Saint John of the Cross & Mortification

St. John of the Cross & Mortifications.

“St. Catherine of Genoa said: “I AM NO MORE MY OWN”.

From Facing Adversity with Grace: Lessons from the Saints by
Woodeene Koenig-Bricker:
“As we look at the ways saints dealt with adversity,
physical pain is a good place to start since almost
everyone has experienced physical pain at some time in
their lives. In fact, many other types of suffering, such
as torture, hunger, disability, and even mental anguish, are
expressed physically. Pain is one of the common
denominators of humanity.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a saint who didn't
suffer physically in some form or another. Sometimes
the pain was the result of illness or injury; at other times it
was the result of self-mortification, and especially in the
past, it was often the result of torture.

Like all addicts, Matt Talbot had to exercise self-
discipline in order not to take up drinking again, but he
did more than just resist the urge to drink.
Some of his additional self-discipline came in the form of
PHYSICAL MORTIFICATION.
WHY IS SELF-DISCIPLINE important when dealing
with the suffering associated with addiction?
AS IS THE CASE WITH SO MANY OTHER KINDS OF
SUFFERING, IT'S BECAUSE LIVING A DISCIPLINED
LIFE STOPS THE CYCLE OF SELF-PITY.”

MEANING ACTIVELY DESTROYING THE EGO.
The Awakening IS THAT.
“Often whatever we concentrate on INTENSIFIES, so
if want to lessen our suffering, WE MUST STOP
FOCUSING ON IT. Living a disciplined life is the key
to making that happen.”
Meaning the Will.
You will see from the rest of the article that many so-called
saints are not indeed saints.
Because they forced this focus on something they did not
like.
Ending up believing that they “have arrived” when they
have not even begun their work of destroying the ego.

From Spiritual Canticle by St. John of the Cross:
“No soul therefore can overcome his might [...]
without [...] MORTIFICATION.
St. Paul, saying:
“IF BY THE SPIRIT you mortify the deeds of the
FLESH, YOU SHALL LIVE.”
By the siege is meant the passions and desires, WHICH,
WHEN NOT OVERCOME AND MORTIFIED [...]”

From that Edition of "Spiritual Canticle" translated by David
Lewis:
We find;
Mortal 1 time,
mortal flesh 1 time,
mortal body 3 times,
mortal tongue 2 times,
mortal nature 1 time,
mortal eyes 1 time,
mortal sin plus mortal sins 4 times,
mortal life 3 times,
mortal vision 2 times,
mortified 5 times,
mortify 2 times,
mortification plus mortifications 7 times,

mortifying 2 times.
THIS IS THE THEME OF THE TEXT, and of all the
“Mystical literature”; TO OVERCOME HIS FLESH.
What is written in the religious texts has nothing to do with
the conception of a monotheistic god at all; it's a state
'that it is about'; the mystical state.

For this reason, everything is an allusion in these religious
texts:
- For the Allusion exceeds the mental (mind).
Mental in the sense of “something Reactive”.
Example of the mental;
eating chips reminds you of barbecue;
nudity reminds you of sex;
the heat of the sun reminds you of the feeling of warmth, et
cetera.
IT'S ALL ABOUT MEMORIES in the mental process; one
idea calls 'to another idea'. A tool used 'for the Basis of
marketing'.

The MIND “works” this way: one idea calls to another.
I wish it were more complicated, but it's not.
It's simplistic and 'NOT VERY SMART'. IN FACT 'NOT
SMART AT ALL'.
TO USE A CONTEMPORARY VOCABULARY:
OVERCOMING THE FLESH IS OVERCOMING THE
MIND.
This mind “that always knows what is best for you”. BUT
IN FACT NOT, AS IT IS ONLY REACTIVE.
[...] You know when every time an idea pops up, and that it's
just related to what you're used to doing.
But this idea is not the right one, IT'S NOT THE BEST
IDEA YOU COULD HAVE.

BUT THAT THERE IS AN INSISTENCE in the brain on
“getting this idea through”; because you are used to; IT'S
THAT MENTAL ACTIVITY 'that needs to be overcome'.
Mystics talk about that nothing else.
It is 'this state that the mystics speak of'.
This is what the mystics pointed 'to as a state'; awakening is
about that, nothing else.
The mind is not the one, WHICH HAS TO CONTROL YOU,
you have to control 'the mind'.
And yes, WE CAN CHANGE THIS BIOLOGY.
This is the Essence of Esotericism. Esotericism is the
ESSENCE of Religions, religions are not meant TO BE
institutions at all.

It is a 'USURPATION OF RIGHT'.
THERE IS NO LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY in a religion AS
A STRUCTURE.
NONE.
'Don't be IMPRESSED BY THEM'.
IF RELIGIOUS PEOPLE 'TELL YOU OTHERWISE';
THEY LIE.
RELIGIOUS PEOPLE have no legitimacy over you or
society.

From A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor and
Karen Armstrong:
“BY FIERCE ASCETICISM, cloistered incarceration,
sleeping on straw and rising in the darkness after a few
hours’ sleep, by abstinence, fasting, humiliation, the
hair shirt, the scourge, the extremes of heat and cold, and
the unbroken cycle of contemplation, prayer and back-
breaking toil.”
'THE GOAL IS TO BREAK THE EGO', that identification
“we have”.
What remains after the broken ego will be the mystical state.
The Mystical liberation which is the basis of religious
texts.

ALL RELIGIONS ARE MYSTICAL, then became
institutions without authority, WANDERING LIKE 'A
CHICKEN THAT HAS JUST BEEN DECAPITATED'.

From Alchemical Active Imagination by Marie-Louise von
Franz:
“And then comes the “SYMBOLIZATION”: when one
speaks such different languages, one can
communicate only by using symbols.
AT FIRST THE BODY CANNOT UNDERSTAND
SYMBOLS but always says to stop and cease THAT
SYMBOLIC WAY OF TALKING AND BE CONCRETE,
FOR HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND IT.
But after a while he begins TO UNDERSTAND THE
SYMBOLIZATION, and then they can be reunited IN A
NEW ONENESS.”

This is 'why Myths' WERE SO IMPORTANT in the
Antiquity and why the population 'was much more'
EVOLVED THAN MODERN PEOPLE ARE.
FOR THE PRACTICE OF SYMBOL, evolves this mental
capacity towards 'MORE ABSTRACTION'; AND
ULTIMATELY “this is how the brain Works.”
The Ancients were much more sophisticated than we are,
we see this in their art, in their texts, 'in their poetry', it is
they who gave us the MODERN ORGANIZATION OF
SOCIETY, The Civilization.

Since we have Abandoned this way of functioning, we are
'ONLY DRIFTING', especially in the West WITH THIS
RIDICULOUS DEMOCRACY.

“That is why first the separation or distraction,
distractio of the mens from the body, is necessary, so
that the later union can be achieved. Many call this
distractio a voluntary death reached by making animus
and anima one and by making them subdue the body,
which has to be forced to give up his petulance, his
agitation, and his constant worry about worldly
things, and also his lack of moderation in his desires.
THIS HAS AN EFFECT ON THE WILL.
The latter starts liking THIS CHANGE AND BECOMES
THE MEDICINE.
Just as wild animals become ferocious when they eat too
much, and get a cancerous tumor when they do not cleanse

their bodies of all superfluous juices through the
excrement, through defecation, SO THE
PHILOSOPHICAL MEDICINE HAS TO CLEANSE OUR
BODIES FROM EVERYTHING THAT IS
SUPERFLUOUS AND CORRUPT, AND THEN IT CAN
CURE THE BODY.”

