I personally remember, and many will confirm, how in the 90s even major newspapers. Predictions, services of magicians and sorcerers, smart analytical articles that the entire world elite has achieved its success thanks to the support of the strongest psychics and sorcerers.
Well, remember? those who lived at that time.
Then let's go! I'll tell you about the secret message of the aliens.
When I searched the Internet for the text of this prayer, I revived my memories. It turns out that in our time this dregs have not gone underground, but live their own lives. Hundreds of books and articles are published, information portals. Bit by bit, people restore "lost knowledge" and share secret messages with the elect. Secret things are not for everyone and not for free, of course.
photo from mirkosmosa.ru
But you have unique opportunity learn the text of the strongest and secret prayer, which was given to me by a person who was personally present at that meeting in the taiga near Yekaterinburg, a magician in the 116th generation Yevlavzar. With the help of psychological techniques used by the special services, I managed to get him to talk in an inexpensive Georgian cafe.
Here are the secret words from aliens:
Karabas-muldahor-karmargar-through
As you understand, these words contain universal knowledge, they are of unearthly origin, therefore they are not similar to any of human languages. The more often you say these words, the better it becomes in the world, and especially in your life. A friend of mine recited this prayer 300 times a day and won the lottery a month later. Now he lives on one of the Pacific islands with a beautiful wife, is engaged in self-improvement and sometimes makes good bets in the casino.
Well, have you begun to believe? Not yet? And when a stream of such plausible stories pours on you for years, then even the most persistent psyche will begin to think, "Maybe it's true, it's not for nothing that they talk about it so much!"
Just don't spread the misconception that magic and religion are one and the same. If you do not understand the difference, but are seriously interested in this issue, then I advise Alexander Men's book "Magism and Monotheism". Quote:
Magizm saw in the Universe certain immutable laws and forces, the mastery of which allegedly promised prosperity to man. He was most interested in those external benefits that people can derive by subjugating the visible and invisible world. Genuine religious thirst was alien to Magizm, which replaced prayer, faith and love with sorcery, spells, and coercion. This manifested his deep connection with the Fall, with the claims of man to assert his will above the will of God.
To laugh at magic is worthy of an enlightened person. Share your true, like this post, stories, secret secrets, and ancient knowledge, if, of course, you are lucky in your life to be involved in all this.
P.s. Now I decided in each post to post a link to interesting post in the LiveJournal blog, or a similar article on the site. Today I wanted to give such a link.
In the previous article (“Why are we not allowed into the Galactic family”, “TD”, No. 18) we examined the consequences of lack of spirituality caused by the reorientation of human values from spiritual to material.
Having lost contact with nature, planetary consciousness, ancestors, angels and with Heaven in general, people also cut off contact with God. It is through the angels, the Saints, the Highest Masters and the entire Host of Heaven, which governs life on Earth, that we are connected with our Creator. Moreover, the Holy Heavens help us in worldly affairs, help us comprehend God and our own divinity, live in peace and harmony with all life in Heaven and on Earth.
Wrong priorities have led to an emphasis on pleasure, wealth and power and, as a result, to the development of their accompanying qualities, such as greed, envy and fear. It is from them that selfishness, vanity, aggression and false self-confidence grow. When the bubble of illusion bursts, a crisis and disappointment sets in, as a result of which uncertainty about oneself and the future is formed, and from all this - illness, degradation and all life's problems. The totality of all this gives rise to fear, fear leads to aggression, envy and a blind desire to secure oneself in the future, which gives rise to greed and a lock on one's own problems. Thus, the circle closes and everything repeats from the beginning, although with different circumstances. And so - from year to year, from life to life - the noose is tightened, the rope of attachments thickens and becomes overgrown with new karmic knots.
At first glance, the situation is deadlocked, but this is only at first glance. There are no hopeless situations, there is always a way out of even the most confusing labyrinth. Unfortunately, there is one “but”: we no longer have time to look for a way out of the labyrinths of our problems. Therefore, the only, correct and shortest way is up. We need to ascend in our spirit, and new horizons and new promised lands will open to us from above, into which we can be transported at will, having previously chosen the desired oasis of new perspectives.
But how can a person weighed down by sin and ignorance, stupefied by his own madness and worldly problems, be able to do this? No way. He will never be able to do this without outside help.
And this help cannot come from a person who, just like him, is entangled in the labyrinths of life's problems and attachments. It can only come from Heaven, from the angels, the Saints and the Grace of God, who will guide us on the path of salvation, create favorable situations, remove the burden of our problems, or choose the person who will help us.
But how do we revive our own “bird of happiness of tomorrow”, how to make it lift us above the labyrinths of life in which we are entangled and bogged down in a quagmire of problems?
To do this, there are six elixirs from the sources of Living and dead water. Dead water is applied to everything that must perish, including diseases of the soul and body, sins and delusions, as well as worldly problems. And these elixirs are Awareness, Repentance and Faith.
