Who are demons. Who is a demon in the Christian tradition

Demons are astral-mental beings-destroyers, and they have a physical body. Their body is made up of many separate bodies: bacteria, viruses, helminths.(Demons are their collective consciousness). This is stated in the Essenes Gospel of Peace, the discovery of which scrolls was predicted by Edgar Cayce:

“And when they were baptized, the angel of water entered their bodies, and all that was disgusting came out of them, all the uncleanness of their past sins, and like a mountain waterfall, a stream of hard and soft abomination erupted from their bodies. And the land where their waters flowed was so polluted, and the stench was so terrible, that no one could stay there anymore. And the devils left their bodies in the form of numerous worms, writhing in impotent anger, after the angel of water drove them out of the entrails of the Sons of Men . And then the power of an angel came upon them sunlight, and the worms perished in their desperate agony, burned by the angel of sunlight. And everyone trembled with horror, looking at all this abomination of Satan, from which the angels delivered them. And they gave thanks to God, who sent his angels to save them.

“One man was very much tormented by a demon. And Jesus helped him:

“Then they all came up to Jesus and with loud weeping began to implore him:

Teacher, have pity on him, for he suffers more than all of us, and if you do not immediately expel Satan from him, we are afraid that he will not live to see tomorrow.

And Jesus answered them:

Your faith is great. Let it be according to your faith, and soon you will see the vile appearance of Satan face to face and the power of the Son of Man. I will cast out the mighty Satan from you by the power of the innocent lamb of God, the weakest of all the creatures of the Lord. For the holy spirit of God makes the weakest stronger than the mightiest.

And Jesus took milk from a sheep that was grazing in the grass. And he placed the milk on the sun-warmed sand, saying:

Look, the power of the water angel has entered this milk. And now the power of the angel of sunlight will enter into it.

And the milk became hot from the sun.

And now the angels of water and the sun will unite with the angel of air.

And suddenly the vapors of hot milk began to slowly rise into the air.

Come and inhale with your mouth the power of the angels of water, sunlight and air, so that it can enter your body and cast out Satan.

And the sick man, who was so much tormented by Satan, deeply breathed into himself the rising white vapor.

- Satan will immediately leave your body, for he has been starving for three days already, finding no food inside you. . He will come out of you to satisfy his hunger hot fresh milk, because this food is desirable for him . He will smell this smell and will not be able to resist the pangs of hunger that have been tormenting him for the past three days.. But the Son of Man will destroy his body so that he can no longer torment anyone.

And then the patient's body was seized with chills, and he began to feel the urge to vomit, but he did not vomit. He gasped for air, for he was out of breath. And in the arms of Jesus, he fell into unconsciousness.

Here Satan leaves his body, look at him - and Jesus pointed to the sick man's open mouth.

AND They everyone with amazement and horror saw Satan coming out of his mouth in the form of a disgusting worm that crawled straight to fresh milk. Then Jesus took two sharp stones in his hands and crushed the head of Satan and pulled out of the patient the whole body of the monster, which was almost the height of a man . When the vile worm left the human body, he immediately began to breathe, and all his pains ceased. And everyone watched with horror the disgusting body of Satan.

- Look what a vile beast you have carried within you and fed for many years. I drove him out of you and killed him so that he could no longer torment you. Give thanks to God that his angels set you free, and sin no more, otherwise Satan will return to you. Let your body henceforth be a temple given to your God.

And everyone marveled at his words and his power. And they said: -

Master, you are truly a messenger of God and know all mysteries.”

« Beelzebub, the ruler of all demons, the source of all evil, hid in the bodies of all the Sons of Men. He is death, the lord of all misfortunes and dressed in a decent guise, he leads to temptation and temptation Sons of Man. He promises wealth and power, luxurious palaces and clothes made of gold and silver, many servants. He promises fame and glory, adultery and lust, gluttony and drunkenness, revelry and idleness, and laziness. And he tempts everyone with that to which the soul of man lies most of all. And on that day, when the Sons of Humans are already becoming slaves to all these disgusting things and vanity, as payment for them, he takes away from the Sons of Humans everything that the Earthly Mother generously endowed them with.. He takes their breath, their blood, their bones, their flesh, their entrails, their eyes and their ears. And the breath of the Son of Man becomes labored, sickly and fetid, like the breath of unclean beasts. And his blood becomes thick and fetid, like the waters of a stagnant swamp, it curls up and darkens, like the night of death. And his bones become hard and knotty, they are exhausted from the inside and break into pieces like stones falling into a gorge. And his flesh is overgrown with fat and becomes watery, it begins to rot and decompose, covered with disgusting scabs and growths. And its insides are filled with vile filth, oozing streams of decay, and many vile worms find shelter here. And his eyes grow cloudy dark night does not completely surround them, and the ears stop hearing, deathly silence ensues. And the last lost Son loses his life. For he did not adhere to the laws of his Mother and committed sin after sin. And therefore, all the gifts of the Earthly Mother are taken away from him: breath, blood, bones, flesh, entrails, eyes and ears, and after all, life itself, with which the Earthly Mother crowned his body.

And here is what V.Yu. Rogozhkina writes. in the book "Eniology":

"Over time, scientists began to realize that animal or flora cannot be considered separately. . For example, the reaction of a flock of birds or fish is 3-4 times higher than the reaction of individual individuals . When united in a flock, not just the summation of individuals occurs - a collective consciousness is formed . (In particular, it is skillfully used in magical and religious rituals by synchronous singing of mantras, prayers, recitation of conspiracies...) This made it possible to treat the "smaller brothers" in a new way. For example, to the same ants and bees. After all, their cohabitation and collective work with differentiation of duties completely fall under the human understanding of civilization. At the same time, each individual is, as it were, a separate cell of some kind of living multidimensional organism.. In the same way, individual cells of the human body form what we are accustomed to call physical body, or the physical plane. But many have already got used to the understanding that in addition to the physical plane, a person has an astral, mental ... But for all the rest, orthodox scientists for some reason consider it sufficient to have only the physical plane.