MORTIFICATION.
“If you read certain medieval texts on the spiritual
education of a monk, such as the Exercitia Spiritualia by
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, you will see that some orders also
have such rules as to how to OVERCOME THE
DESIRES OF THE BODY.
Saint John of the Cross even said that someone who really
took the imitation of Christ SERIOUSLY SHOULD NOT
LIVE BEYOND FORTY.”
The STATEMENT is a bit exaggerated. But it's TRUE in
the sense that if you don't economize yourself (if you refuse
the gentrification of life), THEN BY DEFINITION you're
not going to 'take care of that body' and age faster than

someone who does economize. The bourgeois lifestyle being
as opposed to the mystical lifestyle and mystics aging
faster than a typical 'middle class man'. And the reserves
of the body being not inexhaustible. You age faster.
But after enlightenment, this Preoccupation disappears;
being alive or dead doesn't matter.

“For in medieval meditation texts, the body is always
tortured, mortified, and abused as much as possible,
treated completely as an enemy.
Here he is treated not quite as an enemy BUT
RATHER AS A POOR CHAP WHO DOES NOT
UNDERSTAND, and he gets a decent meal in another
room.
He is not just mortified or rejected, as in medieval
treatises like Diligendo Deo, or in the writings of Saint John
of the Cross and others.”
The objective is to 'BREAK THE RESISTANCE'.

From Cultivating Virtue: Self-Mastery With the Saints by
Anonymous, translated from the Italian by A Member of the
Order of Mercy. Originally published as A Year With the
Saints: A Virtue for Every Month of the Year in 1891:
“In it the soul becomes like that of a little child,
enjoys a pure and holy tranquility, never thinks evil
of others, nor interests itself in what does not belong
to its own position.”
IT'S SUPER HARD TO EXPLAIN, because THERE'S THE
RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION that comes up first; THE
ONE WE WERE RAISED IN; PURITANICAL, BOURGEOIS.
BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT IT'S ABOUT.
IT'S NOT ABOUT SOCIAL DECORUM.

The transformation (enlightenment) of the body leads to
THE INTERIOR. THE ENLIGHTENMENT SEALS THE
BODY FROM THE OUTSIDE, NOTHING EXTERNAL
CAN ENTER FROM NOW ON.
The Wanderings of others can therefore only be foreign 'to us'
because there is no longer a exterior “perceived”.
It is not explicable. This is why esoteric traditions speak of
Unification, although Unification “is not the right word”.

“Thence he brought her up to the second terrace, [...] Here
he enumerated to her the properties of TRUE LOVE,
WHICH IS PURE, SIMPLE, UNSELFISH [...] These are:
a true mortification of ALL VICES AND OF EVERY
EARTHLY AFFECTION [...] A LIVING DEATH, by
which the soul dies to itself and TO ALL AFFECTIONS
OF SENSE, and lives in a total annihilation and
transformation into its crucified Lord, so as to be able
to say:
“I live, now not I; but Christ liveth in me.” [Gal. 2:20]”
Read this sentence and Especially the End of this sentence;
“its crucified Lord, Christ liveth in me”, in a non-dualistic
way, for that is what it is all about.

EVERYTHING HAS BEEN INTERPRETED
“dualistically” by religions ('institutions'). And the mystical
state 'is not about that'.

“The soul that has gained this state seems to have
conquered the world, and bears sufferings and crosses
as if it could no longer feel them.
The fourth terrace, he said, TYPIFIED THE STATE of
real and perfect union.”
That is why you read in the mystical writings; “that they
walk on the world”.

St. Francis de Sales:
“I hear nothing talked of but perfection; yet I see it
practiced only by few. Everyone forms his own ideal of
it. Some place it in simplicity of attire; some in austerity;
some in almsgiving; some in frequent reception of the
Sacraments; this one, in prayer; that one, in passive
contemplation; and another, in the gifts called gratuitous.
BUT, BY A GENERAL MISTAKE, THEY TAKE THE
EFFECTS FOR THE CAUSE, AND THE MEANS FOR
THE END.
The greater part of Christians usually practice incision
instead of circumcision. They will make a cut indeed in a
diseased part; but as for employing the knife of
circumcision, to take away whatever is superfluous from
the heart, few go so far.”

“FOR MY PART, I KNOW OF NO OTHER
PERFECTION THAN LOVING GOD WITH ALL THE
HEART, AND OUR NEIGHBOR AS OURSELVES.”
And here too this has not been understood by the christian
who, from where he is, has God on one side of his head and
himself on the other; this is not possible.
Whereas the saints and mystics 'do not speak of this' but
of a Union meaning not two.
[…] That is, no longer God on one side and you on the
other. This means that the monotheistic notion of a God is
false and showed by 'the mystical state'.

“Whoever imagines any other kind of perfection
deceives himself, for the whole accumulation of virtues
without this is but a heap of stones. And if we do not
immediately and perfectly enjoy this treasure of holy love,
the fault is in us. We are too slow and ungenerous with
God, and do not give ourselves up entirely to Him, as
the Saints did.”

The Master-Disciple relationship: a relationship that has not
existed in the West 'for 1800 years':
“The Saint sought to mortify his disciple, while the
latter, in the meantime, obeyed promptly in everything
and bore all WITHOUT REPLY.
And thus, in the course of only five years, he reached a
very high perfection and sanctity.”
It doesn't take more than 'five to ten years' to awaken;
from the moment 'you have two people who have one will.
You don't have that anymore in the West, that's why;
there is no way to awaken 'anybody in the West'.

The Esoteric Tradition has been Interrupted in the West
and is not in a position to resurrect anytime soon in this
'moribund continent'.

St. John of the Cross:
“I wish I could persuade spiritual persons that the way of
perfection DOES NOT CONSIST IN MANY DEVICES,
nor in much cogitation, BUT IN DENYING
THEMSELVES completely and yielding themselves to
suffer everything for love of Christ.
And if there is failure in this exercise, all other
methods of walking in the spiritual way are merely a
BEATING ABOUT THE BUSH, and profitless trifling,
although a person should have a very high contemplation
and communication with God.”

“CASSIAN WROTE CONCERNING THE ABBOT
PAPHNUTIUS THAT THE ROAD BY WHICH HE
ARRIVED AT SUCH GREAT SANCTITY WAS THAT
OF CONSTANTLY MORTIFYING HIMSELF;
and that in this manner he extinguished in himself all
vices, and perfected in himself all virtues.”
THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO GET THERE. You have
to 'Nuke' ALL THE MENTAL RESISTANCES, you have to
'purify this mind'.