First of all, people need to realize the causes of their problems, their deviation from the right path, their passion for the world and their formal relationship with God. It is this formal relationship to God that creates the illusion of piety and the correct way of life, which are not confirmed by deeds. But God and angels cannot be deceived by ostentatious piety or religious fanaticism, they see fear and selfishness in the hearts of allegedly believing parishioners, and therefore do not help. When real help no, there are doubts and disbelief, and distrust, and hope for own forces and will of chance. Awareness of this soap bubble will certainly lead to regret about what has been done and repentance.
"Repentance" in translation from the Greek original gospel text means "turn by 180%." In other words, awareness and repentance lead to the decision to end the past and completely turn away from it in the opposite direction, that is, to righteousness and to God.
Faith will help to attract the help of angels and the Grace of God. It will help to endure the temporary difficulties of perestroika and the transition from the old to the new. Faith will also pave your future path, making it even and smooth. These are the three healing elixirs.
Now the “bird” needs to be revived and we need three elixirs from the sources of Living Water - elixirs of Prayer, Meditation and Love.
The apostle Paul says, “The love of God casts out fear,” and fear breeds uncertainty, doubt, distrust, hopelessness, greed, and hostility in various forms their manifestations. It is not surprising that such a bouquet turns our life into hell, in which there is no place for God, love, or happiness, and even more so there is no trust in God and in His help.
But note that Paul states that love casts out fear, and the word "casts out" is in the present tense. He doesn't tell us to "hope", there is no "can cast out fear" which speaks of an uncertain future. He speaks in affirmative form present time, which means that as soon as love is manifested, fear will disappear instantly, and with it all its creations and life problems associated with them.
But it is not enough to experience the bliss of love in a short time, for, having returned to the previous state, all the clouds will cling to us again. What to do?
Once again, we see a clue in his teaching. He tells us to warm up and feed the Love of God. To warm up means to put a cold vessel on fire, i.e. to reunite our frozen heart with the Divine Light. This reunion occurs when reading books about God, contemplating God and Divine principles, but most of all when meditating and praying.
Thus, to revive our "bird of luck" three elixirs are needed - Wisdom, Meditation and Prayer, and this should become a rule and a way of life. Only with a constant lifestyle, and not with occasional bouts of piety or moments of despair, will the Love of God come to our hearts. And this means the end of all problems, and what problems can there be when you completely trust God! How can He leave those who completely rely on Him?! Problems arise only when a person is alone with the world of Darkness, without protection, without strength and without a wise and correct vision of the situation. After all, it is not for nothing that the Old Testament says:
“What the wicked fears, that will befall him, and the desire of the righteous will be fulfilled.”
But when we are in union with God and under the protection of angels and His Grace, then the soul is in joy, and the mind is in clarity, and everyday difficulties are no longer perceived as an insurmountable problem.
Several thousand years ago, King David taught these truths to his subjects, he said:
“Submit yourselves to the Lord and trust in Him, and He will fulfill the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord and trust in Him, and He will do it. From the Lord is salvation to the righteous, He is their protection in time of trouble; and the Lord will help them and deliver them; He will deliver them from their misfortunes and save them, for they trust in Him.”
Thousands of years have passed, but the Truth remains unchanged, and Sathya Sai Baba reminds humanity of this:
“When in trouble, pray before you take any step! People give you advice only to the extent of their understanding. Only the Lord will turn your ignorance into intelligence and lead you out of the impasse. Ask the Lord and He will answer you!
…Prayer and meditation are the means by which you can “make” the Divine Grace manifest in the form you have chosen.
Pray before starting work, during work and at the end, so that the ulcer of selfishness does not nullify all your efforts. Prayer reveals the secret of life; prayer is successful when thoughts are pure. Meditation is the royal road to liberation from bondage, although the same fruit is obtained through prayer.”
Thus, the three elixirs - Wisdom, Meditation and Prayer - are vital for staying in love and harmony and for attracting the Holy Spirit. It is the attraction and consolidation of the channel of the Grace of the Holy Spirit that will create a favorable environment into which angels and saints can enter, which means that our life is now under the cover of the Forces of Light. It also marks the end of our problems.
But it is not enough to know which elixirs to use. You also need to know how to cook them. Therefore, we will consider each of them separately, but in this article I want to start with a prayer.
So, what is prayer, what types of prayer are there, and, most importantly, how and to whom should one pray?
Prayer is not something new, many people go to church and pray, but they make a number of mistakes. One of these mistakes is blindly following the dogmas of the church. It consists in the blind repetition of canonical prayers, which leads to thoughtless repetition of what has been memorized. Of course, you need to start with canonical prayers, in accordance with where you pray - in church or at home. Canonical prayers are necessary, firstly, they help a person to disconnect from worldly problems and psychologically tune in to the frequency of egregor. Secondly, like any ritual action, they open the door to the Spiritual world, into which prayers are proclaimed. In general, any ritual is a powerful stream that opens any doors in the Subtle World. And this property of the ritual is universal. Performing a black magic ritual, you thereby open the doors to the world of demons and ask for help from them. Performing, relatively speaking, white magic rituals, you open the door to the World of Magic, where there are good and evil spirits. Performing a religious ritual, you open the heavenly gates to the World of angels, saints and teachers. Everyone communicates with those beings to the level of which his consciousness is developed, and, consequently, the vibrations of these planes and beings correspond to the vibrations of his soul.
