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Orthodox prayers. Effective conspiracies and prayers for all occasions

PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN OF HEAVEN
I call on the earthly miracle to be revealed in the name of the Divine Virgin and my requests will be heard, and through the power of the great Feminine Nature I ask the Lord to pour into my organs the spirit of Life and give the power to fight against negative manifestations, and the seven golden rays from the Wondrous Crown will touch me and help get rid of earthly ailments and cleanse me of the unwholesome strata growing in me, for by the Feminine Principle the World Good is born. Amen.

PRAYER FOR LORD'S PROTECTION
I turn to You, the Lord and Creator of all that exists in the earthly world, and I ask to preserve my nature from decay and decay, to give the power of my blood, so that all previous negative influences can be rejected and protected from future influences, so that the evil eye and the evil speech do not touch my heart and did not poison my soul, for I am revealed / a / now only before the Lord. Amen.

PRAYER FOR SLOW GROWTH OF A CHILD
Consciously imagine the child's growth process and turn to the Lord's power with the words:
Send, Lord, the growth of my child's body, let the development not be stopped by either illness or dashing will, for the power of the Lord will help to grow, and His help will destroy all negative influences. Satisfy, Lord, with the power of life my child and give him a blessing for the future earthly existence. Amen.

CONSPIRACY FROM CHILD'S DISEASES
Take a large apple, press your sides a little and say:
I will ask the Lord for the fruit that has grown, saturated with His grace-filled power, help the trouble of my child's body and give him a blessing to get rid of bodily ailments.
The Lord will hear my request through the power of the great Plant spirit and will help in such a way that the child's body will no longer experience unnecessary suffering, and the fruit eaten by it will bring new strength for great change and healing. The disease will leave the body, and the Lord will give the strength to withstand, for the Spirit of the Plant will give my support to my request and with the Lord's power will saturate the fruit for my child. Amen.

Let the child eat all the fruit, and wait for a quick healing.

CONSPIRACY - PRAYER FOR PEACE IN THE HOUSE
Put a little poppy in one hand on an open palm, and in the other hold a lit candle. Talk:
He will be satisfied with the miracle of the Lord, Natural power will manifest with the Higher Light. In the name of the Lord, the evil influences of the impure will be reflected, and the Herbal Power will protect me from them. All troubles and sorrows will go away from my dwelling forever, when the seeds of poppy plant a good spirit will call. That good Source that brings goodness and peace to the world will open, and the walls of my house will become a solid protection from manifestations of the unclean. Amen.

Sprinkle the poppy in the corners and do not sweep for seven days.

PRAYER FOR WOMEN WHO THINK THEMSELVES UNBEAUTIFUL
The Lord has three brides, and none of them has an advantage, but only the Light of the Lord brings to each of them that glow of body and soul that people call beauty. Only unearthly Light gives rise to earthly beauty, and I do not ask the Lord for new features to my body and my face, but I ask to give Light on them for a wonderful human benefit, so that the great harmony of the world will touch my members and my face. I ask you to saturate me with the beauty of Heaven, so that every person can see in me the miracle of the touch of the Lord and be filled with His Light through the perception of this miracle.
My simple beauty will shock everyone who sees me. My heart will be filled with happiness, that I bring Heavenly beauty for people. The Lord will perform a wondrous miracle, and I thank Him for the lasting touch to my appearance. Amen.

PRAYER FOR THE GOOD OF THE FAMILY
For the good of the family I ask the Great Lord, bearing the complete fusion of my soul with the soul (name), my husband, for there is no happiness in the world greater than being a part of an integral Family, and I do not ask for earthly blessings, but I ask to strengthen our union and protect (name ) from the temptations of the world and I will take the first step to a new family life myself, so that there are no obstacles to our rapprochement. Amen.

Try to forget the grievances and spend the evening with your husband relaxed, without stress.

PRAYER FOR GOOD LUCK
I ask the Lord to give Heavenly help. There is no place for man in the world without the power of the Lord. I will bring a bowl of water of painful suffering to the bright face of Heaven, and I will ask the three powers of the Lord to give me luck and give Light on my path.
Touch my life, Lord, with your hand and draw a line of Light from me to Yourself. Give me the strength to live until the end of my days in my mind and bodily natural state, and do not give heavy tragedies to my loved ones. By faith I will draw near to You for the suffering of relief, and my gratitude to You has no limit. Amen.

PRAYER FOR UNSUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE
Lord Heavenly Light, touch my soul, bring it a new Light, give me happiness and a new decision for me. Let me meet in a world where there is so much deception and suffering, who can heal the wound of my soul with his light spirit, with the touch of his hands restore my body to vitality, and the Heavenly Light will give new happiness for family life and for bodily intimacy. I will ask the Lord not to refuse me help. There is nothing impossible for His Light. Amen.

PRAYER FROM THE APPEARANCE OF PROBLEM
O Lord, I will ask You with My hands to take trouble away from me, Your servant / Your servant / (name). I will be a rare miracle for the river of my life, the face of the Lord is sheltered from trouble by living force / a /, and my soul will not endure wild and unnecessary suffering, from which the Lord will let me evade.
By His power I will sanctify my path, and the threat will go away, and the line of life will not be broken until the deadline. The storm will not carry me away, the rain will not flood, the trials of life will not destroy me, as long as I drag my days by the power of the Lord.
I thank the Lord for this strength. It is indestructible and gives a way out of any trial. Amen.

Conspiracy to Fulfill Desires
To conceive a desire, take a handkerchief in hand and say three times: My great desire will be fulfilled by the spirit of the Lord's help, for the Lord helps those who ask for help.
Help will come in unknown ways, and my desire will grow into reality, events will acquire a path for fulfillment, and the Spirit of the Lord will give me what I ask Him for. I'll tie a scarf and wait. Amen.

Tie the scarf in a knot and carry it with you until the wish is fulfilled, and then burn it without undoing it.

A conspiracy from alcoholism
Put a glass of yellow juice on the table, preferably between the window and a lighted candle and say:
My words will reach the Lord my merciful. The Ladder of Heaven will deliver from base passion, let the petty insignificant desire be destroyed by my prayer.
The areas of the frontal brain will be broken by the yellow Heavenly help from the Lord, for the Light of His rays will touch my soul, a change will come to my soul, my head will be sanctified for treatment. The power of life will return, for there is still a future. The river of life is not yet shallow, and the human desire to drink cannot resurrect evil to me. The blockade of the intoxicating liquid potion will be overcome by the liquid in the name of the Lord. Amen.

Drink juice and wash down with water, you can tea. Do this in the morning for a month.

PRAYER FOR DRUG DEPENDENCE
Sit in front of a lighted candle and speak, raising and lowering two hands at once:
For my essence, I ask for a new road. The new path will not be filled with anxiety, for the Lord will no longer leave me in the earthly world, where I was born / a / I and will be able to fulfill the vow of renouncing the impure attraction to poisons and unnecessary substances that lead my body to premature death, and my soul to suffering and destruction.
A little time will pass, and I will become independent / a / from the habits of drying up and decay will stop and a new source of vitality will open and the happiness of liberation will come and the hands themselves will reach out to Heaven to praise the power that gave me the continuation of life. Amen.

SMOKING Vow
Take paper and write:
I vow not to smoke for as long as I live. I swear to the Lord never to take a poisonous potion in my mouth that does not allow me to breathe deeply. I will always remember that there is no such force that will force me to break the word given to the Lord by me, and I will get rid of the madness of self-poisoning forever by inhaling poison that is unnecessary to me and harms all my organs. For a new life without tobacco, I will endure only three days, and then the Lord will take away unnecessary thirst and give me strength to resist the temptation of the earth, for only the Lord's power can overcome the force of habit. Amen.

Write a date, subscribe and endure three days with God's help. Then the craving for smoking will go away, and you will be free from addiction forever.

PRAYER BEFORE SLEEP
Oh, Jesus, Son of the Lord, bring me peace, and I will pray to You and ask for help to give to cleanse my soul from old negative deeds, and change my essence for the possibility of atonement for my sins. For a new life, give Jesus strength to me and call the Light of the Lord on my soul. With prayer I will fall asleep, with prayer I will wake up, and the Lord's power will irrigate the withered soul. Amen.

CONSPIRACY ON A RING
Put a ring of yellow metal without stones on your stomach and say seven times:
Belly, give me a head treatment, ah, ring, give my belly the strength to do it. I release the life force of the ring and ask the Lord to put it on a pure heart and take the pain from the head into the ring, and transfer the power of the ring to my soul to get rid of torment and earthly influence. Let the river mud take my pain forever, and I will gain strength. Amen.

Throw the ring into the river where the mud is.

CONSPIRACY ON MAC
Poppy seeds grown on the earth will be sanctified by the power of the Fire of the Lord. What has grown in nature will be saturated with the power of the spirit of the Lord, with the Heavenly Peace, will give me renewal, health, purification, will enter me with particles of the forces of blessing for great bodily healing. This plant of the Lord will be saturated with the miracle of unearthly influence on my body, on my organs, on my brain. Amen.

PRAYER FOR BODY GOOD
Oh, the good power of the Lord, carrying Light to the souls of people and giving a feeling of unity with the Creator of the world, give me the power of bodily formation without suffering and illness so that I, with new strengths miraculously of Heavenly touch, bring the good of the Lord into the world / and thank the Lord for His help. Amen.

A CONSPIRACY FOR A BLESSED LIFE FOR A CHILD
Take any object that the child constantly comes into contact with and say:
I ask the Lord to give joy to my child so that he would not be able to know in life that which brings sorrow, that which will break his connection with the Upper Power that brought him into the world.
Give, Lord, various tests to him, but do not give such that will destroy his soul. Bring joy to him for life, for only Your strength gives the way to the Heavenly Light.
Let my request be accepted! May it be so. Amen.

Return the item to the child and make sure that the child does not part with it for the first three days.

CASH CONTRIBUTION
Hold money in your hand and say:
Seven vitality and gold strength, give me even and quick cash saturation. It is not yellow gold that strengthens my paths, but those seven of my life forces that I call for help, but help will reach me with the world power of the Lord.
The Lord will not give gold yellow to those who do not have help from the complex world law, which he gives to those who multiply, but at the same time give their own without regret. You must first give it away without a doubt, and then wait for the yellow gold. Amen.

Speak money like that and give it to a beggar. Good luck will come and profit will be when you give it back without regret.

CONSPIRACY FROM BLACK POWER
Take two knives and connect them with a cross. You need to position the knives so that the blades are out. Move your hands over them and say:
I will drive the bad strength out of my dwelling with my hands, and the lunar curse sent down will flow like a salty stream to where it came from, and the power will be destroyed by the Force. The sky will support the one who is the root of the house, and the spirit of God's Speech will carry away the spirit of evil and dark power from my dwelling.
Let the sickness that was sent melt away and the Light of my heavenly body cleanse and free me from diseases, perform a rare glorious miracle for the sake of achieving the triumph of the forces of the Lord on earth.
The night fights with the day, and the bad with the good, but the Sword of God decides everything, for His Power is in everything. Amen.

Separate the knives and put them on the table side by side, blades outward. Do this for seven days, and the evil will go away.

TRUE APPEAL TO THE LORD'S POWER
Satisfy, Lord, my soul, open frontal protection and accept enough of the Lord's Light. There will be joy to my organs, and my body will receive the rays of the Lord's Light and thousands of particles of Heavenly Rain will pour into my soul, and the Lord will touch for my wondrous liberation from the old influence of sins and mistakes that have imposed heaviness on the path of my soul, and my soul will become pure, and for a long time I will thank the Lord for the forgiveness of the sins of my life. Suffering will recede, and I will become filled with the good of the Lord / a /. Amen.

Wax Conspiracy
Cut off the nail and place in melted wax. Roll up a lump and warm it up with the warmth of your hands and say:
Let the negative desire of my body to take in more than is necessary for its activity disappear, and the Lord's superfluous support in my body melts, as the warmth of the body will soften and the Lord will hear my request and help remove unnecessary fats and harmful substances that are accumulated in me. Where the incorruptible of the Lord is poured in, there the corruptible earthly will go away in the name of the great Lord, and I will find a firmly clean body by the Essence of the Lord. The Lord will strengthen and cleanse every cell of my body by the miracle of earthly manifestation, and the Love of the Lord will manifest more strongly than earthly negative influences. A pure body will come to me by the pure Light of the Lord. Amen.

Bury a lump with a fingernail in the ground before sunset.

PRAYER FOR IMPOTENCE
Bring, Lord, an even and natural attraction to the marriage bed and do not let the great power of the universal life principle fade away and become only a memory. All my youth, come into my members and fill them with new strength to continue and strengthen bodily closeness. Every night will become a blessing, as well as for me, and for the woman who merged with me with the Light of the Lord, who with her whole body gives immeasurable bliss to my body.

In the name of the Lord, I call on the powers of Heaven to help me in this. Amen.

PRAYER FOR EARLY AGING
I ask the Lord, with His great power, to help my body return to that state, strong and productive, which is saturated with great youthful strength, and decrepitude will not come to me inaudibly, and bodily suffering will not cover me until the deadline. Faith my fear will drive away the feeble old age, and the body by the power of Heavenly Light will acquire freshness and elasticity, and a miraculous restoration of my lost youth will occur, the blood will become hot, and the muscles will become strong, my eyes will marvel at bright colors, and I will thank the Lord for the miracle of my great renewal. ... Amen.

PRAYER FOR HEALTH
O my Lord, my Creator, I ask Your help, grant healing to the servant of God / servant of God / (name), wash her / his / her blood with Your rays. Only with your help will healing come to her / him /. Touch her / him / with the miraculous power, bless all her / him / her ways to salvation, recovery, healing.
You will give her / his / her body health, her / his / her soul - blessed lightness, her / his / her / her / his / her / her / his / her / her / his / her / her / his / her / her /ed / heart is with divine balm. The pain will recede, and the strength will return, and the wounds will heal her / him / bodily and mental, and Your help will come. Your rays from Heaven will reach her / him /, give her / him / protection, bless her / him / her for healing from ailments, strengthen her / him / her faith.
May the Lord hear this prayer. Glory and gratitude to the power of the Lord. Amen.

EARTH TREATMENT Plot
A plot of land must be chosen next to the dwelling, seven steps from the entrance to the house, in the shade zone of the house. In sunny weather, when only a shadow covers the chosen place, sit on the ground and say:
May the Earth heal me, and Heaven may give the Earth the path of my bodily healing from earthly ailments and help my new triumph in life, for the Lord will send a great miracle with a mighty hand to his servant / his servant / (name). The Earth will bear my torment, and by the hand of the Lord the ailment will move from my body to the Earth, and I will hide from my ailments with the shadow of my house, and Heaven will cover me with a great solar protection net. Amen.

Get up and go out to a sunny place, stand there for three minutes.

PRAYER FOR CLEANSING
The power of the Lord will heal me, the servant of God / servant of God / (name), from the powers of the curse. I will be cleansed / a / from all impurity, from human evil, from ailments. Verily, everything that has entered into me will come out with miraculous power, the power of the Lord will wash the blood with purity. The rays of the Divine Light will give the servant of God / servant of God / (name) health, healing, cleansing. Everything will be renewed by the touch of the Lord. Give the Lord the power of renewal, purification, healing in your holy name. I will feel the power of the Lord's help throughout my life. Amen.

PRAYER FOR PREGNANCY
The body grows fruit by the power of the Lord's good, and I ask the Lord not to cancel the miracle of the new birth and give me the strength to endure my desired child until the deadline. May the Lord hide him from negative influences and not give me dangerous paths, so as not to interfere with the correct distribution of life forces and development will not be distorted and disturbed, for the Lord's hand will help me and at the right time will reveal to the world the one who is under my heart. Amen.

PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH
Strengthen, Lord, my faith and give strength to endure difficult trials for my body, give it relief from bodily torments, find ways out for the fetus of my body such that there will be no injuries to me or the fetus, and will not cause unnecessary suffering to the bodies bound by a common leash until breaking them and freeing a new being, for there is no greater joy for me than giving him life.
The Light of the Lord will illuminate with its touch a new life, and there will be no more suffering, but only happiness and goodness will enter me with this Light. The miracle of the Lord will take place, and I thank the Lord in advance for His help. Amen.

Conspiracy from the evil eye
Put a vessel with water in the place where the rays of the sun fall and say:
My Lord, give the power of protection from the bad influence of the water that is in front of me. The protection of the great spirit of the Lord will be given to me through water saturated with the Light of the rays of God's blessing, and an alien influence will not touch me when I sprinkle water on my body. Can the enemy's bad eye look at me then without harm to me, for I will be protected by the Lord by the power that accepts the good, and returns the bad to the one who desires evil. Amen.

Sprinkle water on yourself (face, palms, feet).

PRAYER WHEN YOU DO NOT WISH TO LIVE
You need to pick up a candle, light it and say:
I turn to the Lord, and there is no other support for me in the world than His power, which brought me into the world for suffering, and it is too early for me to think about the transition to other worlds that await me only after the natural and Lord provided end of the life test, given to me for strengthening and becoming an incorruptible soul, with the Light of its saturation, and I have no right to test my death in violation of the deadline in order to escape from the grave trials destined for me, for it will be even harder for the soul in such a tragic and unnecessary outcome, for the Lord will soon return the joy of life to me, and a new meaning will fill my remaining days, and may I never remember the minutes of my weakness.

Thank God for helping me not to lose the power of life by His power. Amen.

Wellness conspiracy
Take a liter of grape juice, pour it into one bowl and speak over it in the morning:
My treatment for all ailments will be blessed by God's power, the wondrous Heavenly Staircase. All diseases will irrevocably go away, a new birth will be given to me suddenly, and I will be immensely filled with new strength / a /. The southern influence will prevail over the northern, and the moisture of life will be double. It will be good for all my members for their future existence. I rejoice, for the rays of the Lord have already touched me. Thank the Lord. Amen.

Drink juice after a conspiracy for half a glass, but each time start talking all the juice.

HAIR STRENGTHENING Plot
Brew and rub into your head in the morning before sunrise and in the evening after sunset a mixture of plantain, nettle and mint branches in equal proportions. At the same time, say:
I pour divine broth on my head. What has grown in nature will not fade, will be repeated with new growth, abundant density, saturated growth, the divine power of addition, multiplication, saturation. It will be born, it will be repeated, it will be added! Will take power from the grass, from the foliage, from the trees. Does not die, does not dry out, does not disappear! Amen.

PRAYER FOR A HEADACHE
Put your hand on your head and say:
I will, Lord, be saturated with Your strength and bodily Spirit / a /, and my head will not endure unbearable torments, for Your strength will help me and bring deliverance from pressing bodily pain and give divine ease.
The pain will never return to my head. I will no longer lie with a sore head, afraid to move. There is no forgetfulness from pain, and only God's help will save me and give me future healing. I will thank the Lord day and night for his help. I will always do this, and my pain will pass. Amen.

Remove your hand from your head and apply to the area of ​​the heart. The pain will stop.

A conspiracy to force
Put a glass of water on the table in front of the icon of St. Nicholas and ask him:
Oh, great Nicholas, saturate the water that I will drink with the Light of my Power. Let my nervous left brain stop the process of the emergence of foci of inhibition, shallow drowsiness and bodily weakness. Dispel the fog in my thoughts, with small steps drive away my decrepit laziness for a long time, and my new forces will distract my body from unnecessary sleep for great work. I will come to a new, close life without relaxation.
My strength is under the blessing of Nicholas the Great. I catch His rays on the water that I drink. Amen.

Drink water.

PRAYER BEFORE A DANGEROUS ROAD
The power of Heaven keeps him who has received protection from the spirit of the Heavenly Rain, and the great Spirit will give protection when, with his cold cold, flying death, he takes away from the servant of God / servant of God / (name).
Wonderful warm salvation by the Light of the Heavenly Ray will come to me, and the leaden weight will not touch my members. It is rare for someone to be given earthly protection by the Spirit of Heaven, but there is the hand of the Lord, and it will take away from me the quiet iron and the whistling lead. And the black darkness will not receive me yet, there is no place for me among the spirits of the departed yet, life will not be interrupted by someone else's hand.
Death will depart from me, and I will preserve my body as a whole. The Spirit of Heavenly Rain will protect me. Amen.

Speak before a dangerous road three times.

A CONSPIRACY IN FOUR ELEMENTS
Pour water (not boiled) into a glass, pour half of the earth from under the fruit tree into another glass, put a burning candle in the ground. Talk:
Let the water of the earth be saturated with the power of the Lord, and the earth will receive the power of influence. Fire will burn out weakness, and the Spirit of God will stop the process of decay, and ailments will leave me by the forces of the Earth, Fire, Water and the Spirit of God.
The power of the Lord's blessing will destroy the black power of the birth of ailment, bodily and mental ailments. May the forces of the nature of Fire, Water, Earth and the Supreme Lord Spirit of touch be reunited. I will receive a great cleansing in the name of the powers of the Lord. Amen.

Wash sore spots with water, and you can also drink it. Scatter the earth under a tree.

A CONSPIRACY OF FEAR AND FAILURE
Put water in a glass on the window in the daytime, light a candle and say:
I ask the Lord for the power to saturate the water with His Light, which carries a great power, the power of fear, dispersing and bringing people a great blessing for good luck and luck in any good undertaking that does not harm others, for I do not wish evil in my deeds, but good, and not fear I want to live, but with the joy of the great good Power, which I ask to touch the water for my spiritual development and for the life path of blessing, and my path will not bring me terrible and risky deeds, and there will be no unpleasant and unnecessary events, for I entrust my life to the Lord. Amen.

Drink a sip of water before an unpleasant path or event, use the rest of the water for washing and wiping off before going to bed or on a long journey.