Doctors noticed that during mass epidemics in Europe in the Middle Ages, not all people fell ill, but selectively. In addition, moving from the affected locality(changing the metacode of the area) practically guaranteed survival, and the forcible infection of those sentenced to death by carriers of cholera, plague - four out of five survive! This has led some to think about the karmic cause-and-effect relationships of epidemics and their reasonableness.

A multidimensional approach to the study of the Universe makes it possible to understand that an entity can be projected into a four-dimensional space by separate physical planes. But in the astral-mental plane - this is a single rational entity! Any epidemic is not just a collection of viruses or bacteria. This is an entity that performs a certain karmic function to destroy the most terrible destructor - a person! And what is most "funny" in this situation is that through vaccination and the use of pesticides, we ourselves significantly accelerate this process!!!"

Alcohol weakens the immune system and interferes with recovery from illness

MOSCOW, 15 November. /AMI-TASS/ Alcohol does much more harm to the body than just liver damage. Excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages also weakens the immune system, leads to slow wound healing and slow recovery, disrupts bone formation increases the risk of HIV transmission and prevents recovery from burns, trauma, bleeding, and surgery. These conclusions were made by American doctors at Loyola University, after conducting detailed studies of the effects of alcohol on the functioning of the body.

Oxidative stress, which is caused by alcohol, contributes to the weakening of the protective functions of the immune system, which maintain the proper functioning of the whole body and help us fight infections and diseases. Thus, the internal inflammation provoked by alcoholic beverages weakens the immune system and thus interferes with normal recovery from injuries and diseases. According to doctors, the most the right way minimize Negative consequences alcohol on health is to consume it in the most moderate quantities.

Jesus says not to eat meat: “And the next commandment was given: Don't kill», for life is given to everyone from God, but what is given by God, man cannot take away. For I tell you truly, from one Mother comes all life on earth. And therefore he who kills, kills his brother. And the Earthly Mother will turn away from him and take away her life-giving breast. And her angels will shun him Satan will find his abode in his body . And the flesh of the slain beasts in his body will become his own grave. For I tell you truly, whoever kills, kills himself, and whoever eats the flesh of slain animals, eats the bodies of death.. For in his blood every drop of their blood turns into poison, in his breath their breath turns into a stench, in his flesh their flesh into festering wounds, in his bones their bones into lime, in his entrails their entrails into rot, into in his eyes their eyes are in a veil, in his ears their ears are in a sulfur plug. And their death will be his death».

Also weakens the immunity of excess in sexual life. Sexual intercourse is a very energy-intensive process of conceiving a child, and people abuse it for the sake of pleasure.. For example, Khinevich A.Yu. in an article about Laws, RITA writes that when conceiving a child, a man spends the energy of 1 year of his life (meaning, of course, sexual energy stored in bones, teeth, nervous system etc. (so says Mantak Chia), and is pulled out of them during intercourse, due to a lack of sexual energy, AIDS develops, syndrome acquired immunodeficiency. Acquired not because of a sexual partner infected with HIV, but because of abuse in sexual life (which should not exist at all according to the laws of God, sex should be only for conceiving children). Once I read an article by scientists where they say that AIDS is a fictional disease, there is no HIV, there is no human immunodeficiency virus.

(Here's what I just found on the Internet, confirmation: http://moe-zdorovie.narod.ru/SPID.htm, http://noni-blog.com/?p=650 , http://destiny.ru/2155-spid-yeto-vydumannaya-bolezn.html, and etc.).

Therefore, Perun says in the "Santia of the Veda of Perun" (Circle 1, Santia 1, slokas 12 - 15):

“In the World of Reveal, manifested by Rod, the first thing that strikes people is someone else's desire, it will soon lead to anger And lust. These three generations of dark, unreasonable people lead to death , and in the World of Reveal, only persistent people, in whom Conscience rules, always conquer death with perseverance... Having calmed the seething feelings with a striving thought, they must be fought with neglect.... For such there is no death, for by Knowledge they have overcome passions and surpassed death.... A a person who seeks lust, following passions, perishes ... But having conquered vicious desires, a person blows off every dust of passions ... For all creatures and people, Hell seems to be hopeless darkness; how mad they aspire carelessly to failure... But to a man who has renounced madness, what can death do? Whoever refuses to possess the Ancient Wisdom, let him not think of anything else, as if having expelled the Force of Life from himself! Anger, greed and delusion of the deep Self, that's death; and they are in this earthly body... A person who has known the Wisdom of the Gods and Ancestors knows that death is born in this way, and death does not frighten him here ... In his area, death disappears, just as a mortal disappears, having fallen into the area of ​​\u200b\u200bdeath ... "

Therefore, in the tantras it is said that the “great goddess and great demoness” Kali (Death herself with an ax at the ready) where 5 M ( panchamakara, panchatattva: Madya (wine), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (toasted grains) And maithuna (copulation)):

“Where there is 5 M, undoubtedly, the Goddess dwells; from [the same place] where she is not, the Mother of the universe turns away ”(Kamakhya Tantra 3. 22-31)

Nationality hunza in the Himalayas they live 120-140 years and they do not know diseases, they are raw foodists . They observe the law of God, which Jesus speaks of in the "Essinian Gospel of Peace") and adhere to the rule " work more - eat less».

