Spiritual efficacy is the principle of the real effect of spirit, and it is often demonstrated in NDE accounts. To repeat from a previous section of this book:
Spirit is intangible but as real as matter; and it has real
effect. Spirit is immaterial being. Being is anything that exists:
a rock, an idea, energy, emotion, logic, a person. Patience,
respect, hate, reverence, morality, memory, free will are all
spirit, and all have real effect in our world. Spirit is the
underlying framework of all creation, and corruption of the
willed moral virtues degrades the operation of all creation.PPP
PPP “Spiritual Efficacy” is a term denoting the whole (spiritual and physical) effects of the spiritual components of any action. Obiviously, tipping a domino will produce follow on effects…do virtues or vices produce a similar 87
Every moral (willed) act has a real effect on all of creation. Our thoughts are more than thoughts, and acts comprised of thought, will and action are of triple effect.
Mohammad Z. was shown this during his NDE life review. He relived an event in which he beat up another boy, from the victim’s viewpoint. Mohammad felt not only the injustice and pain, but he saw how the disorder of his act affected all of creation. He also understood that any good or evil performed had its first effect on the person acting. This is hardly new Catholic doctrine, but reading Mohammad’s private Catholic revelation — his NDE account — makes it real to the reader.60
Kate D. was put on trial for her childhood crime of biting another girl in retaliation, rather than forgive her.61 The prosecutor, who was blonde, suave, calculating Satan sought to include the biting incident into a larger murder charge.
Jesus who was judge, stood by ready to forgive, but the charge was entered as murder. Jesus explained it to Kate before forgiving it. It was a lesson in spiritual efficacy.
“Being angry with another is really murdering that other person. Failure to forgive is like a seed without its sunlight. You starve yourself also. All that we give is first generated by our own soul. If we fail to generate forgiveness which is unconditional love, neither we nor our neighbor will have it. ”QQQ
result? In a way, the entirety of religion is this core question.
QQQ The question arises, “Will opponents meet in Heaven, and how will they respond to each other?” It is virtually certain that victim and perpetrator will meet; in fact they will be members of the single person of Christ. We observe that every person (attaining the age of moral reasoning, age 7-10) is both victim and perpetrator, even those who do not directly assault another, do so by immaterial sin which corrupts the spiritual framework of our world. The most upstanding secularist would fail in love of God. The finest Christian would fail to fully love God.
The result of this corruption is disease, war, poverty and more. None of 88
Deborah L. was told this idea by her deceased brother, “Any bitterness or hatred toward others poisons your own heart first.
Think of sinners, even the greatest of sinners, as souls who are spiritually handicapped.”62