PRAYER FOR WEIGHT GAIN
Face the daylight in front of a window or in the direction of the Sun outside and speak with your eyes closed:
Hear my alarm, Lord, and help me change the distribution of vital currents in my body for new growth and flourishing, for joining and for strengthening organs, touch, Lord, with His power to me, and food will bring not only the maintenance of strength, but also grow there will be a simple accumulation of fat evenly throughout the body so that it does not disturb the harmony of my body. I thank the Lord for His great help. Amen.

A conspiracy to calm down
Place and light a candle in front of you on the table, and bring your right hand to the fire so that you feel the warmth of the candle with your palm. Say four times:
My right hand, with which the sign of the cross is made, will absorb the fire of the Lord's candle, the warmth of the fire will soothe and relax me, the servant of God / servant of God / (name), will allow the warmth of the Divine to penetrate into every organ of my body. Peace and well-being for the soul, peace for the heart, health for the body, purity for the spirit.
The power of God's help will be present in my life by calming, cleansing, and relieving. Amen.

Cross yourself and extinguish the candle.

PRAYER FOR THE LORD'S BLESSING
Oh my Lord, let me feel the blessing of Heaven on my fate. May my earthly path be sanctified by a miraculous change. In the name of the Lord I will heal from my ailments, in my heart I will feel the presence of Your strength and help from above, for Your forces, saturated with the rays of the sun's healing Light, will calm me, pour into my blood my power of healing, purification, renewal, heal my body from serious ailments, from the bustle of the soul , from heart sorrow, for Your strength is unsurpassed, unsolved and secret, - throughout the world, in rays and drops, miraculous ways, visible and invisible.
Give me, Lord, a blessing on my earthly life with Your help. May my paths be illuminated by Thy Light, pure and unfading in the name of the Lord and all the powers of Heaven. Amen.

Weight loss conspiracy
Everything that the Lord gave me, God's servant / God's servant / (name), at the moment, saturation will be quick, I will not overeat unnecessary, which became after saturation with poison for my body. I will stop with the Lord's touch, I will be full / a / small. The Lord's power will stop my hand in time, will not give me something superfluous and unnecessary. And I, the slave / a / Your / Your / (name), will be under Your Eye, under Your control. Give, Lord, the power of inner stopping from excess food, burdening excess weight. I will be healed / a / by the power of the Lord from this earthly dependence. Thanks to our Lord. Amen.

CONSPIRACY FROM COLD
Take a sheet of paper for a compress, rub it with your palms so that it crackles, and say:
So I will rub my illness that I will be without it. By the power of the Lord I will be healed, given in my palm, and I will thank Him, I will praise His power that brings good. I will direct my palms to where the disease will touch me with corruption, and the power of the Lord will remove impurity from my organs and give a quick treatment. My body will be blessed by the Lord, and the Lord will protect it in the future, for there is no greater healing than His strength. Amen.

Put your hands on sore spots, hold until moisture comes out, and then attach paper and hold for about an hour. Diseases will surely recede.

Conspiracy in case of impaired blood circulation in the legs
Attach the gold ring to the forehead and read three times:
The wondrous gold of the great Lord's Creation, sudden for people, I ask your healing soul to give my frontal lobes of the brain my dual power for in-depth treatment of the lower blood circulation and normalization of the work of small and large bodily vessels (and give me the power to fight smoking). Day and night, in summer and winter, I will ask the Lord for healing. Amen.

When finished, put the ring on your finger and do not remove it until the next time. Do this every evening for fourteen days.

CONSPIRACY - PRAYER FOR REGULATION OF WOMEN'S RHYTHMS
To consume a large amount of liquid and in the morning, touching the window frame, say: My body will no longer break the rhythms large and small, and confidence in the blood rhythm will so easily come that the cycle will not be broken even for a day, and by the power of the Lord of the touch, my body is disturbed will not accept, and unnecessary blood will go away at the right time for the blessed correct life development and existence, and all ailments that disturb the natural balance given to me by the Lord from birth will leave me with unnecessary blood, and even chest breathing will destroy the touch of the perishable influence of the earth, and so my organs will get stronger, that there will be no more unnecessary deviations and hormonal imbalances. Healing by the hand of the Lord is rare. Amen.

Do this every morning after waking up, and the rhythms of the body will be established for the good.

PRAYER FOR ADVERSE ACTS
Look at yourself in the mirror and pray with these words:
Lord, the great Creator of all that exists, I ask You to guide me on the path of Light and not let the strength of my soul be sprayed on negative deeds and deeds, but wasted only on bringing saturation to my soul. Become an obstacle to my unwholesome aspirations, and by faith I will bring pure Light into my soul for a new page in my life. Amen.

PRAYER TO SAINT NICHOLAS
Joy is needed for this prayer, and first you need to think about something very good: about children, about the arrival of spring, about the bright colors of Nature so that your soul becomes joyful at least for a moment, and immediately say:
Spirit of Nicholas, the great Pleasant, come to me and do not let my joy dissolve, do not let it go away, rejoice with me and bring to my body a feeling of joyful presence in the world for life, give it the unfading power of life so that the servant of God / slave God / (name) until the end of his days not to lose the feeling of the joy of life, and ailments will leave my body, for through the spirit of Nicholas the Great, my body will touch the rays of the Lord. I thank Nikolai the Pleasant for his help. Amen

PRAYER FOR JOYOUS BLESSING
I ask the Lord to bring for me new life and new great joy, for only joy will lead me to the blessing of the Lord, and there will be no early fading of my body, saturated with the Light of the touch of the Lord's rays. God has no negative branches, and by touching His rays, I will become one of them. Such heavenly bliss will overtake me, that my body will receive a new great strength, and with joy I will come to the world of the Lord's Light. The world of the Lord's rays will accept me and saturate me with its Light for further existence in the earthly world, where only joy conquers corruption. Amen.

FACE WATER CONSPIRATION
Put a small golden thing in sea water, think over water and speak a conspiracy (2 times):
The soul of water is alive, where it is impossible - do not enter, but where it should be - enter. Itching and small suppurations heal, and zones of change, non-flowing or small scars with winter snow melt and forever remove with an earthly miracle. I will see a certain Ladder to Heaven, and it will accept me, and help, and by an unearthly miracle will sanctify the water, and the sea foam will carry away my earthly organic skin abnormalities, and I will be rejuvenated and renewed by an unearthly miracle, with the foam of the sea, I will pray for our sins with water I will wash myself.

While washing your face, say:
Lord, give me a miracle, I will wash the face of the Lord with water, and the Lord will give the ordered. Amen.

Do not wash your face with soap, but only with charmed water. Do not wipe after washing.

PRAYER AFTER WASHING WITH SEA WATER
Creator, Lord, I ask You to exert an unearthly influence, to create a rare miracle, to change the strength and processes of the earthly bodily life in the human corporeal essence so that my youth does not go away for a century. The decay will be laid off by the Divine Light and by the hand of the Lord, by drinking the streams of the Heavenly Rain, save my body, that youth that I will be able to receive by the power of Heaven. May the power of the Creator preserve me for the whole life of a young woman who has lost skin defects. The world of the Sun will give me an amazing miracle, and I will rule my body with unearthly forces and remove the corruption of the Lord's water forever. Amen.

CONSPIRACY - PRAYER FOR GOOD LUCK AND LIFE UPDATE
Put a metal ring in front of a lit candle and pray:
O Lord, fill my body with a cloud of Heavenly Light, let it accept true saturation with the Spirit and merge for a time with my soul with Heavenly power when I touch the metal.
The blessing of the Lord will pour out through the touch on my soul. I will touch it seven times, and the seven Rays of Heaven will enter me with Fire and a miracle of the Lord.
I will become a good Light filled / a / and my life will be transformed by the Lord's touch. Amen.

Touch the ring with the finger on which you will wear it. Pray seven times, touching the ring each time at the end of the prayer. Put out the candle and do not touch the ring for an hour, then put it on your finger and leave it on for seven days.

A conspiracy to rejuvenate the body
Cut the onion head in half and place the halves on the cheeks with your hands. Pronounce:
Oh, wonderful lives of the power of growth and the Plant Soul, remove from the body that old age that I have gained / a / from the plants I have eaten, and let it go into the head of the onion, and through it - back into the ground. My skin will be cleansed, bad strength will go away, and I will bloom with my whole body. With the summer solar wind, the dust of the earth will leave me, and my body will be saturated with the Heavenly Dew of God. I will be vitality, change / a / with tears. Amen.

Put the onion halves together and plant the onions in the ground for three days.

PRAYER FOR RENEWAL AND REJUVENATION
The soul of a girl asks for her body from the Lord for youth and the wondrous desired beauty of a girl's, thick hair, clean skin, white face. The Lord can help me with the power of Heaven. By an unearthly miracle, the heavenly pearls will touch my face, the evil of copper will leave my face. The Sun will send a thread from the wonderful world to my hand and wash the new skin on a new face with living water. I will go through good paths, a wonderful miracle will touch me, the clear sun will stop with its rays the tape of time on my face and body. Lord help him! No hand is stronger! Amen.

CONSPIRACY - PRAYER FOR RED WINE
Pour some wine into a transparent bowl and say:
My prayer is to You, Nicholas the Wonderworker, I call on Your high touch, and I await the sanctification and transformation of this liquid from You for a miracle. By Thy power, the Source of Plant Benefit will saturate the wine with the Life spirit, and a close touch to the Sun's clear spirit will reveal the essence of wine. The Lord's Hand will sprinkle the Heavenly Light, fill this vessel with the power of purification, and the seven perishable influences will leave me when I drink the wonderful drink of Light. Amen.

Drink wine.

PRAYER FOR LONELINESS
I ask the great Lord to hear me and give me a new, successful path so that the great Lord's influence will help me to be saturated with the Light and my loneliness, caused by an unclean spirit, will pass. I will block the river with three nets in order not to miss my happiness and with the three forces of the Lord's influence a new decision will come, and a miracle will happen with the one who I need in the world and our paths will unite with the light of true Love. Amen.

Pray in the morning.

CONSPIRACY FROM COLD
Warm up red wine and read the conspiracy:
Aliens, superfluous ones will refuse to feed the creature, when I drink this wine, new forces will cleanse my blood, pour out my kidneys with peace, purity and Heavenly power. I will tear away the dashing scanty impurities like unnecessary rubbish from the body, and my cleansing will come for a new healthy life. Through small foci my disease will go away. I will be healed with living red wine, I will be healed by the power of the Lord. Amen.

Drink wine and go to bed.

Plot on a wood hairpin
Hold the hairpin in your hand and say:
The hand holds a great wondrous quick healing bodily. A great beginning for a new future life is in this hairpin, and she will lead the Forest Soul for a new high purity of my face and body. The small ones will be thrown away, and the large ones will be removed by winter snow and melted with it. The White Spirit itself will change the body, and the White Spirit will call the face. The white day will take care of my skin, and the spirit of the Forest will touch my skin and accept my diseases, both physical and mental. Amen.

Attach the hairpin to your hair and leave it on for seven days.

CONSPIRACY IN TUMOR
Touch your hand to the place under which the formation or tumor is located and say:
I ask the Great Lord to give strength to my hand to change the distribution of the Light of the Lord on my body by the touch of a touch to eliminate the disturbance that has arisen, and the currents of my body will restore the correct development and distribution, scatter its formation unnecessary for my body, growing not according to the laws, and distribute bodily tissues so that the proportions of my body, given to me from birth, will not be violated.
The light of the Lord's rays, touching my body, will restore the copper-salt exchange between tissues and healing will come by the miracle of the Lord's touch on my hand. My body will become free from any deviations from the great balance of life established by the Creator for me. May the Lord hear my words and His help come. Amen.

Immerse your hand in a vessel of water, hold for three minutes, then put your hand back and read. Do this three times a day for a month.

People sometimes wonder if there are conspiracies and prayers for all occasions? Of course, there are many. For example, Our Father is suitable for any situation, just like I Believe.

The fact is that in your soul at one time or another. A person who fully relies on the Lord, purely intuitively turns to Him when something out of the ordinary happens. And other people get used to "pushing away" evil from themselves in a different way.

There is such a phrase "get out, you idiot." It is spoken both in joy and when a bad thought comes to mind.

“The Lord helps me, gives me strength. I follow his paths, for righteous deeds. By His grace I will be rewarded. I conduct business in his name. By his name I will find happiness. Amen!"

“Egg-round-faced! Roll and roll, turn around in the sun. With the cry of a nightingale, I conjure. On a long day, with a clear fire, free-flowing sand, flying water, a dark evening, a modest dawn, a mighty river, a dark cloud. So that from this day my goodness multiplies, so that it grows, but bathed in love! Amen!"

Another conspiracy for well-being and prosperity:

“Gold is flowing into my chambers. Not by, apart, but through my fingers in passing. I send it to the purse to be filled. I send the gold into the house so that it does not roll in the mud. What I will take is all mine. Will not burden the brow. I will turn to joy and light for many years! Amen!"

Conspiracy in difficult times:

“Mother dear, beloved father. Do not reject your child, do not leave him with love. In a bright time, in a difficult moment. Be there where I go, everywhere. Bless! Endow with good luck and good. Amen!"

Conspiracy for righteous works:

“Herod, the king of the Jews, had a royal disposition, not a plebeian one. He spent his life working, he forbade us to be lazy. I will take the covenant of Herod the king. I will delight the whole world with his name. As Herod is remembered, so my work is glorious and kind! Amen!"

If you use prayers or conspiracies for all occasions, then try to do it in the right mood. The fact is that these "magic formulas" help people who are sinless, as the clergy would say.

The lighter your thoughts are, the more likely they are. This is worth remembering.

Do not allow slander and slander, even mentally. Conspiracies spoken from a pure heart are sure to help, at times, completely changing life.

The same thing happens with evil people. Just rest assured, they are not happy about such a coup.

Their given conspiracies will first force them to "pay the bills." That is, they will push against such trials and obstacles that they will have to involuntarily learn to love the world and the people around them.

Why, one wonders, should wish for such a thing? It is better to initially understand that everyone has a right to happiness and joy. It is a sin to take away this right from anyone.

How to protect yourself and your family with a prayer of amulet?

Our life is always fraught with certain fears and anxieties. How often in life we ​​have to feel defenseless against evil, before enemies or life's troubles. Who or what can protect us?

These are prayers of amulets, wonderful conspiracies, time-tested, "working" and sometimes just miraculous. They exist for all occasions, help protect yourself and your family from the evil eye or damage, from evil people and from enemies, from negativity in life. These prayers need to be known and you can apply them always, every day.

Each amulet prayer is a kind of shield. How it works? You probably know about the power of words. Each word has its own subtle vibrations. So, an evil word can bring misfortune and illness, and a curse spoken in hearts can break a person's whole life.

Prayers and conspiracies have special vibrations and energies. When you read such a conspiracy, a certain energy field is created that does not allow negative energy to pass through and provides reliable protection against bad energy vibrations. What kind of prayers exist, and for what purposes?

  • Protect from envious and evil people, from enemies and ill-wishers.
  • Conspiracies for family and home protection, from disease, conflict, poverty.
  • Prayers and amulets for the birth of children, for a son and daughter - from the evil eye, from disease and damage.
  • Conspiracies for every day - for work, good luck, avert problems.
  • From evil, from a witch, black witchcraft and curses.

There are universal conspiracies - for all occasions, they are good for every day. There are special ones that apply in specific cases. Choose the amulet you need and use it for the benefit of yourself and your family!

Magic words

Since ancient times, a large number of prayers have appeared that serve as amulets for people. In order for the amulet to have an effect and benefit, the main thing is to believe in its divine power, and not doubt that it will help. It is worth reading it out loud, but you can also silently, if such a situation. It is better to know a few of the main amulets by heart in order to use them if the need arises.

1. There is a prayer-amulet for every morning, it helps throughout the day, protects from bad people, from evil and various misfortunes. Read three times:

2. If suddenly there is some kind of danger, you feel fear from evil people, enemies or some circumstances, there is a quick defense. Read this short conspiracy three times:

Cross yourself and imagine an invisible shield around you that protects you from any evil.

3. A very powerful defense is the "Dream of the Most Holy Theotokos". This miraculous prayer conspiracy is good for all occasions, it is very powerful, it helps from evil, damage, evil eye and all negative energy.

4. The famous, ancient prayer conspiracy "Seven Crosses" also needs to be known. The "Seven Crosses" prayer is worth reading every morning at home, you can also at work, it will protect you and the whole family, daughter and son, your spouse from any evil. Read seven times:

5. If you feel anxiety for yourself or for your son, for your daughter, for your husband - read the conspiracy "The Forty Strong Amulet", and think about who you are sending protection to. This powerful shield will protect you and your loved ones from any evil and misfortune.

For other occasions

What other prayers and amulets exist? There are special ones for specific purposes, or ones that are read only once a year.

Prayer from a witch or sorcerer - sometimes it can come in handy, especially when intuition tells you that the ill-wisher is near, that someone is plotting evil witchcraft against you or your family. This prayer will help protect you from the witch and prevent her evil spell from affecting you.

The Angel of My Birth is one of the most miraculous and powerful prayers. The magic prayer "Angel of my birth" gives strength to fight any troubles and evil, protects and preserves the whole year! You need to read "The Angel of My Birth" once a year - on your own birthday, early in the morning, just getting out of bed and not saying a word yet. Read sincerely and with faith, and you will immediately feel the power of this conspiracy!

To protect your son from all troubles and all evil, while he sleeps, stand at his head and read this request to God in a whisper.

So, arm yourself with miraculous conspiracies, and know that they will definitely help you, and the stronger your sincere faith, the more powerful the protection these prayers give you.

And the most important advice

  • A charm prayer will help protect your loved ones and everything that is dear to you.

    The amulet prayer is the strongest protection that protects us from any troubles, adversity and suffering. Many generations of people are sure that with the help of words addressed to God and saints, you can protect yourself, protect your loved ones from enemies and envious people. Prayer will also help in protecting the home, which is also subject to negative influences.

    Prayer-amulet for the home

    Quite often, not only we, but also our home are under attack. Sometimes black magicians, when they want to harm a person, bring damage to his house so that the place of residence becomes cursed, draws strength and energy from a person. To do this, however, you need to seriously offend the sorcerer, because damage to the house is a difficult task. The curse that was imposed during its construction will have the strongest effect. But in this case, you first have to remove it, and only after that put the amulet. The more common problem is the evil eye. Its consequences can also be quite unpleasant.

    In order not to fall prey to a negative program aimed at housing, it is necessary to put strong protection on the home. Before proceeding with the creation of magical armor, it is necessary to carry out a rite of purification in order to get rid of the already existing negative programs.

    There are many rituals that can help protect your home from magical attacks. Before performing this simple ceremony, you need to arm yourself with a special candle.

    You need to buy it for Easter. After buying, without leaving the church, light a candle and immediately extinguish it with your breath. This can be done in any part of the temple, as long as you are inside it. After that, at any time you can light this candle at home and go around the whole house (apartment) 12 times clockwise. At the same time, cross each corner and say:

    Father of hosts, put up the Cross of Crosses from heaven to earth. Save my house, close it from the eyes of the black. The House of Christ is the Lord's Protection. Here the Most Pure Mother of God with her all powerful guards and keepers, protect us from all enemies, adversaries. Amen. Amen. Amen.

    You can also use the help of St. John to protect the house from curses and black magic. In this case, you will need a church wax candle, with which you need to go around the whole apartment three times clockwise. For each corner, read like this:

    Saint John is a warrior, call your soldiers, yes to my estate, around my house, on windows and on doors. Take care of my home and everyone who lives in it. Amen.

    Prayer for the protection of the family

    Often, a black magician not only poisons the life of one person, but also curses his family. There are various reasons why an evil sorcerer might use such a terrible weapon. But even such a strong curse as damage to the family can be resisted.

    To do this, you will need to read this simple prayer every morning. It is advisable that no one bothers you during the ritual, and you are alone in the room. When reading a prayer, you can stand in front of the image of the saints or just in front of the window.

    In the sea, in the ocean

    There is a white fish-flesh.

    As that fish is sick without water on a dry shore,

    So let my enemy be sick.

    To keep my family strong, strong

    Who will eat that white fish,

    That hour will not sleep, he will not live a day.

    In the name of God Christ,

    No one will break my family.

    How scales adhere to fish

    From head to tail

    So my family, be strong and whole.

    Seven crosses

    This prayer is rightfully considered one of the most powerful, used as a talisman for the whole family. If you are making a conspiracy exclusively for yourself, then read it three times and say your name, if the amulet is made for all relatives, then the text is read once for each of your relatives.

    For the ceremony, arm yourself with seven candles. It is advisable to purchase them in advance at the church. As soon as the sunrise begins, stand in front of the window, line up the candles in one line, light them and read the text of the prayer.

    I lay down the first cross from the Holy Spirit,

    The second cross from the Lord God,

    The third cross from Jesus Christ, the son of God,

    The fourth cross from the Guardian Angel of the servant of God (name),

    The fifth cross from Mother of the Most Holy Theotokos,

    Sixth cross from west to rollout,

    The seventh cross of the earth to heaven.

    Seven crosses will close the house with seven locks.

    The first castle - from dashing-misfortune of every kind,

    The second is from poverty-misery,

    The third - from the tears of combustible,

    Fourth - from theft,

    Fifth - from spending,

    The sixth - from sickness-weakness,

    And the seventh is the strongest, six closes, locks forever, guards my house.

    Prayer amulet for pregnant women

    It is very important for a pregnant woman to be strong, healthy, to be able to withstand any forces that may prevent her from carrying a child. Therefore, be sure to contact the Lord and the saints during pregnancy so that they help you bear and give birth to a healthy child.