By switching to a raw food diet, people even went through severe stages of cancer. (Shatalova G. “Human Health”), when the doctors were already discharged from the hospital to go home to die. And the elderly gained such health that they did not even have in their youth. For example, a raw foodist Danielyan says: “Even if I really want to, I can’t get sick. I can lie down in the snow and lie down for three hours. Of course, I won’t fall asleep, but there won’t be a cold.” And backs up his words. A person ceases to freeze, he is hot, because his intestinal microflora produces heat, the large intestine becomes a kind of heater, and the caecum ceases to be an atavism, it has its own function. You can read about this, for example, in G. Shatalova or G. Malakhov.

In Africa, where, according to John Favors, African king and ISKCON guru at the same time, people " fuck everything that moves”, die young, at 25-30 years old and there is a huge number of diseases. Not because it's hot there, not just because of that. main reason in that breaking the laws of God. If a person does not violate the laws of God, then he will not have illnesses, aging, or death, Perun speaks about this in the “Santias of the Veda of Perun” (sloka 1, santiya 2, sloka 2 (18)):

“You live according to the laws of RITA and according to the laws of God the Creator of the One, for according to these laws all the Worlds and Earths live , in all the Universes... that the Great Ra-M-Ha created... And they do not know death, for death and darkness left these Worlds, and Light and Immortality filled the beauty of their Life....»

That is why the growth of people and their life expectancy decreased from epoch to epoch, because the virtue of people decreased due to a decrease in the amount of the Spiritual Light of Inglia from the center of the Galaxy that comes to us (this is the article by Dariyar "Time of Changes").

Therefore, in the Indian Vedas it is said that in the era satya(ages of righteousness) people lived 100,000 years, the duration decreased by 10 times with each era, their growth also decreased. IN satya yuga dharma(religion) stood on 4 legs, each of the subsequent eras removed one leg from it. In the Kali Yuga (in which we live, the Night of Svarozh), she stands on only one leg. The amount of Inglia Spiritual Light from the Galactic Center is minimal.