Thus, the ritual is necessary as a mechanism for switching on and opening the channel. But the problem lies in the fact that a person continues to repeat other people's prayers, trying to bring the meaning of his problem into their content. If we carefully read the prayers of the saints and miracle workers, we will see that there is very little in them. common sense. But nevertheless, these saints, reading these prayers, worked miracles. Why did incoherent mumbling work wonders for them and no result for us?
The answer is simple: they prayed in their own words - as best they could, but the prayer came from a pure heart. It is such sincere prayers that God hears, it is such prayers that bring tears to the saints and angels. There is no magic formula, there are no strong or weak prayers, there is only sincerity, faith and a pure heart.
Sathya Sai Baba:
“Prayer must come from the heart where God dwells, not from the head where doctrine and doubt collide. You should cry like a calf calling for its mother who has gone with the herd, like a child who has lost her mother. You must cry like a chaste woman who has lost her husband and groans from the pain of parting. You should cry out just as childless parents cry out and pray to God to give them a child. This is how you should pray to God - with a heart full of devotion and thirst, striving to realize His presence, His Mercy and Power. One moment of concentrated heartfelt prayer can appease God.”
No dull muttering of canonical prayers, especially in the "gibberish language", can convey your feelings, suffering and prayer. Therefore, one's own concentrated and sincere prayer is the main condition for turning to God.
This is the first condition.
The second condition is specificity. No common phrases. Before you ask for anything, state your request clearly and consider the details. Then clothe the request in the form of a prayer, and only then proceed to prayer. The same goes for preparing for confession. Do not repeat after the priest what you do not consider a sin. Repent only for what you have realized, what you sincerely regret and what you really want to get rid of. Call the sin by its name, do not disguise it under a more loyal form, because by doing so you hide it, but hide what they do not want to give away.
The third condition is sacrament.
From Matthew:
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites who love in synagogues and on street corners, stopping to pray in order to appear before people. I tell you truly, they already receive their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your closet, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you openly.”
No show. Don't buy candles for all the saints, don't lick the icons, don't bow down, and don't cross yourself less - that won't help. Focus on prayer and sincerity. When entering the temple, cross yourself, but do not do it thoughtlessly bowing to the building, but greet the Angel of the church, say: “I greet the Angel of (such and such) temple and all the servants of God heavenly and earthly.”
The fourth condition is prayer out loud. In fact, this condition is not as mandatory as the others, but it is desirable to fulfill it. In church, pray in a whisper; at home, pray in a loud voice. And that's why spoken prayer is more effective. This is a kind of symbol of faith. Of course, Heaven will hear your prayer, even if it is mentally uttered in compliance with the above rules. But when you pronounce it out loud, you kind of proclaim it to the Spiritual World for everyone, including the devil. The fact is that the demons do not hear our thoughts, but they perfectly hear the words and can read our emotions. When we pray mentally, they understand that you are praying, but they do not know what. The proclaimed prayer has more power, since you do not hide your faith in God and His help from the devil, you are not afraid of the forces of evil and you know that God will not allow their interference in your life, you kind of ignore them and thus completely trust God .
Fifth condition. No "if it be Your will" or the like! No "ifs", no "maybes", no "I hope, etc." Only words of faith. Because "if", "maybe", "hope", etc. are words of doubt. If it is Your will, then I will receive, and if not, I will be left with nothing, and without faith and trust as well. And anyway, if you are not sure that what you are asking is in accordance with the law and the will of God, why then ask for this abomination at all? And if you are sure of the legitimacy of your request, then what can be "if it be Thy will"? It already exists, because corresponds to the law created by the Will of God.
The word "may" is also ambiguous: it may or may not be. "Nadezhda" also suffers from uncertainty: "I'm not sure it's possible, of course, but I hope it will happen." Any doubt is a lack of trust in God and the Holy Heavens.
Sathya Sai Baba also reminds us that there should be no doubt:
“Some people often have doubts. Will the Lord grant all the requests in our prayers? Or He can only give us what He thinks we need or deserve. Will the Lord want to give us everything we ask for when we pray to Him? If this is the case, then what is the use of prayer? Why then prescribe this spiritual practice at all? Of course, these are all delusions of the human mind. Prayer awakens the human heart and invokes the mercy of the gods. Prayer practice and the miracles associated with it are known in all religions of the world. For thousands of years, this practice has been used by everyone - from commoners to kings, saints and sages. And there was always only a positive result.
And finally, the sixth condition is unanimity. I want the reader to carefully read the quotation I have quoted and think carefully, especially over the highlighted words of Jesus.
From Matthew:
“Truly, I also say to you that if two of you agree on earth to ask for any deed, then whatever they ask, it will be for them from My Father in Heaven, for where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst of them. Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Jesus unequivocally states that we can achieve 100% results by praying together with one accord. When a problem occurs, it is unlikely to affect one person. It doesn’t matter if it concerns some kind of psychological and spiritual or age-related crises, it concerns finances, debts or self-realization, illness or relationships. Whoever or whatever the problem is, it inevitably affects the family and loved ones. Therefore, Jesus recommends that all who are connected with this or that problem gather together and at the same time and pray for its solution.