    This can be done using one of the prayer texts. It is recited, like most similar prayers, in the morning. But if you feel an inner urge that pushes you to repeat these words several times a day, do not resist. Light a church wax candle and say the text of the prayer three times:

    The body grows fruit by the power of the Lord's good, and I ask God to help in the birth of a new life and give me the strength to endure my long-awaited child before the deadline. May the Lord hide him from evil, from the black eye, from dashing thoughts and not give me dangerous ways, so as not to interfere with the correct distribution of life forces and development will not be distorted and disturbed, for the Lord's hand will help me and at the right time will reveal to the world that who is under my heart. Amen.

    Try not to be disturbed while reading. Treat God with pure intentions, with good thoughts. You should understand that nothing should interfere with your communication with the Almighty.

    Do not go to the saints if you are very angry. Better try to calm down, and only after that ask for divine grace. Otherwise, your prayers will not reach God, as they will be said in a fit of anger.

    Prayer conspiracy to protect the child

    It is very important for every mother that everything is in order with her child. In order to protect your child from negative energy, you can use special amulets, protective rituals or read special prayers every day. There are different conspiracies that can be read at different times of the day. In the morning, as soon as the child woke up, you can read such a prayer conspiracy over him:

    May my Son of God (name), forever and ever in health, come, go through all the obstacles, O Lord. Amen.

    Before going to bed, over the bed of your son, it is best to read such a conspiracy-prayer:

    Lie in a soft cradle, then turn around on the side, fall asleep and fear nothing. May the Holy Mother of God save you, and all the dashing will go away.

    This prayer will help both toddler and adult child. It will protect you from nightmares, help you sleep well, gain strength.

    The third text should be read before important moments in your child's life. Prayer is suitable for both young and adult children. Everyone needs divine help and mother's support, so do not be lazy to use this prayer before any serious trials that await your son.

    Angel of heaven, from birth to his only preservation. Protect with white wings from enemies, all those villains, scoundrels and enemies with fire, but frighten with the Sword, but save my child. Oh Lord. Amen.

    Prayers from enemies

    Almost every person has to deal with enemies. If you are a successful person, there are always people out there who will want to hurt you. Special prayers and conspiracies from enemies will create protection from damage or curse, as well as from more material methods of revenge.

    In order to protect yourself from enemies, you can ask for help from the Virgin. She never denies a righteous request to a praying person. In order to be under the divine protection of the Mother of God, it is necessary to read the following prayer in the morning:

    Mother theotokos got up early,

    She read the prayer for her son Christ:

    “Be you, my beloved son,

    Under the gaze of the Supreme Creator, Your Father God,

    Saved everywhere, protected,

    It is defended from any disaster until a certain time. "

    The angels heard the prayer,

    All her words were conveyed to the Lord God.

    So it would be for me, God's servant (name),

    To know this mercy

    To avoid trouble in your home.

    God bless, Holy Trinity, help!

    In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

    Now and ever and forever and ever. Amen"

    You can also read a prayer to St. John from enemies. This method is only suitable for protection against one specific enemy, whose name you know. Remember, if you know for sure who wants to harm you, you should not be angry and do evil to this person, on the contrary, you need to ask God and the saints for love, kindness and harmony to appear in his heart. This conspiracy-prayer has nothing to do with damage and conspiracies for revenge, it is an appeal to the saint for protection from the enemy. There is no need to fear the consequences, there will be none.

    In order to ask for help from St. John, you should go to the temple. You will need to buy a candle before the service, defend the service, and then put a candle near the image of St. John with the words:

    John father, you conquered the enemy regiments, conquer the heart of my enemy (name).

    After saying the prayer, bow low 9 times.

    Guardian from evil people

    If, due to circumstances, you are in a team where they may envy you or wish you harm, be sure to protect yourself with prayer. Such a talisman against evil people creates a strong defense that no black magic will break through.

    You need to go to the window every morning before work or before going to school, be baptized and read this text:

    Mother, Mother Most Holy Theotokos Three-handed, you protect all the righteous people, pray for me before God. Yes, cover me with your miraculous veil from all enemies and evil foes. May it be so from now on until the end of the century. Amen.

    Prayer amulet is really the strongest protection for all your loved ones. Each person is able to protect himself, his relatives, his home. Therefore, be confident in your own strengths, turn to the saints and the Lord. Pray sincerely, then your prayers will be heard, and you will find yourself under divine cover.

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    On this day, there were extensive festivities, people drank and walked. It was believed that it is not a sin to drink a lot if the bins are full. It was not for nothing that they said: "I got rid of it!" On winter Nicholas, it is customary to make conspiracies against alcoholism. You can order a prayer service for the health of a relative with an alcohol addiction. On December 19, Saint Nicholas brings gifts to children, and relatives read prayers for their health.

    Charm-prayer. The power of prayer. Protective prayers for all occasions

    The life of every person in the modern world is filled not only with joyful experiences, but also with numerous fears and anxieties. Often a person feels utterly helpless in the face of life's difficulties, negative emotions and unwanted events. What can help to overcome difficulties and trials by fate?

    The Power of Preserving Prayer

    Prayers, conspiracies and charms miraculously affect the human lot. Some of them were tested repeatedly, and in all cases there was confirmation that they had colossal power. Prayers-amulets for all occasions saved more than one person from evil doom. The trouble immediately recedes, the negativity dissipates, and the enemies no longer cause trouble. The power of such a prayer increases when you read it for your loved ones. In order to avoid another misfortune, it is better to read them daily.

    A protective prayer is a kind of shutter or shield. Why is she so powerful? The word has tremendous power. Each has its own vibration. Unkind speeches can easily bring trouble, a curse, even if unconscious, can even break a person's life.

    But prayer, which protects from evil and misfortune, carries a special energy. When a person utters prayer words and conspiracies, he creates a protective energy field around himself, through which no negative can pass. This is protection against bad vibrations.

    What are the miraculous prayers and how to pronounce them correctly?

    Types of protective prayers

    • Amulet-prayer against human envy, anger and ill will.
    • Protective to prevent conflict, disease and poverty.
    • Prayers against corruption and evil eye, for children.
    • Daily conspiracies for all occasions from all problems and adversities.
    • From malice, curse or black magic.

    There are protective prayers that can and should be read daily, and there are those that should be said only in specific cases.

    The power of prayer also depends on the state of mind in which it is pronounced. You need to concentrate fully on the words and read them with faith and sincerity.

    The magic of the word

    If there is a need for protection from magical influences or an evil person, there is a good method that lasts for a long time. The amulet-prayer is not simple words uttered unconsciously. This is a whole complex of actions with which a person can protect himself and his loved ones from all adversity and misfortune. He can get rid of problems in family life, at work, with health and in other areas of life.

    Strong prayer-amulet

    The words of the prayer must be said at least once a month. Prayer will be more effective if you read it with lit church candles. You will also need holy water, paper and a pen. It is especially auspicious to read the waxing moon. On paper, you can write anything that you fear, such as divorce, illness, or problems at work. Only it is necessary to formulate fears clearly, so the power of prayer will only grow. Then the leaf must be sprinkled with holy water and set on fire. While the paper is burning, it is necessary to read the following phrases: “I burn all serious problems. I take them away from myself. Let the dense forests, deep reservoirs and tree bark accept them. I will send all the bitter misfortunes and problems of life away from me. From the evil eye, from unkind people, from evil sorcerers and witches. Prayer to the Lord will become my protection, Water and fire will cleanse my destiny and strengthen my protection. The Servant of God (name) is free from all evil, He got rid of all evil spirits and drove all misfortunes away, It will be just like that and in no other way. Amen".

    The amulet-prayer is read three times. After the leaf burns out, the ashes from it should be scattered in the wind, saying the following words: "I blow all misfortunes, let them leave me today and in the future!" After the ritual, the candles must be extinguished and no longer used.

    Protecting prayer to the Mother of God

    The prayer-amulet from the evil eye and damage is read early in the morning. “I am addressing you, Holy Mother of God! For help to you and for support! As you protected your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, from everyone's evil, so save me, the servant of God (name) from evil intent, bad people and the evil eye, from black magic and cursing words. I appeal to you with prayer and repentance. Save me from all evil, keep my soul and body clean! Thank you for your help and support. I always praise your name. Amen!" The amulet-prayer is read seven times. After that, it is necessary to wash with the words: "All the bad things are washed off me, the protection is strengthened with water."

    Orthodox prayers from the evil eye

    Any negative impact from the outside can be neutralized by Christian prayers. For example, the "Our Father" amulet prayer is considered very effective. Of course, it is better to worry about your safety in advance and read prayers every day. It will be difficult for dark forces to penetrate your life. But if there is already damage, then certain conspiracies are needed here, and you need to be clearly aware of which words to pronounce, at what time and in what place. Prayers from corruption are real magical conspiracies with creative energy. The Orthodox Church advises all the saints to read Christian prayers every day.

    Ritual from corruption

    In order to carry out the ritual correctly, you need to collect spring water. It is necessary to cross the vessel with water and say the prayer: "Forgive me, Lord, and have mercy." Then three pieces of coal must be placed in a cup of water and read the conspiracy: “The Most Holy Mother of God took water, took it and baptized it, she saved from evil fate. All tests for men and women, lessons for girls and boys have been rewritten, everything is provided, everything is eaten away. There should be no evil fate, not living in the body of a servant of God (name), not spoiling the blood and not tormenting the heart. To the glory of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen".

    After reading, you need to monitor your well-being. If the condition has worsened, drowsiness overcomes, weakness and malaise envelops, this means that the negative leaves your body. In this case, you need to wash your face with holy water. But if you did not feel anything at all, it means that there is no corruption on you, and the reasons for concern should not be sought in magic.

    Prayer on the road

    Especially those who go on a long journey need the protection of the Lord. Any trouble can happen on the way, and in order to prevent it, you should humbly turn to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, who is considered the patron saint of travelers. The amulet prayer for the road is as follows:

    “Oh, Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, hear our prayer,

    Ask for us (names) from the Lord our God, to forgive us all sins,

    He was indulgent towards us and did not pour out His anger on us.

    Save us the trouble on the road

    Let me not drown in the abyss of sins.

    Pray to God for us, Saint Nicholas,

    For our peaceful life and for the salvation of our souls. Amen".

    Archangel Michael - protector of the righteous

    The great protector Archangel Michael has gained immense fame and respect in many religions. This is the first Angel called by the Lord himself to fight evil and negativity. Prayer to Michael the Archangel - the strongest protection and amulet - is inscribed in the Chudov Monastery in the Kremlin. Everyone who turns to Saint Michael in this place will definitely receive protection and His patronage. It is this prayer that is recommended to be read in danger, even if it has not yet come.

    Ancient prayer to Saint Michael

    The prayer itself has a kind of preface, which says that everyone who repeats it will get rid of the devil's influence, corruption, and the envy of others. And even when a person leaves this world, his soul will not go to hell. The text of the prayer itself reads as follows:

    “Lord Jesus Christ, come Thy servant - Angel Michael to help Thy servant (name), deliver him from all visible and secret enemies! O protector, Archangel Michael, destroyer of demons, eliminate all unkind people who are fighting with me, erase them like sheep, and scatter their dust in the wind. Oh, the Great Lord, the heavenly Archangel Michael, the first intercessor and commander of all heavenly powers! Awaken in me, a sinner, a great intercessor and helper in troubles and sorrows, grievances and sorrows, a quiet refuge on the desert land and deep rivers, seas and oceans. Deliver me, O great Archangel Michael, from all deceit, hear me, sinful servant (name), falling down with a prayer in you and calling out your name, come to my aid and hear my humble prayer. Conquer all my enemies by the power of the Holy Cross of Christ the Life-giving and the intercessory prayers of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, our intercessor, all holy angels, prophets and apostles, in the name of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, Saint Andrew the Holy One, all the greatest martyrs and Divine powers. Oh, Holy Angel Michael! Help me, your sinful servant (name), save me from tremors, floods and burning fire, sudden death and other evil, from fierce enemies and guile. Now and ever and forever and ever. Amen".

    The fruits of prayer

    This prayer is able to provide reliable protection to the person praying and all his loved ones. It is better to read it every day at any time.

    A person who turns with this prayer to Archangel Michael is always under the patronage of the saint. No evil, calamities, enemies, witchcraft and temptations, and even the torments of hell are capable of causing trouble to the prayer. Sincere prayer will always be answered.

    Some people don't know how to pray with Orthodox texts. In this case, you can appeal to the saints in your own words, coming from the depths of your heart.

    For example, you can say: “Hear my humble request, help and intercede for me or for my loved ones!”. This phrase is a talisman. But it is better that these short words first of all be addressed to Saint Michael.

    You can also pray with your own words any day and at any time. After this appeal, it is not forbidden to voice any specific request of yours - to name what exactly you need the help of St. Michael the Archangel.

    Who can pray to the saints?

    Every person (even an avid atheist) can appeal to saintly persons. For Archangel Michael, it does not matter who turns to him, what gender, nationality and religion. In difficult times, he always comes to the rescue and provides support.

    Strong prayer-amulet for all the saints has tremendous power. She is able to protect not only from external enemies and troubles, but also from internal discord, for example, from confusion, despondency, grief, confusion of thoughts.

    Often, saintly persons are asked for protection in fear, natural disasters, anxieties, doubts, and troubles. These are strong conspiracies from corruption, evil people, wars and death.

    The Lord hears all souls calling out to him. The main condition is the sincerity of the request and the belief that they will definitely help you. And it doesn't even matter what words you say, read or your own, invented. Sometimes prayer in your own words, coming from the depths of the soul, has a greater effect than phrases from a prayer book, read mechanically.

    • I bring to your attention an Orthodox prayer for the return of your beloved wife, addressed to Blessed Staritsa Matrona of Moscow. The spouse will come to you and forgive you.

    It is already full for you to be killed, remembering past grievances. Life passes inexorably fast, and there is no time left for empty chores and gossip. Some of you are obliged to be the first to repent.

    You are created for an unquenchable hearth, not thoughts of retribution and vengeance. And it doesn't matter which of you is more guilty than the rest. Return fate to square one. Believing that Matronushka will hear, she will bless and help.

    It is never too late to pacify pride and put on family happiness. Dear ones, and you do not believe those who speak of wasted and wasted time. If you love, act without a dull hesitation.


    author : Site administrator | 11.03.2019

    With blessed joy I am ready to bring to your attention an Orthodox prayer for renting an apartment, addressed to St. Spyridon of Trimyphus.

    I borrowed the text itself from the manuscripts that I unexpectedly inherited. And if you want to attract neat and solvent tenants, then you should immediately start a leisurely prayer.

    Unfortunately, more and more often you can meet dishonest people. You hooked up scammers without taking money in advance. As they say, they trusted the honorable persuasion. Come to the dwelling, and the little people are gone.

    There are often cases when once cozy rooms, in the literal sense of the word, get littered. They manage to break both the refrigerator and the washing machine. For this reason, my dears, I do not advise you to buy too expensive furniture for a rented premises.


    author : Site administrator | 05.03.2019

    In order not to go to school today and be able to ask for time off, read the Orthodox prayer addressed to the holy blessed Xenia of Petersburg. You will lie down for a day.

    Dear students, it is useless to deceive a mother and pretend to be sick. Always be honest and conscientious. Sometimes, an incredible weakness is felt in the body.

    It is possible that it is a cold and overwork. And parental strictness does not allow you to contact them. The chances of not going to school are greatly increased if you puzzle yourself with prayer readings ahead of time.

    Waking up in the morning, decide on persuasion. After staying at home, be sure to do all your homework. If you are sick, do not forget to call a doctor. Perhaps one day will really be enough for you.


    author : Site administrator | 05.03.2019

    For your child to go to school without fear and with pleasure, read the Orthodox prayer addressed to our Lord Jesus Christ.

    He will stop skipping classes. Thanks to your diligence, the child will pull himself up in all lagging subjects. You will no longer blush at a parent-teacher conference.

    We will reprimand all witchcraft lapses. If a noisy company beckons the child, we will put a barrier. Not only memory will improve, but also attention.

    Prayer is so powerful that it gives confidence to those who consider themselves of little value, awkward, and embarrassed by everything.


    author : Site administrator | 04.03.2019

    So that you yourself, mom and grandmother live a long time, humbly read the Orthodox prayer addressed to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Mother of God will bless you.

    Dear ones, we all worry about our relatives and friends. Our parents are getting older, and it's hard not to notice the lonely wrinkles in their eyes. Lord, how much more have they measured!

    And they do not give the thought to sleep, and the soul becomes sad. Is there really no way to extend the length of life? Well, at least for a year or two.

    In the manuscripts I inherited, I found a rare prayer text. And if you begin to pronounce it patiently, then the Lord God will respond to your urgent request.

    This book is your key to understanding the forces of light and a guiding thread on the way to them. You will learn all about the hierarchy of angels and demons, which since the beginning of time have been waging an irreconcilable struggle for human souls. Armed with a powerful shield of miraculous prayers, you will protect yourself and your loved ones from any attack of dark forces: be it an evil eye, damage, love spell, curse or a thrown word in anger. Learn to ask for protection from your guardian angel and the Forces of Light. You will find out which icon to bow to when addressing the patron saint with one or another request. Prayers, conspiracies, charms, containing a powerful energy charge, will give healing from ailments, love and harmony to your family, and your children - health, obedience, love of life, academic success and personal happiness.

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    The given introductory fragment of the book A powerful prayer shield for all occasions. Prayers, amulets, conspiracies (L. N. Melik, 2013) provided by our book partner - the company Liters.

    Part one

    Forces of Light and Darkness

    Look for great meaning in everything. All events that occur around us and with us have their own meaning. Nothing happens without a reason ...

    Nectarius Optinsky

    And, having called his twelve disciples, He gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and heal all weaknesses.

    Gospel of Matthew

    God and His powers are with us

    "All heavenly ranks, Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Powers, Authorities, Beginnings, Archangels and Angels, pray to God for me, a sinner, merciful and merciful to you ..."

    This petition is set forth in the rules for Divine Communion, which were published in 1906 in the Pochaev Lavra, and is pronounced during the prayer for the coming sleep.

    My father, constantly reading and studying religious literature, often brings up very interesting data. And this time he discovered an interesting fact about the prayer to the Honest Cross, printed in the Psalter in 1651-1652 in Moscow during the time of the Tsar and Grand Duke of All Russia Alexei Mikhailovich. Here is this prayer:

    “May God rise, and be dispersed and antagonize Him. And let those who hate Him flee from His presence. As the smoke disappears, let it disappear, as the wax melts from the face of the fire, so let the demons perish from the face of those who love God and are signified by the sign of the cross, and let us rejoice in the river: Rejoice, Most Honorable and Life-giving Cross of the Lord, drive the demons away by force on You our drunken Lord Jesus Christ who descended into hell and trampled the power of the devil and gave us His Honest Cross to drive out every adversary.

    Oh, Most Honorable and Life-giving Cross of the Lord! Help me with the Most Holy Lady the Virgin Mary and with all the holy heavenly powers, always, now, and ever, and forever and ever. Amen".

    Later, the words "heavenly powers" were removed from prayer. Why? But we, Orthodox Christians, need to know and remember what these forces represent for us, to which we turn in our prayers. And of course, the invocation of the heavenly powers to help is of great importance. Most often, referring to the heavenly forces, we mean angels and archangels. What do we know about them?

    In the beginning, first of all, the visible world and man, God created heaven out of nothing, that is, the spiritual, invisible world, or angels.

    All the ranks of angels, all the heavenly host, are mated together, cannot be compared with the Holy Spirit. God created all spirits, and created all good, graceful ones. Some of them, of their own free will, remained good. Others, also of their own free will, departed from God and became the beginning of all evil.

    Good spirits are called angels and are divided into other authorities, live in heaven, descend to earth and perform actions on it.

    Evil spirits are called demons, demons, devils, but the most important of them is called the devil, or Satan. Their place of residence, according to the definition of the Apostle Paul in the Epistle to the Ephesians, is heavenly, or the air, the surface of the Earth, or the underworld. In all these spheres, they act according to the law of limited beings; angels are also subject to this law (that is, they are limited in their actions). Angels always appear to people in the form of people glorified by the grace of God.

    Scripture speaks of their face, chest, arms, skin, clothing, that they fly, sit, speak, hear what they say. Scripture attributes to them the same feelings that a person has: sight, hearing, smell, touch.

    Two angels came to Sodom in the evening in the form of husbands. Lot invited them to his home as travelers, not knowing that they were angels. Angels warned Lot that Sodom and Gomorrah would be burned with brimstone and fire from the Lord from heaven.

    The movement of the angel from place to place, his occupation of a certain place, is especially depicted by the Evangelist Luke, when he describes the Archangel Gabriel, who appeared to Zechariah and preached to him the birth of the Forerunner of the Lord. At the same time, the archangel stood on the right side of the censer altar.

    The same archangel Gabriel was sent by God to the Galilee city of Nazareth to the Blessed Virgin Mary and announced to Her that She would become the Mother of God. He entered her dwelling, fulfilled the command of God and left her.

    The Gospel of Mark says that the myrrh-bearing wives, having come to the tomb (cave) in which the body of the Lord was laid, saw there a young man dressed in white clothes and sitting on the right side. It was an angel. Evangelist Matthew says that this angel, descending from heaven, rolled the stone into the grave cave and sat on the stone. His face was like lightning, his clothes were white as snow.

    Demons also have the ability to move from place to place for wandering to different places. The Lord said about an unclean spirit that when he leaves a person, he passes through waterless places, seeking rest. And he returns again, but with a lot of even more evil spirits, and lives in a dwelling. Spirits have their dwelling place, their abode.

    So, let's start with the Light Forces, called angels and archangels.

    Angels and Archangels

    Angel - means messenger in Greek and Hebrew.

    Angels represent the lowest rank of the hierarchy who communicates directly with people.

    Angels are incorporeal spirits (therefore invisible) and immortal, like our souls, but God endowed them with higher powers and abilities than a person. Their minds are more perfect than ours. They always fulfill the will of God, they are sinless and occupy the highest step in the series of creation.