Who are demons, and should we be afraid of them? Part 2 important question: how can a person build relationships with such a "formidable" force that seeks to destroy him? Shish or candle? In the collection of Russian folk tales by A. N. Afanasyev there is a curious plot on a religious theme: “One woman, putting a candle on holidays in front of the image of George the Victorious, always showed the fig to the snake depicted on the icon, and said: here is a candle for you, Saint Yegoriy, and for you By this she so angered the unclean that he could not stand it; he appeared to her in a dream and began to frighten: "Well, if you only get into hell with me, you will suffer torment!" and the snake. People ask why she does this? After all, we don’t know where else you will go, either to heaven or to hell!” In this story, despite all its Christian surroundings, the pagan principle of simultaneously establishing relations with both evil deities and good ones is very concisely and convincingly presented. The practical solution of the problem is indicated here quite clearly: each with a candle and everyone is happy! Why does the foresight of a naive woman look so comical in this folk anecdote? Yes, because only one who does not understand the simple truth can hope to propitiate the demon: to establish good relations with evil spirits impossible. Having hated the entire creation without exception, the demons have driven themselves into an ontological impasse, since they themselves are also God's creations. Therefore, hatred has become for them the only possible form of relationship to each other, and even they can only hate themselves. The very fact of one's own existence is painful for demons. Such a terrible attitude can be compared, perhaps, only with the state of an unfortunate animal dying from a viral infection, which is colloquially called rabies, not without reason. The main symptom of this terrible disease is spasms of the esophagus, which do not let any liquid into the body. Water may be very close, but the animal dies of thirst, not having the slightest opportunity to quench it. Maddened by this torture, the sick beast rushes at everyone who had the imprudence to approach him, but if there is no one around, he bites himself in complete stupefaction. But even such a terrible picture can give only a very weak and approximate idea of ​​\u200b\u200bwhat a creature can experience that fiercely hates the whole world, not excluding itself and its own kind. And now - a question to fill: would a sane person try to make friends with a rabid dog? Or, for example, could Kipling's Mowgli survive in a pack rabid wolves, continuously tearing each other? The answer in both cases is obvious. But then it is an immeasurably more hopeless undertaking to try to propitiate the demon in order to secure a comfortable place in hell. Curtsying towards the forces of evil is a senseless and useless exercise. IN Holy Scripture it is clearly stated that for Satan people are of interest solely as a potential victim: Be sober, watch, because your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour (1 Peter 5:8). And although it is not at all a pious thing to poke a fig into the icon of St. George the Victorious, as the heroine of Afanasiev’s anecdote did, and of course you shouldn’t do this, it would still be good for those Christians who experience superstitious fear of demons to remember that in In the very rank of the sacrament of baptism, every Christian not only shows the fiddle to the demon, but literally - spits on him three times, renouncing Satan. Moreover, subsequently the Christian daily recalls this renunciation in the prayer of John Chrysostom, read before leaving the house: "I deny you, Satan, and your pride and service to you; and I join You, Christ God, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit" . But where does such boldness come from among Christians? The answer is simple: do not care about such dangerous and strong enemies only those who are under reliable protection can. Who drowned the pigs. People who get acquainted with the Gospel for the first time sometimes pay close attention to those details of the Gospel narrative that are secondary and insignificant for a church-going person. How was the meek and loving Christ able to mercilessly drown a herd of pigs? Doesn't God's love extend to animals too? The questions seem to be formally correct (although they could probably arise only modern man, who in no way connects the ham on his table with the pig from which this ham was made.) But there is still an error in such reasoning. And it's not even that the pigs mentioned in the Gospel would sooner or later fall under the butcher's knife anyway. Upon careful reading of this place in the Gospel, a simple fact becomes obvious: Christ did not drown the unfortunate animals. The devils are to blame for their deaths. When He came ashore, a man from the city met Him, possessed by demons for a long time, and who did not wear clothes, and lived not in a house, but in tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and said with a loud voice: What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torment me. For Jesus commanded the unclean spirit to come out of this man, because he for a long time tormented him, so that they tied him with chains and bonds, saving him; but he broke the bands and was driven by a demon into the wilderness. Jesus asked him: What is your name? He said legion, because many demons had entered into him. And they asked Jesus not to command them to go into the abyss. Right there on the mountain a large herd of pigs grazed; and the demons asked Him to let them enter into them. He allowed them. The demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned (Luke 8:27-33). Here, the destructive power of the hatred of demons for all living things is very clearly shown, forcing them to act even contrary to their own interests. Driven out of man, they ask Christ to let them enter into the swine, to live in them and not go into the abyss. But as soon as Christ allows them to do this, the demons immediately drown all the pigs in the sea, again left without shelter. It is impossible to understand such behavior, because in hatred there is neither logic nor common sense. strolling along kindergarten a madman with a straight razor in his hand will look like a harmless and peaceful layman against the background of demons. And if such creepy creatures could freely operate in our world, then nothing living in it would have been left long ago. But in the gospel story with pigs, the Lord clearly showed that demons are not at all free in their actions. Here is how St. Anthony the Great speaks of this: “Even the devil has no power over pigs. For, as it is written in the Gospel, the demons asked the Lord, saying: command us to go to the pigs. man made in the image of God." By renouncing Satan in baptism, a person entrusts himself to the One who has absolute power over Satan. Therefore, even if demons attack a Christian, this should not frighten him too much. Such an attack is possible under the only indispensable condition: if the Lord permits it. A snake bite is deadly, but a skilled doctor knows how to prepare medicine from snake venom. So the Lord can use the evil will of demons as a means of healing human soul. According to the general opinion of the fathers, God allows demon possession to those people for whom this path turns out to be the best in acquiring humility and salvation. “In spiritual terms, such a punishment from God does not at all serve as a bad testimony about a person: many great saints of God were subjected to such a tradition by Satan ...” writes St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov). “Meanwhile, being burdened by a demon is not at all cruel, because a demon cannot at all turn into hell, but if we are awake, then this temptation will bring us brilliant and glorious crowns when we endure such attacks with gratitude” (St. John Chrysostom). Temptation of Saint Anthony. Demons act only where the Lord allows them to do so, turning the evil designs of fallen spirits to the good of people. This partly explains Goethe's famous paradox of Mephistopheles' self-determination: "I am part of that force that always wants evil and always does good." Although even in a literary work, the demon still continues to lie: he, of course, is not able to do any good, as always, he ascribes to himself other people's merits. But what can a demon actually do? On this issue, the opinion of the father of Christian monasticism, Anthony the Great, can be considered more than authoritative, since the demons fought with him in the desert for several decades. The famous painting by Hieronymus Bosch "The Temptation of St. Anthony" depicts a terrible picture: a flock of fanged and horned monsters attacks a lonely monk. This plot was not invented by the artist, it was taken from the real life of St. Anthony, and the saint actually experienced all these terrible attacks. But here is what an unexpected assessment of these horrors Anthony the Great himself gives: “In order not to be afraid of demons, we must also consider the following. If they had power, they would not come in crowds, would not produce dreams, would not take on various images, when they plot, but it would be enough for only one to come and do what he can and wants, especially since everyone who has power does not strike with ghosts, but immediately uses power as he wants. , changing disguises and frightening children with many ghosts and ghosts. Therefore, most of all, they should be despised as powerless. " The further, the worse... Demons hate God. But how does God respond to this hatred? Reverend John Damascene writes: “God always grants blessings to the devil, but he does not want to accept. And in the next age, God gives blessings to everyone - for He is the source of blessings, pouring out goodness on everyone, everyone partakes in goodness, as far as he has prepared himself for those who receive it.” Despite the depth of the fall of demons, God does not fight with them and is always ready to accept them back to the angelic rank. But the monstrous pride of the fallen spirits does not allow them to respond to all manifestations of God's love. Here is how a modern ascetic, Athonite elder Paisios the Holy Mountaineer, says about this: “If they said “I have sinned,” but they don’t say it. Having said “I have sinned,” the devil would again become an angel. stubbornness, selfishness. He does not want to give in, does not want to be saved. This is terrible. After all, once he was an angel! Does the devil remember his former state? he is all fire and fury ... And the further, the worse he becomes. He develops in malice and envy. Oh, if only a person could feel the state in which the devil is! He would cry day and night. Even when some a kind person changes for the worse, becomes a criminal, he is very sorry. But what to say if you see the fall of an angel!... The fall of the devil cannot be healed by anything other than his own humility. The devil is not corrected because he does not want it himself. Do you know how glad Christ would be if the devil wanted to improve!" Unfortunately, the devil gives no reason for such joy. nothing in common, which is what Christians ask the Lord in final words prayers "Our Father": ... do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Amen".

According to religious teachings and hoaxes, demons are the tempters of mankind. In the old days, many people believed that every person has a demon sitting on his left shoulder, which whispers various bad advice into his left ear. This explains the fact that people spit three times over their left shoulder so as not to jinx it. The demon is balanced by a guardian angel sitting on the right shoulder of a person and giving him good advice, and the person himself chooses whose recommendations to listen to.

