Our spiritual backbone
Fears are the device evil uses to shatter our resistance to its enterprise, the destruction of the human spirit. There are all sorts of reasons to be anxious about life events that may damage, or even destroy, our way of life, our lives. These anxieties are normal, and maturity, common sense, spirituality, are all about controlling and mastering them.
“… The softening of this spiritual backbone, the disintegration of this spiritual way of life, would mean the spiritual end of the personality, its transformation into a sacrifice of bad passions and external influences, its return to that chaotically-permissive state where there are no spiritual necessities, and spiritual possibilities are incalculable…”
In this state one’s personal resistance is softened
“This is the spiritual law: the non-resistor to evil is absorbed by it and becomes possessed. For “evil” is not an empty word, not an abstract concept, not a mere logical possibility and not a “result of subjective evaluation”. Evil is first and foremost the spiritual inclination of man, inherent in each of us, as if for some, living within us there is passionate desire to unbridle the best inside, a gravitation that always strives to expand its field and to overtake us completely.
Encountering refusals and prohibitions, encountering persistent restraints that support the spiritual and moral facets of personal and social life, it seeks to seep through these obstacles, lull vigilance of conscience and sense of justice, weaken the power of shame and disgust, to adopt an acceptable appearance, and if possible, to then shatter and disintegrate these living facets, these nascent forms of the individual spirit, and as it were, to topple and rend asunder the strong-willed walls of the individual fortress.
Spiritual Education
The spiritual education of a person consists in constructing these walls and, more importantly, in communicating the need and ability to build, maintain and defend these walls. The sense of shame, the sense of duty, the living impulses of conscience and the sense of justice, the need for beauty and spiritual protection of the living, the love of God and the motherland – all these sources of living spirituality in individual and cooperative work create in man those spiritual necessities and impossibilities that consciousness gives the form of beliefs, and with which the unconscious forms of a noble character.
And these spiritual drives to act “just so” and the impossibility of acting “differently”, give unity and certainty to personal being: they form a kind of spiritual order, as if they were living backbone of personal spirit, supporting its structure, its formalised being, informing iota its might and power… It is clear that the more spineless and unprincipled the man is, the closer he is to this stet and the more natural it is for him not to resist evil…”
So it is that the weakening of the personal fortress of spiritual will prepare the individual to submission, via irrational fears, and the abandonment of the determination to resist. By contrast, determined resistance, assertion of personal dedication to spiritual reality and the presence of God will go a long way to protect the person against evil-created fears.
The spirit of fear
“This particular spirit specializes in causing or aggravating feelings of fear. If it causes it, it may orchestrate fear situations that scare the person to such a degree that a fracture occurs in the soul. He then rushes in and lives in the person, manipulating from a place of darkness and overwhelming strength.
When a demon of fear only aggravates fear, he finds a person who has already been compromised by it. If the damage is sufficient enough to provide an opening, he rushes into it and operates from a position of darkness and overwhelming strength.
So whether a demon causes the initial fear, or simply opportunistically takes advantage of a pre-existing fear issue or event (such as a car accident), the result is the same. The demon is supernaturally energizing feelings and thoughts of fear from within the person.
These demonically energized feelings and thoughts of fear may lead to tormenting phobias that compel the person to live with secret inner torments. Or the fear may grow to such a degree that it can’t remain hidden.” (The Spirit of Fear)
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