Friday, October 3, 2014

Elder Joseph Revealed that a Nun Had a False Gift of Prophecy

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Elder Joseph the Hesychast Elder Ephraim of Philotheou. "My life with elder Joseph". (translated from Russian) In those d...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

The Joy of the Evil Spirits Is That We Conceal Our Thoughts

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Sts. Barsanuphious and John the Prophet. "Guidance Toward Spiritual Life". A certain brother is appointed the abbot. He asks th...
Friday, July 4, 2014

A Woman Made 1000 Prostrations Every Day Because of Conceit

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Hegumen Ambrose (Yurasov). "Faith and Salvation". (English translation from Serafim Gascoigne. "Living Theology: Russian ...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Only Love Can Cure Delusion

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How to protect yourself from delusion? Archpriest Alexiy Denisov (Arkhangelsk, Russia) –   The only way to protect yourself from delus...

Do not Trust Yourself until You Go to Last Home

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How to protect yourself from delusion? Archpriest Basil Volskiy (village Polyarnye Zori, Murmansk region, Russia). - The signs that yo...
Monday, March 24, 2014

A Monk Took Communion without Reconciliation

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Blessed John Moschus. "The Spiritual Meadow". The life of abbot Isaac, and how a demon also appeared to him in the shape of a ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

A Woman Accepted Devilish Trick - the Lampada Lit up by itself

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Professor Alexei Osipov. "Search for Truth on the Path of Reason". Nevertheless, what does all of this show? It shows that ev...
Friday, August 2, 2013

The Ones Who Conceal Sins Fall in Delusion

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Elder Ephraim of Philotheou. "My life with elder Joseph". (translated from Russian) Elder Ephraim of Philotheou Th...

Temptation Because of Concealment of Thoughts

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From the living of St. Ambrose of Optina. Shortly before his death the elder Ambrose said to another monastery monk Paulinus: "For...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Untimely Dispassion is Dangerous

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Alexei Ilyich Osipov. "The Basics of Spiritual Life, Based on the Writings of St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)". 5. Untimely dispa...

Delusion Through Hearing Voices Is Very Common Nowadays

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Elder John (Krestiankin). From the letters of 2003. Elder John (Krestiankin) (1910 - 5.2.2006) Servant of God, L.! You get a gift ...

Discernment Is Born of Humility

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Saint Peter of Damaskos. Book 1. A Treasury of Divine Knowledge. From Philokalia, Vol. 3. If by the grace of God you have received the ...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Metropolitan Anthony on Prelest

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Conversations with Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh. "On Prelest". Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) Very often, way too o...

How to Distinguish Whether the Gift Is From God or From the Devil

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Question to Archbishop Vikenty of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye in the air of TV channel "Soyuz". April, 2008. Archbishop Vi...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

On Unceasing Prayer in a Dream

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Letters of St. Ambrose of Optina. Letter 294. Unauthorized teaching of others and arrogance lead to temptations. Saint Ambrose of Opt...

Saint Elder Seraphim Romantsov about the False Unceasing Prayer

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Archimandrite Raphael (Karelin). "The mystery of salvation. Conversations about spiritual life." Schema-Archimandrite Seraphim....
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Angel Did not Write down the Names of Those Who Took Communion with Unconfessed Sins

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Rufinus the Presbyter. "Living of Desert Fathers." (translated from Russian) We cannot pass over in silence the inhabitants...

False Joy

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Letters of Saint Ambrose of Optina. Praise and thanksgiving to the Lord for due to all-powerful petitions and prayer intercession of O...

Most of the Ascetics Are Temporarily or Permanently in Delusion

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Letters of  Hegumen Nikon (Vorobyov) to Spiritual Children. Letter 132 Dear ... ! 10 days have already passed since I received your...

How to Pray

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Letters of the Valaam Elder Schema-hegumen John (Alexeev). Schema-hegumen John (Alexeev) 01.07.1954 It is very sad to hear that ...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

False Angel Tried to Deceive Saint Pachomius

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From the Living of Saint Pachomius the Great. Chapter XLVIII On one occasion when he shut himself away from everyone in solitude, the ...

Do Not Wish Other People to Know Your Good Deeds

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Saint Theophan the Recluse. "Thoughts for Each Day of the Year". St. Theophan the Recluse [Gal. 2:6-10; Mark 5:22-24, 35-6...

A Sinner Should Always Turn Away Any Visions

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Saints Barsanuphius and John the Prophet. "Letters". Letter 414. Question: "If a sinner should acquire certain visions, shou...

A Nun Started to Cure a Possessed Woman

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The Letters of Saint Ambrose of Optina. You still worry about one of your letters thinking that I haven’t received it, while it contain...

Self-conceit of a Scientist

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Skhema-Hegumen Savva (Ostapenko). "The Experience of Formation of the True World View." Skhema-Hegumen Savva (Ostapenko) ...

Pride after Praying - a Sign of Help from the Demons

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Saints Barsanuphius and John. "Guidance Toward Spiritual Life: Answers to the Questions of Disciples.". Letter 421. Question...

Delusive Visions Due to the Wrong Way of Prayer

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The Letters of Saint Ambrose of Optina. On the harmful effects of improper prayer, and that the inconceivable Divinity should not be ima...

Expectation of Receiving Divine Gifts on Archangel Michael Feast

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The Letters of Saint Ambrose of Optina. You are writing that on the eve of Archangel Michael Feast, a fiendish thought came to you, pro...

True Dispassion Must Be Accompanied by Love

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Saint Maximos the Confessor. "Four Hundred Texts on Love". From Philokalia, Vol. 2. Third Century. 73. He who speaks dispass...

Why Demons Attack Us

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Saint Maximos the Confessor. "Four Hundred Texts on Love". Second Century. From Philokalia, Vol. 2. 67. There are said to be ...

About False Dispassion

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Saint John Climacus. "The Ladder of Divine Ascent". Step 26. Demons and passions quit the soul entirely or for some length of...

Saint Maximos Kavsokalyvites on the Signs of Illusion and Grace

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Saint Maximos Kavsokalyvites on Noetic Prayer. Sts. Maximos and Gregory A native of Lampsacus on the Hellespont, Saint Maximos bec...

Who May Receive Revelations in Dreams

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Saint Nikitas Stithatos. "On the Inner Nature of Things and on the Purification of the Intellect: One Hundred Texts". From Phi...

The Enemy Tries to Imitate All Good Things

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Saint Symeon Metaphrastis. "Paraphrase of the Homilies of Saint Makarios of Egypt". VI The Freedom of the Intellect. From Phil...

The Devil Is Most Apt and Powerful in Promoting Vanity and Haughtiness

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Saint Symeon Metaphrastis. "Paraphrase of the Homilies of Saint Makarios of Egypt". III Patient Endurance and Discrimination. ...