How do they look?

Various religious and mystical accounts describe demons in different ways. However, it is believed that the most accurate and detailed demons are found in the story of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol "The Night Before Christmas". Gogol describes the demons as follows: “A narrow muzzle, constantly twirling and sniffing everything that came across. It ends, like our pigs, with a round patch. The demon's legs are so thin that if Yareskov's head had them, he would have broken them in the first Cossack.

Then Nikolai Vasilyevich proceeds to a more detailed description of these unclean ones: “The tail of the demons hangs behind, so sharp and long. A goatee hangs under the muzzle, and small horns sticking out of the head sit above the muzzle. Demons are no whiter than chimney sweeps.” In the end, Gogol summarizes that the demon is just an ordinary devil, wandering around the world and teaching good people sins. According to folklore, these are the demons that have always been represented in Rus'.

According to legends and essays, demons have interesting feature: wherever they appear, they are always the way it is typical for the area. For example, demons appearing in Russia dress in European fashion, while in Europe they dress like “Moors” or “Turks,” that is, like in the East. According to some essays, Lithuanian demons dress in Polish national clothes (boots and kuntush).

What did the demons do?

So they say when a person did something bad, which he did not seem to want to do. It is in this case that they say: “The demon pushed” or “The demon beguiled”. Then it is considered that the person, as it were, is not to blame for his misconduct. It's all the fault of the demon that seduced him. Of course, in modern world this statement is not considered an excuse and is not taken into account at all. By the way, some demons enter people through their mouths: when a person swears, he opens the way for demons!

What does a modern non-believer mean when he says "I was pissed off" or "it pisses me off"? Probably, in most cases - just an extreme degree of irritation. And although the root basis of such words clearly indicates their origin from the word "demon", in our time this can hardly confuse anyone. In a review of the new performance, the press enthusiastically reports that the premiere was a "wild success", teenagers write in their online diaries how they had a "great frenzy" at a rock concert, and veterinarians give pets vaccinations "against rabies."
Such an indifferent attitude to the words used is easily explained by a simple but sad fact: unfortunately, people today have a very poor idea of ​​who these demons are. Where did they come from, what qualities do they possess, and is it worth identifying yourself and those around you with these creatures, even if only at the level of a figure of speech?

For people who are not inclined to read religious or occult literature, literature becomes almost the only source of knowledge about demons. And here, with some bewilderment, we have to admit that even in the works of the classics, the description of unclean spirits is very contradictory, ambiguous, and rather confuses the reader than helps to understand the essence of the matter.

Writers have created a whole gallery of different images that are very different from each other. From one flank in this row are folklore images of the demon in the works of N.V. Gogol and A.S. Pushkin. In this version, the demon is presented as a rather ridiculous and stupid creature with a nasty appearance and such low intelligence that even a simple village blacksmith easily subjugates it, using it as a vehicle. Or, armed with a piece of rope and a couple of unpretentious fraudulent tricks, the famous Pushkin character with the eloquent name Balda easily circles the evil spirit around his finger.
On the opposite flank of the gallery of literary demons is Bulgakov's Woland. This is almost the almighty arbiter of human destinies, the focus of intelligence, nobility, justice and others. positive qualities. It is pointless for a person to fight him, because, according to Bulgakov, he is practically invincible, he can only be reverently obeyed - like the Master and Margarita, or die - like Berlioz, or, at best, be damaged by reason, like the poet Ivan Bezdomny.
These two extremes in the literary depiction of demons, naturally, form in readers the same extremes in relation to the depicted. From the complete disregard of Pushkin's idiotic imps as unquestionably fairy-tale characters to complete confidence in the real existence of Woland the Satan, superstitious horror of his power, and sometimes even direct worship of the spirits of darkness.
There is nothing surprising here, artwork that is what literary hero begins to be perceived by us as real. In London, for example, there is a very real museum dedicated to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, and in the Soviet Union, real city streets were named after the fiery revolutionary Pavka Korchagin, despite his 100% literary origin.
But in the case of in an artistic way demons we have a completely different situation. The fact is that even in the space of a literary work, the spiritual world does not exist within the framework of human history, but, as it were, parallel to it - its inhabitants do not age, do not die and are not influenced by time, they are always nearby. And if we assume that the fictional characters of the same Mikhail Bulgakov have real prototypes in the spiritual world, it should be recognized that the reader's delight and admiration for Woland clearly go beyond the scope of literary problems. Much more serious questions arise here - for example, to what extent does the image of a demon created by the writer's artistic imagination correspond to spiritual reality? Or - how safe is the attitude towards demons for a person, formed by their literary images? It is obvious that literary criticism can no longer answer these questions. And, since the demon migrated to European literature from the Christian religious tradition, it would be reasonable to find out - what does Christianity say about this creature?

