The Veil of Mysticism, Monika Petry [best big ereader TXT] 📗

to satisfy their material needs. My house, my car, my boat – will now be imagined and materialized, and new consumer goods are always being added. Everything created according to the original secrets of visualizing one’s wishes! They then call it luck and success. The only mistake is that this materialization has nothing to do with our liberation. Quite the opposite: it is counterproductive. We sought to create the luck to find the wealth within ourselves and what was it? The new garbage of prosperity that clogs us from outside, preventing our self-fulfillment of the Divine within.

God – the Providence – has already created the wealth. When Jesus says, "Thou fool, this night thy Soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God" (Luke 12.20-21), He meant the wealth of love, of health, of inner peace, and it has nothing to do with all the material possessions. Providence brings us even our income. Do not worry, God knows the needs of our daily bread, and that includes not only the daily communion with the Body of Jesus, but also the cost of our worldly life, and all that He cares for. In principle He is not interested in providing us with the accumulation of material things, because that blocks out our essential spiritual life and keeps us away from His Love.


You do not need now to resolve to give away your collection of antiques, but it's good to think about it. As long as the preservation of old values is important, there is certainly no objection to that. But if the collecting mania becomes rampant, it can take on dramatic excesses, which I myself have often observed and it has puzzled and worried me. Let the energy flow in your life constantly. If you are blocked on one side by a passion for collecting, you should ensure that there still remains a healthy circulation of energy and you will not lose the joy of life. Otherwise, you bury yourself.

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"Those who can not enjoy,
become unbearable. "
(Teresa of Ávila)
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How does your Environment react, if you turn to God?

You are not taken seriously anymore – as well as that, no one can really comprehend. This is just too high a level for them! And your ascent to God was probably made too quickly for them and in the beginning they will try to find out how serious you are. Once they understand your commit- ment, they will tend to turn away from you – they become uninterested. "Honestly," they say, "do you really want to say that you do not want to have any part in worldly life?" No one can imagine that you do not need it. Nobody understands that you have a much greater wealth than you've ever had in money, and that God is for you your first place partner, and that any possible life partner must then also qualify with a love for God. "I cannot be with anyone with whom I can not talk about God," wrote Teresa of Ávila. For me also, there is no other way.

Then there are those who are acting as if they were on the same wave length as you. They speak of God as if they had experienced anything of significance in their lives. They appear to be Bible readers and accompany you to church, so they may have some influence with you. But you feel it's not genuine. There are always some points they are bringing up against the Church, they complain about the money the Church is taking in, the scandals within the Church, as if the world had none of its own. Does this concern you – you personally on your way to God, in your Love for God? No! You may also get an earful of offenses listed against God, listen to dumb jokes about Jesus or the like. This you quickly come to dislike, because it hurts you personally in your Soul. You also may have the problem of getting your required time for prayer and retreat, because your friends do not understand that you are no longer available every day for hours of phone calls and you are no longer interested in the problems of the "world". You know them, because you have still your thinking mind. But you know there is nothing to be gained by searching outside and nothing to do. You can only find it in your heart.

Love does not mean to say "Yes and Amen" to everybody. It also needs sometimes to be saying "No". Separate yourself from people who want to suck in your energies, consciously or unconsciously, and protect yourself from negative outside energies. All that belongs to it. Because God gives us obligations but also rights. And that includes the right of integrity of our Soul and that of our loved ones.

I suggest to apply once a week the method I call “The Eye of the Needle”, which I describe in the later chapters. Give God everything, and wait for what He gives you back. What you do not need any more, will not come back. For this you will from now on only meet those people that belong to you. We have all the time. But the world needs to have no more time wasted, to make it a better place.

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"There is something very great,
in having a free heart and a quiet conscience."
(Teresa of Ávila)
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Text: German Original Text: "Schleier der Mystik - Wege zum erleuchteten Glauben". Published in FROMM-Verlag 7 July, 2011 ISBN 978-3-8416-0165-0 - all Rights reserved -
Publication Date: 07-15-2011

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