Metropolitan Naum: How things are going …
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The devil, slowly but surely, builds the apocalyptic world of illusion. For this purpose, he often uses the so-called public figures or various celebrities, as his mediums, that is, transmitters of his illusion, which have become a model according to which the whole world conforms. The greater the fame or position that the public figure has in this world, and, the more distant it is from the God-man Jesus Christ – the more likely it is that the demon will use such an individual as their own medium. The technical support for all this is made available by the development of science, especially in the field of modern electronic, internet telecommunications…
The role of man – a demonic medium, is to act directly on the passions (vain-glory, covetousness and lust (love of carnal pleasures)), in order to awaken them, and especially to activate the passion of vain-glory, by which people are already trapped; to convince them to satisfy their passions and to make their life an even bigger illusion. The state of illusion, on the other hand, awakens the passions in man even more and that is why it is so easily permitted and generally accepted by the impersonal masses. But a society based only on passions is a society of divisions, conflicts, enmities, wars – in a word: a society of dissatisfied (unfulfilled) passions.
The same thing happens in the field of public church communications and relations, where the demon wants to expand his influence. This is precisely the reason why the religious sociopath – the demonic medium, has a constant need to be in public conflict, in conflict with something great and famous (Church – Holy Synod), or with someone who is great and renowned (Episcope), in order to become great and known. And, he has a constant need to tarnish the great and famous in order to glorify himself. The religious sociopath has a need to impose himself as an important factor of influence in the Church. Hence the emergence of various known and “anonymous” sites, groups and profiles on social networks that want to attract attention and cause divisions and conflicts.
But, what exactly happens to us when we accept the demonic thought of hostility towards someone with whom we personally communicate? Let us go back to our personal and realistic level of experiencing things. When we make a judgmental conclusion about a person, just on the basis of his speech, or looks, or the slightest gesture, or deed, or on the basis of our inner unpleasant feeling towards him, or thought, then the demon managed to produce from one of his inconsistent or imaginary parts in to us a constant and complete conclusion, judgment, i.e. image, which is certainly a delusion, that is, the illusion of enmity towards the particular person. This illusion then determines our entire mental decline and finally prevents our transition from an unnatural (religious neurosis or personality disorder) to a natural way of life.
The demonic medium wants to achieve all of the above by spreading its illusion of malice through electronic media, in the virtual internet space, to a person, or people, that are not known to us at all. Is it not foolish to draw any conclusions about a person you have never met in your life, let alone to conclude that someone is bad? Do you see how by accepting the demonic virtually created illusion makes you imprudent and keeps you in an unnatural way of life?
The negative conclusion easily binds on the three particularly dangerous illusions accepted by “Christians” throughout their history, which separate them from the Truth (Jesus Christ), from the Church, from the Christian identity: identification with the state, identification with the nation and identification with political parties. This identification greatly helps the demon to impose his illusion. It is easier to consider as an enemy the one who is not a resident of your country, who is not a member of your nation, who is not a member of your party, just like the one who gives priority to his Christian identity before your main self-identification
(http: // mpc.org.mk/MPC/SE/vest.asp?id=7289).
Our problem is that in order to break the illusion of the evil, we need the Truth to appear, that is, the bearer of the Truth, which is. a person – participant in the Truth and a medium of the Truth, that is, a pastor , who, with his manifestation of power, shatters the illusion and brings sobriety and repentance among people, and such persons are rare.
But where true pastors appear, the illusion disappears like darkness from the light, the spiritual seeing takes place, as well as the opportunity to receive the fruits of the Holy Spirit: love [towards all], joy, peace, long-suffering (long-patience), kindness, mercy, faith, meekness, temperance (Gal. 5: 22–23), as well as unity and mutual help. There is no “law” or worldly and demonic power against the bearers of these gifts.
To some extent, everything is an illusion while you are at the first stage of spiritual development (purification of the heart from the passions), except the word of the spiritual father. Take note, I did not say that your attitude towards the spiritual father is not an illusion, but that his word towards you is not an illusion. Your relationship is emotional (psychological), and it can be clearly seen – pictures of the spiritual father with children, birds, animals and pathetic comments on Facebook.
What should we do in order to save ourselves from this common, sinful and demonic condition called delusion, that is illusion, after being entrapped by it; provided that we realise in time and take note; and no matter in which sphere of our existence we experience it (biological, psychological, “spiritual”)?
Confession before the spiritual father – associated with ascetic repentance, weeping and obedience, usually completely weakens the illusion, because in that way we open our heart, i.e. we discover the place from which the illusion operates and we reject the illusion in order that place to be taken up again by the grace of God. Do not forget, illusion and the Holy Communion do not go together…
Most-Holy Bogorodica (Birth-Giver-of- God), save us!
Metropolitan of Strumica Naum
(22.11.2020 14:30)