Lucifer

Contrary to popular misconception, Satan is not at all the eternal antipode of God, and demons are not the antipode of angels. And the idea of ​​the spiritual world as a kind of chessboard, where black pieces are on equal conditions playing against whites, fundamentally contradicts the teaching of the Church about fallen spirits.
IN Christian tradition there is an understanding of a clear boundary between God the Creator and His creation. And in this sense, absolutely all the inhabitants spiritual world equally belong to the category of creations of God. Moreover, the very nature of demons is initially exactly the same as that of angels, and even Satan is not some special “dark god” equal in strength to the Creator. This is just an angel who was once the most beautiful and powerful creation of God in the created world. But the name itself - Lucifer ("luminiferous") - is not entirely correct to use in relation to Satan, since this name does not belong to him, but to that very bright and kind angel that Satan once was.
Church tradition says that the spiritual world of angels was created by God even before the creation of the material world. The catastrophe belongs to this prehistoric period in every sense, as a result of which a third of the angels, led by Satan, fell away from their Creator: he took a third of the stars from heaven and threw them to the ground (Rev. 12:4).
The reason for this falling away was Lucifer's inadequate assessment of his perfection and power. God placed him above all the other angels, endowing him with strength and properties that no one else had; Lucifer turned out to be the most perfect being in the created universe. These gifts corresponded to his high calling - to fulfill the will of God, ruling over the spiritual world.
But the angels were not like automata hard-wired into obedience. God created them with love, and the fulfillment of His will was to be a reciprocal manifestation of love for the Creator for the angels. And love is possible only as a realization of the freedom of choice - to love or not to love. And the Lord gave the angels this opportunity to choose - to be with God or to be without God...
It is impossible to say exactly how their falling away occurred, but the general meaning of it was as follows. Lucifer-Dennitsa considered that the received power makes him equal to God, and decided to leave his Creator. Together with him, this fateful decision for them was made by a third of all the angels. Between the rebellious and faithful spirits (which were led by the archangel Michael) there was a conflict described in the Holy Scriptures as follows: And there was a war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought against them, but did not stand, and did not there was already a place for them in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast out to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him (Revelation 12:7-9).
So the beautiful Dennitsa became Satan, and the angels seduced by him became demons. It is easy to see that there is not the slightest reason to speak of Satan's war against God. How can he be at war with God who has suffered a crushing defeat even from his fellow angels? Having lost their angelic dignity and place in Heaven, the fallen spirits turned out to be like the soldiers of a defeated army, who tore off their orders and shoulder straps during the retreat.

Crazy Postman

The word “angel” itself is of Greek origin, translated into Russian it literally means “messenger”, that is, one who brings news from God, communicates His good will to the rest of creation. But whose will can be communicated by an angel who did not want to serve his Creator, what message can such a “messenger” bring - and can this message be believed?
Suppose in a small town one postman was terribly offended by his boss for something and stopped coming to the post office for new letters. But he was very proud of the title of postman, he liked to deliver letters, and, the saddest thing, nothing, well, he simply couldn’t do anything else. And he started strange life. For days on end, he wandered restlessly around the city in his postman's cap with an empty mail bag on his shoulder, and instead of letters and telegrams, he stuffed all sorts of rubbish picked up on the road into people's mailboxes. Very soon he gained a reputation as the city's lunatic. Police officers took away his bag and cap, and the residents began to drive him away from their doors. Then he was terribly offended by the inhabitants too. But he really wanted to carry letters. And he came up with a cunning trick: dark night, when no one saw him, he slowly crept along the city streets and threw letters written by ... himself into mailboxes. He worked at the post office for a long time, so he quickly learned to forge the handwriting of senders, their addresses and postmarks on envelopes. And in letters he wrote ... Well, what could such a type write? Of course, only all sorts of nasty things and lies, because he really wanted to annoy the inhabitants who drove him away.
... Of course, this sad tale about a crazy postman is just a very weak analogy tragic history turning angels into demons. But for more accurate description the depths of moral decline and the madness of evil spirits, even the image of a serial maniac would turn out to be too bright, soft and unconvincing. The Lord Himself called Satan a murderer: he (the devil) 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 his own, for he is a liar and the father of lies (John 8:44).
Angels are not capable of independent creativity, they can only fulfill the creative plan of God. Therefore, the only way of existence for the angels who had abandoned their calling turned out to be the desire to destroy and destroy everything that they could even touch.
Envying God, but not having the slightest opportunity to harm Him, the demons spread all their hatred for the Creator to His creation. And since man became the crown of the material and spiritual world, the most beloved creation of God, all the unsatisfied vindictiveness and malice of the fallen messenger angels fell upon him, carrying people instead of the will of God - his own, terrible for all living will.
And here a very important question arises: how can a person build relationships with such a formidable force that seeks to destroy him?

Shish or candle?