    According to the definition of St. Athanasius the Great, "Angels are living beings, intelligent, disembodied, capable of chanting, immortal."

    Many times angels appeared in a visible way, taking on a bodily form, when God sent them to people to say or proclaim His will.

    At baptism, God gives every Christian a guardian angel, who invisibly guards a person throughout his earthly life from troubles and misfortunes, warns against sins, protects in the terrible hour of death, does not leave even after death.

    Angels appeared in Christian art at the end of the 8th century. Seraphim and cherubim are often depicted with six wings, which may have eyes. Angels usually have halos and a pair of wings and can hold scrolls, crucifix-related items, or musical instruments.

    In Judaist, Christian and Muslim mythologies, these are disembodied beings who serve the one God, fight with his enemies, give Him praise, transfer the will of the Divine to the elements and people. Those angels who fell away from God turned into demons. God created countless numbers of them.

    As for the appearance of angels, it is impossible to describe it with any certainty, because the true angelic appearance is inaccessible to human perception.

    Saint Demetrius of Rostov points out that "Angels were created in the image and likeness of God, just as man was subsequently created." According to Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov, the image of God in angels, as in man, is contained in the mind, from which the thought is born and in which the thought is contained, and from which the spirit emanates, which promotes thought and revives it. This image, like the Prototype, is invisible, just as it is invisible in people. He governs the whole being in the angel as well as in man. Angels are beings that are limited by time and space and, therefore, have their own external appearance.

    Angels often appear to people in the form of fiery symbols, and, as Pseudo-Dionysius says, theology “represents fiery wheels ... both fiery animals and men, as it were, lightning-like,” sometimes they take the guise of people, animals and plants.

    Guardian angel

    As soon as we left the holy font of baptism, as soon as we were born into spiritual life, each of us is presented with a spiritual guardian, one of those holy blessed Spirits who “see the face of the Heavenly Father”. This guardian is our guardian angel. He is inseparable from us all our lives, protects us from all dangers, warns against all troubles, inspires good intentions, holy thoughts, helps in good, distracts from evil, rejoices with us when we do something good, and grieves and cries when we fall in sin, when we darken our souls with some kind of evil. He incessantly prays for us, he will be with us when the angel of death appears for our soul, will accompany us through the terrible transitions (ordeals of the soul) to the throne of the Most High, he will be with us at the Last Judgment of Christ when the book of our life is opened, our behavior, will be ready to protect us, to pray for us to the Lord.

    The early Christian theologian Origen believed that each person had one good angel who taught him, and one evil one who tempted him all his life. In the Middle Ages, the belief in guardian angels was widespread.

    We must admire the mercy of God towards us, sinful creatures, because the Lord has appointed His holy angels to keep us from evil spirits that always seek to harm our bodies and souls. As Psalm 90 says: “For he will command his angels about you - to guard you in all your ways. They will carry you in their arms, so you do not stumble on a stone with your foot. "

    And now that you have become a little familiar with the concept of angels, I want to bring to your attention the interpretation of the ancient saints about angels. Read them carefully, reflect. There is really something to think about here.

    About angels

    So, the angel is an entity endowed with the mind, always moving, possessing free will, incorporeal, serving God, who by grace has received immortality for its nature. What kind of essence and definition is known only by the Creator. It is called incorporeal, and also immaterial in comparison with us, for everything that is compared with God, who alone cannot be compared with anything, turns out to be both gross and material, because only the Divine in truth is immaterial and incorporeal.

    So, the angel is a rational nature, and endowed with intelligence, and possessing free will, changeable at will, that is, voluntarily changeable. For everything that is created - and is changeable, is invariable - only that which is not created. And all that is reasonable is endowed with free will.

    He is incapable of repentance because he is incorporeal. For man received repentance because of the weakness of the body.

    He is immortal, not by nature, but by grace. For everything that began also ends because of its nature. But God alone is eternally existing, or rather, He is even higher than eternity. For the Creator of times is not dependent on time, but He is above time.

    Angels are the second, comprehended only by the mind, retinues who have light from the first and beginningless Light: they do not need language and hearing, but without a spoken word communicating their own thoughts and decisions to each other.

    They are describable, because when they are in heaven, they are not on earth, and they are sent by God to earth - they do not remain in heaven, but they are not limited to walls and doors and door locks and seals, for they are not limited ... For by nature, and in the proper sense, only that which is not created is not limited. For every creature is limited by the God who created it. They have sanctification from the Spirit, they prophesy with the assistance of Divine grace, they have no need for marriage, since they are not mortal.

    And since they are minds, they are also in places that are comprehended only by the mind, not being described in a bodily way, for, as far as their nature is concerned, they do not take form as bodies, and do not have a threefold dimension, spiritually present and act , wherever they are ordered, and cannot be here and there at the same time and act.

    Whether they are essentially equal or different from each other, we do not know. Knows only one God who created them, Who knows everything. They differ from each other in light and position, or, according to the light, they have a position, or according to the position, they participate in the light, and illuminate each other due to the superiority of rank or nature. But it is clear that those angels who stand above communicate both light and knowledge to those who are below.

    They are strong and ready for the fulfillment of the Divine will, and due to the speed inherent in their nature, they immediately find themselves everywhere, wherever Divine beckon commands, and protect the regions of the earth: and rule peoples and countries, depending on how the Creator commanded them, and manage our affairs, and help us. In general, both by Divine will and by Divine command, they are above us and are always near God.

    They are difficult to incline towards evil and are unshakable not by nature, but by grace and attachment to good alone. They see God as much as possible for them, and have this food.

    Being above us, as incorporeal and free from all passion, they, however, are not dispassionate, for only the Divine is dispassionate.

    They are transformed into whatever the Lord God commands, and thus they appear to people and reveal Divine secrets to them. They are in heaven and have one occupation: singing praises to God and serving His Divine will.

    Angels differ among themselves in the degree of perfection and in the nature of their ministry and are divided into several ranks.

    Initially, the angels were one, but later, in the kabbalistic tradition, a division into nine angelic ranks appeared. These nine ranks are divided into three triads. According to this hierarchy, the angels proper, together with the archangels and principles, belong to the third triad, which is characterized by close proximity to the world and man.

    And as the holiest, most sacred, and the most excellent in theology Dionysius the Areopagite says, all theology, that is, Divine Scripture, named nine heavenly entities, the Divine priestly instructor divides them into three triple classes. And he says that the first class is the one that is always near God and which is allowed to be united with Him in the closest way and directly: the class of six-winged seraphim, and the many-read cherubim, and the most holy thrones.

    The second: the class of Dominions, and Forces, and Authorities, and the third and last: the class of beginnings, and archangels, and angels.

    The rank of the archangels “communicates with the first that turns to the premium Beginning through the authorities, conforms to it as much as possible, and preserves unity among the angels in accordance with leadership. With the latter, it is communicated by the fact that he, as a rite determined for teaching, receives Divine illumination through the first Forces according to the property of the hierarchy, transfers them with love to the angels, and through the angels informs us to the extent that someone is capable of Divine insights. "

    Some, of course, say that angels came into existence before all creation, just as Gregory the Theologian says: "First of all, He invents angelic and heavenly powers, and this thought became a deed." Others say that they took place after the first heaven appeared. And that they happened before the formation of man, everyone agrees. I agree with the theologian. For it was necessary that, first of all, an essence comprehended only by the mind was created and under such circumstances - an essence perceived by feeling, and then this very person, consisting of both.

    Those who say that angels are the creators of any kind of entity are mistaken. For as creatures, angels are not creators. But the Creator of everything, the Provider, and the Preserver is God, who alone is uncreated, and praised and glorified in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

    Thus, all this can be represented in the form of a diagram, which is mentioned in the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius (in the 15th century A.D.) and in the Epistles of the Apostle Paul (Col. 16; Eph. 21):

    Hierarchies

    The angelic ranks are divided into three hierarchies: higher, middle and lower. Each hierarchy consists of three ranks. All the ranks of the heavenly powers bear the general name of angels - in essence of their ministry. The Lord reveals His will to the highest angels, and they, in turn, enlighten the rest. Thus, the mysteries of God follow a descending hierarchy from seraphim to angels, and each subsequent hierarchy is dedicated only to the knowledge that it is capable of containing at a given level of its spiritual development.

    Only the last two faces have contact with people: it is here that all the angels of biblical origin, named and unnamed, are included.

    Seraphim - this is the name of the highest and closest to God of the nine ranks of the angels. Translate literally - "Those that burn, warm."

    Pseudo-Dionysius explains this by the fact that the seraphim are in constant rotation around God, therefore, the heat they emit is like lightning.

    They surround the throne of the Lord and, therefore, are the closest servants, executors of the will of the Heavenly King. According to the description of the prophet Isaiah, they had wings (6) - belonging to birds, faces - belonging to humans and legs - belonging to all animals. But this does not mean that the seraphim were like earthly beings. The closest servants of the Heavenly King, as being incorporeal and perfect, cannot be such. The description of the prophet only shows in what visible form he saw them. The song of the seraphim included a threefold repetition of the name Holy, indicating the trinity of the person in God.

    In the vision of the prophet Isaiah, the seraphim have a human appearance, different from ours, with six wings, symbols of higher spiritual abilities. The first pair of wings signifies the fear of God, the consciousness of one's insignificance before the Creator. They cover their faces with them, as unworthy to look at the Lord of hosts. The second pair of wings covers the legs, as unworthy for the Lord to look at them. The third pair of wings is for constantly flying and tirelessly fulfilling the heavenly commands of your King and Lord and incessantly singing the song: “Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord of hosts! All the earths are full of His glory! And the sound of their voice shook the foundations of the building, and the temple was filled with the smoke of incense. "

    Seraphim are always depicted in tongues of flame, singing praise to God, and rule the heavens. They are also considered fiery, because they are enveloped in the flame of eternal love.

    As you know, Lucifer came out of the rank of seraphim. The fallen prince was actually considered an angel who overshadowed everyone else until he was deprived of God's mercy.

    As for the name of the seraphim, it clearly shows their incessant and everlasting striving for the Divine, their fervor and speed, their ardent, constant, unremitting and unswerving impetuosity, also their ability to really elevate the lower ones to the higher, to excite and ignite them to a similar heat, to have an enlightening a force capable of driving away and destroying all obscuration.

    Cherubim - in the heavenly hierarchy of Dionysius the Areopagite, they are placed next to the seraphim in the first face, thus occupying the second place among the nine angelic ranks. Cherubim act as guards. The Cherubim was assigned to guard the path to the Tree of Life. Their images in human form, but with wings, were placed in the Holy of Holies - over the ark of the covenant and in the purgatory.

    The word "cherub" occurs for the first time in Genesis in the words: "And (God) placed (God) in the east of the garden of Eden a Cherubim with a flaming sword to guard the way to the Tree of Life." Cherubim are mentioned when creating the Temple of Solomon. They are depicted in the form of a person, but with wings. The Lord appears to be seated on cherubim, which makes it possible to see their special closeness to God. Cherubim surround the throne of the Almighty and the Lamb in heaven and incessantly day and night glorify His infinite perfections, not only in the great work of creation, but also in our redemption. In them is the fullness of the highest life and the highest reflection of the glory of God. Dionysius says: "The name of the Cherubim means their power to know and contemplate God, the ability to receive the Upper Light and contemplate Divine splendor at its very first manifestation, their wise art to teach and impart to others the wisdom given to them themselves."

    Thrones - "many-eyed" - are presented as fiery wheels, symbolizing Divine greatness. They are the third rank in the angelic hierarchy. These are the angels of justice, and it is their responsibility to fulfill God's decisions.

    And when Dionysius says that "God is judging us justly," he means thrones. Thrones are apparently the most unusual angels in appearance, as they are depicted as wheels of fire. Corresponding descriptions are found in Elijah, who was taken to heaven by a fiery tornado.

    According to the medieval mystic Jan Ruisbrok, seraphim, cherubim and thrones never take part in human conflicts, but are with us when we peacefully contemplate God and experience the constant love of our hearts. They generate Divine love in people.

    Pseudo-Dionysius reports: “The name of the Highest Thrones means that they are completely free from any earthly attachment and, constantly rising above the distant ones, approximately strive for the higher, with all their forces motionless and firmly attached to the truly Highest being, accepting his Divine suggestion in complete dispassion and immateriality, means also the fact that they bear God and obediently fulfill His Divine commands. "

    Domination Is the first rank of beings given free will to ensure the daily functioning of the universe. It is believed that this rank "Rules the Angels, who constantly praise God, through them flows the mercy of God, and therefore the Dominions are sometimes called" the ways of mercy. " Dominions are the face from which angels "rule" over entire countries come from.

    According to Pseudo-Dionysius, “The significant name of the holy Dominions ... means a certain non-servile and free from any low attachment to the earthly, elevation to the heavenly, standing above any humiliating slavery, alien to any humiliation, removed from all inequality to oneself, constantly striving for true Domination and as much as possible sacredly transforming into the likeness that is perfect to Him, both itself and everything subordinate to it, not clinging to anything that exists by chance, but always wholly turning to the truly existing and incessantly joining the sovereign Godlikeness ”.

    Forces known as "sparkling" or "shining" are angels of miracles, help, blessings that appear during battles in the name of faith. It is believed that David received the support of the Forces to fight Goliath. The powers are the angels from whom Abraham received power when God told him to sacrifice his only son Isaac. The main responsibilities of these angels are to perform miracles on Earth. They are allowed to interfere with everything about physical laws on Earth, but they are also responsible for enforcing those laws.

    These ranks, the fifth in the scheme of Dionysius, are given valor as well as mercy to humanity.

    Together with the Dominions and Authorities, the Forces make up the second triad (rank). Pseudo-Dionysius says: “The name of the holy Powers means a certain powerful and invincible courage, as far as possible communicated to them, reflected in all their God-like actions in order to remove from themselves everything that could diminish and weaken the Divine illumination given to them, strongly striving for imitation of God, not remaining idle from laziness, but unswervingly looking at the highest and all-strengthening Power and, as far as possible, in its own strength making Her image, completely turned to Her as a source of Forces and God-likeness, descending to the lower powers to impart power to them. "

    Authorities occupy a special place in the hierarchy due to the fact that God created them first. The authorities protect the world from being captured by demons, protect our souls and act as God's helpers against evil. They are believed to reside in the region between the first and second heavens and patrol it to prevent the "devil's infiltration".

    At the personal level, the Authorities intervene whenever a struggle between good and evil begins.

    "Let every soul be submissive to the highest authorities, for there is no authority not from God, the existing authorities from God are established ..."

    After our death, the Authorities help us to pass to another world.

    In Christian mythological concepts, Power is an angelic creature. According to the Gospels, the Authorities can be both good forces and minions of evil. As Pseudo-Dionysius says, “The name of the holy Powers signifies the Rite equal to Divine Dominions and Powers, slender and capable of receiving Divine insights, and the device of premium spiritual dominion, not using the sovereign powers that have been granted for evil, but freely and respectfully to the Divine, both self-ascending and leading others to Him and as it is possible, likening to the Source and Giver of all power and depicting Him ... in the perfectly true use of their sovereign power. "

    Beginnings Are legions of angels defending religion. They constitute the seventh face in the hierarchy of Dionysius, next immediately before the archangels. The beginnings give strength to the peoples of the Earth to find and survive their destiny. Dionysius claimed that this face "watched the human leaders." They are also believed to be the guardians of the peoples of the world.

    In the Epistle to the Romans, the Apostle Paul says: "For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor beginnings, nor powers, nor present, nor future, can separate us from the love of God in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord."

    Pseudo-Dionysius says: “The name of the heavenly Principalities means the God-like ability to command and govern in accordance with the sacred order, befitting the commanding Powers, both completely referring to the Beginning without a Beginning, and in others, as it is characteristic of the Principalities, to guide Him, to imprint in oneself, as far as possible, the image of the source Beginning and finally, the ability to express His premium leadership in the comfort of the commanding Powers ...

    The proclaiming order of the Leadership, Archangels and Angels alternately rules over human Hierarchies, so that the ascent and appeal to God, communion and union with Him, which from God benevolently extends to all Hierarchies, is implanted through communication and poured out in the most sacred harmonious order " ...

    All earthly ruling activities should be aimed at pleasing God and protecting faith in God from any encroachment on the true interpretations of serving God, protecting the true path to God, according to the Holy Gospel and the commandments of Jesus Christ.

    Archangels - in the Christian faith, they represent senior angels.

    The host of angels, according to Holy Scripture, is numerous. And only seven main angels in the Orthodox Church have personal names, namely: Michael; Gabriel; Raphael; Uriel; Salafail; Jehudiel; Barachiel.

    Of the seven archangels, the Holy Church recognizes Michael as the Supreme Spirit.

    "Who, like God" - signifies his name; who, like God, expresses all his deeds, the Hebrew "likeness of God" is the protector of people. He was the first to rebel against Dennitsa (Satan), when this one rebelled against the Almighty. And we know how this first terrible war ended: the overthrow of Dennitsa from the sky.

    Since then, Michael has not ceased to work for the glory of the Creator and Lord of all, for the cause of the salvation of the human race, for the Church and her children.

    Therefore, the Archangel Michael is always depicted in a warlike form, with a spear or sword in his hand, having a dragon under his feet, that is, a spirit of malice. The white banner adorning the top of his spear means the unchanging purity and unshakable loyalty of the angels to the Heavenly King, and the cross with which the spear ends indicates that the war against the kingdom of darkness and the victory over it by the archangel himself is committed in the name of the Cross of Christ, accomplished through patience, humility , selflessness. Sometimes he is depicted with scales (symbolizing justice), with which he weighs souls on the Day of Judgment.

    Michael the archangel. His name is found three times in the book of the prophet Daniel, in the Epistle of the Apostle Jude and in the Revelation of St. John. The prophet Daniel (X: 13) calls it one of the first princes, and in the chapter XM (Art. 1) the great prince, standing for the sons of their people... The Holy Apostle Jude calls him Michael the Archangel (v. 9). The book of Revelation (XII: 7) describes the battle in heaven, in which Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and the dragon and the angels fought against him (XII: 7). The veneration of the holy Archangel Michael in the Orthodox Church dates back to the most ancient times. He is commemorated on November 8 and September 6 according to the old style.

    The second place among the Archangels belongs to Gabriel , his name means "Power of God" (Hebrew). This archangel, in the work of serving human salvation, is especially a herald and minister of the omnipotence of God.

    Therefore, the Church calls him a minister of miracles. The Holy Church depicts him sometimes with a paradise branch in his hand, which was brought to them by the Mother of God, and sometimes with a lantern in his right hand, inside which a candle is burning, and in his left hand with a jasper mirror, or with lilies, or giving lilies to the Virgin Mary (white lilies are a symbol of purity).

    Gabriel (Luke, I: 19) - one of the seven main angels, raising the prayers of people to God. First of all, God commanded the archangel Gabriel to explain to the prophet Daniel the vision of a ram and a goat, as well as the mystery of the seventy weeks (Dan., VIII: 16; IX: 21). In the Quran of Mohammed, he is given special honor and praise.

    Raphael , or "Help and healing of God" (Hebrew "healer of God." Comrade, III: 16), is the name of the third archangel. There is a whole book in the Holy Scriptures, which describes how this archangel in the form of a man accompanies the righteous Tobias. He freed his bride from an evil spirit, restored sight to his aged father Tobit, and then ascended from them to heaven. Therefore, this archangel is depicted with a healing vessel in his left hand, and leading Tobias with his right.

    The angel who protects humanity, especially the pilgrims, is usually depicted in the attire of a pilgrim with a pilgrim's staff, a shell and a bottle of water.

    The name of the fourth archangel - Uriel , that is, "Light, or fire of God" (Hebrew), an angel who sends a person the light of Divine wisdom, is most often depicted with a scroll and a book or with a sword, and in his left hand with a flame descending downward. As an angel of Light, he enlightens the minds of people with open truths that are useful to them, and, like an angel of the Divine fire, he kindles hearts with love for God and destroys in them the impure earthly attachments. This archangel is the patron saint of people devoted to science.

    Uriel (3 Ezd., IV: 1; V: 20). An angel sent by God to Ezra to instruct and explain to him the secret ways of God.

    Salafiel

    The fifth archangel is the supreme minister of prayer - Salafiel .

    Pure and fiery prayer itself can serve instead of a cherub for the soul, protecting it from hostile forces. But what are our prayers? Weak, short, impure, cold. And so the Lord has given us the whole face of prayer angels with their leader Salafiel, so that with the pure breath of their lips they warm our cold hearts to prayer, so that they raise our petitions to the throne of grace. When you see an archangel on the icon, standing in a prayer position, with his eyes down, with his hands on his chest, then know that this is Salafiel.

    Salafiel - Prayer to God (3 Ezd., V: 16).

    Yehudiel

    The sixth archangel has a golden crown in his right hand, and a whip (whip) of three red branches in his left. This is because the duty of this archangel, with the face of angels, is to encourage with the reward of the eternal blessings and to protect the name of the Holy Trinity and the power of the Cross of Christ people who work for the glory of God, which is why it is called Yehudiel (Jehudil), or Praise of God (3 Ezra, IV: 36).

    Barachiel

    The seventh archangel "Blessing of God" (4 Ezd. 36), as his name means, Barachiel ... He is depicted with many colors of pink in the bowels of his clothes.

    Since the blessings of God are different, then his ministries are diverse.

    Angelic powers

    In Holy Scripture, most often we meet by the names of three archangels:

    1. Heavenly Archangel Michael.

    2. Participant of the Annunciation Gabriel.

    3. Raphael the healer.

    The place of residence of the holy angels is heaven. The Lord told us this: "The angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven." It is clear from many other Scriptures that heaven is the abode of angels.

    As we already know, being in heaven, they are sent by God to earth to fulfill various commands of God. At the second, and His terrible coming, the Lord will send His angels with a great trumpet voice, and they will gather His elect from the four winds from the end of heaven to the end.

