Moving Away from God → End of the descending path → Spiritual Age -10
What happens in the soul?
This is the last level of the descending spiritual path. The soul has become completely disconnected from the life of grace. The soul no longer perceives God, the soul does not seek Him or desire Him and The soul has lost the sense of His own spiritual condition. Even opposition can disappear: the soul is deeply anesthetized.
How do you live?
Outwardly the person can continue leading the person’s or the person’s ordinary life, but internally there is a deep emptiness marked by superficiality and insensitivity. It can manifest itself as cold death—total indifference—, proud death—absolute self-sufficiency—or comfortable death—morally dissolved life without consciousness of guilt.
The prayer
There is total abandonment of prayer. The soul no longer seeks God because it has stopped even feeling the need to seek Him.
The great danger
The deepest danger is not recognizing one’s own situation. The soul has lost the sense of its spiritual condition and may not experience any need for conversion. A loss of meaning in life may also appear.
Signs that may accompany this age
• Disconnection from the life of grace
• Loss of perception of God
• Absence of the desire to search for it
• Loss of sense of one’s own spiritual condition
• Deep spiritual anesthesia
• Absence of true remorse
• Total abandonment of prayer
• Interior void
• Superficiality and insensitivity
• Extreme relativization of morality
• Self-sufficiency or spiritual indifference
• Possible loss of meaning in life
A phrase to remember
“The soul no longer perceives God, the soul does not seek Him, The soul does not desire Him.”
Where does it lead
This is the outcome of the Descending Path. However, mercy has the last word.