giving the most wonderful years.
The Perpetual Vow shall confirm this marvelous offering, as if it were a seal, but now the surrender of your soul emerges in total splendor because you give the best of you to the Divine Mother.
We know so well all illusions that the world contains, which means more sadness than joy, but the Humanity finds consolation in the illusion. Daughter, you are giving this illusion to the Divine Mother.
Everything is beautiful in the beginning of one’s life, and if personally we know that many things shall fail, we find a little of joy in these illusions.
From now on, you shall not have any illusions any more; She has taken the best of your soul, especially your heart. Even the illusion of believing that one is good shall disappear.
This is very important in the Holy Ordination. All of us have a bad part that gradually is removed in the consecrated beings, but unfortunately in this world there are beings that have a bad part that is so powerful that they cannot overcome it. But the mercy of God remains.
A mother says, “Oh, my daughter is so nervous, distracted and rebellious!” We hear many things like that, because this mother does not dare to say that any outer manifestations are a signal of certain great evil within.
This is not possible in the Ordination because here one discovers, cleans and removes. Our discipline is so ordered that if there were such distressed souls –because to have these defects is a misfortune–, and there were souls that had this misfortune and returned to the world, these souls can tell their experience, because this is their unique inheritance and because this is what they are. These souls are not entitled anymore to these illusions that alleviate their lives. Here they express all openly.
This is indeed death of outer manifestations and glory when a Daughter offers herself and surrenders to the Divine Mother.
Today it is as if you died because you are giving the best of yourself: your youth, illusion, human vanity and any possibilities of variants in life; but beyond of this tomb, as soon as you are resurrected, you shall live again a totally extraordinary and divine life.
Perhaps do you believe that only one sigh offered to the Divine Mother is lost, that an illusion of your heart, a fantasy of your mind is lost? No. Nothing is lost; all shall be transformed and shall take a special and new shine, crowned by a divine aura making the holocaust divine.
All of us are flesh and bone, but your offering deletes any imperfections and mental distractions, and very especially the Divine Mother takes them as a bouquet and transforms them into eternal flowers.
Your present illusion shall become a reality; and those illusions of your childhood shall be given to the Humanity and shall be the reality of the Humanity.
What a beautiful death making it so scintillating and real! Previously you were subject to variants of life, possibilities, and appearance.
You shall be yourself always, the Daughter of the Mother, the Flame shining before the altar, and the little mother for all those that are lost and in pain.
Imagine that God assigned you the mission of illuminating beings lost in the dark night. What a divine and extraordinary mission! Surrender yourself totally today, since you are determined to consecrate yourself. May your offer be total, real and true –true death.
Take your sword today and open your heart; no drop of blood shall remain. May you totally be of the Divine Mother’s Heavenly Heart.
May you be the golden rose, secret seed of eternally devoted souls to the Eternal love.
Stand up and be support of all women, to transform ashes into divine radiance, and into the fire of Kaor shining over all the Humanity, over the founding race of a better Humanity, with happier and better men.