    Angelic forces are a tremendous protection and support for us. Since ancient times, there is evidence of the appearance of angels to people and the help they provide. When we turn to the angels in prayer, we have great help and protection.

    For the celebration of the Cathedral of the Holy Angels, the Church chose November - the ninth month of March (from which the year began before) in accordance with the number of 9 angelic ranks. These 9 ranks, according to the teaching of the Holy Church, are divided into 3 hierarchies: upper, middle and lower, each hierarchy contains 3 ranks. You've already read everything about hierarchy.

    "The Archangel of God, the ministry of divine glory, the Angels of the chief, and the men of the mentor, ask us something useful and great mercy, like the incorporeal Archangel"

    (Kondak, ch. 2).

    Divine Light

    You have all noticed that in the image of all the saints, a halo, or a luminous disk that surrounds their heads, is common. It is also called a halo. It comes from the Greek "chalos" (a round wooden flooring on which a bull walks, turning the millstones in a mill). The word was brought back to life in the 16th century, when astronomers began to use it to name the aurora caused by the refraction of light due to fog that they saw around the sun, moon, and other planets. Theologians have adopted this word to designate them the "crown of glory" over the heads of angels, saints and martyrs.

    Halo as a symbol of the light emitted by the Divine person is not only Christianity. In ancient times, this concept was widely used to denote power and greatness.

    I will digress a little from the topic of Christianity and want to inform you that, for example, Buddha in Indian art is sometimes depicted with an impressive red halo. Greek and Roman deities were also often depicted with halos; Zeus and Jupiter had blue halos, Roman emperors, who considered themselves deities, were also depicted with halos, especially in outdoor sculptures: an impressive halo protected the head from birds. In Byzantine art, Satan was depicted with a halo, symbolizing the radiation of power. Now we will never portray evil with a halo, but it turns out that such were the times.

    For the first time, halos appeared on Christian images during the reign of Constantine in the 4th century. Until the 12th century, the halo resembled a golden plate. Later, ornamental border and radial beams of light were added. For simplicity, by the end of the 16th century, this form was reduced to the familiar golden circle.

    There are four main types of halos: for living saints and persons such as the pope, the halo is square; when depicting one of the characters of the Trinity, especially Christ, the shape of a cross or three rays, for God, a triangular halo. The fourth form is the mandorla, an oval halo that includes the entire body, derived from the symbol for "fish". At first, the symbol depicted a cloud in which Christ descended.

    Evangelists

    These symbols come from two biblical stories. In the Old Testament, the Hebrew prophet of the 6th century BC NS. Ezekiel recorded his vision of the throne of the Lord, and around the four beasts: "The four of them had the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side, and the four of them had the face of a bull on the left side, the four of them also had the face of an eagle."... The same four beasts are mentioned in the Revelation of Saint John: "And the first animal was like a lion, and the second animal was like a calf, and the third animal had a face like a man, and the fourth animal was like a flying eagle."

    The early Christians interpreted it as follows: man, the king of the earthly world, corresponds to the love of Christ, the bull, the king of domestic animals, symbolizes the strength and sacrifice and corresponds to the Suffering of Christ on the Cross, the lion is the king of beasts, it symbolizes pride, royal dignity and corresponds to the Resurrection of Christ , the eagle, like the king of birds, symbolizes dignity, mercy, divinity, it corresponds to the Ascension. This interpretation of the symbols of the Evangelists was given by Saint Jeremiah, who wrote: “The first, with the face of a man, denotes Matthew, who began to write, like a man, a book of all generations about Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham, the second - Mark, in which the voice of the Lion roaring in the wilderness is heard:“ Prepare yourself for the path of the Lord ". " Similarly, Jeremiah defines Luke as a bull, because he begins his Gospel with the scene of the sacrifice performed by the priests in the temple, and later emphasizes that self-sacrifice was the main thing in the life of Christ, while the eagle corresponds to John (according to tradition, it is the same John who was the apostle and author of Revelation), since he began his Gospel "like an eagle rushing to the best", and began with the Divine Word: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ".

    These symbols also appear as emblems next to or behind figures of evangelists, who are often depicted with quill, ink, and scrolls or books. Sometimes Luke was depicted with a portrait of the Virgin Mary, because it was believed that he painted one portrait. Matthew and John have other emblems as apostles.

    Emblems and symbols of the apostles

    I have never come across the emblems and symbols of the apostles before, and I was very interested in this information, I think it will also be interesting to you, because we have one goal - to the Light, to God.

    In the earliest depictions of the apostles, they were painted in the form of 12 sheep standing on either side of Christ - the "shepherd", or Agnus Dei - the Lamb of God. But in the Middle Ages, each apostle found his own symbols in painting, sculpture, and stained glass. Here are the emblems and symbols of the 14 apostles (the original 12, and later joined by Matthias and Paul).

    Andrey symbolized by an oblique cross (usually silver or gold on a blue background, since it was assumed that it was on a cross of this shape that he was crucified). Like other saints who were fishermen, he sometimes had a fish as an emblem. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland.

    Bartholomew traditionally depicted with a butcher's knife, in memory of the fact that he was skinned alive, is also depicted with a piece of leather on his hand.

    Jacob the Elder , the first of the apostles to be executed, is sometimes depicted with a saber, with which he was beheaded. He is considered the patron saint of the pilgrims - primarily to the Holy Land, and therefore sometimes in his image there are such details as a staff, a travel bottle and a folding shell. Pilgrims often placed shells in their hats as a symbol of good luck on the journey, but shells also had practical value - they were used as spoons. Jacob is the patron saint of Spain.

    Jacob the Younger (Christ's brother) is depicted with a stick, with which he was killed by a blow to the head by Simeon.

    John can be depicted with a bowl from which a snake slips - a reminder of the legend that a poisoned drink was served to John, but the poison did not harm John, since he crossed the bowl.

    Judas Iscariot sometimes depicted with a bag for money, which recalls the words from the Gospel of John, said by Judas to Mary Magdalene: "Why not sell this myrrh for three hundred denarii and give it to the poor?" He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. In painting, Judas's beard is often painted with a redhead - this is the color of both cowardice and betrayal.

    Judas is depicted with a mace - a symbol of his martyrdom in Persia, a staff or with a carpentry quadrant - a hint of his profession, as well as with an oar, boat hook or ship - symbols of his missionary travels.

    Matthew , like an apostle, carries a bag of money, as an allusion to his position as a tax collector for the Roman state (which is why he is considered the patron saint of bankers and accountants). Sometimes he carries a carpenter's ruler and quadrant, or the objects of his martyrdom - a lance, an executioner's ax, or a halberd. In the 15th-17th centuries, he was often depicted with an ax on a lance.

    Matthias was not the first apostle, he was chosen to the place vacated after Judas Iscariot. His emblem is the objects of his martyrdom - the battle ax with which he was killed, and the open book.

    Paul often depicted as a short man with a bald head in front and a long beard. Maybe with a book, as a sign of the contribution that he made in promoting the teachings of Christ. His main emblem is the saber, with which he was beheaded and which also serves as a reminder of his words addressed to Christians - to arm himself with the "saber of the spirit." Paul is the patron saint of preachers.

    Peter also carries a saber, in memory of the fact that he cut off the ear of the servant of the high priest in the Garden of Gethsemane. Other emblems include a fish and a rooster as a sign of his renunciation. As Christ said at the Last Supper: "Even the rooster will not crow today, as you deny Me three times." The rooster is also a symbol of Peter's repentance and his service as the first pope. Its main symbol is an inverted cross and two crossed keys, since Christ gave him “the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven”.

    Philip often depicted with a T-shaped cross, since it is believed that Philip was hanged by his head on a high post. Also, his symbol is a basket of bread - in memory of the fact that he fed five thousand people.

    Simon sometimes he appears with a fish in one hand, which contains a hint of his occupation, and also with a saw, the subject of his martyrdom in Persia.

    Thomas carries a spear because he was impaled by it. He is also the patron saint of bricklayers and architects, his symbol is the carpentry quadrant.

    Judas Thaddeus (Judas Jacob or Levvey) brother of Jacob Alpheev. The Gospel of Matthew (10: 3) and Mark (3:18) mention Thaddeus or Leveus, called Thaddeus; according to the unanimous opinion of the interpreters, this is the same Judas.

    In the Gospel of John, Judas at the Last Supper asks Jesus about his coming resurrection. At the same time, he is called "Judas, not Iscariot" to distinguish him from Judas - a traitor. Now the majority of biblical scholars consider the apostle Judas and Judas, “the brother of the Lord,” to be different persons. According to legend, the Apostle Judas preached in Palestine, Arabia, Syria and Mesopotamia and died a martyr's death in Armenia in the second half of the 1st century AD. NS. The alleged grave is located on the territory of the Armenian monastery of St. Thaddeus in northwestern Iran.

    The sacred meaning of the seven

    Throughout the centuries, the number "seven" has had tremendous esoteric meaning. In Christianity, this figure has a sacred meaning.

    We call on the help of the seven holy angels of God. It:

    Monday: Archangel Michael - "Who, like God";

    Tuesday: Archangel Gabriel - "The Power of God";

    Wednesday: Archangel Raphael - "Help and Healing of God";

    Thursday: Archangel Uriel - "Fire and Light of God";

    Friday: Archangel Salafiel - "Prayer to God";

    Saturday: Archangel Yehudiel - "Praise be to God";

    Sunday: Archangel Barachiel - "Blessing of God".

    But it turns out there is also an eighth day. I myself found out about it not so long ago.

    Eighth day: Archangel Jeremiel - "The judgment of God, the height of God."

    The eighth archangel Jeremiel is the angel of the new day of the world, the day of the century to come, which began with the salvation of mankind by our Lord Jesus Christ and proceeds mysteriously in the current century as counted weeks.

    Although the number of angels is immeasurably large: tmy (tma - a thousand) themes, according to the expression of the Holy Scriptures, there are only seven archangels. Why are there only seven main archangels, no less and no more? This is the secret of creation, known only to the Lord, the Creator of angels.

    We can note with reverence that the sevenfold number is a sacred number: for if we see the kingdom of grace, we will receive the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments. If we look at the kingdom of nature, we find seven rays of light, seven tones of sound, seven days of creation, and so on.

    How can one comprehend this great, sacred number?

    The number "seven", as perfect from the beginning of the world by God Himself, was chosen and sanctified to represent many of His mysteries and actions: on the seventh day, the Lord rested from all works; the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are counted by the prophet Isaiah, many other images-symbols with the word "seven" are revealed to man.

    If you are truly looking for the Light and if you are good, you will definitely do:

    Seven Works of Spiritual Mercy

    1. Fix the sinner

    2. Unable to teach

    3. Give good advice to the doubter

    4. Pray for the salvation of the neighbor Lord

    5. To comfort the sad

    6. Endure untruth with patience

    7. Forgiving enemies

    Seven Deeds of Bodily Grace

    1. Feed the hungry

    2. Thirsty to drink

    3. Clothe naked

    4. Let the wanderer into the house

    5. Visit the sick

    6. Go to prisoners and ransom prisoners

    7. Bury the deceased

    Seven Sacraments of the New Testament:

    Baptism, chrismation, repentance, communion, priesthood, marriage and sanctification of oil.


    The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit:

    Wisdom, reason, conscience, strength, knowledge, piety and fear of God.


    Seven sins of mortals with opposite virtues:

    Pride is humility;

    love of money is non-covetousness;

    fornication - chastity;

    anger is patience;

    voluptuousness - fasting;

    envy is brotherly love;

    despondency is prayer.

    Apocalypse - The Revelation of John the Theologian about the second coming of God and the Last Judgment contains the mysterious symbolism of the number "seven".


    Seven Ecumenical Councils:

    Developed the Rules of Church Life and freed the Church of Christ from turmoil and heresy.

    1st Nicene(325) - formulated the first part of the Creed, defining the Divine Son of God.

    1st Constantinople(387) - established the second part of the Creed, defining the Divinity of the Holy Spirit.

    Ephesian(431) - gave a definition of Jesus Christ as the incarnate Word of God and Mary as the Mother of God.

    Chalcedonian(451) - gave the definition of Jesus Christ as true God and true man in one person.

    2nd Constantinople(553) - once again confirmed the teaching about the Holy Trinity and about Jesus Christ.

    3rd Constantinople(680) - confirmed the true Humanity of Jesus Christ through the knowledge of His human will and actions.

    2nd Nicene(787) - proclaimed the icon as a true expression of the Christian faith.


    The Creed contains seven sections:

    1. I believe in one God, the Father, Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, visible to all and invisible.

    2. And in the one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only Begotten, who was born of the Father before all ages, Light from the Light, true God, true from God, born, uncreated, consubstantial with the Father, Who was all. For us, for the sake of man and for our salvation, he descended from heaven and incarnated from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became human. Crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and the suffering of lice, and was buried. And he rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures. And he ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

    3. And pack the one who is coming with glory to judge the living and the dead, but His Kingdom will have no end.

    4. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Life-giving One who proceeds from the Father, Who is worshiped and glorified with the Father and the Son, who spoke the prophets.

    5. In one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

    6. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins.

    7. Tea for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the century to come. Amen.

    The Lord's Prayer is divided into: invocation, seven petitions, or seven petitions, and praise.


    Church week. Sunday:

    It counts seven days, seven days in a row.

    Sunday, or a week, its main holiday (free from earthly labor, from deeds - not practical). The people used to say: "We are not doing today," that is, "we are celebrating." On this day, he went to church to praise God, to pray for the Fatherland, for the health of the living and the repose of the departed Orthodox Christians. The rest of the days are weekdays, that is, days of vigil, vigor, work.

    The Orthodox Church has established a special veneration for each day:

    Sunday, or a week, - Little Easter.

    Monday- incorporeal ranks (angels and archangels).

    Tuesday- The Baptist of the Lord and Forerunner John.

    Wednesday and Friday- The Mother of God and the Cross of the Lord.

    Thursday- to the Apostles and Saint Nicholas.

    Saturday- to all the saints and the dead.

    Evil forces and their hierarchies

    ... And the angels, who did not retain their dignity, but left their dwelling place, are kept in eternal bonds, under darkness, at the judgment of the great day.

    Jude 1: 6

    But besides the angelic world, there is also the world of evil spirits. These are angels, according to the word of the Apostle Jude, who did not retain their dignity, but left their dwelling place. They are fallen angels. They are in eternal bonds, under darkness, until the judgment of the great day. This is the devil, Satan, the demon.

    All angels were created good, so that they love God and each other and from this life of love have constant great joy. But God did not want to force love, so He left the angels free to choose - whether they themselves want to love Him - to live in God or not. As long as the devil was bright and holy, he dwelt in heaven. And then an unfortunate transformation took place there, and a large assembly of angels separated from the holy host of heavenly forces, became an assembly of gloomy demons, with a fallen cherub at its head. One, the highest and most powerful angel, named Lucifer, was proud of his power and strength, did not want to love God and do the will of God, but wanted to become like God himself. He began to slander God, oppose everything and deny everything, and became a dark, evil spirit - the devil, Satan. The word “devil” means “slanderer”, and the word “Satan” means “enemy” of God and all that is good. This evil spirit seduced and carried away many other angels who also became evil spirits and are called demons.

    As a consequence of this transformation, there was a great battle in heaven. Then one of the highest angels of God, the archangel Michael, spoke out against Satan and said: “Who is equal to God? Nobody is like God! "

    And there was a war in heaven: the archangel Michael and his angels fought against Satan, and Satan and his demons fought against them. And as a result of this battle, the serpent (Satan) and his angels were thrown down.

    This is how evil arose in God's creation. Everything that is done against God, everything that violates the will of God is called evil.

    The place of residence of the fallen angels became the heavenly space, the earth's surface and the abyss, or hell. There they are tormented in their anger, seeing their powerlessness before God. All of them, out of their impenitence, have become so entrenched in evil that they can no longer be good. They try to seduce every person with cunning and cunning, instilling in him false thoughts and evil desires in order to destroy.

    At present, the abyss, tartar, hell, the underworld, the interior of the Earth serve as the abode for the devil, the head of the fallen angels.

    The holy prophet Isaiah announced this dwelling to the fallen archangel: “But you have been cast into hell. Into the depths of the underworld. " And this was accomplished over the prince of air power by the power of the Savior of mankind, the God-man. This Savior is a great angel - God, who has the key of the abyss and who descended from Heaven, becoming human, and used his flesh, prostrating himself on the Cross, to bind the serpent, the ancient serpent, which is the devil and Satan.

    Being imprisoned in a material prison, the devil must necessarily have a material nature, otherwise no prison can keep him. Before the second coming of the Lord, Satan will be released from prison and will go out to deceive (tempt) the people around the world.

    “And there was a war in heaven: the archangel Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels fought against them.

    But they could not resist, and there was no longer a place for them in heaven.

    And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceived the whole universe, was cast out to earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

    They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and did not love their souls even unto death.

    And so have fun, heaven and those who dwell on them! Woe to those who live on earth and on the sea, because the devil has come down to you in great rage, knowing that he does not have much time! "

    (Rev. 12: 7-12).

    Demons have by nature such an external appearance, like angels, that is, the appearance of a person in his body. By this resemblance to man, the Lord called the devil man.

    Demons have distorted themselves by the destruction of good in themselves, the birth and development of evil. For this reason, the Scripture calls them beasts, and the main of them is a serpent: "The serpent was the wisest of all the beasts that lived on Earth."

    The rage and fall of the demons were reflected in their appearance. Job saw the devil as a terrible monster.

    The devil (slanderer, deceiver) - this is an evil angel by his deceit and efforts to seduce people and instill in them false thoughts and evil desires.

    Satan - a Hebrew word meaning an enemy and an enemy in general. In the Holy Scriptures, this name is applied to the devil, who is the leader of evil spirits, the enemy of God and the tempter and destroyer of human souls. The apostle Peter was tempted by Satan.

    Demons - servants of the devil. They send evil eye and damage, harm people in every possible way and through them to God. They especially hate marriage. It is impossible to come to an agreement with demons, because they are ossified in evil and do not want to do anything that is related to good.

    Christianity identifies demons with fallen angels. They retained supernatural abilities from their angelic past, namely: power over space and elements, the ability to inspire people with thoughts and deeds. In addition, they retained the ability to become invisible and change their appearance at will. As a rule, the characteristic sign of the appearance of an imp is the suffocating smell of sulfur. They can appear in the guise of angels, take the form of this or that person, or turn into monsters or animals - reptiles, birds or black dogs and cats.

    Among the host of demons, the most famous are the main servants of Satan - Beelzebub, Azazel, Belial, as well as Mephistopheles, who tempted Doctor Faustus.

    Sorcerers classify spirits in various ways. There are spirits of the seven planets, every day of the week, every hour, and so on. There are also elementals.

    The spirits of each element also have their own characters and habits. For example, the spirits of the air are very evil and cruel.

    The water spirits appear in the form of women, they are deceitful and cruel.

    Earth spirits usually dwell in forests. They are sociable and try to knock the traveler off the road, "fool".

    Underground spirits are especially malevolent. However, sorcerers resort to the help of fallen angels.

    The devil(with Greek- slanderer, deceiver) - evil angels by their cunning and trying to seduce people and inspire them with false thoughts and evil desires.

    “Your father is the devil,” the Lord says to the unbelieving Jews, “and you want to fulfill the desires of your Father. He was a murderer from the beginning and did not stand in the truth; for there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar and the father of lies "

    (John, VIII: 44).

    The devils do not manifest themselves in our world on their own; they need to be summoned with special spells and a special ritual. Already summoned by the devil, persons with certain abilities can drive in anywhere. Just as the devil is summoned with a special ritual, so for his expulsion there is a special ritual that is used by exorcists. There are a lot of devils, and they are all subdivided according to their sphere of influence and have different ranks.

    Some demonologists of the past built a hierarchy of demons according to their attributed ability to induce people to commit the seven deadly sins.

    Binsfeld (1589) gave the following list:

    Lucifer is pride

    Mammon is greed

    Asmodeus is debauchery,

    Satan is anger

    Beelzebub - gluttony

    Leviathan - envy

    Belphegor is idleness.

    Among evil spirits, there is a special mention of Beelzebub - the prince of the devil, and Asmodeus - the devil-seducer.

    Many devil are the source of disease. The most powerful devil are Lucifer, Beelzebub and Astaroth.

    Later, in 1801, Francis Barrett, an occultist born two centuries later, changed the list of devil and classified sins. Mammon became the prince of tempters and seducers, Asmodeus - the avenger for the evil done, Satan - a symbol of deception (serving witches and spellcasters) and Beelzebub - false gods. In addition, Python was presented as the prince of the spirits of lies, Belial - the repository of vice (cards and bones), Merihim - the spirits that cause infectious diseases, Abaddon - the wars and Astaroth - the accusers and inquisitors.

    Since the devil were rebellious and fallen angels, they established their ranks as angelic, creating a demonic hierarchy.

    The first face

    1. Beelzebub was the prince of the seraphim and the next after Lucifer.

    Since all the princes, that is, all the heads of the nine angelic choirs, are fallen, you should know that Lucifer, Beelzebub and Leviathan, who led the entire rebellion, were the first to fall away from the choir of seraphim. But the fourth was Michael, who first opposed Lucifer, and all the good angels followed him, so now he is the most important of them. Beelzebub inclines people to pride. And as John the Baptist took the place of Lucifer in Paradise thanks to his humility, so Beelzebub has his adversary in heaven - the Apostle Evangelist John the Theologian.

    2. Leviathan is a prince of the same degree, inciting people to sins directly contrary to faith.

    Opponent: apostle Peter.

    3. Asmodeus , a fallen seraphim, who has tremendous power, which he has not lost until now, and is the prince of base desires.