“FATHER BALTHASAR ALVAREZ PRACTICED
CONTINUAL MORTIFICATION AND SELF-DENIAL,
not only in great things BUT ALSO IN SMALL; and by
this he arrived AT HIGH PERFECTION.
The Blessed Angela di Foligno, in ecstasy, saw the Lord
bestowing marks of love upon some of His servants, but
upon one, more; upon another, less. Desiring to understand
the cause of this difference, she advanced to inquire of Our
Lord, who answered thus: “I invite all to Me, but all
ARE NOT WILLING TO COME, BECAUSE THE WAY
IS INTERLACED WITH THORNS. To all who come, I
offer My bread to eat and My cup to drink. But My food
IS NOT PLEASING TO SENSE, AND MY CUP IS FULL
OF BITTERNESS, so that all do not desire TO

SATIATE themselves with those labors which were
My meat while I was in the world.
But those who are most constant in bearing Me company,
they certainly are My dearest and most favored ones.”
Simple enough for a Mystic to understand BUT NOT FOR
A RELIGIOUS PERSON; the reason Why these mystical-
religious texts are not understood 'by them'.

Let's go back to the text “Cultivating Virtue: Self-Mastery
With the Saints by Anonymous”.
The problem with the religious is these good sentiments (do-
gooders) and actions only apply to morality meaning SOCIAL
DECORUM. Since they have not been initiated and won't
be (not their nature), they will apply solutions 'from where
they are'; and where they are is not very far.
Ending up creating worse results than before their actions.
This is why religious people 'are always social dangers'; and
the social Threat.

“Then it was revealed to him that so great a grace had
been given him by God in reward for the little
mortification which he accepted in serving Mass.”
Religious people being brought up in 'this BOURGEOIS
ATMOSPHERE of social decorum' cannot understand that
'one must first destroy oneself' in order to enjoy 'the fruits
of this destruction'.
That is to say, to no longer suffer from this mind 'which
dictates life'.
THE RELIGIOUS ADD MORE MENTAL (mind) TO THE
SOCIETY, to a western society already well taken in the
mental, since the inception of Christianism.

Doctrine coming from the East at least in its mentality and not
understood by a 'Western population', not used to this kind
of mentality.
The religious, the bourgeois par excellence, apply an
outside (exotericism: 'politics'), and 'what should' be
applied is an Inside ('Esotericism').
Ending up applying a whole bunch of isms,
collectivism ... ecologism the last seen of the isms, this
destroying 'THE STRUCTURES OF SOCIETY' which are
only based 'on the transformation of the individual'; its
awakening.
THE WESTERN COLLECTIVISM of the 20th century being
therefore only this political application of internal

precepts (esotericism), on (the external) politics.
THIS IS WHY THERE IS A CONSTANT WESTERN
CONFUSION BETWEEN THE PRIVATE AND THE
PUBLIC SPHERE IN THE WEST, and these western
maternalist states that always dictate “life to people”.
It's unbearable but this is the monotheistic West. Because
the ESOTERIC DOCTRINES have not been understood by
the population, and are not understandable for the
Westerners (different Mentality).

“Our greatest fault is that we wish to serve God in
our way, not in His way—according to our will, not
according to His will.”
That is, we act through the mind, which always dictates
our lives:
that mind that 'has not been domesticated yet'.
And this is why the religious people SEES AN
EXTERIOR, because he has not 'been transformed', and
why he sees a God; an object.
God not being definable, he defines it. And loses himself
in a concept, 'in the conceptual mind'. God not being

definable and therefore not being graspable by the mind, we
end up in the west with that stupid doctrine of
monotheism. In Monotheism; on the one hand there is you
and on the other God; esoterically 'this is not possible';
there cannot be two things; because esotericism is inside and
outside does not exist; outside 'are just projections'.

“Our greatest fault is that we wish to serve God in
our way, not in His way—according to our will, not
according to His will.
When He wishes us to be sick, WE WISH TO BE WELL
when He desires us to serve HIM BY SUFFERINGS, we
desire to serve Him BY WORKS; when He wishes us to
exercise charity, we wish to exercise HUMILITY;
when He seeks from us RESIGNATION, WE WISH
FOR DEVOTION, a spirit of prayer, or some other virtue.
And this is not because the things we desire may be more
pleasing to Him, but because THEY ARE MORE TO
OUR TASTE.”

MEANING PLEASURES —THROUGH THE 'DOPAMINE
MECHANISM'—.

“This is certainly the greatest obstacle WE CAN RAISE
TO OUR OWN PERFECTION, for it is beyond doubt that
if we wish to be Saints according to our own will, WE
SHALL NEVER BE SO AT ALL.”

“TO BE TRULY A SAINT, it is necessary to be one
according to the will of God.”
“St. Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi knew this most important
truth; and, with the guidance of so clear a light, she knew
how to submit her will to that of God so perfectly that
she was always contented with what came to her day by
day, nor did she ever desire anything extraordinary.
She was even accustomed to say that she would consider it
a marked defect to ask of the Lord any grace for herself or
others, with any greater importunity than simple prayers,
and that it was her joy and glory to do His will, not that He
should do hers.
Even as to the sanctity and perfection of her own soul, she
wished that it might be not according to her own desire,

but to the will of God.
And so, we find among her writings this resolution: To
offer myself to God, and to seek all that perfection and
only that perfection which He is pleased that I should
have, and in the time and way that He shall wish, and not
otherwise.”
This, Precisely, is not understood 'BY THE RELIGIOUS'
who act bourgeoisly and in the desire only to satisfy himself,
ending up becoming totally neurotic and the Worst actors
of society.

“In conversation with an intimate friend, she once said:
The good which does not come to me by this way of the
Divine Will, DOES NOT SEEM TO ME GOOD.
I would prefer having no gift at all except that of leaving
my will and all my desires in God, to having any gift
through desire and will.
Yes, yes, in me sint, Deus, vota tua, et non vota mea—
THY WILL, NOT MINE, BE DONE.
The grace which she asked most frequently and most
earnestly of the Lord was this: that He would make her
remain till death entirely subject and SUBMISSIVE to

His Divine Will and pleasure; thus it is no wonder that she
became SO HOLY.”
SUBMISSIVE IS 'THE KEY HERE'.
“Even among THE HEATHENS, there are to be found
those who by the light of reason alone clearly understood
this truth. Plutarch disapproved of the common prayer of
the people: May God give you all that good which you
desire. No, he says, we ought rather to say, May God
grant that you shall desire what He desires. And what
is more, Epictetus practiced it; for he said: “I am always
content with whatever happens, it all happens by the
disposal of God, and I am certain that what God wills is
better than what I can ever will.””

“Two mistakes I find common among spiritual persons.
One is that they ordinarily measure their devotion by
the CONSOLATIONS AND SATISFACTIONS
[PLEASURES] which they experience in the way of God,
so that if these happen to be wanting, they think they have
lost all devotion.
No, this is no more than a sensible devotion. True and
substantial devotion does not consist in these things, but
in having a will resolute, active, ready, and
CONSTANT NOT TO OFFEND God, AND TO
PERFORM ALL THAT BELONGS TO HIS SERVICE.
The other mistake is that if it ever happens to them to do

anything WITH REPUGNANCE AND WEARINESS,
THEY BELIEVE THEY HAVE NO MERIT IN IT.”
Fools!
These Eastern teachings have NEVER BEEN 'UNDERSTOOD
BY THE WESTERN MASSES'.
The Western mind cannot grasp the thought of the East.
IT IS UTTERLY USELESS TO CONTINUE IN THIS, we
have to find something ELSE MORE SUITABLE FOR THE
WESTERN MASSES.

