Interior Trials: Part IV Spiritual confusion occurs when we get preoccupied with our sins. The truth becomes clouded and we don’t know what to believe anymore about God, about ourselves, about other people, or about the church. Our faculties of…
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Spiritual Confusion
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Posted in 6th Mansions - Chapter 1, Spiritual Warfare
Posted in 6th Mansions - Chapter 1, Spiritual Warfare
Spiritual Progress
Let the conclusion of the whole matter be this. We must strive all the time to advance, and, if we are not advancing, we must cherish serious misgivings, as the devil is undoubtedly anxious to exercise his wiles upon us.…
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Posted in 5th Mansions - Chapter 4, Spiritual Warfare
Posted in 5th Mansions - Chapter 4, Spiritual Warfare
Slipping Away
But the devil comes with his artful wiles, and, under color of doing good, sets about undermining it (the soul) in trivial ways, and involving it in practices that, so he gives it to understand are not wrong; little by…
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Posted in 5th Mansions - Chapter 4, Spiritual Warfare
Posted in 5th Mansions - Chapter 4, Spiritual Warfare
Why Does the Devil Attacks Us?
I have known people of a very high degree of spirituality who have reached this state (fifth Mansions), and whom, notwithstanding, the devil, with great subtlety and craft, has won back to himself. For this purpose he will marshal all…
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Spiritual Warfare and Tai Chi
So, Christian souls, whom the Lord has brought to this point on your journey, I beseech you, for His sake, not to be negligent, but to withdraw from occasions of sin–for even in this state the soul is not strong…
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Posted in 5th Mansions - Chapter 4, Spiritual Warfare
Posted in 5th Mansions - Chapter 4, Spiritual Warfare
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