Fwd: Words of Wisdom for Religious - St.John of the Cross
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Words of Wisdom for Religious - St.John of the Cross
Instructions and Precautions necessary for anyone desiring to be a
true religious and reach perfection.
1.The soul must practice the following instructions if it wishes to
attain in a short time holy recollection and spiritual silence,
nakedness, and poverty of spirit, where one enjoys the peaceful
comfort of the Holy Spirit, reaches union with God, is freed of all
the obstacles incurred from the creatures of this world, defended
against the wiles and deceits of the devil, and liberated from one's
own self.
2.It should be noted, then, that all the harm the soul receives is
born of its enemies, mentioned above: the world, the devil and the
flesh. The world is the enemy least difficulty to conquer; the devil
is the hardest to understand; but the flesh is the most tenacious,
and its attacks continue as long as the old self lasts.
3.To gain complete mastery over any of these three enemies, one must
vanquish all three of them; and in the weakening of one, the other
two are weakened also. When all three are overpowered no future war
remains for the soul.
(Will be Continued........)
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