Spiritual Practices and Contemplative Methods

and works, according to what the Sacred Scriptures teach. 2. Active social life in a charitable sense. 3. Intellectual life absorbed in continuous rotation in the comparative reading of the Gospels, the Epistles, the Acts of the Apostles, the Apocalypse, the Bible, the Quran, the Bhagavad-Gita, the Corpus Hermeticum, the Zohar, the Zend-Avesta. 4. Sacramental life. Therefore we must go to Mass, receive Communion. 5. Observation and reflection on the Icon or diagram of the Heart. 6. Correct position of the body and orientation, during prayer towards the direction of Jerusalem (East-South-East) starting from Rome aided by the compass. 7. Respiratory discipline or rhythm during prayer. 8. Abstraction or withdrawal of the senses. 9. Attention and concentration in one point: the heart. 10. Invocation of the Name of Jesus Christ and Sofia. 11. Meditation or prolonged concentration on Christ and Sofia. 12. Meditation on the diagram or icon of the internalized heart. 13. Contemplation of the Thaboric Light in the heart. CONTINUOUS PRAYER Like a lamp that sheltered from the wind no longer moves, fix your mind in me, enter me with your thought, and in the future you will dwell in me, or higher up, there is no doubt[...] Remember therefore in every circumstance of me, fight with mind and heart fixed on me, for you will infallibly come to me. MEDITATION ON THE HEART