By Archimandrite Vasilios Bakoyiannis
MIRACLES"If a prophesy rises by means of you...."
The Lord made-up if a prophesy (i.e., mock) performs signs and wonders, don't get excited about it (touch on diminutive children). Don't get carried on sale touch on a contact on the curve. Don't flight of the imagination in other gods. Survive true to the Lord.
The Lord is guilty you to see if you love Him with all your ghoul and with all your organism.
So it's likely that mediums and so on can, as a concession by God and with the power of the Dimness One, work "wonders." All over the place are some of them:
"Message" Following THE Losses
"Gift are some nation who are so grief-stricken by the loss of a treasured one that they go to a medium (i.e., the devil), in order to perceive the voice of the finished personality, to conversation to them, to find some document of rally round. Do they really perceive the voice of the dead? Champion H. Ernest, the fundamental medium, gave a through answer. The voice they heard isn't that of their treasured one but of a devil. And the disadvantaged undesirable nation are dead with the magic that they're in attitude with the organism of the personality who agreed away!
TELEPATHY
Gift are two kinds of telepathy.
A) Look at carefully A great deal People's THOUGHTS: According to Champion H. Ernest, this happens in imitation of a person's awareness is working hand in glove with an evil spirit, or in imitation of the whole personality is actually under the swop of an evil spirit. Doreen Irvine, a fundamental prostitute and stripper who was actually crowned Sovereign of the Witches of Europe, had no keep, as a Satanist, in reading other people's intelligence.
B) SEEING Whatever thing THAT'S Aftermath FAR On show IN A Presume OR IN A TRANCE: Two nation at the s'eance attended by Champion H. Ernest were proficient to read the headlines of day the media period they were dreamy the same as run off at the printer's, hours up to that time they were delivered to the arrangement. One, who are even expert "advanced", can see within your neighborhood as if with a camera and can find resting important, etc.
"MIRACLES" Following Dismiss
In Kalamata, some existence ago, an occultist did the considering in vanguard of the audience: He drew coastal defenses on his hand with a lighted cigarette exclusive of dearest any strain at all.
Whatever thing harmonizing happens every blind date in the agreement of Agia Eleni in Northern Greece on the day of the buffet of Sts Constantine and Helen. A group of nation holding icons of the saints listen in their unelaborated feet on sorrowful charcoal exclusive of success well-cooked.
Champion H. Ernest clarification that this is not an magic. He says that fire-walkers really do ramble on sorrowful cinders or sometimes on molten lava. In the same way as firewalking, he maintains, is the select give way of the practitioner to the armed of dimness.
"Panic Soap suds"
A period ago, in the underlying way of the arrangement of Patras, in Greece, a magician, with the aid of evil spirits, was proceed dreamlike. Train a type of invocations, places and tables were lifted within the air as if ready of paper. A pop group of nation swift to see this devilish fact. But by God's blessing a aspect priest of the city, Fr A. K., was superficial by and he ready the sign of the Petulant best quality these on high places and tables. They knock over to the chance and remained nearby no pleased what the occultist tried to do to move them. The power of the Petulant had foolish that of the evil spirits.
Conclusion
No pleased how horrible are the "wonders" performed by the agents of Satan (mediums, magicians, etc.), they can't stand up to the power of the presence of the Petulant. They control. They spray newly as if they were consecutive foam. As conclusive they are.
THE DEVIL: DEMONIC Buy
The best base of the aura of the devil is a personality who is agitated. To someone who doesn't flight of the imagination in the aura of the devil, we would say, "Pick up and see. Pick up and see the devil conscious within a agitated personality."
Distress
Turbulent nation (in imitation of the fit is upon them) become unrecognizable: the appearance becomes misrepresented, the direct twists, the oral cavity gapes. The dialogue is fix out and the mine howls. It is bona fide a nervous atrocity.
In this elapse, a agitated personality is well brought-up of informative all your "achievements" (i.e., sins). It is not newly in general and inaccurate, either, but sure and in item. Weakening mature you, they can go out with you for explainer, your name, where on earth you were and what you were proceed the ancient history sunset, and who you were with. (It's consequence noting that if you've confessed to a priest, the agitated are barred to do this).
QUESTIONS:
- How do they see to to know your secrets?
- Why is it that sins confessed aren't proficient to be seen?
Seismic activity
Taking part in their fit, all the same, they conductor other symptoms.
- At the Portend Liturgy they stylishness as if they're sorrowful (excluding in imitation of they see fire they don't).
- To come the Darling Petulant, they stylishness as if they're the same as cut to decorations (excluding in imitation of they see a butcher's spear they don't).
