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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (556475)	3/27/2004 5:29:59 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I saw it twice already and I'll see it again. I truly admire and respect Mel Gibson's courage in coming out with this intensely Catholic movie about Jesus Christ despite the overwhelming assault of countless principalities and powers. To be a Catholic in America today is increasingly to be like a prisoner in a jail without bars -- everything is relative, you see -- while being surrounded by schismatics, heretics and apostates so this movie is both timeless and timely, a real Godsend in ways that many people are still discovering. This excerpt from a real Jesuit exorcist's homage to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the divinely inspired founder of the Jesuit Order, might be useful for non-Catholics. <font color=gray> ...In setting out the Jesuit ascetism, Inigo drew on the thousand-year-old tradition of his Church. Still, even here he was innovative. He applied the principles of that ancient Christian ascetism in new ways, so that they would work in the entirely New World climate. Inigo had already been through the hard process of close and painful scrutiny of every facet of his inner self during the years when he had reformed his life and then had begun guiding the spiritual lives of his first companions. He had learned that in the warfare God and Lucifer wage for the individual soul, there takes place a kind of cosmic propaganda campaign for new recruits. While God can, in that campaign, communicate by immaterial, supernatural, totally spiritual means, he generally speaks through events. In terms of the individual, God can and does introduce images through sense data – through external events, words and actions in the world around each person. Lucifer, meanwhile, can act only through that natural order. He is creature, not creator. He is preternatural, but not supernatural. Like all creatures without supernatural grace, he exists and moves and has his being completely and definitively outside the supernatural, which is God’s exclusive domain. Lucifer’s mode of impact, therefore, is entirely through sense data – through events, words and actions. Those are the means he uses to supply the ideas and the images and the motives he would like to see as the individual’s interior intimates, the regulators of his decisions and actions. The power of the individual in all this is crucial. His is the power to make a choice, the power that resides in his every act of will, the power to accept or reject any or all of what is offered. In fact, as in any propaganda campaign in any war, so with the cosmic campaign in the cosmic war: It is essential to find out where the data is coming from and what it really means, so that choices and decisions can be made. Translated into the terms of Inigo’s ascetic mold for his Jesuits, the cosmic propaganda effort meant that each individual member would have to learn to analyze the data of his inner activity of which he was conscious. Whatever basic forms you deliberately allowed and nourished in your inner theater of consciousness, Ignatius said, would inevitably become the regulators of your decisions, and therefore of your exterior actions. Practically speaking therefore, Inigo’s task was to develop a process by which each individual would achieve a knowing perception of what kind of spirit – the good spirit of God, or the evil spirit of Lucifer – was acting on him, motivating him, driving him. That process Inigo called “discernment of spirits.” Perception and analysis weren’t ends in themselves, however... </font> The Jesuits (p.179-180) Malachi Martin (1987) admg THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA Translated from the Autograph by Father Elder Mullan, S.J. ccel.org