In the collection of Russian folk tales by A. N. Afanasyev there is a curious plot on a religious theme:
“One woman, putting a candle on holidays in front of the image of St. George the Victorious, always showed the figurine to the snake depicted on the icon, and said: here is a candle for you, Saint Yegoriy, and for you, Satan, shish. With this, she so angered the unclean that he could not stand it; appeared to her in a dream and began to frighten: “Well, if you only get into hell with me, you will endure torment!” After that, the woman put a candle to both Egoria and the snake. People ask why is she doing this? “Yes, dear ones! After all, we don’t know where you will end up: either to heaven or to hell!’”
In this story, despite all its Christian entourage, the pagan principle of simultaneously establishing relations with both evil and good deities is very succinctly and convincingly presented. And the very path to a practical solution to the problem is indicated quite clearly here: a candle for each and everyone is happy! Why does the prudence of a naive woman look so comical in this folk anecdote? Yes, because only those who do not understand the simple truth can hope to propitiate the demon: it is impossible to establish good relations with evil spirits. Having hated the entire creation without exception, demons have driven themselves into an ontological dead end, since they themselves are also God's creations. Therefore, hatred has become for them the only possible form of relationship to each other, and even they can only hate themselves. The very fact of one's own existence is painful for demons.
Such a terrible attitude can be compared, perhaps, only with the state of an unfortunate animal dying from a viral infection, which is colloquially called rabies, not without reason. The main symptom of this terrible disease is spasms of the esophagus, which do not let any liquid into the body. Water may be very close, but the animal dies of thirst, not having the slightest opportunity to quench it. Maddened by this torture, the sick animal rushes at everyone who had the imprudence to approach him, but if there is no one around, he bites himself in complete stupefaction. But even such a terrible picture can give only a very weak and approximate idea of ​​\u200b\u200bwhat a creature can experience that fiercely hates the whole world, not excluding itself and its own kind.
And now - a question to fill: would a sane person try to make friends with a rabid dog? Or, for example, could Kipling's Mowgli survive in a pack of rabid wolves, constantly tearing at each other? The answer in both cases is obvious. But then it is an immeasurably more hopeless undertaking to try to propitiate the demon in order to secure a comfortable place in hell.
Curtsying towards the forces of evil is a senseless and useless exercise. The Holy Scriptures clearly state that for Satan people are of interest solely as a potential victim: Be sober, watch, because your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour (1 Peter 5:8).
And although it is not at all a pious thing to poke a fig into the icon of St. George the Victorious, as the heroine of Afanasiev’s anecdote did, and, of course, you shouldn’t do this, nevertheless, for those Christians who experience superstitious fear of demons, it would not be bad to remember that in the very order of the sacrament of baptism, every Christian not only shows the fiddle to the demon, but literally - spits on him three times, renouncing Satan.
Moreover, later on, the Christian daily recalls this renunciation in the prayer of St. John Chrysostom, read before leaving home: “I deny you, Satan, and your pride and service to you; and I unite with you, Christ God, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
But where does such boldness come from among Christians? The answer is simple: only those who are under reliable protection can spit on such dangerous and strong enemies.

Who drowned the pigs

People who get acquainted with the Gospel for the first time sometimes pay close attention to those details of the Gospel narrative that are secondary and insignificant for a church-going person. One such case is described by N. S. Leskov in the story “At the End of the World”, where an Orthodox bishop, traveling through Siberia, tries to explain to his Yakut guide the essence of Christian doctrine:
“Well, do you know why Christ came here to earth?
He thought, thought - and did not answer.
- Do not you know? - I say.
- Don't know.
I explained all Orthodoxy to him, but he either listens or doesn’t, but he himself all hoots at the dogs and waves the weeds.
“Well, did you understand,” I ask, “what I told you?
- Well, the tank, I understood: I drowned a pig in the sea, spat in the eyes of the blind - the blind saw, he gave the people a loaf of fish.
These pigs in the sea sat in his forehead, a blind man and a fish, and then he would not rise in any way ... "
Paradoxically, all the same pigs that have sat on the forehead of Leskov's illiterate Yakut, these days, can sometimes confuse already quite civilized people with higher education. How did the meek and loving Christ, who “will not break a bruised reed and quench a smoking flax”, be able to mercilessly drown a herd of pigs? Doesn't God's love extend to animals too?
The questions seem to be formally correct (although they could probably arise only from a modern person who does not associate the ham on his table with the pig from which this ham was made). However, there is an error in such reasoning. And it's not even that the pigs mentioned in the Gospel would sooner or later fall under the butcher's knife anyway.
Upon careful reading of this place in the Gospel, a simple fact becomes obvious: Christ did not drown the unfortunate animals. Their death is to blame ... demons.
When He came ashore, a man from the city met Him, possessed by demons for a long time, and who did not wear clothes, and lived not in a house, but in tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and said with a loud voice: What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torment me. For Jesus commanded the unclean spirit to come out of this man, because he tormented him for a long time, so that he was bound with chains and bands, saving him; but he broke the bands and was driven by a demon into the wilderness. Jesus asked him: What is your name? He said legion, because many demons had entered into him. And they asked Jesus not to command them to go into the abyss. Right there on the mountain a large herd of pigs grazed; and the demons asked Him to let them enter into them. He allowed them. The demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned (Luke 8:27-33).
Here, the destructive power of the hatred of demons for all living things is very clearly shown, forcing them to act even contrary to their own interests. Driven out of man, they ask Christ to let them enter into the swine, to live in them and not go into the abyss. But as soon as Christ allows them to do this, the demons immediately drown all the pigs in the sea, again left without shelter. It is impossible to understand such behavior, because there is neither logic nor common sense in hatred. A madman walking through a kindergarten with a dangerous razor in his hand will look like a harmless and peaceful layman against the backdrop of demons. And if such creepy creatures could freely operate in our world, then nothing living in it would have been left long ago. But in the gospel story with pigs, the Lord clearly showed that demons are not at all free in their actions. Here is how St. Anthony the Great says about this: “The devil has no power even over pigs. For, as it is written in the Gospel, the demons asked the Lord, saying: command us to go to the pigs. If they do not have power over swine, much less do they have power over man, who was created in the image of God.”
By renouncing Satan in baptism, a person entrusts himself to the One who has absolute power over Satan. Therefore, even if demons attack a Christian, this should not frighten him too much. Such an attack is possible under the only indispensable condition: if the Lord permits it. A snake bite is deadly, but a skilled doctor knows how to prepare medicine from snake venom. So the Lord can use the evil will of demons as a means to heal the human soul. According to the general opinion of the fathers, God allows demon possession to those people for whom this path turns out to be the best in acquiring humility and salvation. “In a spiritual sense, such a punishment from God does not at all serve as a bad testimony about a person: many great saints of God were subjected to such a tradition by Satan ...” writes St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov).
“Meanwhile, being burdened by a demon is not at all cruel, because a demon cannot at all cast one into hell, but if we are awake, then this temptation will bring us brilliant and glorious crowns when we endure such attacks with gratitude” (St. John Chrysostom).

