For we wrestle not...

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 

Ephesians 6:12  

 

Forget the players on the worldly stage, those you see and hear: political people, people pushed into the limelight, people who entertain, people in the news who may have done this or that. Forget them all.

 

In fact, if you haven’t thrown away your TV yet you’re a masochist whose discernment is severely impaired. Even saturating your mind with info from internet sites via your computer or tablet or phone is ill-advised.

  

Think about it: is letting the world in to program you, as you satiate yourself with entertainment, the news, etc.—is this what you really wish to do in your free time? Do you want to be “[a] merely well-informed man?” (As Alfred North Whitehead describes it, to be such a person makes you “the most useless bore on God’s earth.”)

By getting your daily fix of “news” aren’t you simply tapping into a framework of domestic and world “events” that are really an agenda that is set by “outside forces”? Aren’t you being programmed to accept or reject a view—to take a stance, pro or con; to fill your mind until it whiles away in a kind of way-of-all-flesh loop? Aren’t you falling for a con job? Think about it.

What matters is “spiritual warfare”—wrestling against the unseen forces that are behind what is seen and heard: those “principalities” and “powers” and “rulers” of “darkness” and “spiritual wickedness in high places.”

But what is “spiritual”? What is “spirituality”? Most folks today tend to draw a blank or to point to religion in some manner to define “Spirit.” Is that because moderns identify overwhelmingly with the material world? With their bodies? With their existence as physical beings in a material universe?

It certainly does not help that religions have been infiltrated and horribly corrupted from within, viz., The Most Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church (now the “Occult Renaissance Church of Rome,” as renamed by Catholic author and revisionist historian Michael Hoffman, and for good reason).

If one has already been “spiritually disabled” by modernity and the holy power of the Church has been blunted by its enemy infiltrators, how can one understand his or her spiritual nature? Where does one turn to commune with the Spirit of God? Is it enough to simply have faith? To love? To hope that one can effectively commune with the Godhead so that we can begin to grasp and know our spiritual selves? Can we then become “spiritual warriors”?

We can pray. We can stop the bombardment of interfering thoughts by taking time out to find that “stillpoint” every day. Yes, pray and yearn for God; for the grace of the Holy Ghost; for the sovereign union with-and-of the spiritual self. And if you are fortunate enough to find a real priest, take the sacraments of Penance and Eucharist regularly. In this way Spirit will re-awaken in you and you will soon possess the power of soul to battle principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in high places.