A
former magician from Democratic Republic of the Congo, who was
converted to Orthodoxy, to the truly Church of Jesus Christ (photo from here). Glory to God!
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, which began with the presumption of imagining itself the
most enlightened of all ages, has in reality proceeded of imagining some of the blackest
years of all human history. Symptomatic of this truly dark age is the revival in recent
decades of interest and active participation in witchcraft and sorcery. Much of this
interest is on the level of dilettantism and crude amateurism, but more and more often it
produces real results, leads to an actual contact with demonic powers, and causes the
eternal damnation of souls caught in the web of nets far more subtle and deadly than the
beginning occultist imagines.
All this is not new to Orthodox Christians. In the history of the world's
religions there is a whole tradition of sorcery—the service of the pagan gods, which
are demons (Psalm 95:5). This is the religious tradition which Christianity replaced in
all lands that accepted the Gospel, and which now comes back in power to destroy
Christianity and to conduct mankind to Antichrist.
The Life of Sts. Cyprian and Justina gives one of the fullest accounts in
Christian literature of sorcery and its power over men—and its final defeat by the
power of Christ. It is not the product of someone's imagination, but is based on the
first-hand testimony of one who was a leading servant of the demons himself.
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| Sts Cyprian & Justina (from Internet) |
Let Orthodox Christians read and become sober, and resolve with the more
firmness and determination to work out their salvation against the powers of darkness in
fear and trembling. And let him who has in his heart even a spark of repentance take
courage and hope, for this Life is also the surest proof that God's mercy is stretched out
even to the most lost of souls. If the sorcerer Cyprian could be saved and become a mighty
intercessor for the demon possessed, then there is hope for those also who even now have
fallen into the darkest and most unnatural sins of our dark age.
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