Temptation of Saint Anthony

Demons act only where the Lord allows them to do so, turning the evil designs of fallen spirits to the good of people. This partly explains Goethe's famous paradox of Mephistopheles' self-determination: "I am part of that force that always wants evil and always does good." Although even in a literary work, the demon still continues to lie: he, of course, is not able to do any good and, as always, ascribes to himself other people's merits.
But what can a demon actually do? On this issue, the opinion of the father of Christian monasticism, Anthony the Great, can be considered more than authoritative, since the demons fought with him in the desert for several decades. The famous painting by Hieronymus Bosch, The Temptation of St. Anthony, depicts a terrible picture: a flock of fanged and horned monsters attacks a lonely monk. This plot was not invented by the artist, it was taken from the real life of St. Anthony, and the saint actually experienced all these terrible attacks. But here is what an unexpected assessment of these horrors is given by Anthony the Great himself: “In order not to be afraid of demons, we must also consider the following. If they had power, they would not come in crowds, they would not produce dreams, they would not take on various images when they plot; but it would be enough for only one to come and do what he can and wants, especially since everyone who has power does not strike with ghosts, but immediately uses power as he wants. The demons, having no power, seem to amuse themselves at the spectacle, changing their disguises and frightening children with many ghosts and ghosts. Therefore, most of all, they should be despised as powerless.

Demons hate God. But how does God respond to this hatred? The Monk John of Damascus writes: “God always provides blessings to the devil, but he does not want to accept. And in the next age, God gives blessings to everyone - for He is the source of blessings, pouring out goodness on everyone, everyone partakes in the good, as far as he has prepared himself for those who perceive.
Despite the depth of the fall of demons, God does not fight with them and is always ready to accept them back to the angelic rank. But the monstrous pride of the fallen spirits does not allow them to respond to all manifestations of God's love. Here is how a modern ascetic, Athonite elder Paisios the Holy Mountaineer, says about this: “If they had said only one thing: “Lord, have mercy,” then God would have thought of something for their salvation. If only they would say “I have sinned,” but they don't say that. By saying “I have sinned,” the devil would again become an angel. The love of God is boundless. But the devil has a stubborn will, stubbornness, selfishness. He doesn't want to give in, he doesn't want to be saved. This is scary. After all, he was once an angel! Does the devil remember his former state? he is all fire and fury ... And the farther, the worse he gets. It develops in malice and envy. Oh, that a person would feel the state in which the devil is! He would cry day and night. Even when some kind person changes for the worse, becomes a criminal, he is very sorry. But what to say if you see the fall of an angel!.. The fall of the devil cannot be healed by anything other than his own humility. The devil is not corrected because he does not want it himself. Do you know how glad Christ would be if the devil wanted to correct himself!”
Unfortunately, the devil does not give any reasons for such joy. And the only correct and safe attitude for a person towards fallen spirits, mad with malice and pride, is to have nothing to do with them, which is what Christians ask the Lord in the final words of the Our Father prayer: ... lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Amen.

Each person daily creates various thoughts in his head, starting with everyday ones and ending with high ones. Absolutely all thoughts enter the subtle plane, acquire form, color and content, and begin to live their own life. Thoughts need to be recharged, and therefore if a person scrolls it again in the head, it receives energy and becomes stronger. "Weak" thought forms are not capable of resistance, if a person stops thinking about them for some reason, they die. The strong attract to themselves, according to the law of attraction, thoughts of other people similar in meaning. Thus, a very powerful thought form is created, which forms the beliefs and worldview of a person.

What are thought forms?

There are negative (low-vibration) and light (high-frequency) thought forms.

High-frequency thought forms are colored in light colors. They are filled with positive, kindness, love for everything around, compassion. Bright thoughts have a beneficial effect on thinking, purify the mind, improve energy flow, restore the aura, open the true view of things and bring positive changes to the physical reality of a person.

Negative thought forms are dark in color and often ugly in shape. They depress consciousness, distort reality, destroy the energy field (aura), and negative changes occur in physical world manifested in the form of problems, addictions, diseases. The negative influence of entities destroys the protective shell of a person. In the energy field, "holes" appear, creating funnels through which more serious entities, the so-called Demons, enter. Demons, in turn, make a person possessed. It is not invested in the concept of possession that a person will foam from the mouth, and he will speak in the voice of a Demon. No. A person possessed by a demon develops an obsessive desire for revenge, physical harm, and many other horrifying acts.

How to cast demons out of your life

In order for demons to leave your life, you must:

1. Stop and calm down. Our current way of life is an eternal race. People improve the body, forgetting about the spirit, they want to be the best, more successful, more beautiful, richer. Many fail to achieve the imposed ideals, hence there are such feelings as envy, anger at oneself and at the whole world. Think about whether you really want to be more successful than everyone else, richer. Can you handle this burden of responsibility? Who do you want to be prettier for? It is necessary to analyze your life, reconsider your ideals and beliefs.


2. Control your thoughts. When a person generates negative thoughts around him, they change his consciousness, which subsequently attracts failures into life. If thoughts are directed at other people, then anger and aggression go to them. However, if the addressee does not live with anger and he has positive thinking, the thought form cannot cling to the person, and it returns back to the sender in the form of the same problems and illnesses.


3. Avoid negative information feeding as much as possible. That is, it is necessary to exclude violent films from your life and computer games, daily viewing of news, communication with aggressive people. Walk more, help your loved ones, do good deeds for free, do your favorite thing.

Create your own life. You are a person and everything has already been given to you from above, you just need to take what you really need.