St. Teresa:
“We are not to regard great favors from God so much as
virtues, but consider who serves the Lord with the
GREATEST MORTIFICATION.”
You have to Break this mind, TO BE ABLE TO FUNCTION
NORMALLY IN SOCIETY.

“Humility and charity are the two master-chords:
one, the lowest; the other, the highest; all the others
are dependent on them. Therefore it is necessary, above
all, to maintain ourselves in these two virtues; for observe
well that the preservation of the whole edifice depends on
the FOUNDATION AND THE ROOF.
The two feet upon which one walks to perfection are
mortification and the love of God. The latter is the
right, the former the left foot.”
THIS LOVE OF GOD IS ONLY THE LOVE YOU HAVE
FOR YOURSELF.
God does not exist, it is a fragment of your imagination.

As long as you think there is an outside, like being in
other people's business, you are not on the Inside, so you
don't know what love is.
But love will not come until you have enlightenment, that
is, until you have killed that mind, killed because you have
desired it and you have killed the Beast, there the esoteric
reference/imagery around “slaying the dragon”.
KILLING THIS EGO IS A —VOLUNTARY ACT—.

Revelation 20:1-3
“1. And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having
the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2, And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is
the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up,
and set a seal upon him.”

“By the aid of these, St. Francis Assisi climbed TO THE
LOFTIEST PERFECTION. He led a life so austere and
rigid that at the point of death he felt that he must ask
pardon of his body FOR HAVING TREATED IT SO
ILL.
We read in old chronicles of a young lady who was so
severely afflicted that she seemed to be suffering THE
PAINS OF HELL.
After remaining for a long time in this state, she one day
turned her whole heart to God in this prayer:
“My sweetest Lord, only remember that I am a poor
creature of Thine! for the rest, do with me what pleases

Thee, now and through eternity!
I abandon myself into Thy hands, and am ready to
suffer these torments as long as it shall please Thee.”
THIS ACT OF RESIGNATION.”
THIS IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT. YOU HAVE TO
SURRENDER COMPLETELY.
AND THE MADNESS STOPS AT THAT POINT; 'THE
DUALITY STOPS THERE'.
If you read psychiatric literature, you will 'see many
profiles revolving around this suffering of liberation'.

Not finding a way out of their suffering; and yet 'they are
the way out; that is THEMSELVES TO STOP THAT
SUFFERING.
The dualism that has struck the West; the monotheism, in this
dichotomy between an outside and an inside, which does
not exist, making the 'Westerners' the most mentally crazy
population in this world.
All the isms of collectivism 'were born in the West',
westerners have brought this monotheistic plague to the
whole world, all the way to Asia.

“St. Catherine of Genoa said: “I AM NO MORE MY
OWN; whether I live or die, I AM MY SAVIOUR’S; I
have no longer any possession or interest of my own.”
THIS IS WHY “THE ESOTERIC FIGURE of the savior”,
which was not understood by the Westerner, who saw “an
external Savior”, an historical Jesus, WHEN IT WAS
THEMSELVES “WHO HAD TO SAVE THEMSELVES”.
This was not understood by the Westerner.
This same figure “which is taken up dozens and dozens of
times in the religions of the East before applying it in the
very clumsy Christian formula.”

“AS THE SPIRIT OF MORTIFICATION IS THAT OF
THE CRUCIFIED”.
You understand 'why the MULTI-MILLENNIAL figure of
the crucifixion was chosen to illustrate the awakening
process'.

Abbot Moses:
“Place thyself under the discipline of a stern and
austere man, who will treat thee harshly and with
rigor; and then strive to drink in all his reproofs and ill
treatment as one would drink milk and honey; and I
assure thee that in a little time thou wilt find thyself
ON THE PINNACLE OF PERFECTION.”
All this is no longer applicable in the West since the fall
of Rome, the Westerner who has become a retarded
Teenager refusing to become Mature, and insert himself
into the Society of men.
The West is screwed up.

“St. Francis de Sales was often blamed by his friends, as
they did not approve of his course in not sustaining his
dignity and defending himself more vigorously
AGAINST THE ATTACKS OF THE MALEVOLENT.
He replied to them that mildness ought to be the
characteristic of bishops; and so, although the world and
self-love has established maxims of another kind, he did
not wish to make use of them, BECAUSE THEY WERE
CONTRARY TO THOSE OF JESUS CHRIST, IN
CONFORMITY TO WHICH HE HAD ALWAYS
GLORIED.”
As long as you are going TO BE ON THE OUTSIDE, YOU
ARE GOING TO BE ON THE OUTSIDE and You will
always find problems with this world.

Luke 14:11:
“For everyone who [..] HUMBLES himself WILL BE
EXALTED.”
But Mortification is misunderstood; many people
(religious) think that mortifying the body means acts of
'torture of the body'. No. This is how many religious
people have attributed to themselves bodily abuse, such as
flogging, WHICH ARE USELESS!
THE GOAL IS TO LIMIT ONE'S PLEASURES AND TO
RENOUNCE THEM; MORTIFICATION IS THAT.

The goal is to avoid the 'DOPAMINE MECHANISM' in the
brain' that consumes this body; more pleasures lead to
more desires for pleasures, like an addict.
The goal is to regularly cut out these daily pleasures,
until —YOU NO LONGER NEED THEM—.
Because you have understood that they 'enslave you', and
you have understood the pleasures mechanism.
Gradually this biology will become 'more resistant' to
outside solicitations until totally 'cut the outside'; and
awakening is about that; the control of your biology.

St. Jerome:
“The measure of our advancement in the spiritual life
should be taken from the progress we make IN THE
VIRTUE OF MORTIFICATION; for it should be held as
certain that THE GREATER VIOLENCE we shall do
ourselves in mortification, THE GREATER ADVANCE
WE SHALL MAKE IN PERFECTION.”

“When St. Francis Borgia heard it said that anyone was a
saint, he used to answer, “He is, if he is mortified.”
When a young monk once asked an aged saint why, among
so many who aim at perfection, SO FEW ARE FOUND
PERFECT, he replied,
“BECAUSE IN ORDER TO BE PERFECT IT IS
NECESSARY TO DIE wholly to one’s own
inclinations, AND THERE ARE FEW WHO ARRIVE
AT THIS.””
Hence the IMAGE OF DEATH and Resurrection, in 'all
Esoteric traditions'.

“IT SHOULD BE OUR PRINCIPAL BUSINESS TO
CONQUER OURSELVES, and, from day to day, to go
on increasing in strength and PERFECTION.
Above all, however, it is necessary for us to strive TO
CONQUER OUR LITTLE TEMPTATIONS, such as fits
of anger, suspicions, jealousies, envy, deceitfulness,
vanity, attachments, and evil thoughts.
For in this way we shall acquire strength to subdue
greater ones.”

St. Vincent de Paul:
“He who allows himself to be ruled or guided by the
lower and animal part of his nature, DESERVES TO
BE CALLED A BEAST RATHER THAN A MAN.”
“Philip, Count of Nemours, after leading a very bad
life, experienced on his deathbed wonderful
contrition, so that he begged his confessor to have his
body carried to the public square and left there,
saying, “I have lived like a dog, and like a dog I ought
to die.”