    Opponent: apostle luke.

    4. Balberite was the prince of the cherubim. He persuades people to commit suicide, all kinds of fights that happen for almost no reason. He inclines people to slander and the use of obscene words.

    Opposed to him saint barnabas.

    5. Astaroth inclines people to idle pastime: all kinds of drinking, merry companies, idle and empty pastime - that's what he imposes on people. He also tempts people to be idle and lazy.

    Opposed to him Apostle Bartholomew.

    6. Verren , also the prince of thrones, following Astaroth, inclines people to intolerance towards each other and thus to a quarrel. This is a wicked and treacherous devil.

    He is opposed Saint Ananias and holy martyr Alexander of Rome.

    7. Gressil ... The third in a row of Thrones, inclines people to uncleanness and slovenliness. He takes pleasure in watching people swarm in the mud, smiling with dirty forelocks and exuding a stench.

    Opposed to him Saint Simeon.

    8. Sonnelon - the fourth in a row of thrones, arouses hatred of enemies among people. And by this he annoys God.

    Opposed to him apostle paul.

    Second face

    9. Carro , the prince of powers, inclines people to hard-heartedness. He is happy when the commandment of God "love your neighbor" is not fulfilled ...

    Opposed to him the apostle evangelist Matthew.

    10. Carnivan - also the prince of powers, inclines people to obscenity and shamelessness. He takes pleasure in watching low scenes of debauchery, he laughs and laughs when women are humiliated, he brings people to bestiality, bisexuality, oral sex and other shamelessness.

    Opposed to him Simon Zealot.

    11. Elle - Prince of Dominions, incites people to take possession of someone else's property.

    He is opposed Apostle Philip and holy unmercenaries and miracle workers Cosmas and Damian.

    12. Rosier - the second in the line of Dominions, with sweet speeches inclines people to lust.

    Opposed to him the evangelist saint mark.

    13. Verrier - the prince began, inclines people to break the vow of obedience and incites them to blasphemy.

    Opposed to him Apostle Fadeus.

    The third face

    14. Belial - the prince of forces, incline people to arrogance and vanity. He takes pleasure in watching a worthless person boast of his position.

    Opposed to him Saint Josiah.

    15. Olivius - the prince of the archangels. Encourages people to be cruel and ruthless to the poor, disadvantaged and orphans.

    He is opposed Saint Cleopas and the reverend Sampson the Stranger.

    How can you apply what you just learned in practice? Knowing about that saint or apostle who opposes the reigning devil will help you choose the right prayer depending on whose name you will call for help during the prayer for the deliverance of the given devil-tormentor.

    The number of the devil was legion. Saint Macarius of Egypt prayed to the Lord to allow him to see the powers of evil, the eyes of the saint were opened, and he saw the devil "numerous, like bees."

    The number of devil is more than half of the total population of the world, but nevertheless in the fight against evil they are opposed by the following archangels and angels:

    Michael - "Who is like God";

    Gabriel - The Power of God;

    Raphael - God the Healer;

    Samuel - the Strongest;

    Anael - Hear me, Lord!;

    Sashiel - Justice of God;

    Cassiel - Throne of God;

    Uriel - Fire and light of God;

    Jeriel - the Height of God;

    Salafiel - Prayer to God;

    Jehudiel - Praise of God;

    Barachiel - Blessing of God.

    Their life is eternal, therefore, in your prayers, you need to resort to the help of these archangels.

    The devil's net

    The evil fisher-devil catches each of us in his net every day. And how many of these networks, and how many unwary ones fall into them! And each of them has its own name. These are the most common networks in which he catches us: a network of anger and enmity, a network of covetousness, a network of addiction to pleasure, entertainment, a network of pride, doubts about the truths of faith, a network of unbelief, a network of envy and ill will, a network of avarice or passion. hoarding money, a network of gluttony, drunkenness, a network of prodigal passion, a network of addiction to clothes, when a person thinks only about decorating the body, and does not think about decorating the soul with virtues, a network of despondency, murmuring, a network of false shame, a network of condemnation of a neighbor, a network of idle talk and slander.

    And you never know these nets for the destruction of our souls are thrown by the enemy of the human race!

    Life is the sea, we are fish, the devil is our fisherman, his cunning and cunning, combined with the cunning of our flesh and the world, make up the net with which he perfectly catches his fish.

    Beware of such a skillful catcher and such dangerous nets! Avoid them!

    A powerful weapon against the devil

    There is a powerful weapon against the spirits of malice prayer- earnest, humble, pure prayer. There is no time in which prayer to God would not be necessary for us, prayer for our inner man is the same as breathing for the outer. A person stops breathing, at the same time he stops living. Likewise, a soul that is not accustomed to prayer ceases to live the life of God and is dead to God and to the Kingdom of Heaven. Thus, the Christian soul, at every temptation, immediately rushes mentally to God. Protect yourself with the cross and prayer and - by this, conquer!

    In the part of the book "Prayer Shield" I cite wonderful prayers that have extraordinary power. Reading them, you will see for yourself. They are your weapon.

    The manifestation of evil spirits to people

    We all have repeatedly heard eyewitness stories about how they encountered evil spirits. Moreover, these manifestations are very different from each other, and can be almost the same both in terms of influence and in visible outlines. Very often people encounter brownies, devils, poltergeist phenomena, all kinds of spirits, and less often - these are demons, devil and the highest devilish ranks. Let's touch a little on such a phenomenon as a poltergeist.

    Poltergeist

    Poltergeist Is a German word for spirit (geist) making noise or din (polter). In the Legion of Demons, these are the demons with the lowest potential for evil. Very often they get along with some people, and they, in turn, call them affectionately barabashka. Yet they are demons, not spirits. The manifestation of the presence of these demons is characterized by such features as noises or knocks, steps on the floor or ceiling, and by the speed of the step and its severity, one can judge what rank the demon has settled in your house. In your house, objects can move and spontaneously ignite, inscriptions appear anywhere. The manifestations of levitation and telekinesis very often knock the inhabitants of a house or apartment off balance. Very often, the demon steals small objects, and later these objects can be found in the most unexpected places.

    Poltergeist demons are very fond of the clanking of chains or the ringing of a small bell, therefore, in order to "catch" such a demon, from ancient times they use the noise of chains followed by their sharp twisting or the ringing of a bell in order to drive the demon into a trap, that is, into a separate room, doors which were closed, special seals were put on them under the singing of psalm 90, the same seals were put on the windows, and the one who lured the demon entered into single combat, and it was not always possible to defeat the demons. But if the one who volunteered to exorcise the demon turned out to be weak, he either died or ran away from the room, in which case the demon eluded and began to create such atrocities from which it was simply impossible to escape.

    Brownie is a fairly common phenomenon in our life. Various stories about brownies fill our lives, and we cannot fully find out what he threatens us with. They live in close proximity to people, without causing them much harm, occasionally showing their appearance, if they are dissatisfied with something, they can strangle their owners (meaning people living in the house where the brownie settled). The sizes of brownies are very different - from a small shaggy man to a giant covered with thick wool. As a rule, he is not expelled, but if he begins to cause harm, they try to get rid of him.

    The devil in his appearance is rarely shown to people. There are many eyewitnesses who have encountered devils in their lives, and the description of the trait is the same for all, and it does not differ from its generally known appearance. He settles in energetically dysfunctional houses and in houses where the name of the devil is very often called upon. The harm from his presence is significant. Devils are excellent telepaths, they know your innermost thoughts, and they begin to play on them. If you are a greedy person, the devil constantly supports and inflames your greed to fury, if evil has settled in your heart, the devil will rekindle your feelings until you have the desire to kill the person. The devil can push a person to any crime. If the devil meets resistance from a person, then he pushes him to commit suicide. You can resist the devil by fasting, prayer and personal resistance and rejection of sinful deeds.

    The demon manifests itself in the physical body even less often than the devil, he prefers to remain invisible. Its effect on a person is more powerful than the effect of a devil and is extremely destructive.

    Witches prefer to work with demons, and they, in turn, easily come to an agreement, because after the death of a witch, these become completely dependent on the demon and serve him in the most rough work. They promise their witch many blessings. But the witch should be aware that the human race is hated in the "kingdom" of evil, because it is precisely because God created man that war arose in heaven. The devil and his legion of evil spirits need to humiliate the human race, disfigure its souls and, laughing, show God: "Look what you created, this is what they did, and they were created in the image and likeness of God."

    It is not easy to cast out a demon, since a person, in whose body there is a demon, becomes very strong physically, and when the demon is driven out, it is necessary to restrain the patient, and it is very dangerous if a demon possessed person breaks free, since in a rage he can kill more than one person who stands on his way.

    Spiritual vision

    (according to the works of Saint Ignatius)

    According to the saying of the Holy Fathers, who belong not only to the Eastern Church, but to the entire Ecumenical Church, one can see what a great difference there is between the being of God and the being of an angel, demon and soul, although the Holy Scriptures and the Holy Fathers call God the Spirit, and angels, and demons, and human souls by spirits. They are called incorporeal, immaterial for the reason that they do not have our flesh, our gross materiality, are not subject to our senses, which makes them different from the category of material objects subject to our senses. They are called reasonable, mental, according to the main distinguishing property, mind or spirit, the ability not only to think, but also to feel spiritually.

    The image of understanding by ancient Christians of the nature of spirits and the word “spirit” is accurately explained by Saint Cyril of Jerusalem. Under the general name of the spirit, much and differently is said in the Holy Scriptures. Especially it is necessary to distinguish that spirit which is called the Holy Spirit. So, the name of the spirit is related to many objects of nature. And the angel is called spirit, and the soul is called spirit, and the blowing wind is called spirit, and great power is called spirit, and an unclean deed is called spirit, and the enemy demon is called spirit. Beware when you hear the word "spirit" so as not to confuse the name of one for the other. When it comes to the spirit, it is necessary to add to each specific case with words that reflect the quality of this spirit.

    If Scripture speaks of the spirit of the human soul, then it adds the word "man" (human spirit), if it speaks of the wind, then the spirit of the storm is expressed, if it means a demon, it calls it an unclean spirit so that we know what subject I am talking about, and so that we didn't think it was talking about the Holy Spirit.

    No creature is equal to the Holy Spirit.

    There are many skeptics who will say with a smile: "Spirits, what nonsense, there are no spirits and cannot be."

    However, let's not rush to conclusions and statements. After all, not always what you do not know does not really exist. We can't know everything, so let's see what they say about it ...

    In the modern world, many doubt the existence of spirits, many reject them. The existence of spirits is rejected even by those who acknowledge the existence of the soul. If souls exist after their separation from bodies, then we can say that spirits also exist. If we admit that the souls of villains exist on a par with the souls of good people, then this means that there are spirits of good and evil. We can say with complete confidence: "They exist!"

    He who rejects the existence of spirits rejects the existence of Christianity. Therefore, according to the Holy Scriptures, the Son of God appeared to destroy the works of the devil and by His death to abolish the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil. If there are no fallen spirits, then the incarnation of God has no meaning.

    According to our weak knowledge of Christianity, it is difficult to find the correct teaching and vision of the spirits to which we belong in soul and must share eternal bliss (heaven) and eternal torment (hell).

    The vision of spirits is purely personal for everyone. One can see the spirit with bodily eyes, and one can see spiritually, that is, with spiritual eyes: the mind, the heart, purified by God's grace. In the ordinary state of his sinful life, a person does not see spirits either sensually or spiritually, since he is stricken with sinful blindness.

    To fight the enemy, you have to see him all the time. Without the vision of spirits, fighting them is meaningless. One can only get carried away by them and fall into slavish obedience to them.

    But let's think about the sensory vision of spirits.

    Sensual vision of spirits

    When man was created by God, his body was immortal, alien to diseases and fleshly sensations inherent in him at this time. With such a body, with such senses, a person was capable of sensory vision of spirits, could communicate with them.

    The holy body of a person did not serve as an obstacle to communication with spirits. Clothed in it, a person was able to live in paradise, and now only saints are able to stay there.

    With the sinful fall of man, his soul and body changed. This fall for man became his death.

    Visible death is the separation of the soul from the body (before those who had already died in connection with the departure from the true life that God gave us).

    We are born already killed by death.

    Diseases of our body are a consequence of the fall of the sinful man. Our body has become on a par with animals. The body serves as a dungeon and a coffin for the soul. In this state, our bodily senses are unable to communicate with spirits and cannot see, hear or feel them. The holy spirits left a person, as not worthy of such communication, and the fallen spirits hold the soul of a person in captivity in order to strengthen their strength over him.

    We, sinners, need to know that communication with holy angels is not peculiar to us and that communication with rejected spirits, sensually appearing to a person who is in sin, is peculiar to us - these are demons, not holy angels. Although the demons, appearing to people, take the form of bright angels for deception, they try to assure that they are human souls, and not demons, although they reveal secrets, one cannot believe them. They have mixed truth with falsehood for the most convenient seduction.

    In my practice, I often came across people who claimed that Jesus was always with them, that he dictates what to do, what object and in what sequence to take, even dictates how to cook borscht.

    But you must understand that it can only be demons, since Jesus would teach other truths. He would help the soul to find the Spiritual Light, and not please the body and stomach.

    In the second letter to the Corinthians, the apostle Paul says: “And no wonder: because Satan himself takes the form of an angel of light. Therefore, it is not a great matter if his servants take the form of ministers of righteousness: but their end will be according to their deeds. "

    Every person should know that one should not trust spirits when they appear in a sensible way, not enter into a conversation with them, not pay any attention to them, consider their appearance the greatest and most dangerous temptation. During this temptation, all thoughts should be directed to God with a prayer for mercy. The desire to see spirits, curiosity to know something about them is a sign of great folly. The knowledge of spirits is acquired in a completely different way. For the inexperienced, open communication with spirits is the greatest calamity, or is the source of the greatest calamities.

    The Bible says that during the fall of the first people, God pronounced a sentence on them even before being expelled from paradise, making them leather garments and putting them on. Leather robe denotes our sinful flesh. In our sinful body, evil and good are mixed, and we are attracted now to evil, now to good. Demons are always directed towards evil.

    For a safe entry into the world of spirits, each person needs a certain time for wandering around the earth, according to the law of God. We call this wandering earthly life. The frivolous and those who do not know Christianity are carried away by curiosity, ignorance, unbelief, not realizing that by entering into such communion with the spirits, they can inflict the greatest harm on themselves: people who have surrendered to sinfulness and departed from God enter into this communion for the most vicious motives for the most vicious goals.

    At God's discretion, spirits appear only in times of extreme need for the purpose of saving and correcting a person.

    The sensual vision of spirits without the spiritual is a superficial concept of them.

    Only true Christians achieve the spiritual vision of spirits, and people of the most vicious life are most capable of the sensual.

    Who sees spirits and is in sensual communication with them? Magi, people exhausted by drunkenness and debauchery.

    Christian asceticism alone achieves the correct, legal entry into the world of spirits. The true Christ ascetic is brought into vision by God Himself, the sensual vision of spirits is given only to some ascetics.

    Evil spirits are bound (powerless) in their actions towards the ascetic Christ by the power and wisdom of God guiding them, and, despite the fact that they breathe anger against the servant of God, they cannot inflict on him the evil they would like. If the demons see that any of the Christians begins to strive and prosper towards God, then they approach him and begin to put obstacles in his path: sinful thinking. Not having time to seduce the heart with a secret action through lust, they approach in a different way and attempt to frighten with empty ghosts, taking on various images - now women, now beasts, now reptiles, now the greatest giants. If during this attempt they find a soul strengthened by faith and hope, then they bring with them the leader (the devil).

    We have to fear only one God. Demons must be despised and not feared. The great weapon against them is an honest life and faith in God. They know the grace that the Savior gave against them to the believers and said to his seventy disciples: “I give you the power to tread on snakes and scorpions, and nothing will hurt you. However, do not rejoice in this that the spirits obey you: but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. "

    If demons come to you at night and start talking about the future, talking about themselves - we are angels, then do not believe them. They lie. Do not listen to them and do not pay attention, but immediately mark yourself and your dwelling with the sign of the cross, turn to prayer, and you will see they disappear. They are timid and extremely afraid of the sign of the godfather, because the Savior deprived them of their strength by the cross and betrayed them to shame. One can quickly distinguish between the presence of good spirits and the presence of evil ones. The manifestation of holy spirits does not produce confusion in the soul. The prophet Isaiah says about the holy angel: "He will not cry out and will not raise his voice, does not allow him to be heard in the streets." This is because the holy angels are present with the Lord, who is our joy and the strength of God the Father.

    On the contrary, the invasion of evil spirits is accompanied by noise, thumping, sounds and screams, similar to that produced by ill-bred children, pirates and robbers. From their presence, fear, longing, disgust from exploit, laziness, despondency, fear of death, sinful desires appear in the soul.

    Do not be afraid at the sight of evil spirits, be calm, pray: joy and such a state of mind are a sign of the presence of holy spirits.

    The Lord does not allow us to be deceived by evil demons. When the devil approached the Lord with temptations, the Lord forbade him with the following words: "Depart from Me, Satan, for it is written: 'Worship the Lord thy God and serve Him alone."

    Do not be proud of the power of casting out demons and the gift of healing diseases. The one who does not exorcise deserves no surprise. As long as the Lord is with us, the enemies will not be able to harm us.

    The fallen spirits hate the human race so much that if they were allowed by the right hand of God, they would destroy us instantly.

    Man arbitrarily rejected communion with God and the holy angels, voluntarily entered into communion with evil spirits rejected by God, hostile to God, submitted to evil spirits. Salvation to fallen man is given by God: by giving the right to choose to accept or reject this salvation. For a person, either captivity or struggle is inevitable. Fallen spirits try to keep a person captive.

    Divine grace, given to him at Holy Baptism, helps a person, without which the struggle with spirits and liberation from captivity are impossible.

    An example in asceticism was shown over Him by the Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior, who took up all our weaknesses, except for sin: first the tempter devil appeared to him in the wilderness, then, after the victory over the devil, the holy angels approached the Lord and served him. This is how the Gospel proclaims to us.

    Experienced instructors forbade the young monks an intensified feat of fasting, vigil, and seclusion, at which feats the spirits soon began to appear sensually and deceived the ascetic, leading him to damage and death.

    Very few are capable of openly fighting demons. The only correct entry into the world of spirits is Christian asceticism. God himself brings spirits into this vision.

    The one who invades the sensory vision of spirits independently acts wrong, contrary to the will of God: it is impossible for such a person to avoid deception and the damage that follows deception.

    The very intention of entering into the knowledge of spirits has its origin in deception and self-deception.

    Spiritual vision of spirits

    Man is less shielded for sensory vision than for spiritual vision of spirit. Saint Tikhon of Voronezh said a lot about the blindness of the spirit in his cell letters. What kind of blindness of spirit is this? "What is this blindness of spirit?" - the sages of the world may ask and, without waiting for an answer, they will call all this idle talk. And this blindness is such that it can be called death. Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind." Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this and said to Him: "Are we blind too?"

    The absence of blindness is not a sign of vision. Fallen people, who did not want to admit their blindness, remained blind, and those born blind, who realized their blindness, received their sight of the Lord Jesus Christ. Blindness is in our mind and heart. For this reason, our mind cannot distinguish between spiritual sensations from spiritual and sinful sensations, especially when the latter are not very coarse.

    Because of the blindness of the spirit, all our activities become false. And the Lord called the scribes (scientists) and the Pharisees blind leaders, who did not enter the Kingdom of Heaven and did not allow a person to enter it.

    With a true spiritual feat, the grace of God, implanted in us by Holy Baptism, begins to heal us little by little from spiritual blindness through emotion.

    In contrast to blindness, we begin to enter the state of vision. In the state of vision, the viewer is the mind, and it is called mental.

    The state of spiritual vision is delivered by the Holy Spirit, and it is called spiritual.

    This is how it differs from contemplation. Every person can contemplate whenever he wants.

    Vision is inherent only in people who cleanse themselves through repentance, and it does not come by the will of a person, but from the touch of the Spirit of God to our spirit, that is, by the all-holy power of the All-Holy Spirit.

    The doctrine of spiritual and intelligent visions is well set forth by Hieromartyr Peter, Metropolitan of Damascus.

    Affection is the first spiritual sensation delivered to the heart overshadowed by Divine grace. From a spiritual sensation comes a spiritual vision, and, as it is said in the 33rd Psalm of Holy Scripture, “Taste and see how good the Lord is! Blessed is the man who trusts in Him. " From doing with compulsion, warmth is born, which kindles in the heart. Doing this helps our mind and heart to see, and deep down it is called seeing. These visions give rise to the warmth of the soul and heart. From this warmth, an abundance of tears is born.

    As long as there is sensation, as long as there is vision. If the sensation stops, the vision also stops. The gateway to spiritual vision is humility.

    Vision is the reading and acceptance of the spirit of the New Testament. With the termination of affection, communication with the New Testament ceases.

    Instead of abiding in the soul of humility that does not resist evil, there is justice, which casts out "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." We involuntarily move from the New Testament to the Old Testament.

    The first spiritual vision is the vision of one's sins, which are covered by forgetfulness and ignorance. From the vision of our fall, we pass to the vision of our struck being and the reasons for its fall. Then the world of fallen spirits gradually opens up. A seductive and deceptive view of earthly life, which seemed to be endless, and the visible facet of it is death, is recovered. In the Gospel, as in a mirror, we clearly see our fallen nature, and the fall of humanity, and evil spirits. In order to distract us from living according to the Gospel commandments, from spiritual vision, from liberation from the bondage of passions, from resurrection of the soul, in order to keep us blind, in death, in captivity in themselves, the fallen spirits wage a fierce struggle. Deceit and malice are characteristic of fallen spirits.

    Fallen spirits were created good, alien to evil, but by their voluntary fall they assimilated evil for themselves, became alien to good.

