The 7 Necessary Ages of Catholic Church's Illuminative Way

[spauline]

I am saying this: there are inevitably seven stages that would have to occur in any history of a world that includes the Incarnation and Passion because of the fallen nature in the age of the Catholic Church’s illumination of doctrine. IOW, I’m saying these ages HAD to occur in the history of the Church, that is, that they were UNavoidable given the fallen nature that is always dragging humanity into a Fall after a great age of God’s Redemption.

These seven ages are predestined and ordered according to the five sources of Divine Truth that would always be in any history, regardless of other factors.

These five sources that would always occur in any Divine Plan of a world that is redeemed:

The Trinity and Incarnation
Peter
The General Bishops and Oral Tradition
The Scriptures
Reason

The fallen nature, of its intrinsic essence, MUST follow this structure from top to bottom.

The first two ages shall assault the first source, the Trinity and Incarnation. The first age shall comprise partial attacks on this mysterious source, but not go so far as to dethrone Christ of His Messiahship.

The second age shall utterly rip away the Trinity and Incarnation, and depose Christ as Messiah, so as to set up an extra-Christological Revelation. Note, this makes the attack supreme, for since Christ is necessarily the Final Word to humanity, an attempt to superimpose a revelation beyond Him is even worse than the Arians, who, while totally denying the Trinity and Incarnation, nevertheless do not dethrone Christ as Messiah, nor do they suggest that there is Revelation that surpasses Him. Of course, this second necessary stage is Islam.

The third stage will be the moral fall of Peter, hence leading to the rejection of his special, infallible mediatory authority, that is, schism.

The fourth stage is the inevitable moral fall of the clergy, that paves the way as the grand excuse for the heretical rebellion that succeeds this stage.

The fifth stage is then this heretical rebellion, that is, the rejection of the Fathers and their Tradition, clinging only to Scripture. This stage inherantly brings chaos and division, for without the Tradition, the Scripture cannot be fully understood.

This massive division then paves the way as the major excuse for the sixth inevitable stage, the great supernatural death, the stage that is infidelity. That is, the scandal of the chaos of Christian division and bloodshed forms the primary excuse to dismiss not only the Scriptures, but any sense of supernatural religion, that is, the denial of Divine Revelation and Assistance, hence sowing the seeds of the deist, the one who denies Divine Intervention, and the rationalist, the one who denies Divine Revelation. But reason shall still be clung too, hence, this stage retains a natural religiosity, that is, the admittance of what can be known from reason: the existence of a Supreme Being and the necessity of living according to the law inscribed in the Creation, even if only on one’s own power, apart from Divine Assistance.

We should comment a secondary stage within this sixth primary one: if the first component is worldly heresies, or natural religion, the succeeding substage is pure worldliness, that is, man diverts his intellect away from even religion and towards the creation, so that science and worldly progress accelerate astronomically, paving the way for the ultimate antichrist deception, total apostasy.

The final phase is then this utter darkness, apostasy, where humanity, reveling in its materialistic wonders, turns from God utterly and places his faith purely in this world.

These, then, are, in my opinion, the seven inevitable subfalls of the Gentiles that must transpire given the initial conversion of the world to the Gospel (e.g., Constantine).

That is, in any salvation history God would create, that included the Incarnation, this is how it would HAVE to go, given the fallen nature.

 

[spauline]

let me elaborate on the mystical meaning of these ages:

the way of the saint is three stages, the purgative, the illuminative, and the unitive.

The 7 Seals are then the purgative, the 7 trumpets, the illuminative way, and the 7 Bowls, the unitive way [martyrdom].

The symbolism of the trumpets then vindicates this interpretation: the only ones protected from the harm of the trumpets are those with the Seal of God in their foreheads.

The forehead covers the mind, which contemplates truth. In the illuminative way, the saint contemplates divine truth and grows in Divine Knowledge.

The seven trumpets are then symbols of these seven intrinsically necessary stages that bring spiritual harm to all who have not the protecetion of the Church’s infallible teaching, progressing towards total depravity in truth, the mark of the beast. The Seal of God is then simply faithful Catholicism.

I would like to elaborate also on the last three stages which are great woes: the heretical rebellion, the supernatural death of infidelity, and the total apostasy.

We have seen that heretics retain only two sacraments, baptism and marriage, and lose five.

Here I then propose that in the apocalypse, the number 2 can be a symbol of heresy.

Now, in the fifth trumpet, there is a “torture” of five months. The victims wish they could die, but they do not.

In the sixth trumpet, a third of humanity is “killed” by an army of 20,000 times 10,000.

In the seventh trumpet, which includes the false prophet, the FP has two horns like a Lamb, who has seven.

Here is the meaning I conjecture: In Protestantism, the heretics lost five sacraments. This is then the torture they endure in their loss of supernatural life. They just barely hang on to justification with merely baptism and marraige, and the formal heretics terrify them with their hell fire and brimstone preaching against the Catholic Church (especially Calvinists!).

In the Enlightenment, a third of humanity dies a supernatural death, and the army of 20,000 x 10,000 i see as this: factor it as follows, remembering that *10 *has been used as a biblical symbol of the world:

(2 x 10 x 1000) x (10 x 1000)

these are the two subages of the Enlightenment. The first age is the pluralification [1000] of worldly [10] heresies [2]. The second age is then the pluralificaiton [1000] of pure worldliness [2].

Finally, the false prophet’s two horns I have dealt with elsewhere: total apostasy:

The False Prophet, Mortal Sin, and the Heretics’ Two Sacraments

 

[JimR-OCDS]

I take it that this is your own doctrine?

I haven’t seen what you’ve written, as difficult as it is to understand, by any of the Doctors of the Church, nor any of the saints.

Jim

 

[spauline]

I take it that this is your own doctrine?

I haven’t seen what you’ve written, as difficult as it is to understand, by any of the Doctors of the Church, nor any of the saints.

Jim

It’s my personal meditations, yes. Why is it difficult to understand? Surely St. John of the Cross must be even more difficult to understand than my stuff.

BTW, are you saying my ideas are bad, or not good from a Catholic view? Not that i will be angry, i realize these are just my opinions.

I am open to constructive criticism.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

spauline

It’s my personal meditations, yes. Why is it difficult to understand?

Maybe its just my own inability to understand some of what you’ve posted.

Surely St. John of the Cross must be even more difficult to understand than my stuff.

Not even close. I have no problem understanding St. John of the Cross.

BTW, are you saying my ideas are bad, or not good from a Catholic view? Not that i will be angry, i realize these are just my opinions.

Not sure, but they seem far fetched. However, it may be my own lack of understanding.

Jim

 

[FCEGM]

spauline, while I can’t critique your specifics (and find your thesis interesting), have you sought out assistance from an orthodox theologian - particularly one with an expertise in mystical theology - to receive his (name removed by moderator)ut? Submitting your thoughts would be helpful to you, assuring you that you are on the right track (especially by evidencing a willingness to submit in humility to the guidance of the Church).

 

[spauline]

spauline, while I can’t critique your specifics (and find your thesis interesting), have you sought out assistance from an orthodox theologian - particularly one with an expertise in mystical theology - to receive his (name removed by moderator)ut? Submitting your thoughts would be helpful to you, assuring you that you are on the right track (especially by evidencing a willingness to submit in humility to the guidance of the Church).

I would like to do so, but i haven’t found one. I conjecture most priests, even orthodox ones, would NOT give approval, precisely because most priests, even orthodox ones, are “apocalyptically challenged.”



i gave a similar essay to my home priest, and he told me he read it, but didn’t offer to look into it with me. Perhaps I need to press him, for he is orthodox.