St. Vincent de Paul:
“Mortification of the appetite is the A, B, C of spiritual
life.
Whoever cannot control himself in this, will hardly be
able to conquer temptations more difficult to subdue.”
This Saint had, by long habit, so mortified his sense of
taste that he never gave a sign of being pleased with
anything, but took INDIFFERENTLY ALL THAT
WAS GIVEN HIM.”
AND THIS IS WHERE THE ERROR I QUOTED 'ABOVE
LIES';
- That is to say that you replace a pleasure by a pleasure;

the pleasure of dissatisfaction 'IS ALSO A PLEASURE'; that is
to say that 'the dopaminic mechanism' is identical.
And many religious people, also among those 'considered
saints' have fallen 'into this trap of the mind'.
The aim is to break the mind, replacing one pleasure by
another DOES NOT SOLVE ANYTHING.
You see tons of examples in christian literature, having made
this mistake, of Replacing one 'pleasure by another'. Here
are some examples:
“The Empress Leonora was remarkable for this virtue. Her
usual dinner was of herbs, pulse, and other food of the
poor, always the same both in kind and quantity.

St. Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal, fasted on bread and
water about half the year.
The blessed Jacopone, having one day a desire for meat,
bought a piece. He hung it up in his room and kept it until
it was spoiled; then he had it cooked and ate it with
unspeakable disgust.
St. Isidore suffered [...] so excessively that he could not go
to the table without tears, and the command of his
Superior was needed to force him to take some
nourishment.

St. Catherine of Genoa practiced this. She loved to submit
her preference to that of others, in all things.”
ALL THIS IS USELESS, ON THE CONTRARY you promote
the opposite; REINFORCING THE EGO.
Personally, to tell you what to do; I DON'T PAY
ATTENTION 'TO WHAT I EAT';
With time you will see 'that you do not pay attention to
what you eat' and all those little everyday acts.
But to go the other way and mortify this body in disgust,
is the opposite of what you should do;
The point of esotericism is to stop paying attention to
"THE DETAILS."

If you hate what you eat, you are still paying attention to
the details; you have just “changed the polarity”;
That is, you have gone from the positive of flavors to the
negative of flavors; but it is still pleasure. That is, YOU
ARE TAKING 'PLEASURE IN THIS —NEGATION OF
LIFE—'.

“St. Vincent de Paul practiced continual mortification
of the senses, depriving them even of lawful
gratifications, and often inflicting on them voluntary
sufferings. When he was traveling, instead of allowing his
eyes to wander over the country, HE USUALLY KEPT
THEM ON HIS CRUCIFIX.”
'THESE SIMPLETONS' have not understood 'what to do'.
“Sister Joanna Maria of the Trinity, a Discalced
Carmelite, had this excellent custom of seeking and
finding mortification in everything. And so she always
selected what was most insipid in food; poorest in
clothing and shelter; most laborious in work; most
unpleasant in matters of inclination. In a word, SHE

ALWAYS CHOSE what was most inconvenient and
disagreeable for herself, seeking in all things only the
pleasure, honor, and glory of God.”
IF YOU ARE STILL CHOOSING, then you have not
gotten rid of the ego.
Choosing 'what you don't like is still Choosing'.
It's a pity that the author of this book did not
understand this precept. Because this book by the collection
of saints is very important in the WHOLE REPRESENTED.

That's why I say 'these esoteric teachings are too complex for
the westerner', who doesn't have the 'adapted' mentality as
in the east.
THERE IS A FATALITY that you don't find in the westerner,
and yet 'this is the Axis to dance on'.

This christian Positivism has just destroyed the West,
which could not overcome 'THIS DUALISM'.

“The ignorance of some is greatly to be pitied, who
load themselves with unwise penances and other
unsuitable exercises of their devising, putting all their
confidence in them, and expecting to become saints by
their means. If they would put half of this labor
UPON MORTIFYING THEIR APPETITES AND
PASSIONS, they would gain more in a month than by
all their other exercises in many years.”
“WHEN THE KING [THE MIND] IS TAKEN, 'THE
BATTLE IS WON'.”

St. Alphonsus Rodriguez:
“The principal thing upon which we have to turn our
attention, that we may mortify it and eradicate it
from our hearts, is the predominant passion—that is,
the affection, inclination, vice, or bad habit, which
reigns most in us, which makes us its captive, which brings
us into greatest danger, and most frequently causes us to
fall into grave transgressions.
WHEN THE KING IS TAKEN, THE BATTLE IS WON.
And until we do this, we shall make no great advance in
perfection.”

“St. Ignatius once had a novice of a fiery disposition, to
whom he often said: “My son, conquer this
temperament of yours, and you will have in Heaven a
more resplendent crown than many who are gentle by
nature.” One day, the Father in charge accused this young
man to him as intractable. “Not so,” answered the Saint;
“for I believe HE HAS MADE MORE IMPROVEMENT
IN A FEW MONTHS, THAN SUCH A ONE, WHO IS
NATURALLY GENTLE, IN A YEAR.”
St. Francis de Sales confessed that the dominant
passions he had most difficulty in subduing were love
and anger, and that he had conquered the former by
stratagem, the latter by open force; that is, he had
conquered love by diverting his mind, and proposing

to himself another object of love; for he said that as
the human soul cannot exist without some love, the
whole secret lies in giving to it only WHAT IS GOOD,
PURE, AND HOLY.
Anger, on the other hand, he had subdued BY
ATTACKING IT IN FRONT, and never yielding to it
at all. Whence it happened THAT THOUGH HE WAS
NATURALLY PASSIONATE, HE WAS THOUGHT TO
BE OF A GENTLE TEMPER.”
All the people who have awakened (broken the ego) were
'pissed off' by nature. The opposite; being of a calm
temperament 'closes the doors to Awakening'.

That is why this esoteric tradition is not exportable to
the masses, because there are TOO MANY SHEEP IN THE
MASSES.

Matthew 11:12
“THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN SUFFERS VIOLENCE,
AND THE VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE.”

“Do not weary thyself in vain; for thou wilt never succeed
in possessing true spiritual sweetness and satisfaction,
unless THOU FIRST DENY ALL THY DESIRES.”
St. Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi:
“THE LIFE OF OUR FLESH IS THE DELIGHT OF
SENSUALITY; its death is to take from it all sensible
delight. The life of our judgment and our will is to dispose
of ourselves and what is ours, according to our own views
and wishes; their death, then, is to submit ourselves in all
things to the judgment AND WILL OF OTHERS.”

1. THE LIFE OF OUR FLESH IS THE DELIGHT OF
SENSUALITY.
YES. —THIS IS CORRECT—.
2. SUBMIT OURSELVES TO THE WILL OF OTHERS.
NO. “THIS IS FALSE”.
I DESCRIBED the process above; pleasure is always
pleasure; the goal IS TO STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO
EVERYDAY DETAILS.

Religious people, and many of “those who have been
considered saints” are obviously not. They are not because
they have not understood this mechanism of pleasure or
DO NOT HAVE THE WILL TO GET RID OF IT.
DISSATISFACTION IS ALSO A SATISFACTION, it is
always a pleasure linked to the senses.
The goal is to stop PAYING ATTENTION TO THE
DETAILS OF LIFE; this is the goal; the enlightenment;
“St. Catherine of Genoa said: “I AM NO MORE MY
OWN”.
That's where WE NEED TO ARRIVE.

