Many times you hear you have to return to inner life. But, what is actually inner life?
Also you are told evil in man consists in a continuous outward switch; and if you looked for within, you would find solution to all your problems.
The divine plan on earth develops through the works of men.
Material, intellectual and spiritual works of men become the Mystical Body of the Great Work through which the Divine Plan is fulfilled on earth.
Renunciation –understood as unique salvation of the world, taken with Holy Vows, and daily lived through acts and rhythm of Community– inevitably leads to a mystique and to certain way of expansive inner life.
It is indispensable for man to recognize himself deeply and intimately in order to realize the Spirit’s life in his own soul.
A Bishop called Silesius says, “Your soul shall go astray although Christ is born one thousand times in Bethlehem but not in you.
Inner life must be centered on God, not on attributes of God, which move away from the primordial end.
A specialized progress of rational faculties in certain way has moved man away from the fundamental Idea of God.
Contemplation is the definitive step of the soul from Asceticism to Mysticism.
It is called Secret Science of God and Divine Gift because at this point of spiritual development, the soul is directly enlightened by the Masters; that is why some believe and state that it is a gift, a grace of certain privileged souls, but not of all, and even the most advanced souls cannot intend to reach it.
An ordinary man tries to solve his anxieties as soon perceives that distraction and entertainment are forgotten, and perhaps he does not notice that these means move away just temporarily from the mental surface the hammering of his troubles, while in his own soul, the latter remain unsolved.