    It was said above: the fall of men consists in mixing good with evil, the fall of demons is in the complete rejection of good, in the complete assimilation of evil.

    “I recognize all Your commands as just: I hate every way of lying,” says the Holy Spirit about His guidance of a person to salvation, and the opposite - the spirit of wickedness - opposes any commandment of the New Testament, hates any God-pleasing life.

    According to the Gospel commandments, fallen spirits are cognized, a sense of their vision and struggle with them is acquired. Fallen spirits act on us with different thoughts, different "dreams" and touches.

    All these actions are mentioned in the Holy Scriptures. Dreaming demonic affects the soul and leads to sin. From the touch of demons, carnal passions are aroused and diseases are generated that are not affected by ordinary human healing.

    “We pray to God to reveal to us our passions and grant healing from them. That He would reveal our sins and give us true repentance. He revealed to us the fall of humanity, its redemption by the God-man, the goal of our earthly journey and eternity awaiting us either in endless pleasures or in endless torments, prepared us and made us capable of heavenly bliss, in order to remove those seals from us and destroy those manuscripts according to which we must be cast into the dungeons of hell! We pray to God to grant us purity and humility, the fruit of which is spiritual reasoning, faithfully distinguishing good from evil. We pray to God that He would grant the spiritual vision of spirits, through which we could see them in the thoughts and dreams they bring to us, break off communion with them in our spirit, overthrow their yoke, and get rid of captivity.

    Our destruction lies in communion with fallen spirits and in their enslavement.

    Let us refrain from striving for sensual visions of spirits, in an order not established by God. We do not need a sensual vision of spirits to complete our earthly difficult journey. For this we need another lamp, and it has been given to us. "

    "Thy word is a lamp for my night, but I do not forget Thy law,"- said in Psalm 118, verse 105. In due time, appointed by the only God and known to the only God, we will certainly enter the world of spirits. This time is not far from us!

    “May the All-good God grant us to spend earthly life in such a way that even during it we would break off communion with the fallen spirits, enter into communion with the holy spirits, so that, leaving the body (temple), we would be numbered among the holy spirits, and not among the rejected spirits. Then, in inexpressible joy, we will see the ranks of holy angels and the ranks of holy people in their wonderful, not made by hands, at their eternal spiritual feast.

    Then let us know and see the fallen cherubim with his dark hordes, then the God-given sight of demons will satisfy our curiosity, without any danger to us, as sealed by the finger of God in immutability and in the inability to deceive and damage by evil. "

    The doctrine of fallen spirits

    Fallen spirits and the reasons for their fall

    As you already know, until the time when the devil was a bright and holy angel, he dwelt in heaven. An unhappy transformation took place in heaven, and a large assembly of angels separated from the holy host of heavenly forces, became an assembly of gloomy demons, with a fallen cherub at its head. Many of the highest angels, from the Dominions, Beginnings and Authorities, are carried away into fall and destruction (Eph. 6:12). Here is what Saint Cyril of Jerusalem says about this: “So, the first culprit of sin and the originator of evil is the devil. It is not I who say this, but the Lord said: 'Because at first the devil sinned' ”(1 John 3: 8). Nobody had sinned before him. He sinned not by nature - by necessity, having acquired an inclination to sin, otherwise the guilt of sin would fall again on the One who made him so. On the contrary, being created good, by his own will he became the devil, from his deeds he received a name for himself (the devil in translation means "slanderer"). Being an archangel, later called the devil for slander, he was a good servant of God, became Satan in the full meaning of this name, because Satan means "adversary." And this is the teaching of the spirit-bearing prophet Ezekiel. He, crying for Satan, says: “You are the seal of perfection, the fullness of wisdom and the crown of beauty. You were in Eden, in the garden of God ”(Ezek. 28:12, 13). And after a few words: "You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created until iniquity was found in you" (Ezek. 28:15). It is very well said: “it was not found in you”, evil was not brought in from outside, but you yourself gave birth to it. In the following words, the prophet also said the reason: "Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thy wisdom was ruined from thy vanity, for that I will cast you to the earth" (Ezek. 28:17). In accordance with this, the Lord says in the Gospel: “I saw Satan falling from heaven like lightning” (Luke 10:18). One can see the agreement of the Old Testament with the New. “The devil fell and carried many with him into apostasy. He puts lust in those who obey him. From him adultery, fornication and everything that is only evil. Through him our forefather Adam was cast down and that paradise, which by itself bears wonderful fruits, exchanged for the land bearing thorns. "

    After the fall of evil spirits from heaven into the heavenly or airy area (Eph., 2: 2), the world of celestials became completely inaccessible to them, and therefore all their malicious attention is exclusively turned to the land close to them, so that here between people to sow evil. Evil, therefore, constitutes the essential need of demons, who think of nothing but evil, find nothing comfort or pleasure in anything other than evil activity. The feeling of goodness, like the Kingdom of God, is hateful to them.

    The Holy Apostle Paul calls the fallen angels “the spirits of heavenly wickedness” (Eph. 6:12), and their head - “the prince of the power of the air” (Eph. 2: 2).

    According to the teachings of Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov, “… Fallen spirits descended from the height of spiritual dignity, they fell into fleshly wisdom more than humans. People have the opportunity to pass from carnal wisdom to spiritual, fallen spirits are deprived of this opportunity. People are not subject to such a strong influence of fleshly wisdom, because in them the natural good is not destroyed, as in spirits, by a fall.

    The main sin is a frenzied hatred of God, expressed in terrible, incessant blasphemy. They took pride in God himself, obedience to God, natural creatures, they turned into uninterrupted opposition, into irreconcilable enmity. Therefore, their fall is deep, and the plague of eternal death, with which they are struck, is incurable.

    Demons cannot do anything to the Creator, who, being an almighty God, is inaccessible to any influence from the creature. Therefore, they turned all their anger at a person who is the image of God, and, knowing that the Lord loves His creation, they strive to harm the object of His love as much as possible. "

    About the devil and demons

    “Of these angelic powers, the angel who stood at the head of the earthly rank and to whom the protection of the Earth was entrusted by God - was not born evil by nature, but was good and happened for a good purpose, and did not receive himself from the Creator at all and a trace of depravity, - not enduring both the light and the honor that the Creator gave him, by autocratic will changed from what is in accordance with nature into what is against nature, and became proud against the God who created Him, willing to oppose Him, and the first, having fallen away from good, found himself in evil. For evil is not anything other than the deprivation of good, just as darkness is the deprivation of light, for good is spiritual light, and equally evil is spiritual darkness. So, the light created by the Creator and happened is good, for God has made everything in sight, alike: and this is good, it has become darkness by an autocratic desire. But together they were carried away and followed him, and together an infinite multitude of angels who stood under his authority fell. " So, being of the same nature with the angels, they became evil by voluntarily rejecting the disposition of the heart from good to evil. Further, they have neither authority nor power in relation to anyone, if they do not receive permission from God to carry out the purposes of His economy, just as happened with Job, and in the same way as it is written in the Gospel about pigs. With the permission of God, they both have power, and change, and are transformed into the form in which they want in accordance with their imagination. And, of course, neither the angels of God nor the demons know the future, but they predict: angels, when God reveals to them and commands them to predict, therefore, what they say comes true. Demons also predict: sometimes because they see what is happening in the distance, sometimes because they guess why they often lie, and they should not be believed, even if they tell the truth many times in the way that we said ... They also know the Scriptures. So, every vice was invented by them, also unclean passions, and although they are allowed to attack a person, they have no power to act violently with anyone, because it depends on us to withstand the attack and not withstand, therefore, the devil and his demons, also for his followers, unquenchable fire and eternal punishment are prepared. One should know that what exactly death serves for people, that for the angels the fall serves. For after the fall, repentance is impossible for them, just as for people it is impossible after death.

    External, bodily composition and properties of fallen spirits

    Saint Macarius the Great says that angels have an image and appearance, just as the soul has its own image and appearance, and that this image, the external appearance, of both the angel and the soul, is the image and appearance of the external person in his body. The same saint of God notes that angels and souls, although very subtle in their essence, nevertheless, with all their subtlety, are still bodies. According to Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov, “... they are thin, ethereal bodies, since, on the contrary, our earthly bodies are very material and coarse ... in a word, a complete likeness of a visible person in a body. The beauty of virtue and God's grace shine on the faces of the holy angels, desperate malice is the character of the fallen angels, their faces are like the ugly faces of villains and criminals between people. " The demons have distorted themselves by the destruction of good in themselves, the birth and development of evil in themselves. This was reflected in their appearance. For this reason, the Scripture calls them beasts, and the chief of them is a serpent (Apoc. 12: 9). “Do not betray the soul that confesses to Thee by a beast” (Ps. 73:19). "Their natural appearance is terribly terrible and disgraceful, so Job saw the devil as an ugly monster and depicted him with a terrible painting of the word" (Job., 39-42).

    Holy Scripture indicates that demons have the same feelings that a person has: sight, hearing, smell, touch, it attributes to them the ability to speak, to fallen spirits it attributes the shortcomings of fallen humanity, dumbness and deafness. The Lord Himself called one of the demons deaf and dumb. “The spirit is deaf and dumb,” the Lord told him. “I command you” (Mark 9:25), and the deaf spirit, who did not hear the voice of the holy apostles and did not obey their command, heard the voice of God, and immediately, terribly tormented and mooing, fulfilled the command of God. At another healing of a man possessed by a demon, the Gospel says that this demon was him (Luke 11:14).

    The substance of which spirits are composed is much more subtle than the substance of the human body, for this very reason, according to Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov, "spirits in their actions are much freer, in their abilities much more developed than people." In the Acts of the Holy Apostles it is indicated that the angel of the Lord "caught Philip" and carried him to Azot (Acts 8: 39-40). In the book of the prophet Daniel, we read that an angel brought the prophet Habakkuk from a distant place to feed the prophet Daniel, languishing in the den with lions (Dan. 14: 31–39).

    The ability to quickly overcome space is possessed not only by angels, but also by demons. Demons have the ability to transfer from place to place not only rough earthly matter, but also people. In the Gospel of Matthew we read that the devil, tempting the Lord Jesus Christ, took Him to the holy city and put him on the roof of the temple, then took Him to a very high mountain (Matt. 4: 1-11). In the life of St. John, Archbishop of Novgorod, it is written about the journey he made on horseback from Novgorod to Jerusalem and back. Moreover, the entire trip took place in the second half of the night, that is, it took about two to three hours. This indicates that the speed of movement of the fallen spirits, although very high, is far from unlimited.

    Demons, like angels, have the ability to produce amazing changes in visible nature. In the Book of Job, we read how, under the influence of the devil, the fire, which seemed to human eyes falling from heaven, burned up the flocks of sheep belonging to Job, along with the shepherds. Here we learn about how, as a result of the actions of an unclean spirit, a hurricane began, which destroyed the house where the children of Job were gathered, and they perished (Job, 1: 9). In the book of Tobit, it is written about the demon Asmodeus, who killed seven husbands, for whom Sarah, the daughter of Raguel, was given in turn (Tob., 3: 8). The action of spirits on matter by means of a substance unknown to us, as well as many other properties of angels, are depicted in the following story of Holy Scripture. The angel appeared to the future Israeli judge Gideon, and when he prepared the sacrifice, “The angel of the Lord stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand, touched the meat and unleavened bread, and fire came out of the stone and ate the meat and unleavened bread, and the angel of the Lord hid himself from sight him "(Judges 6:21).

    The abode of the fallen spirits

    There is so much wisdom in the angels, just as much deceit and cunning in the infernal spirits.

    According to the teachings of the Orthodox Church, spirits have their place of residence, their abode, corresponding to their nature and arbitrarily assimilated qualities.

    The most insidious of all spirits are those who lived in evil and who at the same time internally acted deceitfully, because deception penetrates deeper into thoughts and intentions, destroys all spiritual life in a person. Most of them are called geniuses. They become invisible, fly like ghosts, secretly inspire evil. However, the Lord protects from these geniuses the person whose transformation there is hope, for they have such an ability that they can not only destroy conscience, but even arouse in a person that hereditary evil that would remain hidden. Therefore, in order for a person not to get involved in such evil, the Lord established that hell would be completely closed.

    Hell is the abode of the fallen angels, the heavenly space, which is otherwise called the air, the abyss, the lower layers of the spiritual world, this is a place remote from God, devoid of light and bliss. Satan reigns there. In relation to souls, the word “hell” means a state of intense sorrow and torment.

    The insidiousness of the infernal spirits is evident from their terrible tricks, which are so numerous and varied that only their listing would constitute a whole book, and a description would require more than one volume. Rotating in close contact with humanity, they inspire terrible thoughts, influencing the feelings through suggestion. With these tricks, the inhabitants of hell torture each other.

    The entrances to hell are called gates. There are main gates to hell, small gates lead to it, they are visible when they dissolve to let the hellish spirits pass. These small gates leading to the main ones are opened from the side of the spirit world. These entrances are everywhere.

    Hell has its own kind of "floors", according to the shade of evil this or that spirit gets on its "floor" and bears a well-deserved punishment there.

    Hell constantly attacks the heavens and tries to destroy them, but the Lord constantly protects the heavens.

    According to the testimony of Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov, “... the space between heaven and earth, all the azure abyss we see, the air, heavenly, serves as a dwelling place for the fallen angels, cast down from heaven. In the Book of Job, the fallen angel already seems to be wandering in the immeasurable space of heaven, he wandered over it, quickly flew over it, tormented by an insatiable anger towards the human race ”(Job, 1: 7). So the fallen angels are scattered in multitudes in midair.

    The impact of evil spirits on people

    “The devil tortures from everywhere,” says St. Gregory the Theologian, “he looks out for where to depose, where to hurt and find what is unprotected and open for blow, the more he sees purity, the more it becomes to desecrate ... The evil spirit takes on a double image, scattering that , then another network: he or the deepest darkness (obvious evil), or turns into a holy angel (covers himself with the kind of goodness and seduces minds with a meek smile), which is why special care is needed so as not to meet death instead of light ”. The Holy Apostle Paul also warns of the need for special care and vigilance, saying, "... that Satan himself takes the form of an angel, and therefore it is not a great thing if his servants take the form of servants of righteousness, but their end will be according to their deeds."

    (2 Cor. 11: 14–15).

    And in the struggle with a person, fallen spirits affect his mental, sensory and volitional spheres. Demons can kill people, infect them with diseases and enter them (that is, take possession of their body).

    They enter the human body with their whole being, just as air enters it.

    The demon, having entered a person, does not mix with the soul, but dwells in the body, forcibly possessing the soul and body. At the direction of Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov "Gases have in a special development the property of elasticity, that is, the property of taking different measures of volume, it is obvious that demons also have this property, according to which a lot of them can be placed in one person, as the Gospel says about it"(Luke 8:30). Entering a man, according to the testimony of St. John Cassian, “Demons induce a terrible darkening of the rational feelings of the soul,<это происходит>like those from wine, fever, or excessive cold. " But the demon cannot make our soul its receptacle. "Unclean spirits, - claims the same saint, - not otherwise penetrate the bodies of those possessed by them, as having mastered their minds and thoughts in advance. Having bared their minds from the clothes of the fear of God, the memory of God, evil spirits attack them as disarmed and deprived of God's help and God's protection, and therefore conveniently defeated, and finally, arranging dwellings in them, as if in the possession presented to them. " Saint Gregory the Theologian also speaks about this: "The devil cannot take possession of us entirely by any means: if he strongly takes possession of some, then only by his own will those who are seized without resistance."(James 4: 7). Thus, from all of the above, we can conclude that the direct instillation of an evil spirit into a person occurs only with the special connivance of the Lord and is often a consequence of the passionate and frivolous life of the sinner.

    Not possession, but mastery of a person through the external subordination of the forces of the soul to his demonic will is observed much more often than demonic possession. Judas is a typical example of this. The words of the Gospel "Satan entered into Judas" should not be understood to mean that Judas became demoniac in the full sense of the word. St. John the Theologian says that through the passion of love of money, Satan first penetrated into the soul of a disciple (John, 12: 6), then more fully took possession of his heart (John, 13: 2) and, finally, decisively possessed him (John, 13 : 27). Here we see a vivid example of a demon's gradual mastery of the soul of a sinner through the ever-increasing passion of love of money.

    One of the main ways of the influence of unclean spirits on people is the impact on their mental sphere by bringing there various sinful thoughts. Being out of reach of the bodily senses of a person, the demons, influencing his mind, bring there various thoughts that a worldly person who does not lead a spiritual life takes for his own. And if he accepts them without any resistance, agrees with them, then through this action, or rather, inaction, he becomes a conductor of someone else's evil will, gradually taking possession of him completely. " Often,- says Saint Anthony the Great, - being invisible themselves<злые духи>, seem to be reverent interlocutors, in order to deceive with a semblance of an image and to involve those seduced by them in whatever they want ”. Demons, knowing that people love the truth, take on the guise of truth and by this means pour poison into their followers. So the devil once deceived Eve, saying to her not his own words, but supposedly repeating the words of God, while distorting their meaning (Gen. 3: 1). So he seduced Job's wife, teaching her the excess of love for her husband, and hence blasphemy against God. “Blaspheme God and die" (Job 2: 9), - she said, believing that for blaspheming God a person is immediately subjected to death and thus ends his grievous earthly torment. So the devil deceived and deceived all people, perverting the essence of things, and carried everyone into the abyss of evil.

    In addition to the mental sphere, fallen spirits can also have an adverse effect on the sensual and volitional side of the human soul. This is what the Monk Nile of Sinai writes about this: "When the envious demon does not have time to bring the memory into motion, then he acts on the blood and juices in order to produce imagination in the mind through them and fill it with images." Acting on the body, the demon excites in a person a feeling of lust, rage, anger, and the like. This is clearly seen in the example of St. Justina, in which a demon sent by a sorcerer kindled a feeling of lust and voluptuousness, but was driven away by the prayer of the saint.

    Influencing the volitional sphere of the human soul, the demon, as it were, deprives a person of strength, energy, the ability to take decisive actions and any action in general, but he departs during prayer, being defeated by the power of Christ.

    Evagrius, a monk, writes that demons differ in the degree of evil and powers, performing different ministries. Saint John Cassian confirms this, saying that “Some of them delight in unclean and shameful lusts, others love blasphemy, others anger and rage, others are comforted by sorrow, others by vanity and pride, - and each of them enters into human hearts that passion that he himself delights in, but not all together excite the passions, but alternately, depending on how the time, place and acceptability of the tempted require. " The same ascetic testifies to the spiritual invisible warfare: "The weakest spirits start to attack the novice and the weak, and when these are defeated, then the strongest are sent", but this happens as the spiritual strength of the soldier of Christ multiplies.

    As you can see, demons have a kind of "specialization", being in evil, they have some freedom, because they can choose from many evils one that is most pleasant for them. They live by this passion, try to kindle it in a person, through that gaining access to his soul and body. In addition, it is entirely permissible to assume that demons can feed and be strengthened due to the transforming energy of a person into passionate delight. If, according to St. John of Damascus, angels “contemplate God as much as possible for them, and have this food,” then demons for whom contemplation is impossible, apparently, can receive energy indirectly, through a person, adapting his energy for their nutrition. To do this, they first have to make a person like themselves, through that gaining access to his soul. A passionate and sin-loving person is an excellent breeding ground for fallen spirits. Inflating the energy of passions in him, devouring his life forces, the demon feeds and strengthens in such an environment. In addition, having possessed the sinner, the fallen spirit uses his body as a tool to gain greater delight in passion. This is another reason why a passionate and sin-loving person is literally covered with demons.

    At the same time, it should be noted that fallen spirits can endow their servants with a special demonic type of energy, which allows obedient executors of the will of the forces of evil to work tirelessly in the field of increasing sin. But due to their destructive nature, deprived of the ability to create, demons ultimately destroy their followers.

    Why do demons need sacrifices?

    Another form of food for the demons is sacrifice. Here is what Saint Basil the Great says about it: “Demons, being devoted to lust and passion, enjoy and feed on sacrifices to a large extent. While the victims are being burned, the blood turns through burning into vapors and, thus decomposing into thin parts, passes into a state corresponding to the nature of demons.

    All of them, of course, feed on vapors, not so that they eat them or fill their belly, but like some animals, oysters and others of this kind, which take food with their whole being. For this reason, the demons greedily devour the gases emanating from the burning of the victims, and draw in the smoke of smoking incense, like substances adapted by them for food. "

    Reasons the Lord Permits the Existence of Evil Spirits

    For people, the devil has become an instrument of testing, by which they are tested and by which the faithful to Christ are separated from the lovers of sin. For God does not force man to be saved, but gives everyone the opportunity either to fight the devil, or to enter into an alliance with him. As St. Ignatius Brianchaninov testifies, “The commandment given by God in paradise and forbidding the eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil has not been canceled. She stands unshakably like the commandment of God. A person is constantly tested by it until now. The devil is constantly present with him and advises him to partake of the forbidden fruit, forcibly attracts him to this partaking, as one who has received the right - the right from our initial obedience to the devil. He never ceases to seduce us with thoughts of sin and peace, inflating our passions beyond measure. This fiery weapon moves in the hand of the fallen cherub, and the tree of life - good, unalloyed to evil, becomes inaccessible to us by the righteous judgment of God.

    Temptations and thoughts allow us to manifest our autocracy and purity of heart. Saint Isaac the Syrian teaches that the grace of God leads everyone into temptation in order to gradually teach wisdom and the ability to despise the spirits of evil: “Grace permits that those who are sent to him<человека>temptations, corresponding to his measure, in order to bear their strength to man. " He goes on to say: "Know that to what extent the soul does not have sufficient strength for great temptations, it is equally insufficient for great gifts ... God does not give a great gift without a great temptation.".