This practice is used very rarely, if at all. At best, each one prays on his own different places, at different times and with different prayers, forgetting the main condition: "if two of you agree on earth to ask for any deed, then whatever you ask will be done." In the worst case, a person who already has problems is attacked by all household members with accusations and reproaches, which greatly exacerbates the problem of any kind. Instead of understanding, compassion, psychological support and joint passionate prayers accusations are proclaimed in the Spiritual World.
Therefore, reproaches and accusations, moreover, spoken aloud, belong to the prayers of the accusation, for which the punishment of the accused is provided. And since the devil is the main accuser of mankind, the forces of evil will never miss an opportunity to torment the accused, besides, in fact, they are asked about it.
Thus, instead of support, solidarity and joint prayers, the accusers, without knowing it, call on the forces of evil and thereby tighten the noose around the neck of the unfortunate and do not allow a new wave of renewal to enter their lives. The situation gets worse, the accusations escalate, and negative energy spouts like a fountain, feeding the demons and serving as a feeder and bait for new ones. Thus, the demonic principle of "divide and conquer" sows malice, chaos and suffering and fully justifies itself and the strategy that has been used for thousands of years against ignorant people who have lost their vigilance and faith.
And one more condition: it is constancy and perseverance. By this we, as it were, confirm the seriousness of our intentions and the importance of what we ask. You need to pray every day and not on the run or in transport, but at the chosen convenient time, without fuss and distractions.
You also need to pray until the full fulfillment of the requested. Perhaps time will be delayed, because. it is not yet time for you to receive what you are asking for, or perhaps the Lord has prepared something more for you and more time is needed for this more. And never lose heart and do not lose faith and determination, and you will certainly get what you ask for, and perhaps much more and better.
“A radiant face, a gleam in the eyes, a firm look, a pleasant voice, a noble appearance, sincere benevolence, kindness - these are the signs of the growth of faith and the will to know God” (Sathya Sai Baba).
And one more thing: encourage family members to pray together and never discuss your prayer needs with people who are not involved in your problem, with pessimists, doubters and unbelievers.
“God can only be comprehended by an ascetic; only God can understand the ascetic. Others cannot understand. Therefore, do not discuss your relationship with God with those who do not worship Him. Such talk will only shake your faith.” (Sathya Sai Baba)
Valery Bogoslavsky,
head of the Theological Center for Spiritual Revival
"Eye of Truth", Kharkov
tel. 098-05-05-824, 050-205-24-26
Secret prayers are dogmatic texts that include expressions that allow you to perform the Sacrament of the Eucharist. The priest reads these prayers in an undertone in the altar, standing before the Altar. At this time, parishioners praying in the temple hear church hymns or litanies pronounced by the deacon.
In ancient times, secret prayers were said loudly, and they were heard by the whole Church. There is a legend that the prayers of a priest or bishop at the liturgy began to be said quietly after the children, having learned all the texts by ear, began to play the sacrament of Communion, and fire descended on the stone on which the improvised vessels stood. But this is only a pious tradition, nothing more, for one such event, however miraculous, could not bring all universal Church to the tradition of reciting certain priestly prayers in secret. These prayers in themselves do not contain anything forbidden for the laity, they can be found in the "Mistuals", and the majority of the Orthodox clergy believe that the layman must know the content of the secret prayers well in order to imagine the goals and meaning of the divine liturgy. That is why we decided that it is worth talking about “secret prayers” separately.
In general, secretly, that is, not aloud to the whole people, but in an undertone or to himself, the priest begins to read prayers already at the time all-night vigil. At the great vespers, the priest, as it is written in the Missal, stands “before the holy doors of the altar with a frank head and says luminous prayers,” seven in number; likewise, the twelve prayers at Matins. In addition, he reads special prayers at the entrance with a censer, during the pronunciation of the litanies by the deacon on the pulpit. Some of them the "Missual" prescribes to read "secretly", but, in fact, "secret prayers", or rather, secretly, sacramental, should be called only prayers recited by the priest at the Liturgy.
But the first thing worth noting is that secret prayers are read not only at the Liturgy of the Faithful, but also at the Liturgy of the Catechumens. They are called secret prayers. In Russian today, this does not sound quite right. For example, one poet in a poem has these words: “God is creating water today.” Some Orthodox people they are embarrassing. Because “God composes today” has a frivolous connotation for modern ears. We say: “Yes, stop composing already, compose more, compose, also for me, mister writer,” that is, an inventor, a dreamer, a careless person. But, in fact, “composing” does not always mean saying frivolous things, for example, in prayers for the blessing of water in the rite of Baptism there is such an expression: Four times crowned the circle of summer. That is, the Lord "composed" the four elements and approved the rank of summer, the seasons. Composed - this is from the word co-chin, rank, and means that God approved the sequence, order, co-ordering. That is, the Lord not only created, but also streamlined, put things in order, order, harmony and - "that's all very good"!
