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.2.ends, they hinder Souls from being advantaged.63.From all these, and infinite other imputations, the Director is free that is once arrivedat hearing the inward Voice of God, by having passed through Tribulation, Temptation, andpassive Purgation; because that interior Voice of God works innumerable and marvelous Effectsin the Soul, which gives place to it, hearkens to it, and relishes it.64.It is of so great Efficacy, that it rejects worldly Honour, Self-conceit, SpiritualAmbition, the desire of Fame, a wish to be Great, a presumption of being the only Man, andthinking that he knows all things; it bids adieu to Friends, Friendship, Visits, Letters ofComplement, Commerce of the Creature, Interest with Spiritual Children, Mastership, andBusiness; it turns away too much inclination to Confessor-ship, the Affection that is disorder d inthe Government of Souls, that makes a man think he is fitting for it; it moves Self-love, Authority,Presumption, treating of Profit, making a shew of the Letters which a man writes, shewing thosewrit by his Spiritual children, to make known what a great Workman he is; it turns away the Envyof other Masters and Teachers, and the procuring more Customers to his chair of Confession.65.Lastly, this interiors Voice of God in the Soul of Director, begets a mean Value, andSolitariness, and Silence, and Forgetfulness of Friends, Relations and Spiritual Children; becauseit makes him never remember em, but when they are speaking to him.This is the only sign toknow the Disinterestedness of a Master; and therefore such a one doth more good by silent, thanthousands of others that make never so great a noise with their infinite Documents.CHAP.IX.Shewing how a simple and ready Obedience is the only means of for walking, safely in theinward Way, and of procuring internal Peace.66.If thou dost in good earnest resolve to deny thy Will, and do God s Obedience is thenecessary means; whether it be by the indissoluble knot of thy Vow, made in the hands of thySuperior in thy Religion, or the free tying of thy self by the Dedication of thy Will, to a Spiritualand expert Guide, that hath the Qualities sewn before in the precedent Chapters.67.Thou wilt never get up the Mountain of Perfection, nor to any high Throne of PeaceInternal, if thou art only govern d by thy own Will: This cruel and fierce Enemy of God, and ofthy Soul, must be conquered; thy own Direction, thy own Judgement, must be subdued anddeposed as Rebels, and reduced to Ashes by the Fire of Obedience: there it will be found, as in aTouch-stone, whether the Love thou followest be thine own, or Divine; there in that Holocaustmust thine own Judgment, and thine own Will be Annihilated and brought to its last Substance.68.An ordinary Life under Obedience, is worth more than that which of its own will dothgreat Pennance; because obedience and subjection, besides that they are free from the deceits ofSatan, are the truest Holocaust which can be sacrificed to God on the Altar of our Heart.Whichmade a great Servant of God say, That he had rather gather Dung by Obedience, than be caughtup to the third Heaven of his own will.69.You will know that Obedience is a ready way to arrive quickly at Perfection: tis50 Lib.2.The Spiritual Guideimpossible for a Soul to purchase it self true preace of Heart, if it doth not deny and overcome itsown judgment and rebellion: And the means of denying and overcoming ones Judgment, is to bewilling in every thing to obey with resolution, him that stands in God s place; because the Heartremains free, secure, and unburthen d by all that which goes from the Mouth, with trueSubmission, to the Ears of the Spiritual Father.