Course XLVII - Teaching 45: Offering of Life (February 13th, 1960)

The offering of their own lives, of their vital powers and of their beings is the essential difference between the Ordained Sons and Community Sons, and other Sons and beings of the world. That is why the Ordained Community Sons have to love and defend especially their chastity. This virtue, chastity, transforms virtually the Ordained Sons into privileged beings on this Earth, into divine beings on this Earth, and into beings that complete, transform, deify and eternize the Vow of Union.
It is not easy to talk about the virtue of chastity to the Ordained Community Sons; even this is not convenient because, by virtue of their method of life and their constant daily participation in the divine life, it is hardly possible that anything may be contrary to this sublime and extraordinary virtue.
That is why today I wish to speak of chastity, not as an ordinary virtue, but as a Virtue of Offering, as a Sublimating Virtue.
An Ordained Community Son is chaste, above all because transforms his human presence into In-co-substantial and Divine Presence. In short, to go to the Community and to enter this holy and extraordinary life is to lose not only one’s ordinary personality, but also to lose all those characteristics by which the human beings differ.
Above all, we could say that the factor by which the human beings feel attraction is that they are characteristically different. It is as if men found their material pleasure through a diversity of human and physical attractions.
So, the Ordained Son makes his first offering to the Divine Mother by means of his own presence. Silence, Method, Routine, Clothes and Language, all these are expressions of this sublime Community chastity. Above all and in spite of all, one’s clothes; a very old motto says that “habit does not makes a monk”, but this is of use. When a person is convinced of what he expresses to the world and to others about his state, hardly is not convinced of his own condition: then this person shall not wear the veil if is not convinced of this mystery of the Divine Presence, and of the divinity and chastity; she will feel the emotion of taking part in the Divine Mother’s life. The Son loses any individual feature because is continuously present; so he becomes only an expression of the Divine Mother’s servant, and this participation is Presence of chastity.
So, a Son or a Daughter will be only one chaste presence for all beings.
Later this presence becomes more and more impersonal. The impersonal aspect in the Son is his chaste Presence. When you hear to say that a person sees no difference between one Son and another, this means that this person has perceived the chaste Presence in the Son. Just the figure, the figure of the Ordained Community Son remains.
This produces and helps an habit exist, and above all produces the inner habit of the Son, who cannot have any human expressions and transforms the emanations of his material figure into one expression: magnetism of the offering.
Your continuous presence, even in Cafh, is Presence of chastity, and true offering of your vital powers.
As this chaste presence is continuous, becomes a participation in the chastity of great beings that guide the destinies of the Humanity.
We are always in the same point. You see different currents in religious ideas. In Buddhism, you may realize God being chaste, absolutely chaste, and avoiding marriage. Other currents, like the Evangelic current, say otherwise: you have to realize God according to natural life, that is, through marriage.
This is great and good, but is not the whole truth. The Truth is that human beings have to procreate –Christ said so–, but Christ and his Apostles and followers are chaste. This means that if all beings have to give up before the human trend, there are however certain beings destined to a supernatural life on this Earth.
Those human beings that follow the natural life have to be married and to give their vital energies. The average people have to follow this path, but the few should not follow the natural law.
Christ says to the first, “Go and procreate”, and to his disciples, “Leave thy father and thy mother…”, and this is out of question.
So, through his vital offering, the Son takes part in the Divine Life of divine beings that were, are and shall come; and of those that were chaste and abandoned the ordinary life to follow a chaste live.
The Ordained Community Sons take part in the divine life of all spiritual Humanity movements; in short, they constitute a selection and participation for divine souls that have to save and redeem Humanity.
I wish to give a rough view, a philosophical notion of the doctrine on chastity.
So, in a Community Son, since Chastity is divine, missionary and salvation-oriented, it practices entirely the priestly and divine exercise of those Sons sent by the Divine Mother to redeem the world.
Our chastity is constituted by our presence, by our participation and by our living expression of reversibility on this Earth.
True chastity in the community life is perfect expression of Community life. Sons, I am unable to explain this.
A Daughter coming to the Community offers her vital power, and is losing her physical personality through her participation.
This work takes time; women have femininity; they are expression of femininity on this Earth. But in Community they lose this feature, their glance is changed, and their voices sound differently. All of them have the same mode of expression, but there may be someone that did not get this and needs to polish her chastity.
For instance, her gait: you detect a woman by her gait. Here her gait is not feminine any more. Her gait is different. It is an expression of rigidity before the beings of the world. Her gait is somewhat harder. Her expression is a little harder, and her gait more mannish; this is reversibility.
The difference of a man lies in his toughness in the world. He has tough manners. This is the expression of his manly aspect. The reversibility granted by the gift of chastity leads a man to acquire a softer language. His hands lose this manly feature. And her hands become more masculine. Men of the world do not understand, and say, “all are equal”, but we are the only aware of this transformation.
Reversibility is expressiveness. Men have to change their expressions. They have to change their works, and just then we can speak of chastity of holocaust, of absolute chastity for life.
The holocaust of chastity is renunciation in relation to the most innocent and legitimate pleasures of mind and heart. Here we start to fly upper and upper.
The holocaust of chastity is something so subtle and extraordinary that can be seen by the one that feels and realizes it. It is death of our intellectual vision, death of our intimate feeling; death of all those things that constitute the outer life of the human beings. Even we cannot express it with words because it cannot be expressed.
One example: When a Community Son remains several years in community and has to leave, he offers immediately this Divine Love to the Divine Mother. This is chastity: Renunciation to these pleasures, even though they are holy and divine.
Another example: A Superior disconnected from beloved Sons: this is offering of chastity, holocaust of chastity. These are little pleasures; I cannot desire them, but they are pleasures. Other example: A Son of Community performs his assigned work with entire love, and when it is time to leave, immediately he offers this Divine Love to the Divine Mother. This is chastity: Renunciation to that bliss that even is holy and divine.
This is the salt of our life.
Chastity is a power moving our spiritual life. All Cafh is established and based on our chastity. It is the greatest and most precious treasure of the Sons of Cafh.
To speak of this is very vain, because we say this with our mind, we feel it within, and we are not able to express it.
May I desire anything more than to ask of the Divine Mother Her presence in one’s heart, by making of one’s heart a sanctuary of chastity? We should not ask of the Divine Mother a physical chastity because this cannot be otherwise, but I as of the Divine Mother the spirituality of this divine virtue, the divine and sublime part of this divine virtue, and to transform our presence into presence of chastity, our participation in the salvation of the world into participation of chastity, and our life into a living totally detached from the world and reflected in every aspect of living to preserve the gift of chastity. May our chastity be power, vehicle of our offering, and a strong heart for this chastity because just the powerful hearts are able to renounce. May She soften our outer manners, and give us strong hands of mercy and charity. May all our expressions remove any signal of personality, in order to be in Her Divine Presence; may our presence in the world be only an expression of chastity and true purity. We ask for a continuous chastity, method and discipline; may the impure phantoms and their temptations be absent in the impure hours; may our flesh be not tempted in these hours of darkness, and these phantoms be absent around; and may the angels cover us so that no strange power disturbs us when we do not control our will.