Similarly, the definition is "secret prayers." These are not prayers labeled "only for liturgical use for clergy", but that they are necessary for the celebration of the Sacrament of the Eucharist - the transfer of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ. If these prayers were secret, then the Missal Books, in which secret prayers are printed, would not be sold freely in church shops. It is wonderful that any layman can purchase them or find a digital copy of the book on the Internet and read the Missal from cover to cover. Because, if otherwise, if we treat these prayers as a “Da Vinci code” terribly secret from the profane, then we will extremely misunderstand the general church-hierarchical structure of the Church, the relationship, the co-service of the priesthood and the laity in the single work of the Eucharist.
This misunderstanding divides the church community: the laity apart, the priesthood apart, the bishops apart. Everyone, as if on his own: the bishop - “the word of Truth rules rightly”, the priests - serve and perform the rites, and the laity - stand and listen to prayers. Didn't Christ unite us with His blood?
The Church is the Body of Christ. It is created jointly by all Christians involved in the Orthodox Church. Everyone is at their own church level, with their own talents, strengths, and skills. The Apostle Paul speaks of the variety of gifts given by the Holy Spirit: "The gifts are different, but the Spirit is one and the same" (1 Corinthians 12:4). Therefore, secret prayers at home can be read by the laity. They can learn them by heart. The only thing that is not blessed by them is to read secret prayers before the throne instead of the priest, because they do not have such charisma (the gift of the priesthood). They have the charisma of the universal “royal priesthood” - for the laity of the New Testament, according to the Apostle Peter, “a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, people taken as inheritance, in order to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light (1 Peter 2 9) - originally received in the Sacraments of Baptism and Chrismation. In the "Trebnik" it is said about this as follows: "let him accept the honor of a high rank."
Today, the word "laity" has also taken on a connotation that is not entirely correct. That is, a layman is a person who, as it were, was not taken “as a portion, in order to proclaim the perfections of Him who called ... from darkness into His wonderful light”, and so the little man of God walked by, lit a candle, and then went out to the porch “to talk about life ". In fact, the one who is present at the liturgy is always in actual co-service: with the bishop, with the priesthood - with Christ.
Most of the prayers that the priest reads at the liturgy are not spoken in the first person, but from the plural “we”. The priest uses the pronoun "I" in prayer only twice, the first - during the Cherubic Hymn, because during the Great Entrance he alone carries the cup and asks the Lord to forgive him his sins. And the second time, in fact, before Communion, before personal Communion.
In the liturgy, everything is like in God the Holy Trinity, everything in common is mine, and everything that is mine is common. It is impossible for everyone to affirm their prayer mood in an instant; it is necessary that there be some kind of sequence. Therefore, in eternity, the Liturgy of God “lasts” like this: one eternally instantaneous present in the fullness of Love of all the Persons of the Holy Trinity.
With us, this moment needs to be unfolded in time, into some kind of time duration: two hours, an hour and a half. But it must exist. Therefore, the priest reads all other secret prayers during plural: he says "we", although the lay people do not hear it. The question arises: why now the priest reads these secret prayers to himself?
Historically, many prayers said aloud in ancient times began to be read secretly for the sake of special piety. In Orthodox worship during the heyday of Byzantium, there was always a movement towards a greater sacralization of worship. In Russia, this tradition continued. Among such pious innovations, which the Christians of antiquity did not know, is the introduction of a curtain covering the altar (in Russia they went even further and built the wall of the iconostasis); orientation to monastic piety as a reference; the separation of men from women in worship (in Byzantium they prayed in different places in the temple), and so on. So the prayers of the priests in the VI century are gradually moving from the category of spoken aloud into the category of secret, intimate.
On the one hand, this allows us to treat these prayers more reverently. They are not heard by us, and even if we dare to pronounce them aloud in Everyday life We will never treat them lightly and irresponsibly. Such lightness and irresponsibility distinguishes us, unfortunately, when using the Holy Scriptures, expressions from which and quotations we sprinkle everyday speech.
But on the other hand, the inaccessibility of prayers for believers deprives them of the opportunity during Divine Liturgy to realize the Sacrament, to be filled with awe from what we hear, to be filled with reverence and gratitude to God.
In the first centuries of Christianity, the liturgy lasted much longer, sometimes all night. During service Holy Bible sounded lengthy, extensive, sometimes the Gospel or the whole apostolic epistle was read at a time, such a tradition is partly in Orthodox Church was preserved during Great Lent, when several Gospel chapters are read at morning services, and in the first days of Passion Week, the entire Gospel of John up to the Sunday chapters. Now, at the weekly services, only passages from the New Testament are read - conception. The division of the Gospels into conceptions is made Reverend John Damaskin and St. Theodore the Studite for the convenience of liturgical practice in the 8th century.
In ancient times, after the Holy Scriptures, the teachers of the Church extensively interpreted what they read. What is called preaching today comes from this custom. The main part of the ancient service was taken from the Easter church service Old Testament. But the first part of the liturgy, the synagogue, was taken not from the Paschal rite, but from the synagogue, where they also gathered, sang psalms, read the Holy Scriptures, including Christ and the apostles. In general, the synagogue in Hebrew is a collection .
