Pope Francis the First has been called the
people's pope, someone who is your friend,
someone you can trust. But there are certain
things about Pope Francis' coming on the scene
that are being ignored by the media and most
people. In his speech to the U.S. Congress
on September 24th, 2015, Pope Francis praised
four Americans he admired.1 One in particular
stood out from the perspective of the spiritual
future of the world'the Catholic monk, Thomas
Merton. If you have been reading Lighthouse
Trails literature for any length of time, you
will know this reference by the pope is quite
sobering and very significant.
Who is
Thomas Merton? (1915-1968). Leading light in
the 'Contemplative Prayer Movement. Merton took
it out of its monastic setting and made it
available to, and popular with, the masses
influencing Christian mystical movement more
than any person of recent decades.
This
panentheistic (i.e., God in everyone) view is
similar to the occultic definition of the
higher self. Merton loved and shared a deep
spiritual kinship with the Sufis, the spiritual
teachers and mystics of Islam.
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