(Effundite coram illo corda vestra, Pl.61.) Themost effectual means therefore to advance in the way of the Spirit, is to imprint this in the Heart,that a man s spiritual Director stands in God s place, and whatever he orders and says, is said andordered from the Divine Mouth.70.The Lord often-times manifested to that venerable Mother Ann Mary of S.Joseph aFransciscan Nun; That she should rather obey her spiritual Father, then Himself, (History of herLife, § 42.) To the venerable Sister Catherine Paulucci, the Lord also one day said, You ought togo to your spiritual Father, with pure and sincere Truth, as if you came to Me, and not inquirewhether he be or be not Observant, but you ought to think that he is Governed by the HolyGhost, and that he is in My stead, (Her Life, Book 2.Ch.16) adding, When Souls shall observethis, I will not permit that any be Deceived by him.O Divine Words worthy to be imprinted in theHearts of those Souls which desire to advance in Perfection!71.God revealed to Lady Marina of Escobar, that if our Lord Christ would have hercommunicate after his mind, and her spiritual Father should say nay; she was obliged to follow themind of her spiritual Father: And a Saint was lower d down from Heaven to tell her the reason ofit; which was, That in the first there might be Cheat, but in the second none.72.The Holy Ghost advises us all in the Proverbs (Ch.3.) that we take Counsel, and trustnot in our own Wisom: Ne innitaris prudentiæ tuæ.And says by Tobit, That, to do well, thounever oughtest to govern thy self with thine own proper judgment; but always must ask othersmind and judgment, (Ch.4.14.Consilium semper a sapiente perquire.) Although the spiritualFather Err in giving counsel, you can never Err in taking it, and following it; because you actwisely: Qui judiceo alterius operatur, prudenter operatur.And God doth not suffer Directors toErr, that he may preserve, tho it should be with Miracles, the visible Tribunal of the spiritualFather; from whence is known with all Safety, what is the Divine Will.73.Besides, that this is the common Doctrine of all the Saints, of all the Doctors andMasters of Spirit, Christ our Lord gave credit and security to it, when he said, That the spiritualFather should be understood and obeyed just like Himself: Qui vos audit, mea audit (St.Luke 10)And this even when their Works do not correspond with their Words and Counsels; as is manifestby St.Matthew, Chap.1.Quæcunque dixerint vobis facite, secundum autem opera eorum nolitefacere.CHAP.X.Pursues the same.74.The Soul which is observant of holy Obedience, is, as St.Gregory says (3.Lib.in Job, Cap.13 [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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.2.ends, they hinder Souls from being advantaged.63.From all these, and infinite other imputations, the Director is free that is once arrivedat hearing the inward Voice of God, by having passed through Tribulation, Temptation, andpassive Purgation; because that interior Voice of God works innumerable and marvelous Effectsin the Soul, which gives place to it, hearkens to it, and relishes it.64.It is of so great Efficacy, that it rejects worldly Honour, Self-conceit, SpiritualAmbition, the desire of Fame, a wish to be Great, a presumption of being the only Man, andthinking that he knows all things; it bids adieu to Friends, Friendship, Visits, Letters ofComplement, Commerce of the Creature, Interest with Spiritual Children, Mastership, andBusiness; it turns away too much inclination to Confessor-ship, the Affection that is disorder d inthe Government of Souls, that makes a man think he is fitting for it; it moves Self-love, Authority,Presumption, treating of Profit, making a shew of the Letters which a man writes, shewing thosewrit by his Spiritual children, to make known what a great Workman he is; it turns away the Envyof other Masters and Teachers, and the procuring more Customers to his chair of Confession.65.Lastly, this interiors Voice of God in the Soul of Director, begets a mean Value, andSolitariness, and Silence, and Forgetfulness of Friends, Relations and Spiritual Children; becauseit makes him never remember em, but when they are speaking to him.This is the only sign toknow the Disinterestedness of a Master; and therefore such a one doth more good by silent, thanthousands of others that make never so great a noise with their infinite Documents.CHAP.IX.Shewing how a simple and ready Obedience is the only means of for walking, safely in theinward Way, and of procuring internal Peace.66.If thou dost in good earnest resolve to deny thy Will, and do God s Obedience is thenecessary means; whether it be by the indissoluble knot of thy Vow, made in the hands of thySuperior in thy Religion, or the free tying of thy self by the Dedication of thy Will, to