Tactics & Methods

OUR INTERIOR OR UNSEEN LIFE has the greatest influence on everything we experience in life. When our spiritual life is ordered and healthy, we are whole and content. This applies even when difficulties, adversity, illness and suffering visit us. When we look at all the writings of the spiritual teachers, saints, and mystics that have gone before us, we notice a consistency in what they reveal about unseen warfare. Their teachings have been clear and unchanged. Here we will explore the main methods and tactics as distilled down from the massive library of writings that they have left for us. These are the things the soul needs to ensure the warrior is on the path to victory. If one can struggle daily implementing these precepts, along with the virtues, one is sure grow in the spiritual life. 

As we practice these precepts, our connection with God will strengthen and deepen, and love for Him and for our neighbor will slowly be perfected. 

The main tactics and methods are: prayer, watchfulness, detachment, self-examination, fasting, activity, and remembering death. They are practiced in no particular order, but should be woven into one’s life as a kind of spiritual tapestry, as all these are sort of weaved together, creating a spiritual garment for the soul. I guess you could even call this a chain mail or Kevlar for the life of the fighter.