“St. Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi invented a great and secret
mortification, which she afterwards practiced for the rest
of her life. When she noticed that her Superiors, through
regard for her health, tried to give her such food as she
liked best, she showed a preference for what was
disagreeable and unpleasant to her taste, and made it
appear that those things which she really desired were
objects of aversion, and would make her ill. And so it
happened that what she disliked was often given her, and
what would have suited her taste was forbidden. In reward
for this, she enjoyed imperturbable peace of soul and the
constant presence of God.”
WISHFUL THINKING.
ALL THIS IS MENTAL MASTURBATION!

THE GOAL IS THAT THERE IS NO MORE MENTAL
MASTURBATION ANYMORE!
NEGATIVE MENTAL masturbation whereas before it was
A POSITIVE ONE. But it is still a MENTAL
MASTURBATION.
DELUSION AND DECADENCE 'OF THE RELIGIOUS'.

St. Fulgentius:
“Would you know who are true monks?
Those who by mortification have brought THEIR
WILL UNDER SUCH CONTROL that they no longer
have any wish except to obey the precepts and counsels of
their Superior.”
“EVERY SISTER, ON ENTERING RELIGION,
SHOULD LEAVE HER OWN WILL outside the gate.”
“ST. DOSITHEUS SAID OF HIMSELF THAT FROM
HIS FIRST ENTRANCE INTO RELIGION HE
COMPLETELY GAVE UP HIS OWN WILL.

And he added that in this way he had attained such peace
of heart and tranquillity of mind that nothing
COULD EVER DISTURB HIM.”

“TO ARRIVE AT PERFECT UNION, THERE IS
NEEDED A TOTAL AND PERFECT
MORTIFICATION OF THE SENSES AND DESIRES.”
From Elizabeth of the Trinity by Sr. Giovanna della Croce:
“Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross told her that there
ARE NO “WIDE AND EASY STREETS TO BE
TRAVELED, BUT ONLY THORNY PATHS” that,
winding “THROUGH BRAMBLES,” bring one to union
with God.”
—THERE ARE NO EASY WAYS— to Reach
'Enlightenment'.

From In Conversation with God: Meditations for Each Day of
the Year, Vol. 2: Lent, Holy Week, Eastertide by Francis
Fernandez:
“Detachment from material goods, mortification and
abstinence purify us from our sins and help us to find God
in our everyday life.”
Nope!
It's still concentration. Concentration on one point;
- 'on the material needs'.

THERE IS THIS FAMOUS SAYING:
“What you resist, PERSISTS.”
And that's exactly what it's all about; if you always focus
on one thing, then that same thing will come up.
The goal IS TO STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO IT.

From Little steps to great holiness by Charles Hugo Doyle:
““MORTIFY YOUR PASSIONS,” says 'Cassian, “AND
YOU WILL LIVE IN PEACE WITH YOUR
BRETHREN.””
You will not begin “to change the world until you have
changed yourselves”; that is awakening. All this
masturbation about changing the world, will only succeed
TO DESTROY THIS HUMAN SPECIES.
From collectivism now to Ecologism; these religious
people ARE THE WORST, because they are not changed
but are always the 'same delusional baboons'.

““Of all hostile feelings,” Whately says, “envy is
perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly
anyone owns IT EVEN TO HIMSELF, BUT LOOKS
OUT FOR ONE PRETEXT after another to justify HIS
HOSTILITY.””
This is the —Story of the Religious—.

“The renowned spiritual work entitled Spiritual Combat
carries THIS POINTED PARAGRAPH:
“Some people, considering the spiritual life solely
from the exterior side, make it consist in corporal
penances such as hair-shirts, disciplines, fastings, vigils,
and other like acts of mortification. Others, more especially
women, think they have reached the summit of perfection
when they have recited many vocal prayers, heard Mass
frequently, said the divine office, received Holy
Communion often, and passed long hours in the church.
Even among those who have given themselves wholly to
the service of God in the cloister, we find some who place
all their perfection in performing all their choir exercises,

loving seclusion and silence, and perfectly observing the
exterior rules of their convent.
Thus these Christians all place perfection in one or another
exercise of devotion and, by so doing, THEY DECEIVE
THEMSELVES—ONE AND ALL.
FOR ALL EXTERIOR WORKS are simply helps to
holiness or its fruits; they cannot possibly, in
themselves, constitute CHRISTIAN PERFECTION nor
THE TRUE SPIRITUAL LIFE.””

From Overcoming Sinful Thoughts: How to Realign Your
Thinking and Defeat Harmful Ideas by Fr. Thomas G. Morrow:
“Hence, we call this nakedness [this mortification of
appetites] a night for the soul, for we are not
discussing the mere lack of things; this lack will not
divest the soul if it craves for all these objects. We are
dealing with the [emptying] of the soul’s APPETITES
AND GRATIFICATIONS.
This is what leaves it free and empty of all things, even
though it possesses them.
Since the things of the world cannot enter the soul,
they are not in themselves an encumbrance or harm

to it; rather, it is THE WILL AND APPETITE
dwelling within that causes the damage when set on
these things.”

“Fasting and doing penance are primarily about
denying the Will, not just the body. [...] St. Catherine of
Siena, “He who desires for My sake to mortify his body
with many penances, And not his own Will, did not give
Me much pleasure.”
And, of course, fasting or doing penance must always be
done with prudence. Fasting to the point of ruining your
health is not pleasing to God, as St. Bernard learned the
hard way.”
WHAT AMUSES ME about religious people is the KIND
OF NARCISSISTIC pervert games “that end up
destroying THEIR HEALTH”.

“Many spiritual writers have stressed THE
IMPORTANCE OF SUFFERING AS PART OF THE
CHRISTIAN LIFE.”
This is ABSOLUTELY NOT UNDERSTOOD 'BY
CHRISTIANS'. And Although “this theme of crucifixion” is
the “christian theme”; they don't get it at all. Nor understand
its benefits.
Fools.

“Jesus told Rose of Lima that, “without the cross
[souls] can find no road to climb to heaven.”
St. John of the Cross asked for three things:
first, that he might suffer something each day;
second, that he might not die as a superior in his
Carmelite Order;
and third, that he might end his life in humiliation,
disgrace, and contempt.”
For a 'NON-MYSTIC', —it's IMPOSSIBLE TO
UNDERSTAND—.

From T.S. Eliot Volume 2 (Critical Heritage) by Michael Grant:
“But from a spiritual viewpoint such a darkness and such a
realization of the emptiness of material achievement
awaken in Eliot above all thoughts of ‘The Dark Night of
the Soul,’ THAT PASSIVE NIGHT, that intense
purification with which God, according to St. John of
the Cross, visits the soul.
To such as desire purification St. John of the Cross says:
“Advice must be given to learn to abide attentively
and TO PAY NO HEED EITHER TO IMAGINATION
or its workings; for here, as we may say, the faculties
are at rest, and are working not actively BUT
PASSIVELY BY RECEIVING.”

And in this spirit Eliot tells us.
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without
love
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet
faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the
waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the
dancing.”

To recover purity of vision, [...] We must learn from
“the agony Of death and birth”
– that is to say ‘rebirth’.

