Wednesday, February 09, 2005
WHEN CHRIST RETURNS...
I've only skimmed it and then printed it. Caldecott was a source I've trusted until reading an article of his recently that left me in doubt as to his Catholicism. This one clinches that doubt.
"In Search of the Miraculous" was originally published in Communio, the same organization that is sponsoring the Balthasar Conference in 2005.
Caldecott speaks favorably of Gurdjieff's disciple Ouspensky in this article, and of "esoteric Christianity." There is no such thing. Relationship with God is available to every person who has been baptised. We can all pray and God will hear us. We can all offer our lives to God on a day by day basis through the morning offering. God responds to that offering for you, for me, for the Catholics in India or in Africa, or in South America. If we seek relationship with God, He responds. There's nothing mysterious about that. There is nothing "esoteric". It's just the way humans are created. We are made for God and our soul is restless until it rests in Him.
Subscribing to an idea of an elite class of "esotericists" is so close to what the Nazis believed that it boggles the mind to find it within the Church. This is a prescription for disaster. For a repeat of the Holocaust. For the reign of the anti-Christ.
Gershom Scholem calls the concept of mysticism detached from doctrine "mystical Nihilism." How are so many being fooled? Through the sin of pride?
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
