This is the point at which the whole secret lies, because it’s not in his interest for people, particularly Orthodox Christians, to turn against him. And the main thing is that he does everything in his power to stop us discovering that we should hate the devil and all his works and not our neighbour. He brings disasters, but does so in such a way that people blame their neighbour for what’s happened to them, rather than condemning the evil one. People have been experiencing and feeling this hatred on the part of the devil for centuries, but his great secret is that he carefully hides his animosity, so that we can’t see it. As a result of this behaviour, the devil swore an oath, as the god he believed himself to be, that he would engage in hostilities with the Holy, Triune God and also with people, who were made ‘in His image and likeness’. Lucifer dared to think and imagine himself as god, and once he’d really come to believe this inside himself, he fell, like lightning, from heavenly Paradise, dragging with him a host of other angels, who all became dark demons. Terrible things happened, my friends, which are beyond the understanding of mere mortals. Lucifer refused to render veneration and worship to his Creator, the Holy, Triune God, and in place of this he set himself up as god. To put it more simply, pride was discovered and invented by the devil. ![]() ![]() According to Saint John of the Ladder, pride means: ‘Denial of God, an invention of the demons’.
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