The Greek word "ekklesia" is also translated as an assembly. So the first Christian communities began to be called, and later this word began to denote simply a church, a specific church parish. And already after the Holy Scripture was read and the teacher's interpretation was pronounced, the priest went out to the pulpit in front of the people and the time came for the Eucharistic New Testament prayer.
The first prayer was apophatic, dedicated to the Mystery and Glory of the divine Life, the second - cataphatic, revealing the Glory of the Divine in our earthly reality, the third - combined both theological approaches. It proclaimed that yes, God is Unknowable, Incomprehensible, Immeasurable, but He Himself revealed Himself to the world and now in this world the Church contains this incomprehensible truth of God about the world and about the salvation of man.
Today, these three initial prayers of the first part of the liturgy are short, just a few sentences. In ancient times, they were much more extensive, the primate had the right to offer them without a time limit. But gradually, century after century, a certain tradition of composing these prayers developed in the Church. In a similar way, the content, in fact, of the Eucharistic prayer was fixed.
This is how the entire canon of liturgical prayers gradually took shape, but thousand years of history Churches this canon has undergone a significant change. It has become much shorter, so that only a few sentences remain of any impressive prayer text today. Secret prayers met a similar fate. Why did this happen? There are several reasons. The first, main reason is the impoverishment of piety among the people, the impoverishment of attention to “hearing the Word of God” - by the people, one should understand not only the laity, but also the clergy and clergymen - not everyone was capable of great feats, for example, to go into the wilderness to Sinai mountain; not everyone could withstand the high hours of liturgical tension of the spirit.
And this time of the reduction of the liturgy just falls on the fourth century, when the legalization of Christianity took place in 313 under Constantine the Great. There were no more extensive persecutions, the emperor himself and many senior officials accepted the "seal of faith"; throughout the empire, citizens began to be baptized en masse. The church was filled with thousands of people who did not know the hardships of persecution, exile, night meetings, prisons, executions, torture, trials and suffering for the faith. And these newcomers could not withstand the spiritual tension that Christians experienced at the Liturgy during three centuries of suffering for the Truth. Then - withstood, and then - could not. For every power and knowledge has its time.
Here it is necessary to immediately warn that if someone sees that the liturgy has become much shorter than some negative point, a certain impoverishment of grace in the Church, he is not right. Wrong for the most part. He is mistaken, because he thinks that in the Church there is only a place for titans and heroes of the spirit, such as Anthony the Great or Seraphim of Sarov. Thinking like that is the same as deciding that in Russian literature there is only a place for Pushkin, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky - the geniuses of the word. And for such writers as, for example, Zhukovsky, Batyushkov, Odoevsky, Apukhtin, Grigoriev, Polonsky or Garshin - they do not even have a corner in the literature of the Russian house. You have to delete them. And forget forever. This is a very wrong point of view.
Let's talk for an example. One day, a young seminarian came to the temple, the priest asked him: “Well, when you graduate from the seminary, are you going to get married, to be a priest?” “No,” he says, “I don’t want to be a priest, I have a huge disappointment.” The priest replied, "Thank God!" The seminarian did not understand why "Thank God?" The father explained: “Yes, because you become a person, you begin to see life, otherwise you kept looking with such calf eyes at people, at priests. And now you distinguish something in life, now the blackness from your eyes will gradually subside, and you will begin to distinguish bright spots in this blackness. You will see that the people who serve, despite the hardships of life, these inner sorrows, from which it happens that the heart becomes cold with such a cruel frost, just hold on! - so, despite all this, they, the priests who disappointed you, still pull, serve, confess, baptize, preach, crown, no matter what! And therefore, dear, you should thank God that this most legitimate, good disappointment happened to you.
It's not about the priests, it's just about ourselves: when you already know from your own experience the earthly human poverty, you comprehend human callousness, when you know all this and forgive everything, then in the soul, indeed, much turns over, is reborn into a genuine, a real understanding of the depth and mystery of human nature and personality, the incomprehensibility of holiness.
There is an amazing book about the war by Viktor Astafiev "Cursed and killed." Not every soul will be able to dress such a book. Because if they say - books are written with blood, then this book is written to the last drop of blood. Astafiev did not live very long after that. To write such a book, you need to roll your heart like a pancake, wrap all these terrible and heroic memories of the war in it and put it back into the hot oven of the soul. That's the only way real literature is baked. In his novel, Astafiev writes about heroes, about these eighteen-year-old boys who were called up for military service from cities, villages and villages, writes in “what unheard of simplicity” they performed inhuman feats! Here sits a young soldier, ragged, hungry, swears at well-fed Fritz, smokes shag, and then gets up, rushes and closes the bunker with his chest.
So, returning to the fact that the liturgy has become much shorter than in the first centuries, we, today's Christians, need not be sad about this and not rejoice, but perceive it as a merciful providence of God for every person. The providence of God so arranged the liturgy in modern form that it has become proportionate for every person coming into the world, for every living human soul: equally for a great spirit and for a small, weak one. But even in the present average order, the liturgy is revealed to the saints in an incomprehensible and terrible way.
