[Pryr-1.2-45] Hence by doing all the above, we learn the Reason, why many People not only lose the Benefit, but are even worse for all their Mortifications and it is because they mistake the whole of Nature as their self-worth.
They practice these things for their own Sakes. They become poseurs, and love the creation but not the Creator. They see good in others but not where it comes, and finally they think that goodness exists apart from Him instead of Him and slowly they fall into the pitfalls of Self-esteem, self-pride, and Self-admiration, justifying their actions instead of humbly offering them up for service.
Slowly but all too surely, they become judgmental, and haughty as they find that they are Self-sufficient needing no one, nothing, but their own reflection to give them validation…and so despite all their Mortifications they fall short of the true effort and fail.
It is a sorry trap.
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[Pryr-1.2-46] And so their Self-denials do only that for them, what Indulgences do for other People, and help them withstand and ultimately hinder the Operation of God upon their Souls, instead of truly embracing the ideal of Self-denials, and so strengthen and keep the Kingdom of Self
[Pryr-1.2-46] And so their Self-denials do only that for them, what Indulgences do for other People, and help them withstand and ultimately hinder the Operation of God upon their Souls, instead of truly embracing the ideal of Self-denials, and so strengthen and keep the Kingdom of Self
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