The way to this, according to Eliot, is St. John of the Cross’
‘Dark Night of the Soul’ as we have it explained in the
concluding lines of Section III:
“In order to arrive there,
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are
not,
You must go by a way wherein THERE IS NO
ECSTASY.
In order to arrive at WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW
You must GO BY A WAY WHICH IS THE WAY OF
IGNORANCE.””
That's why I say 'OFTEN' THAT AWAKENING IS A

'DRY STATE'. DON'T LOOK 'FOR PLEASURES' IN IT
BECAUSE THERE ARE NONE.

“And it is clear that Eliot wants the source of these lines to
be readily recognizable in order that his reference may
enjoy the advantage of all the accumulated commentary
and explanation linked to St. John of the Cross’ mystical
philosophy. We can see this from the closeness with which
he makes them echo a translation of the saint’s own words:
“– In order to arrive at having pleasure in everything,
Desire to have pleasure in nothing…
– In order to arrive at a knowledge of everything,
Desire to know nothing.
– In order to arrive at that wherein thou hast no
pleasure,
Thou must go by a way wherein THOU HAST NO
PLEASURE.

– In order to arrive at that which thou knowest not,
Thou must go by a way that THOU KNOWEST NOT.
– In order to arrive at that which thou possessest not,
Thou must go by a way that THOU POSSESSEST
NOT.”
This is clearly not defeatism or apathy.”
NOPE IT IS NOT DEFETISM, IT'S THE OPPOSITE, and it
has not been understood 'by the Westerners', this active
character of passivity; esotericism.
Whereas exotericism is the opposite, that is to say; a
passive character of activity.

That's why Westerners are so active and yet they don't
succeed in building anything.
And that since the fall of Rome and the end of esotericism in
Europe nothing is built 'that lasts OR WILL LAST'.

It is the relationship of master to slave that is not
understood, and the reason for this Permanent desire in the
Westerner TO STOP BEING A SLAVE ('EGALITARIANISM').
WHILE THE SLAVE IS PRECISELY “THE ONE WHO
HAS THE POWER IN THE MASTER/SLAVE
RELATIONSHIP.”
Fools!
“This is clearly not defeatism or apathy. NOR IS IT A
PHILOSOPHY OF ESCAPE such as so many critics are
constantly seeing in Eliot’s writings.
But ‘to sit still’ in the sense advocated by St. John as a
necessary step to spiritual purgation.

For Eliot feels with St. John of the Cross, that we
must undergo not only the mortification of the flesh
by The Ascent of Mount Carmel but also THE TRIAL
OF THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, before we can
hope FOR THAT PERFECT UNION [...] AND FOR
THE DIVINIZATION OF ALL OUR FACULTIES
described by St. John of the Cross in ‘The Spiritual
Canticle’ and ‘The Living Flame of Love.’
Then in summing up his conclusions from the advocated
approach of St. John of the Cross, Eliot returns in the last
three lines of Section III to Heraclitus, ‘The Dark’ – THE
UNITY OF OPPOSITION, THE HARMONY OF
STRIFE:

“And what you do not know IS THE ONLY THING
YOU KNOW
And what you own is WHAT YOU DO NOT OWN
And where you are is WHERE YOU ARE NOT.”
For among the Heraclitean fragments we read
“THE UNLIKE IS JOINED TOGETHER, AND FROM
DIFFERENCES RESULTS MOST BEAUTIFUL
HARMONY, AND ALL THINGS TAKE PLACE BY
STRIFE. (XLVI)””

From The Context of Holiness: Psychological and Spiritual
Reflections on the Life of Saint Therese of Lisieux by Marc
Foley:
“This was Thérèse’s situation every day and it is also our
own. We too live and work with people whom we don’t like
and who bore us to tears. But this situation is not an
obstacle on the spiritual path because God does not ask us
to like people but to love them. And in some mysterious
way, the people we find most difficult to relate to are those
whom God has brought into our lives for our
sanctification.
St. John of the Cross writes, "you should understand that
those who are in the monastery are craftsmen placed there
by God to MORTIFY YOU by working and CHISELING
AT YOU… so you become worthy of heaven" (Co. 3).

John is presenting us with both a reality and a choice. The
reality is that some people will grate on our nerves. The
choice is whether we relate to them as irritants or
AGENTS OF TRANSFORMATION.
If we choose to bear this person’s irritating mannerisms,
foibles, and idiosyncrasies WITH LOVE, THEN OVER
TIME, patience will produce a PEARL.
Thérèse made such a choice in the extreme during the last
year of her life when SHE FREELY CHOSE TO WORK
WITH SR. MARIE OF ST. JOSEPH.”
THIS TEACHING OF LOVE from the Esoteric Tradition 'HAS
NOT BEEN UNDERSTOOD at all BY THE CHRISTIAN

BODY.
Who once again externalized this act ('social decorum'),
while it is an ESOTERIC ACT.
All the esotericism has not been understood by the
Christian. It seems that they are totally 'hermetic to
EVERYTHING ESOTERIC'.

Matthew 11:12
“The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, AND THE
VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE.”
You cannot awaken WHILE WAITING, it's contrary to
the procedure; this body/matter is passive by definition;
you are the active element in it (THE WILL).
IT IS THE WILL “THAT MUST PREVAIL”, —THE WILL
OVER THE MATTER—.

From The Twelve Steps to Holiness and Salvation by St.
Alphonsus Liguori:
“We must do violence TO OURSELVES in temptations
BY CONQUERING OURSELVES and mortifying our
senses.
St. Ambrose:
“THE GREATER THIS VIOLENCE THE MORE
PLEASING IT IS TO JESUS CHRIST.
WE MUST RULE OVER OURSELVES [...] IN ORDER
TO WIN HEAVEN.”
According to St. John of the Cross, “We must mortify our
senses and desires.”

St. Jerome had retired into the grotto of Bethlehem, where
he constantly prayed and mortified his body; and yet he
was frightfully tormented by the recollection of those
women whom he had seen long before at Rome. “What is
injurious to us,” says St. Francis de Sales, “is not so
much the casual glance, but rather THE
INTENTIONAL GAZE.””
IT IS THE WILL —THAT MUST BE MASTERED—. We
often talk about the mind, but mental activity is not
autonomous, the 'will' is.
If you can master your will, then the mental activity is
only WHAT FOLLOWS. The brain is really ONLY A
REACTOR, it is not AN AUTONOMOUS ORGAN.

“Cassian adds that if we mortify OUR SELF-WILL, WE
CAN EASILY ROOT out all vices, because THE
LATTER SPRING FROM THE FORMER.”
THOUGHTS DEPENDS FROM 'YOUR STATE OF MIND'.
If you are excited, then the flow of 'thoughts that will excite
YOU WILL NOT STOP'.
It's as Simple as that.
St. Bernard:
“Yes, we are cruel, if you will, towards our bodies when we
afflict them WITH PENANCE; BUT YOU ARE FAR
MORE CRUEL TOWARDS YOURSELVES when you
gratify YOUR SENSUAL CRAVINGS.”

