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few
fruits
Not
cast
miracles
first published book,
prepared the way for one world religion
“demonic pentecost”
coming:
subtle
Considered by some to have been a holy mountain of the original Indian inhabitants,
abstruse,
1975,
first edition
expanded
in 1979.
Ivan Kireyevsky
the acquisition of the Patristic mind enables one to see what others cannot:
not hypothetical,
“cult-scare” hit America in 1979,
“charismatic revival” — all of which possess mediumistic techniques for getting in contact with fallen spirits
1983, a year after Fr. Seraphim’s death,
Constance Cumbey
1988,
twenty
the most popular.
ninth English printing.
behind the Iron Curtain,
deprived by seventy years of enforced materialism
Along with Fr. Seraphim’s The Soul After Death, this book is one of the most widely read spiritual books in Russia today.
demonic deceptions which could lead the well-meaning to eternal perdition,
to individual people.
walk circumspectly (Eph. 5:15)
"The word circumspect was borrowed from Latin circumspectus, from circumspicere "to be cautious." The basic meaning of Latin circumspicere is "to look around." Near synonyms are prudent and cautious, though circumspect implies a careful consideration of all circumstances and a desire to avoid mistakes and bad consequences." - Vocabulary.com
the “spirituality” of Ecumenism, the chief heresy of the 20th century.
the belief that there is no one visible Church of Christ, that it is only now being formed —
inclusive of religious experiences which are distinctly non-Christian.
by the “spirit” who constantly attended him.
opened up to “spiritual” experiences by his Pentecostalist grandmother:
the moment he touched a Bible she had given him, he received “spiritual gifts” — most notably, he was attended by an invisible “spirit” who gave him precise instructions as to where to walk and drive;
these doubts were overcome when he reflected on the fact that his spiritual “barrenness” had vanished, that his “spiritual rebirth” had been brought about by contact with the Bible, and that he seemed to be leading a very rich life of prayer and “spirituality.”
most likely, he confessed, his “spirit” was an evil one.
he had given up “charismatic” activities as too frightening and was now spiritually content practicing Zen meditation.
This close relationship between “Christian” and “Eastern” spiritual experiences is typical of the “ecumenical” spirituality of our days.
each one in its own way typifies the striving of men today to find a new spiritual path, distinct from the Christianity of yesterday,
(Eph. 4:14).
(II Tim. 4:3–4).
academic caricature of true Christian discourse
“spirit of the times”
The ideology behind ecumenism, which has inspired such ecumenistic acts and pronouncements as the above, is an already well-defined heresy: the Church of Christ does not exist, no one has the Truth, the Church is only now being built.
if no one is the Church of Christ, then the combination of all sects will not be the Church either,