    Saint Gregory the Theologian also testifies to the need for such temptations in the development of the personality of a new person, saying that fierce warfare is necessary in order to "... so that the devil would be subjected to a terrible disgrace here, fighting with those who are weaker than him, so those who ascend in virtues always have their glory, purifying themselves like gold in a furnace."

    Spiritual remedies for fighting evil spirits

    “No one thinks of the devil that he seems to be so strong that he can prevent us from walking the path leading to virtue. True, he seduces and seduces the negligent, but he does not restrain by force and does not coerce "," If we live immorally, we become an easy prey for the devil. " "Always out of my negligence, the demons take a chance against me to rebel", - Saint Maximus the Confessor testifies (Philosophy. T. 2. S. 322). That evil is born in ourselves, this is what the Lord Himself says: “ For from the heart, - is talking , - evil thoughts come out "(Matt. 15:19). This happens to those who, through negligence, leave the natural seeds of goodness in themselves uncultivated, as it is said in the parables: "I passed the field of a lazy man and past the vineyard of a poor-minded man: and all this was overgrown with thorns, its surface was covered with nettles and its stone fence collapsed."(Prov., 24: 30-31). And the soul from such negligence, deserted and abandoned, by necessity it remains to grow thorns and thistles and test what has been said over itself: "I expected him to bring good grapes, he brought wild berries."(Isa. 5: 2, 4), while it was said about the same soul: "I planted a vine of choice"(Isa. 5: 2). There is something similar to this in the prophet Jeremiah, who on behalf of God says: "I planted you like a noble vine - the purest seed, how did you turn into a wild branch of someone else's vine"(Jer. 2:21).

    Athanasius the Great says: "The devil himself confesses his powerlessness, and thus we will not lose heart, we will not feed fear in our souls, we will not invent for ourselves motives for fear." saying: “Wouldn't a demon come and shake me? Would he not delight me and cast me down? Or: "Wouldn't you have attacked suddenly and caused confusion?" " We will not at all give room to such thoughts and grieve like those who perish. Let us always imagine and think that since the Lord is with us, our enemies will do nothing to us. They are what they find us, coming to us, they themselves become in relation to us, and what thoughts they find in us, such ghosts present us (offering us a temptation in what we are greedy for).

    The Lord destroyed the power of Satan and his hordes of demons, taking away from them all power to commit violence against us: "Having taken away the strength from the authorities and powers, he imperiously subjected them to shame, triumphing over them with Himself"(Col. 2:18). " Only through sin and passions do demons cling to the soul, and it, while in sin, is blinded by them and is, as it were, clothed in them. This is the kind of clothes made of demons that the Lord removed from our nature by the fact that we were given a new life, the points of contact with us or adhesion to us were taken away from the demons, and, on the contrary, the force was poured in to reflect them. "

    The Holy Fathers of the Church testify to the possibility of deliverance from demons with the help of the grace of God.

    Saint Cyril of Jerusalem: “The most evil counselor is the devil, he lets everyone in, but he will not overcome those who do not obey him. Therefore close your door and remove him from you, and he will not harm you. If, without disgust, you accept a lustful thought, then by means of thoughts it will take root in you, bind your mind and carry you into the abyss of evils. "

    Saint John Chrysostom: "If the devil is a predator, then it depends on us not to let him plunder."

    Saint Gregory of Nyssa: “When our nature fell into sin, God did not abandon our fall by His Providence, but to help everyone's life he puts an angel from among those who have taken an ethereal nature, but, on the other hand, the corrupter of nature contrives to do the same by means of some crafty and malicious demon, which would harm human life. A man, being among an angel and a demon, by himself makes one stronger than the other, by free will choosing a teacher from two. A good angel foretells the good of virtue to thoughts, which are revealed to those who are successful in hope, while the other shows material pleasures from which there is no hope for good. Therefore, if someone shuns that which beckons to the worst, striving for the better and putting vice as if behind him, and turning his soul like a kind of mirror to the hope of good, so that in the purity of his own soul all the images and representations of the virtue indicated to him be imprinted, then his brother greets him and helps him: for by the gift of the word and the intelligence of the human soul, the angel is in some way a brother to man. "

    But angels are only our helpers, and we must fight for our souls ourselves.

    "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you,"- says the holy apostle James (4: 7). We just need not to weaken in the fight against the enemy and wage the war with patience, remembering the Lord's commandment: "By your patience, save your souls"(Luke 21:19). For your victory over the devil, you will receive an eternal reward in the Kingdom of Heaven. If the devil attacks us especially hard, then this is the first sign of his weakness, for if we were defeated by him, he would have nothing to enter into the struggle in us.

    Saint John Climacus: "No one can testify so much about the defeat of the devil and demons as their cruel attack on us." "But the God of peace will crush Satan under our feet"(Rom. 16:20).

    The Holy Fathers and teachers of the Church point out very effective means for fighting the devil: Faith, the word of God, invoking the name of Christ our Savior, the fear of God, humility, sobriety, prayer, the Sign of the Cross. We ourselves can and should use them in the fight against evil spirits, but there are those that can only be used with the help of priests.

    Now let's take a closer look at these concepts.

    1. faith Is an insubstantial shield against an invisible enemy. The devil throws various poisonous arrows at us, but we have a strong defense - faith. "Above all, take the shield of faith with which you can quench all the arrows of the wicked one."(Eph. 6:16). The devil often throws the arrow of lust for shameful pleasures, but faith, recalling judgment and cooling the mind, quenches this arrow. If we believe in God, then we are not afraid of demons, for the Lord sends us his help. "The destroyer will not find a place for himself in us if he is protected by the shield of faith."

    2. The Word of God. "The spiritual sword for fighting the devil is the verb of God", "Oppose him<искусителю>the word of the belly, which is bread sent from heaven and giving life to the world, "- says St. Gregory the Theologian. "The destroyer will never find a place for himself in us, if he repels it with the sword of the Word of God." "Demons must be driven out, following the example of Christ, with the words of Holy Scripture."

    3. The invocation of the name of Christ our Savior. "In my name they will cast out demons"- Said the Savior (Mark, 16-19). The Church Fathers and teachers testify of the fulfillment of the promise of Christ. Saint Justin the Martyr says: “We always pray to God through Jesus Christ to be kept from demons that are alien to God-worship and whom we once worshiped, so that after turning to God through Christ, we may be blameless. For we call Him a helper and Savior, from the power of whose name the demons tremble, and now we conjure in the name of Jesus Christ, Crucified under Pontius Pilate, they obey us, hence it is obvious to everyone that His Father gave Him such great power that demons obey the name and the economy of His former suffering. "

    Saint Cyril of Jerusalem: “All kings, when they die, lose their power along with their lives, and the whole Universe worships the Crucified Christ. We proclaim the Crucified, Whom the demons tremble. There were many crucified at different times, but the invocation of another crucified one did the demons expel when? ... And to this day the demons still tremble at the name of Christ, the power of this name is not weakened by our vices. And we are not ashamed to offend the venerable name of Christ and Christ Himself ..., ... We are not ashamed to hear how they silently reject Christianity, speaking in defense of our Savior, as if ashamed to be His believing sons ... The mind cannot overcome demonic dreams by itself, yes never dares to do this, for, being cunning, our enemies pretend to be defeated, plotting to overthrow the fighter through vanity, when calling on the name of Christ, and they will not endure a minute to stand up and malice against you ... (with the help of the power of this name), conveniently drives them out by skillful skill, puts the invisible, military forces of the enemy to flight, and as soon as he recklessly dares to rely on himself alone, he will fall and break. "

    4. Fear of god... He who, because of love, fears of offending his Creator and constantly carries in his heart a grateful memory of God's mercies and the fear of being ungrateful for them, is not afraid of either the devil or man: for he is not afraid of death, trusting in eternal life, bestowed by God ...

    Saint Ephraim the Syrian: "The fear of God is a strong pillar in the face of the enemy, do not destroy this pillar and you will not be taken captive."

    "He who fears God does not fear the striving of demons against him."

    5. Humility... No one is afraid of the humble, because a hand is not raised against the humble, he is not afraid of hardship and torment, because humility does not allow him to feel hurt from the persecution of the enemy, all evil will be smashed against the wall of his humility. Saint Simeon the New Theologian says: "What is more courageous than a contrite and humble heart, which easily puts the shelves of demons to flight and completely drives them out." The Monk Abba Dorotheos testifies: “When Saint Anthony saw open all the nets of the devil and, sighing, asked God: 'Who can escape them?', God answered him: 'Humility avoids them, – and added: - They do not even touch him, "that is, to humility."

    6. Sobriety- spiritual vigilance. " Negligence and absent-mindedness of the soul- says Saint Basil the Great, - must correct the attention of the mind with a more collected and strict, and every minute one must constantly occupy the soul with meditation on what is beautiful (that is, what is truth). When the devil undertakes to build his intrigues and with great power tries to let his thoughts into the silent and at rest dwelling soul, like some kind of fired arrows, to suddenly ignite it and produce in it long and indestructible memories of once printed in it, then by sobriety and intensified attentiveness should reflect such attacks, just as a wrestler with the most strict caution and resourcefulness of the body deflects the blows of the opposing opponents. "

    Saint John Chrysostom: “Yes, it’s scary, beloved, to be caught by the wiles of the devil, for then the soul seems to get entangled in nets and, like an unclean animal wallowing in the mud, delights in it, so they, having surrendered to a sinful habit, no longer feel the stench of sins, therefore it is necessary watch and stay awake, so as not to give the wicked demon any access to us from the very beginning, so that, having darkened our minds and blinded the eye of our soul, he would not force us, who cannot, to gaze at the light of the Sun of Truth, like those deprived of visible sunlight, strive for abyss ". “If we are careful to dispose of our actions, then we will receive great mercy from the Lord and will avoid the wiles of the devil. When the devil sees that we are vigilant and careful, then, knowing that his attempts (on us, for our temptation) will be useless, he will retire with shame. "

    Venerable Hesychius, presbyter of Jerusalem : "The devil, like a roaring lion, walks with his hordes, looking for someone to devour"(1 Pet. 5: 8). "Let us never stop our heartfelt attention, sobriety, disobedience to the thoughts that the devil catches up with us, and prayer to Christ Jesus, our God, for better help than Jesus cannot be found for you, but your whole life."

    Rev. Nilus of Sinai: "If you want to successfully wage war with hordes of demons, then block the gates of your soul (feelings) with solitary silence and apply your departure with paternal words, so that, having learned, thus, to recognize the thorns of thoughts, burn them with anger (for evil thoughts and rejection)."

    Saint Theodore the Studite: “Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spirits of evil in heaven(Eph. 6:12) and against the evil adversary of our devil, who deceived our forefather and through this was the reason for his expulsion from paradise of sweetness to this earth. Since then, from generation to generation, he has persecuted the human race, teaching him all kinds of evil. He now thieves enters and goes out and catches souls that are not approved and do not listen to themselves. That is why we need great sobriety against him, great vigilance, great circumspection and diligence, so that he does not attack and hurt us. Knowing his plans and intrigues, we will arm ourselves in every possible way and begin to resist and repel him, not being lazy and not slacking either ourselves or him, just as he does not act and does not make indulgences, seeking our death. Even though he repeatedly attacked a day and failed, everything stands on its own, no matter how he starts to struggle, and again attacks even more, taking with him other spirits of anger, so we should not retreat or relax ourselves, with such daily and hourly attacks on us. Even though we have shown a lot of attention and strenuous effort, we will not successfully change it (that is, despite our success), but will always keep equal zeal, excitement and resistance against him. "

    Saint Nicephorus: “The devil with demons, after through disobedience made a person an exile from paradise, received access to mentally shake the rational strength of a person ... And it is not otherwise possible to protect oneself from this, as by the unceasing memory of God. So, only the unceasing memory of God and His mercies, the constant vigilance of a soldier in the service of the Heavenly King to subjugate His enemies can give a person salvation from the wiles of the devil and his demons, and therefore from all human misfortunes on earth and beyond the grave. "

    7. Prayer... Prayer is the means of our communication with God: our soul talks with God, therefore by prayer we ascend to heaven. Faith is drawn from prayer, for in prayer a person feels the happiness of grace emanating from God, and can no longer doubt the existence of God. Through prayer, a person is purified, protected, saved. In prayer, a person feels his soul, recognizes himself as a spirit independent from the body, able to ascend to his Creator Himself and see Him with his spiritual eyes. (The talk is about real prayer, coming from the soul, and not about one pronunciation of prayer words, learned by heart, when they do not delve into what is being said, do not feel what is said due to the absence of thought, occupied with earthly thoughts, outside prayer.)

    The power of prayer is not in many words, but in sincerity. In prayer, in the first place - not our will, but the will of the father (Matt. 6:10).

    Thy will be done

    Our life passes in constant plans that we build for long periods of time, and none of us is given to know whether we have found the best solution. Nor can we be sure whether our actions are correct in relation to anyone else. We can judge another, and we do not even remember the commandments of God: "Do not judge ... With what judgment you judge, you will be judged like that." We constantly pray to God to send us the blessings we are asking for, but we ourselves cannot in any way know whether what we are asking for is actually good. Everything is open to God, and the Lord does not accept all our requests, since he does not wish any of us a bad end. And our requests very often in the final stage can lead to undesirable consequences, and in the end we get not what we would like. God wants us something more and better than what we ask of Him in prayer. Therefore, any prayer must be ended with the words: "Thy will be done."

    Saint Basil the Great says: “If during the prayer the devil began to fill in crafty dreams, the soul will not stop praying, but judging that the appearance of such thoughts occurs in us due to the urgency of the inventor of cunning, let us all the more we fall to God and pray that He will scatter the crafty barrier of the obscene ones that remain in our memory.<молитвенному состоянию>thoughts, so that by the striving of his mind, without hindrance, without any delay and instantly, ascend to God, then the invasion of evil thoughts will not a little interrupt the path to prayer, if such an uprising of thoughts continues, due to the urgency of a warrior with us, then in this case too we should not despair and leave the feat halfway through the work, but endure, continuing to pray until God, seeing our steadfastness, illumines us with the grace of the Holy Spirit, which turns the libeller to flight, purifies and fills our mind with Divine light and gives that, that our thought in silence serves God with joy. "

    Saint Isaac the Syrian believed that if one does not reject help against evil, that is, prayer, then the Protector and Helper will never move away from a person.

    Saint Simeon the New Theologian: “A Christian who performs prayer as if some kind of work and feels<во время молитвы>, as if he endures violence, compulsion and torment against his will, such one should not think that he has freed himself from the hand of the devil, let him know that he is mentally<его мысль>still held under the yoke of the wicked tormentor. "

    Therefore, in communion with God, free, unconstrained prayer is needed, which would constitute the life of the soul.

    Saint Gregory of Nyssa: "We must pray, for the consequence of prayer is that we are with God, and whoever is with God is far from the opposing agent." And further: "The one who fears the enticement of the wicked one, let him pray that he will not be in the power of the wicked one." And so we will pray, for in prayer we come into communion with God and get to know Him.

    8. Sign of the cross- according to the expression of the church song: "The cross destroys demons" (Canon to the Cross, p. 3, tr. 2), "the repeller of demons" (p. 6, tr. 4), "The cross is raised up - and soulless spirits fall down" (p . 6, tr. 4).

    His Grace Theophan the Recluse speaks of the meaning and power of the Cross of the Lord as follows: “Heaven and earth have been reconciled by the cross, the Spirit of grace has been brought down into the sanctification of all, and into the conviction of all by the power to tread<силою Креста>for all the power of the enemy, demons cannot look at the Cross: they run from one sight of it, as in the face of the wind. The sign of the Cross is a fence for believers and a victorious weapon against invisible enemies. "

    Saint John Chrysostom says: “The Cross should not only be depicted with a finger, but a heartfelt disposition and complete faith should precede it. If you portray him in this way on your face, then not one of the unclean spirits will be able to approach you, seeing the sword with which he is wounded, seeing the weapon from which he received a mortal wound. After all, if we also gaze with trepidation at those places where criminals are executed, then imagine how the demons are horrified when they see the weapon with which Christ destroyed all their power and cut off the head of the serpent. So, print the Cross in your mind and both<мысленно>a salutary sign of our souls. When we have the Cross with us, then the demons are no longer terrible and not dangerous. "

    Saint Anthony the Great says, "That the demons are especially afraid of the sign of the Cross of the Lord, for by the Cross, having taken away their strength, the Savior put them to shame."

    Saint Ephraim the Syrian expresses the same thought: "Never forget to protect yourself with the Cross, and you will break the nets that the devil hid for you, for it is written:" On the path I walked, they secretly set nets for me. "(Ps. 41: 3). Always seal yourself with the Cross, and evil will not touch your spirit. "

    Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica: "And not only in the image of His Cross, because it is a sign of Christ's victory over the devil and over the entire horde of resistance forces: why do they tremble and flee when they see him depicted."

    9. Repentance and communion... Saint Ephraim the Syrian says: “Blessed are those who, having fallen into the enemy's net, managed to break his bonds and hid, fleeing from him, like a fish escaping from the sea. A fish in the water, if, being caught, breaks the net and disappears into the depths, it will be saved, and when it is taken out onto land, it cannot help itself. So we, while still in this life have the power from God, to break the bonds of the enemy's will and by repentance cast off the burden of sins and be saved. And if this terrible command overtakes us and the soul leaves, and the body is committed to the earth, then we are no longer able to help ourselves, just like a fish taken out of water and enclosed in a vessel can no longer help itself. "

    Saint John of Damascus: “It depends on us to abide and virtue and obey God, who calls us to it, or move away from virtue, that is, to live viciously and follow the devil, who, not against our will, attracts us to vice. Repentance is a return from the devil to God. "

    10. Spell. According to the definition of Saint Gregory the Theologian, "Spell is the expulsion of demons"(part 5, p. 286).

    Saint Justin Martyr: "We who believe in the Crucified Jesus our Lord conjure all demons and evil spirits and keep them in our power." And again: "Every demon is defeated and subdued through an incantation in the name of the Son of God."

    "Stay awake and pray lest you fall into temptation"(Matt. 26:41).

    Fighting Light and Dark

    The light of heaven is not natural, but spiritual, because it comes from the Lord God, that is, Divine love.

    Light for angels is Divine truth, because angels are spiritual beings, not natural ones. Angels borrow their minds from Divine truth, and mind is inner sight.

    Light is given to angels as they accept Divine truth. Therefore, the heavenly angels are called angels of light. People differently accept the love of the Lord God and receive light from God according to these opportunities to receive this light. The purer the life of a person, the finer the vibrations emanating from his body, the more the Divine Light fits into him: “... Jesus spoke to the people and said to them: I am the light of the world, whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life (John, VIII: XII). As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world ”(IX: 5). “Then Jesus said to them: the light is with you for a long time, walk while there is light, so that darkness does not overtake you, and he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going, as long as the light is with you, believe in the light, that you will be sons of light, I light came into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me should not remain in darkness ”(John, XII: 35, 36, 46). “Light came into the world, but people loved darkness more than light” (III: 19). John says about the Lord: “There was a true light that illumines every person” (John 1: 4, 9). “The people sitting in the darkness saw a great light, and the light shone on those sitting in the land and in the shadow of death” (Matt. II: 16). “I will make you the light of the people, that my salvation may be extended to the ends of the earth” (Isa. XLIX: 6). “The saved nations will walk in his light” (Apoc. XXI: 24). "Send your light and your truth, they will bring me" (Ps. XLII).

    “When the Lord was transfigured before Peter, James and John: and his face shone like the sun, but his clothes became white like snow, or became shiny, very white, like snow, as on the ground a whitener cannot whiten” (Matt, XVII : 2; Mk., IX: 3).

    “In the word, garments denote truths, which is why it is said in David: You dress with light as with a garment” (Ps., See 2).

    When angels look at a person, then if he is good, then he sees him as a person of beauty corresponding to his good, but if he is evil, then a monster, the ugliness of which corresponds to his evil. From this it is clear that in the heavenly light everything becomes apparent, because the heavenly light is Divine truth.

    Every Christian knows from the word of God that a person's own life remains with him after his death; in many places the word says that a person is judged and protected according to his deeds and actions.

    Those living in evil do not want to believe that their state after death would be in accordance with their life in the world, but they think, especially when they are sick, that the Kingdom of Heaven can be given to everyone, one by the mercy of God, no matter how anyone lives, and that it is given. to each according to his faith. About the fact that a person is judged according to his deeds, it is said: "For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward each according to his work" (Matt., XVI: 27).

    "And I will reward each of you according to your deeds" (Apoc. II: 23).

    “And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and they were judged by the dead according to what was written in the books, in accordance with their deeds. Then the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and hell gave up the dead who were in them, and each one was judged according to his deeds ”(Rev. XX: 12, 13).

    “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them, I will liken to a wise man who built his house on a rock. And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not fulfill them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand ”(Matt. VII: 24, 26).

    “Many will say to me that day: 'Lord! God! Did we not prophesy in Your name? and did they not drive out demons in your name? and did not you perform many miracles in your name? "And then I will declare to them:" I never knew you, depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness "" (Matt. VII: 22, 23).

    “Then you will begin to say: 'We ate and drank before You, and You taught in our streets.' But He will say: “I say to you: I don’t know you, where you are from, get away from Me, all workers of unrighteousness” ”(Luke, XIII: 26, 27).

    "... And I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their hands" (Jer., XXV: 14).

    "... Great God, mighty, whose name is the Lord of hosts, the Great in counsel and mighty in works, whose eyes are open in all the ways of the sons of men, to give to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his works" (Jer., XXXII: 19).

    "... And to each according to his ways, and I will reward him according to his works" (Hos. IV: 9).

    "... As the Lord determined ... to deal with us in our ways and in our works, so he did to us" (Zech., I).

    After death, a person forever remains as he is, according to his will and according to the dominant love in him.

    Faith alone, by itself, does not remain in the soul if it is not based on heavenly love.