Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him. {CSA 26.3} The condition of that friendship is turning in repentance to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. All our requests are to the Father through the name of the Son

John 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do [it].
14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

 

“Ignatius was convinced that God can speak to us as surely through our imagination as through our thoughts and memories. In the Ignatian tradition, praying with the imagination is called contemplation.” This is a way of entering into the occult practices of the Jesuits. The Jesuits brought the worship of the dead Mary into their practices.

“Ignatian contemplation is suited especially for the Gospels. In the Second Week of the Exercises, we accompany Jesus through his life by imagining scenes from the Gospel stories. Let the events of Jesus’ life be present to you right now. Visualize the event as if you were making a movie. Pay attention to the details: sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and feelings of the event. Lose yourself in the story; don’t worry if your imagination is running too wild. At some point, place yourself in the scene.

Contemplating a Gospel scene is not simply remembering it or going back in time. Through the act of contemplation, the Holy Spirit makes present a mystery of Jesus’ life in a way that is meaningful for you now. Use your imagination to dig deeper into the story so that God may communicate with you in a personal, evocative way.”

When we do not keep the commandments of God then another spirit is manifest in the life. These were the inquisitors and counter- reformatories who imbued themselves with a spirit but it was not of God.

 

This tells you where contemplative prayer comes from which has been moving around the Protestant denominations. It is a Jesuit occult practice.

This is a thorough presentation on the Jesuits by James Arrabito I recommend following it right through, filmed in Sydney 1982 vision valley first known as the Z tapes in the 1980s

Jim Arrabito tells us that these were possessed men and spiritual exercises of Loyolana was the key to their resilience and course of actions.