Hearing the Voice of God: The Supernatural Phenomenon of Interior Locution

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cites Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., Three Ages of the Interior Life and Antonio Royo Marín, O.P., Theology of Christian Perfection.

Recounts how a married couple (grandparents of the author) coped with the liturgical changes in the aftermath of Vatican II. Mr. Taylor heard voices from the Sacred Heart telling him: "Keep up with your [Novus Ordo or TLM?] Mass. Everything is all right." Sounds like Satan's Euge, euge ("'Tis well, 'tis well."); cf. Ps. 39:16…

Hearing a divine voice is a type of supernatural experience recognised in religions the world over. In Catholicism, a handful of saints and blesseds have reported experiencing locutions while some mystics have conducted theological inquiry into these divine communications. Locutions are not confined to the history books but continue as private revelation, a recent example being the locutions of Derrick Taylor which acted as the case study in this research. An English convert and post-conciliar traditionalist, Mr Taylor claimed to experience two sessions of locution during his lifetime (first in 1971 and again in 1978), both addressing his disillusionment with the Church hierarchy during the implementation of reforms to the Tridentine liturgy after the Second Vatican Council. The first was a locution brought about by the intermediation of the Sacred Heart while the second was spoken by the voice of a deceased priest who had been Mr Taylor’s confessor. Deconstructing each of Mr Taylor’s locutionary accounts and comparing them to past reports of locution tested them according to criteria established by mystics to help ascertain their authenticity.

Cometan (born Brandon Reece Taylor , July 1, 1998), also known as Brandon Reece Taylorian , is a British academic and the founder of the new religion Astronism. A writer from age fifteen and an autodidact of philosophy and religion from age seventeen, Cometan is the sole author of the treatise of the Omnidoxy and other Astronist texts. Besides his work in founding Astronism, Cometan is known for his research on early Quakerism and Mormonism in Lancashire and traditionalist Catholicism given his grandparents' membership in the Society of St Pius X.