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Signs and Wonders

he is first in everything.“ (Col 1,18) A detailed and well-founded list of
succession confirms the validity of his consecration. As a result, the
Sword-Bishop is not outside the Church of CHRIST, but because of his
calling through CHRIST, the Head of the Church, he is within the
Church, yet sovereign outside of the hierarchical church authorities in
order to be able to act freely according to GOD’s instructions.
The official church leaders refuse to honestly establish the truth. There-
fore we are asking you, dear readers, not to indulge in prejudices and
unjust condemnations but to sincerely search out the truth yourselves.
We will mention here some characteristic features of real mysticism and
real charismaticism.

1 Cor 12,4-10: „There are different kinds of spiritual gifts,
butthere is oneand thesameSpirit. Thereare different
ministries, and yet one and the same Lord. There are vari-
ous kinds of workings, but it is the same God, who works
all things in all. Now to each one the manifestation of the
Spirit is given for the common good.
To one there is given through the Spirit
the word of wisdom, to another
the word of knowledge, to a third man
faith, to still another
the gift of healing by the same Spirit;
to another miraculous powers,
to another the gift of prophecy, to another
discernment of spirits,
to a different one the gift of tongues,
to another the interpretation of tongues.“

Mysticism

In contrast to charismas, which like talents have been given to man,
mysticism presupposes an extraordinary degree of love of GOD and
spiritualisation, which is granted by GOD to man only with the help of
grace and by purification in darkest agonising nights of the soul as well
as in the midst of severest inward and outward sufferings. By being
taken up to Heaven or through supernatural seeing, hearing, smelling,

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