Spiritual Trials punishment or liberation!

Good day to you my brothers and sisters. From the bible comes `Be still and know I am god.` You will find it in all true faiths and philosophies.

Francouis Fenelon was a French Roman Catholic theologian, poet and writer. He was ordained at about the age of twenty four and joined a religious Order. He became an advocate of Quietism, which emphasized intellectual stillness and interior passivity as essential conditions of perfection.

Up until recently `I` would not think it reasonable for us as individuals to think it possible to attain perfection whilst on earth. Now though all is changing. Scientists can tell us in truth that particles can be in two places at the same time and in fact there is no real matter as such, all is just energy.

Moving on slightly and I have no idea where this is going, so you may know more than me. Origin (185 - 254) said that what is most necessary for understanding divine things is prayer.

If our concept of God is not an old white man with a long beard, sitting on a cloud, we can get to realizing we are all part of one body and lets just recognise that loving energy and be that power of love.

I understand that many people are still in their childish conceptions, where they be at strong and sometimes violent disagreement with other sects within there own faith. Believe me this is not just restricted to Christians, or Muslims. I have heard of Buddhist monks fighting over control of a monastery. These are all people stuck in the endless circle. Believing that because they are moving, they are going somewhere! Moderation is good, as too much thinking can be damaging to, or limiting to, our spiritual enlightenment.

An anonymous author who translated the works of Dionysius into English for the first time also wrote a beautiful manuscript intriguingly titled The Cloud of Unkowing. It teaches that God is known by stilling the mind and opening the heart. He cannot be defined by intellect, but only embraced with love. The author wrote:

God is always quite unable to be comprehended by the faculty of intilli-

gence, but he is totally and perfectly intelligible by the power of love.

Every single creature, moreover, will know him differently. Dwell on

this if you have the grace to do so, because to experience this for oneself

is everlasting joy, and the contrary is everlasting pain.

Now if I ask you to choose between everlasting joy, or everlasting pain, that would seem like a no brainer. Yet we can become accustomed to pain to the point where we dont notice it, yet are affected by it. The world says BUY IT, or tell us that coca cola is the real thing. We know thats a lie if we accept that there is no real thing as such, just pure energy. I am leaving you now my enlightened brothers and sisters, to go out over the park with the Buster and have a little exercise and a little dance. Enjoy this day, be loveing and know you are loved. Peter, your brother.