{Tested Again [continued (11)]}[29th March 1990]

[Redbook7:111-112][19900329:1440b]{Tested Again [continued (11)]}[29th March 1990]

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The story of my life at the level of the Spirit is a confessional* story, encompassing some of the most profound and difficult truths of Man’s struggle to to understand God and himself. I could** begin to summarise it to a saintly*** Archbishop who started me off by saying: ‘Tell me about your spiritual pilgrimage (/journey)’**** – over the space of an hour and a quarter. I couldn’t even think about talking in those terms to a committee of ten virtual strangers of quite diverse state of mind and degree, of whom three at least had come across as hostile before they even opened their mouths.

Jesus himself, with all his qualities, opened the profounder mysteries (eg the meaning of the Harvest Parables)# only to those who had already shown#* by their actions that they were receptive – the Disciples; to the generally interested, he generally spoke more generally, and often in parables without specific explanation; to the hostile, he was sometimes himself hostile#** (eg the Pharisees). Other spiritual teachers have done the same. How should it be different for a poor, inexperienced candidate for Ordination?

That is why these things are called Mysteries.

*[ref [Redbook7:44-53][19900214:1100d]{Form MC/PS/90/1: Be My Valentine}[14th February 1990] at p50, where the final reason given by the writer for declining to set out the spiritual map of his own life on paper was ‘The account would be confessional in nature, and it is unethical to require that it be recorded’.]

**ie was able to <900401>

***{(but practical)}

****[– Presumably at the meeting referred to in [Redbook6:324-325][19891016:1169c]{English Bishops, Registry Office Weddings}[16th October 1989]]

#(& his own inner nature)

#*(ie the Transfiguration) <900401>

#**{cf [[Redbook7:54][19900214:2213]{Yahweh Reflector}[14th February 1990]] 54 ‘Yahweh Reflector’}

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