Course XLVII - Teaching 6: The Master Calls You (December 10th, 1955)

“The Master calls you”: Martha said these words to Magdalene, when the latter wept upon Lazarus’ tomb. Seemingly, the Master was more interested about Magdalene’s whereabouts than in Lazarus’ death. Seemingly He says: “Consecrated soul, stand up, do not cry for human things”. The Master wishes our absolute faith, our dedication, and our whole love to Him: for this purpose the Divine Mother removed our worries when she gave us Her Divine Son as Husband.
First, the Master wishes the trial of faith, and later he makes the resurrection miracle; he wishes the soul to be ever-ready to His call, to give Him his faith, and his whole devotion.
Magdalene weeping upon her brother’s tomb is a symbol of the soul that, on its human aspect, looks at the world, weeps with the world, and sets aside the divine aspect.
“Consecrated souls: open your eyes, and with your hearts in your hands be ever-ready to the Master’s call.” The Master is here, and calls you. He wishes the soul devoted to him to forget all; later he shall make the miracle of Lazarus’ resurrection.
However absentminded we are, let us throw ourselves again at the Divine Lover’s feet. The soul must come close to him, and surrender; so He can give the soul His whole love and tenderness. He is always there, waiting for the soul; he does not go toward the soul, but expects the love of the latter, and then He comes. This tells us about the greatness of His love, and about the beauty of His feelings. That is why our vocation is the most extraordinary of any vocations. Some few of us have been chosen among the whole humanity; so, free of worldly worries, we shall live a life entirely devoted to worship lovingly the Son that the Divine Mother gave us as Husband.
The Master is always close to us.
Perchance, is not this the greatest miracle, to have chosen the most imperfect and the extremely humble to love? Our love, our enthusiasm for the Divine is like a fleeting flower, because always we fall again, but He continues to call us, and, as Son of the Divine Mother, He possesses all worlds, Heaven and angels, and has chosen us.
I bear ever in mind Saint Therese of Jesus, who felt the almost tangible Presence of the Master during the day, after a dry prayer. She tells that even in times of the greatest dryness, when she was unable to pray and the Name of God did not awaken anything in her, she felt however a Presence, the Presence of Anyone that was there and that sometimes was so strong that almost she was able to touch Him. The same way, the Master is always there looking at us and calling us. When the soul is truly chosen and consecrated, this soul never misses this Presence.
Just consecrated souls can have this Divine Presence close to them through continuous attention.
This Presence sinks us in the humiliation of our misery, weakness and instability, and at the same time a feeling of bliss fills the soul, since among all beauties of the Universe, this Presence has chosen our souls, poor human earthly beings, full of darkness, dreams and misery.
Only love can understand this miracle!