Spiritual Laws - Understanding Them

Lehman Brothers and AIG may get multibillion dollar bailouts and General Motors gets the protection afforded by the Bankruptcy Laws but, none of us will be so lucky if we are caught with our "spiritual account" almost on empty. There is no human that is "too big to fail".

Should you doubt us, we remind you again of World War II: The bloodiest nightmare humanity has endured since the beginning of recorded history was allowed by God. The world - institutional and individual - "spiritual accounts" were grossly overdrawn and the "deposits" requested by Heaven were blatantly ignored (2) by those who were supposed to make them.

Who does not remember (and conveniently ignore) what we read in Luke 6:31: And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them in like manner?

Just like a coin, such lofty command has two sides. One side - If you do good to others and persevere doing it, good will be showered upon you.

The reverse, the results of which we immediately blame God for, is: If you do evil unto others, evil will be showered upon you... while God looks on. He is not uninterested; He is unable to assist you because of your violation of the law and your persistent unrepentant/defiant stance... unless, of course, you have a positive balance in your "Mercy account" (which evil doers seldom have, unless others have made the appropriate "deposits" in the evil doer’s account).

Well, the real bad news is that "God wasn't born yesterday". Actually, He was never born (except in the person of Jesus) since He Is the Uncreated Creator. One has to be really stupid to try to "pull a fast one" on the Uncreated Creator but that is how stupid man is.

First of all - God really sees what is in one's heart, and it is quite impressive to witness that. We will use several of the experiences of m de P's (3) journey to illustrate that.

Case 1: At the beginning of his journey - since miguel was truly sincere in responding to the call of God - God used His "multimedia techniques" to show m de P how truly miserable he was, thus assisting him to improve himself.

For example: m de P was going to do this or that, justifying to himself that whatever he was going to do was a selfless act and for the benefit of a third party. God's multimedia technique would kick in and miguel would see in his mind - as being projected on two parallel screens - an action video showing what he was wanting to believe he was doing right next to an action video showing what the intention really was. Quite effective, we must say. You'd be amazed how quickly one learns not to try to pull a fast one on God - even unintentionally.

We do not know if He will offer the same supernatural assistance if one is misled or confused about doing what is right.

Case 2: An individual who is familiar with m de P and some of the faculties God has granted him will present to m de P a situation hoping to get some confirming feedback.

The problem will arise when the situation presented is a falsification of the reality since the feedback will be based strictly on the situation presented even in the rare situation where m de P may know that it was false. In this case the feedback will be given with the conditional of "Assuming that this is indeed the correct situation...".

Case 3: An individual seeks intercession to resolve a problem. God grants the Grace which... unfortunately is misused or abused by the recipient.

In Cases 2 and 3 (above), the consequences for the recipient of the sought benefit are quite bad.

Case 4: An individual seeks a special Blessing for a chapel, home, office, car, etc. At a later time the individual betrays the one who brought the Blessing upon the chapel, home, office, car, etc. Such Blessings are somehow changed into a curse by the action of the betraying individual. This takes place without the knowledge or intervention of the individual who brought the Blessing upon the items in question.

We do not know the mechanism of the change from Blessing to curse, but it brings to mind the following mechanisms: (a) the "consuming one's own condemnation" when partaking of the Eucharist knowing that one's spiritual state or mindset is not the appropriate one; (b) the sin against the Holy Spirit which is unforgivable because the only One Who can forgive the sin - God - is being rejected.