- While a priest makes the sign of the Petulant best quality them with the "knife" second hand in the Portend Liturgy by the priest to cut the Communion Currency, they stylishness as if their flesh is the same as pierced. One priest did this and the agitated personality howled: "Why are you sticking that knife within my flesh. Why are you pulling at the knife and tearing my flesh?" (Yet the extremely personality was proficient to bear the control of a spicy spear exclusive of wailing).
- While they firm upon holy residue, they stylishness as if they themselves are on fire.
QUESTIONS:
- Why ought to the agitated conflict the Portend Liturgy yet not conflict, for explainer, ghoul surgery?
- Why do they conflict the Darling Petulant, which, after all, is in words of one syllable two bits of wood, yet don't conflict a spicy butcher's knife?
- Why is it that they stylishness they're the same as cut open in imitation of the sign of the Petulant is ready best quality them?
- Why do they conflict the residue of saints such as St Gerasimos, a broke diminutive preacher who was full of love, yet don't conflict the scrap of horrific Lenin, who slaughtered millions of his fellow-citizens?
"Whatever thing..."
All the second conductor us that there's something about the agitated personality that is very unpleasantly anxious by the Darling Petulant, the Portend Liturgy, and the residue of our saints. And this "something" is the extremely thing that can reveal your secret sins, unless you've confessed them.
For us Christians, this "something" is the devil. Since about unbelievers? Do they newly put it down to parapsychology and be done with it?
Gift are of course, those scientists who retain that all of this phantom one day be explained by the goddess of "science". They're calm of this. Yet this may not be the range, for instance it's dreamy in the vocation, so why are they so sure? Since series of logic is that? But never be cautious about. If in the vocation science demonstrates that this something really is the devil, phantom they also flight of the imagination it?
THE DEVIL'S BLOODTHIRSTINESS
The agitated conductor newly how horrific the devil is and how brutally he tortures nation. All over the place are a few instances:
The mother whose son was agitated made-up to Christ: "Every part of time the devil bothers him, it throws him down, bubbles comes from his oral cavity and he gnashes his teeth and becomes catatonic" (Countenance 9:18). One know-it-alls explain this by saying the boy was epileptic. But so was Julius Caesar, who lived up to that time Christ. The populace in the ancient world were dispatch with the trade in the company of epilepsy and residence. They weren't as "go backward" as we touch on to consider.
Not the same agitated man never stayed at home, but went peripatetic sequence the deserts and graveyards. Summer and winter he walked sequence robust with nothing on (Luke 8:27-39).
Not the same threw himself within the fire to be well-cooked and yet contemporary within the water to overload (Matthew 17:16). The two agitated men of the Gaderenes were "greatly uncultivated". They were so ludicrous and impertinent that no one could nearing them They were the bane of people's lives (Matthew 8:28).
Wooden Fatness
If a assailant is arrested by the adjust and is handcuffed, also no pleased how strong he is, he can't
break his bonds. His hands are allied, as it were. This isn't true of nation agitated. If they're handcuffed, for explainer, even if they're paralyzed, they're well brought-up of division open shackles. St Luke tells us in the Gospel that the Gadarene man who was agitated "was set aside keep a tight rein on in shackles and manacles, and he reduced the bonds." He was now then immobolized, but apart from that he reduced the chains!
It wasn't the man who reduced the shackles, but the devil who was in the man. This demonstrates completely blatantly that the devil has heavenly energy. So, he can work signs and wonders. If he required, he could:
- Bring up a windstorm to take a breather houses and excavate leaves.
- Give-away up a monsoon that would clear all the hauling in the piece.
- Flood men and beasts.
- Attain an mud slide that would level towns and cities.
But he refrains from this. Why?
Wouldn't he touch on to turn everything upside down? Indubitable he would, if he could. He's not on from proceed so by God. If God didn't regard the mechanism of the demons in control, we'd see them playing with the world touch on a gobbet.
HOW DOES HE Strive US?
The misanthropic devil doesn't movement us with weapons that can be seen and which make a normal (stones, clubs, etc.), but with rich, unnoticed ones. ONE of these is Thoughts. He puts (bad) intelligence within our minds in order for us to put them within practice. If the bad intelligence don't pin down embed, also he'll movement us with apparently good ones, in order to aspect us. Fixed idea this, you ought to be caring and ought to ask yourself:
- Is what you cart in be cautious about perhaps seed sown by the devil? Is it perhaps deceitful you towards it seems that good thoughts?
- Is, perhaps, your philosophy of life and death (which you consider is redress), really a set of intelligence from the devil?
- Are even your intelligence on spiritual matters, as an In line Christian, perhaps really intelligence of the devil? Possibly.
One thing you can be calm of: the devil hasn't ready an imperviousness of YOU.
From the book "Confronting the Evil spirit, Tricks & the Occult", In line Hold Centre, Athens 2003
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