a Spiritualand expert Guide, that hath the Qualities sewn before in the precedent Chapters.67.Thou wilt never get up the Mountain of Perfection, nor to any high Throne of PeaceInternal, if thou art only govern d by thy own Will: This cruel and fierce Enemy of God, and ofthy Soul, must be conquered; thy own Direction, thy own Judgement, must be subdued anddeposed as Rebels, and reduced to Ashes by the Fire of Obedience: there it will be found, as in aTouch-stone, whether the Love thou followest be thine own, or Divine; there in that Holocaustmust thine own Judgment, and thine own Will be Annihilated and brought to its last Substance.68.An ordinary Life under Obedience, is worth more than that which of its own will dothgreat Pennance; because obedience and subjection, besides that they are free from the deceits ofSatan, are the truest Holocaust which can be sacrificed to God on the Altar of our Heart.Whichmade a great Servant of God say, That he had rather gather Dung by Obedience, than be caughtup to the third Heaven of his own will.69.You will know that Obedience is a ready way to arrive quickly at Perfection: tis50 Lib.2.The Spiritual Guideimpossible for a Soul to purchase it self true preace of Heart, if it doth not deny and overcome itsown judgment and rebellion: And the means of denying and overcoming ones Judgment, is to bewilling in every thing to obey with resolution, him that stands in God s place; because the Heartremains free, secure, and unburthen d by all that which goes from the Mouth, with trueSubmission, to the Ears of the Spiritual Father.(Effundite coram illo corda vestra, Pl.61.) Themost effectual means therefore to advance in the way of the Spirit, is to imprint this in the Heart,that a man s spiritual Director stands in God s place, and whatever he orders and says, is said andordered from the Divine Mouth.70.The Lord often-times manifested to that venerable Mother Ann Mary of S.Joseph aFransciscan Nun; That she should rather obey her spiritual Father, then Himself, (History of herLife, § 42.) To the venerable Sister Catherine Paulucci, the Lord also one day said, You ought togo to your spiritual Father, with pure and sincere Truth, as if you came to Me, and not inquirewhether he be or be not Observant, but you ought to think that he is Governed by the HolyGhost, and that he is in My stead, (Her Life, Book 2.Ch.16) adding, When Souls shall observethis, I will not permit that any be Deceived by him.O Divine Words worthy to be imprinted in theHearts of those Souls which desire to advance in Perfection!71.God revealed to Lady Marina of Escobar, that if our Lord Christ would have hercommunicate after his mind, and her spiritual Father should say nay; she was obliged to follow themind of her spiritual Father: And a Saint was lower d down from Heaven to tell her the reason ofit; which was, That in the first there might be Cheat, but in the second none.72.The Holy Ghost advises us all in the Proverbs (Ch.3.) that we take Counsel, and trustnot in our own Wisom: Ne innitaris prudentiæ tuæ.And says by Tobit, That, to do well, thounever oughtest to govern thy self with thine own proper judgment; but always must ask othersmind and judgment, (Ch.4.14.Consilium semper a sapiente perquire.) Although the spiritualFather Err in giving counsel, you can never Err in taking it, and following it; because you actwisely: Qui judiceo alterius operatur, prudenter operatur.And God doth not suffer Directors toErr, that he may preserve, tho it should be with Miracles, the visible Tribunal of the spiritualFather; from whence is known with all Safety, what is the Divine Will.73.Besides, that this is the common Doctrine of all the Saints, of all the Doctors andMasters of Spirit, Christ our Lord gave credit and security to it, when he said, That the spiritualFather should be understood and obeyed just like Himself: Qui vos audit, mea audit (St.Luke 10)And this even when their Works do not correspond with their Words and Counsels; as is manifestby St.Matthew, Chap.1.Quæcunque dixerint vobis facite, secundum autem opera eorum nolitefacere.CHAP.X.Pursues the same.74.The Soul which is observant of holy Obedience, is, as St.Gregory says (3.Lib.in Job, Cap.13 [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]