Advanced levels embrace as many shared truths among as many denominations as possible (e.g. shared Scripture, the importance of an active prayer life, church involvement, community service and charity), helping to foster a greater sense of unity within the Body of Christ:
"Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you."
"Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked.
Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother." ~Mark 3:31-35 (NIV)
Moreover, Jesus himself prayed at the hour of his Passion, and does not cease praying to his Father, for the unity of his disciples:
"And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth. I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. ~John 17:19-21 (NRSV)
With the use of technology we have a great opportunity to work together as one Body of Christ, becoming more visibly united and inspired to practice faith, hope and love... imagine a culture where there are more chapels for Bible study, worship and Perpetual Adoration than there are bars, McDonald's and Starbucks combined!
However, admittance to some advanced levels will only occur through alignment with the Magisterium.
Why is this important?
When speaking to the Samaritan women at the well Jesus said to her,
"You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the father seeks such as these to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." ~John 4:24 (NRSV)
The Samaritans only believed in the first five books of Scripture, known as the Pentateuch, and did not accept all the truth that had been revealed to the prophets by the Holy Spirit (the Samaritans excluded twelve historical books, five poetic books and seventeen prophetic books). Thus, they were not worshipping in the fullness of truth that had been revealed. It is for this reason that admission to higher levels will coincide with an understanding of the Magisterium in accordance with Sacred Scripture, yet superseding Sola Scriptura reasoning. Those who have trouble accepting the authority of the Magisterium may benefit from reviewing the resources found on this page, as well as those found during local or online catechism and faith formation courses.
For more information (an audio download or CD) on the important relationship between spirit and truth, according to the hierarchy of the choirs of angels, who harmoniously worship God without ceasing, visit this site. Alternatively, for information on how demonic angels are organized and operate, visit this site.
"If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love."
"Let prayer delight thee more than disputations, and the charity which buildeth up more than the knowledge which puffeth up."
"Love takes off where knowledge leaves off."
Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’ He answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbour as yourself.’ And he said to him, ‘You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.’
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’ Jesus replied, ‘A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan while travelling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, “Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.” Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?’ He said, ‘The one who showed him mercy.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Go and do likewise.’