The Monk Pafnuty of Borovskoy, a disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh, as a humble schemamonk, himself never served the Liturgy in the monastery, which he arranged with his labors. And only once before his death, on the day of Pascha, when the brethren could not find a priest and at great expense, he performed the Liturgy, and then said: “Now my soul has hardly remained in me. Even if there is a great need, do not ask for more! Our historical liturgy has preserved its fiery spirit, the fullness of the divine gift without any damage, carried it through the centuries in fullness and purity.
The wisdom, mercy and love of God is manifested not only in the fact that the Lord gives us this gift from Heaven, but also in the fact that He gives this gift in a simple, uncomplicated, outwardly not miraculous and not “boiling” form, which every person is capable of hear, perceive, respond and share with others. Even small children, feeble old women, in a word - all Christians. And imagine if today the liturgy was the same as in ancient times - for the whole night! Many, most likely, would have stood, hesitated in the temple, looked and decided, you know, like in a circus, where gymnasts fly under the dome - well, this is not for us, we have nothing to do here, we can’t do that, let’s go from here. And now in the Church, on the contrary, everything works out: a person comes from the street, everything in the church seems to him so simple, clean, primitive, for grandmothers, for children - everything is clear, everything is clear. And the person does not leave. On the contrary, for some reason he remains, and only then, over the years, begins to comprehend, behind the outward simplicity of the rite, the primordial depth and joy of the Orthodox faith.
A liturgy for everyone, not only for Socrates, Platons, not only for Pushkins, not only for Anthony the Great and Tryphon Vyatka, but also for the war veteran Uncle Vanya, and for Aunt Glasha's cook, and for the half-deaf grandmother Nadezhda, and for the blind-sighted grandfather Emelyan , and for the temporarily “virtualized” teenager Seryozha, and for the girl Sveta from a neighboring house painted as if for an exhibition, and for the disabled Afghan Anatoly; The Eucharist is for “everyone and for everything”, and not only for the great heroes of spirit and thought.
Therefore, despite the outward simplicity of everyday services, in the Orthodox liturgy is hidden, coiled, if I may say so, the divine spring of great meaning. Such a powerful spring that if it unfolds in the space of the world, then it unites everyone, gathers everyone “from all ends of the universe” to Christ. She will never run out of factory. She is eternal. And everyone, to the extent of his talent, can feel and perceive this mysterious mental spring. Therefore, secret prayers and the reduction of the time for serving the liturgy began to be performed in this way, not because God gave a spiritual head start to the weak, untalented and lazy, but because He chose the universal human path for everyone, along which both the weak and the strong follow.
The Church has agreed to an outwardly facilitated organization of the liturgy so that all of God's people take part in it. For the liturgy to be a liturgy. After all, the word "liturgy" from Greek is translated as a common cause. Therefore, secret prayers today are not read secretly, but quietly. The priests read them in the altar in front of the throne, sometimes to themselves, and sometimes out loud, so that secret prayers are heard by all the parishioners. But this is done most often by experienced pastors, such as, for example, Archpriest Vladislav Sveshnikov or Archpriest Alexei Gostev, who serves on Nikolina Gora. How does this happen? First, the choir sings a hymn, then the priest reads a prayer. The liturgy is extended in time by 15-20 minutes. This is not much, but the fact is that the decision of how to read secret prayers aloud or to oneself cannot be decided by an individual priest. The decision of the Church can only take a conciliar. Most likely there will be no return to the former loud tradition among the priests. Most will continue to read to themselves, but in some places in the temple, where the parish is friendly, small, rural or regional, or, conversely, well-known, well-maintained by many generations of parishioners, where parishioners are spiritually experienced and it will not be difficult to allow the introduction of ancient practice, then you can take a blessing with the dean, with the ruling bishop, and in simplicity of heart, read secret prayers aloud, not considering that you are doing something special in this life, that you are carrying out some great spiritual feat.
Prayer is a sincere conversation with God, fellowship with Him. What prayer has greatest strength and effect? Let's figure it out.
secret prayer
This principle of relationship with God was vividly revealed to me in recent times. It's called "Everything Hidden Becomes Revealed" - and it's taken from the Bible.
Matt. 6:6 But when you pray, go into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly.
Let's first find out what is "secret", for what God wants and can repay a person? In various translations, “in secret” also means “in solitude with God,” “before the invisible God.”
What is a secret? This is a confidential event hidden from others; That is, God appreciates when we tell Him about what others do not know, or about what we are afraid to tell someone. This shows our trust.
Even if we take human relationships, we only tell our secrets to those whom we trust, who can give us valuable advice who will not betray and trumpet our secrets to the whole world. God is not a traitor, he hides our secrets. And it reveals to the world not our secrets, but the answers to our deepest desires.
How can we practically communicate in secret with God?
Given the current age of acceleration, busyness, increased information?