“St. Aloysius Gonzaga had very poor health. Nevertheless,
he was so intent on crucifying his body that he sought
for nothing BUT MORTIFICATION AND WORKS OF
PENANCE.
One day someone said to him that sanctity did not consist
in these things, but in the renunciation OF SELF-WILL.
He meekly replied in the words of the Gospel:
“These things you ought to have done, and not to
leave those undone.” (Matt. 23:23).
On this account the Apostle said: “I chastise my body
AND BRING IT INTO SUBJECTION.” (1 Cor. 9:27)

If the body IS NOT MORTIFIED, it is very difficult to
make it obedient to the law of God.
WE OURSELVES OUR WORST ENEMY.
BUT BY MORTIFICATION WE MAY ATTAIN GREAT
GLORY IN HEAVEN.
“If contestants,” says St. Paul, “abstain from everything
that might WEAKEN THE BODY and prevent them
from winning a perishable crown, with what greater
zeal ought not we to mortify ourselves in order to
obtain a priceless AND ETERNAL CROWN!””

The goal —IS TO STABILIZE THIS BIOLOGY—.
Esotericism is for that; 'all these texts were left for that',
because we have the ability to “evolve” (evolution) this
biology.
Once the change ('awakening') has occurred “you don't go
back” to your previous state because the body —that you are
has changed—.

“St. John saw the blessed in Heaven with palm
branches in their hands.
From this it is evident that to be numbered among
the elect WE MUST ALL BE MARTYRS.”
—AND THIS HAS ABSOLUTELY NOT BEEN—
'UNDERSTOOD' by Christians. Who do not understand 'THE
UTILITY OF THE ACT OF MORTIFICATION'.
This makes me say again and again that Christianism is
not soluble in the West.
Besides, this religion is deserted in the West; Empty
churches, no more new Priests, et cetera.

This religion is a failure for the Western mind; it never
really took, and we would have done better to stay in the
GREEK PANTHEISM, which 'was soluble and the
Western mind'.

“St. Peter says that the blessed are the living stones
with which the heavenly Jerusalem is built.”
Except that these living stones are rare and you don't
build a society/civilization ON SCARCITY.
Unless you have a caste society WITH 'THE BEST ON
TOP', which is not the case with democracy.
It's the failure of the West in these two fields; christianism
and democracy not SOLLUBLE IN THE WEST.

“Many Christians perform acts of devotion, go frequently
to Holy Communion, fast and spend much time at prayer,
but they neglect to mortify their passions, and harbor
feelings of revenge and aversion, and entertain dangerous
attachments.
THEY MAKE NO EFFORT TO BEAR WITH
CONTRADICTIONS, TO GIVE UP CERTAIN
ASSOCIATIONS and to be subject to obedience and
the Will of God.
What progress can such hope to make on the way to
perfection?”
None. These teachings 'ARE NOT FOR THEM' ('NOT
FOR THE MASSES').

“They always HAVE THE SAME FAULTS, and
according to St. Augustine THEY ARE OUTSIDE THE
RIGHT WAY.
“They run well,” says the Saint, “BUT OUTSIDE THE
PATH.””
That is why the West has only been able TO TRAIN A
MIDDLE CLASS AS RULERS for the last 1800 years.
And that there is no more training of Elites 'since that
time'.

“St. Joseph Calasanctius used to say: “The day spent
without mortification is a day lost.”
In order to teach us the value and necessity of
mortification, our Blessed Lord chose to live a mortified
life, a life without sensible consolation, a life of
sorrow and shame.”
One wonders why these teachings have been repeated for
the past 1800 years when THEY ARE NOT SOLUBLE 'IN
THIS WESTERN POPULATION'.

“If you, Christian soul, desire to become holy and enjoy
uninterrupted peace, strive as often as you can to
MORTIFY YOUR WILL.
DO NOTHING FOR YOUR OWN SATISFACTION.
Worldly-minded people are intent upon following their
own will as much as they possibly can; it is the constant
aim of the Saints TO MORTIFY THEIR WILL, and they
seek opportunities for doing so.
St. Andrew Avellino made a vow always to oppose his own
will. Make it a practice at least every day to perform a few
acts of SELF-DENIAL.”

From What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey:
“The renowned mystic St. John of the Cross advised
believers to MORTIFY ALL JOY AND HOPE.”
Lol. It amuses me because I'M ALWAYS RIDICULING
RELIGIOUS PEOPLE “AND THEIR STUPID HOPE”.

Benjamin Franklin:
“There is perhaps no one of natural passions so hard to
subdue as pride. Disguise it. Struggle with it. Stifle it.
Mortify it as much as one pleases. It is still alive, and will
every now and then peep out and show itself.... Even if I
could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should
probably be proud of my humility.””
You have TO 'BREAK THAT EGO'.

From Saint Teresa of Avila by William Thomas Walsh:
““The reason for which it is necessary for the soul, in
order TO ATTAIN TO DIVINE UNION WITH GOD, to
pass through THIS DARK NIGHT OF
MORTIFICATION OF THE DESIRES AND DENIAL
OF PLEASURES IN ALL THINGS,” wrote Saint John
of the Cross [...] The reason is that TWO
CONTRARIES [...] CANNOT COEXIST IN ONE
PERSON.”
YOU CANNOT BE PASSIVE AND ACTIVE IN YOUR
LIFE, YOU MUST 'CHOOSE ONE OR THE OTHER'; and
ONLY ONE OF THE TWO PAYS.

““THE MORTIFICATION AND CROSS OF THE
CHRISTIAN IN THIS DOCTRINE IS PLAINLY FELT
WHEN THE FLESH IS DEAD, SICK, AND
EXHAUSTED ... AND IS EXPERIENCED BY THE
PERFECT WHEN THE EYES NO LONGER SEE, NOR
DOES THE HEARING HEAR, NOR DOES THE SENSE
OF TASTE DISTINGUISH ANY FLAVOR IN WHAT IS
EATEN.””

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: or Manresa by St.
Ignatius Of Loyola:
““HIS CONTINUAL MORTIFICATIONS—HE
RENOUNCES, HE CRUCIFIES HIMSELF IN ALL
THINGS; HIS LIFE IS A COURSE OF FATIGUES, OF
FASTS, OF WATCHINGS: “THE WHOLE LIFE OF
CHRIST WAS BUT ONE CROSS AND ONE
CONTINUAL MARTYRDOM”” (Imitation of Christ,
1.2–12).

From Free Grace Broadcaster Issue 201 - Mortification by
Various:
Romans 8:13:
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but IF YE
THROUGH THE SPIRIT do mortify the deeds of the
body, YE SHALL LIVE.”
GOSH IT MAKES —NO SENSE TO REPEAT— these
esoteric teachings to christians, which WILL 'NEVER BE
UNDERSTOOD'.

“MORTIFICATION OF SIN IS PECULIARLY FROM
THE DEATH OF CHRIST.”
You can't have a CLEAR MIND FREE of this stupid
mental process of identification (memories 'that bind to
each other') —WITHOUT DYING—.
Which means that this biology that you are now (operating
with this process) must die 'to be replaced BY A MORE
FUNCTIONAL ONE'.
There is nothing more complex, IT IS AS SIMPLE AS
THAT.
And this process of destruction will not happen until you

decide it will.
And like Alice going through the looking glass, this act
will change you, because this biology; YOU WILL HAVE
CHANGED.
I CAN'T BE ANY CLEARER THAN THAT.
You have to “take control over your will; and stop like any
good religious person waiting and letting YOURSELF
DRIFT.”
NO ONE IS GOING TO SAVE —YOU BUT YOU—.

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