- On the road, breaks, solitude, walks (and so on), mentally turn to God. Tell Him about everything that happens in your life, what you would like, what worries you, upsets you, what you would like to change. Do it anywhere and anytime (when possible). Never think about the negative, do not develop this thought. Better imagine how the Lord changes the situation.
- Set aside a time and a day in advance when you can talk to God. Run away from the hustle and bustle. God does not need your service, your gifts and offerings without your heart and participation. It's like in a family: you bring home Tasty food, you can wash everything, do a service, repair, but you don’t communicate with your loved ones, you ignore their opinion, their help to you. God is the same living Person who wants a personal relationship with you.
- Read His Word. God speaks through the Bible personally to your heart and your situation. You will receive wisdom and understanding of how and where to move on.
God rewards all of this CLEARLY. That is, you look at a person who is unremarkable, and then bam - and God raises him, the person becomes successful. By this the Lord shows that he has something secret, to which God answered openly.
For example (personal testimony): Every week I pray for certain people, asking God for them in secret. Only God knows about prayers. I do not include my friends, ministers, etc. in these prayers. I just pray to God. And for these prayers, He clearly repays: people experience miracles in finances, personal life, and health. People do not know why this is so, but I know what was first hidden from human eyes and then revealed by God.
All the secret becomes clear
The Bible says that everything hidden is revealed. Make sure that in your secret life (when no one sees you) there is holiness and purity. Because nowhere is it written that God will reward only the good. What you sow is what you reap. But you sow in secret, but you reap openly.
This principle exists in nature too: no one sees a seed in the ground, but when it grows, everyone sees it. When a woman is pregnant, the fetus is hidden, and then it is born, and everything becomes clear.
Outcome
Trust God, talk to him, develop the sacrament of your relationship. You will see very quickly that your secret prayers give results faster and more powerful than what you tell your friends, mentors, loved ones.
These personal prayers have power in the spirit world. And God promises to repay the sacrament, and to make everything secret clear. Close, sincere prayer is the most powerful in the world!
The WORD, the LOGOS, is the principle of the entire flow of energy.
Decrees, Decrees, Prayers, Meditations, Songs and Mantras connect you with this Principle, with this Source. These practices are a combination of words composed into a complete rhythmic structure.
To create and create, we invoke the WORD ("In the beginning was the word").
We feel the power contained in the atom of transcendent Being. Many tried to free her. Many suggested various ways. However, only the WORD, which is the creator of all things, is capable of creating.
Why do we need to pray? What does this give us?
Prayer is to us what water is to the seed...
Prayer is a very specific power, direct and measurable.
Prayer is real.
Prayer is an act of cleansing our world.
Ancient traditions suggest that the action of prayer is not associated with the words spoken by those who pray, but with something else. Perhaps this helps us to understand why many people, in spite of constant prayer, lose faith. The fact is that after editing the Bible in the 4th century, what lay at the basis of the language of prayer was lost, only the words themselves survived. Subsequently, many were convinced that the power of prayer lies precisely in the pronunciation of words. However, the revelation of texts from older periods reminds us again and again that there is no magic code in the very combinations of vowels and consonants that opens the door to other dimensions. The secret of prayer is not in words of praise, not in recitative, not in the measured repetition of all kinds of "let it be", "let it come." Scrolls Dead Sea they clearly say that the main thing in prayer is intention, for if words are uttered only by the mouth, they are a dead hive that will not give honey.
The power of prayer lies in the fact that it is impossible to convey in speech or on paper - the part with which we pronounce prayer formulas. It is the feeling with which we pray that opens the paths leading to the possession of powers visible and invisible. Ancient texts unequivocally point to this essential element communication with the universe.
Feelings is not just one of the factors of prayer. Feeling is prayer!
Feelings- this is the key to prayer, since only feeling is able to enter into resonance with the outside world.
Through communion with the elements of the world, we gain access to the greatest secrets, as well as the ability to "see the invisible, hear the inaudible, speak the unspeakable." In its purest form, prayer has no outward expression at all. The prescribed sequence of words, handed down to us by tradition, serves only to evoke in us certain experiences that can bring us into a state of harmony with the world around us.
Without energy betraying prayer vitality, the thought remains an empty wish. In order for a thought to gain strength, we must give it energy. Perhaps this is the answer to the question why our prayers sometimes go unanswered. If we do not have the power to translate our prayers and requests into reality, they continue to exist only potentially - as empty, albeit good wishes.
It is the ability to experience emotions that betrays the strength of our desires. We can choose what emotion to feed our thoughts - love or fear; however, in life it happens much more often that our desires are motivated by fear. When we say "not enough money", "not enough", "need more", there is fear behind these statements.
Another secret of prayer is to live and feel as if a miracle has already happened, as if our desires have already been fulfilled. This secret is kept in sacred texts and ancient traditions peace. Now we are given the opportunity to bring this ancient wisdom into our lives; when praying, do not ask for what is not there, but give thanks for the fact that we already have it, try to imagine it, visualize it in the mind and feel it with the body.
Until you yourself enter into this image and start thinking based on it, it will not be able to be born.
While chaos and strife is going on in your soul, your prayer and request will not be heard. Your desire not to be embodied in the material world.
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