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		<title>Discerning God from Satan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prayer of the Heart]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discerning the vision of the uncreated Divine Light of God (theoria), from Satan appearing as an angel of light, is not complicated. According to St John Climacus and patristics, in the first instance &#8220;the soul rejoices . . . [and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/discerning-god-from-satan/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1763&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trials, pain and suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trials, pain and suffering in life are powerful means of purification. According to Maximus the Confessor, &#8220;Trials are sent to some in order to take away past sins, in others so as to eradicate sins now being committed, and to &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/trials-pain-and-suffering/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1758&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Presenting the soul to God the Father</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/presenting-the-soul-to-god-the-father/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Holy Spirit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we present our soul to God the Father, after having freely and deliberately consented to give ourselves to Him, we find ourselves kneeling before His infinite Majesty, facing Him with the soul on the palms of our uplifted hands. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/presenting-the-soul-to-god-the-father/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1752&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discerning the origins of dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Discernment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dreams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discernment of dreams According to St John Climacus, a simple method exists of discerning the origins of dreams we can have &#8211; that is, where they come from. The method is as follows: &#8220;If we wake up from sleep peaceful this &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/discerning-the-origins-of-dreams/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1747&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discerning dreams, revelations and visions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to St Nikita Stithatos, the differences between dreams, revelations and visions can be discerned as follows: Dreams are &#8220;images that do not remain unchanged in the imaginative faculty of the nous,&#8221; the heart of the soul. Dreams &#8220;present a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/discerning-dreams-revelations-and-visions/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1741&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discerning the sources of dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Discernment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to St Nikitas Stithatos, the various sources of dreams can be discerned as follows: If a soul loves materialism and pleasure, &#8220;it dreams of acquiring possessions and having lots of money, of female figures and passionate involvements;&#8221; If a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/discerning-the-sources-of-dreams/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1731&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The deification of man &#8211; Adam before the Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 22:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Adam was first created, the Spirit of God robed him in holiness, making him a perfect person. However, such perfection was not absolute but relative, so that Adam and his proposed descendants could &#8220;progress peacefully and rise up toward &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/the-deification-of-man-adam-before-the-fall/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1723&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two kinds of theoria</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 21:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Acquiring the Holy Spirit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of theoria: one kind is received, whereas the other is apprehended. Namely, the first kind &#8211; that is, the theoria that is received &#8211; is considered superior to the second kind, because the first kind &#8220;is &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/two-kinds-of-theoria/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1715&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imagination and prayer from the heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 21:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All prayer from the heart &#8220;should be free from fantasy and imagination . . . [because the heart of the soul, the nous that is] caught up in fantasy is incapable of praying purely&#8221; (Met. Hierotheos, 2010, The science of spiritual &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/imagination-and-prayer-from-the-heart/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1708&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasy, imagination and sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 20:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increased fantasy and imagination is hidden in almost every sin, with two consequences of increased fantasy being as follows: Distortion of one&#8217;s spiritual life, leading the individual to self-deification; and Psychological abnormalities.  In particular, as a result of the first &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/fantasy-imagination-and-sin/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1705&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasy and attaining holiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 16:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Signs of having acquired the virtues of holiness and chastity are that the soul &#8220;ignores those images which defiled fantasy produces during sleep&#8221; (St John Cassian). Filed under: Holiness, Imagination Tagged: Holiness, Imagination<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1702&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imagination and the heart of the soul &#8211; 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 16:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Although the imaginative faculty exists as an energy . . . the act of fantasizing and imagining, particularly when linked with the passions, is a product of man&#8217;s Fall and defiles the nous&#8221; (Met. Hierotheos. 2000. The science of spiritual medicine, p. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/imagination-and-the-heart-of-the-soul-2/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1696&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imagination and the heart of the soul</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/imagination-and-the-heart-of-the-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 23:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He who removes pleasure and pain from his flesh has achieved practical virtue. He who rids his soul of forgetfulness and ignorance has successfully attained natural theoria (unceasing noetic prayer; prayer of the heart). He who frees his nous (the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/imagination-and-the-heart-of-the-soul/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1693&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving intimacy with God</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/achieving-intimacy-with-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 21:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Full communion comes about only between persons who are and make themselves transparent as pure subjects. The more they are subjects . . . the more the relations between them are characterized by a greater and freer degree of communication &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/achieving-intimacy-with-god/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1679&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revelation and God the Father</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/revelation-and-god-the-father/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 21:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shadow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The revelation of the Trinity . . . has no other purpose than to draw us after grace, to draw us through the Holy Spirit into the filial relationship the Son has with the Father&#8221; (Staniloae, D. 1994. The experience &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/revelation-and-god-the-father/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1677&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worshipping the Father in Spirit and in Truth</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/worshipping-the-father-in-spirit-and-in-truth-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 23:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shadow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Through the incarnate Son we enter into filial communion with the Father, while through the Spirit we pray to the Father or speak with Him as sons&#8221; (Staniloae, D. 1994. The experience of God: Revelation and knowledge of the Triune God, p. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/worshipping-the-father-in-spirit-and-in-truth-2/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1675&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is does it mean to be a human being?</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/what-is-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 00:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shadow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A man thou art, but the only one of the animals to be deified&#8221; (Basil the Great). &#8220;One does not only have to be born biologically in order to be called a man, but must also have the Holy Spirit within one . &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/what-is-man/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1662&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Triune God</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/our-triune-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Be reconciled to God (2 Cor 5:20) and do not quench the Spirit (1 Thess 5:19); or rather may Christ be reconciled to you, and may the Spirit enlighten you. But if you are too fond of your quarrel, we &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/our-triune-god/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1657&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The three pillars of our destiny</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/the-three-pillars-of-our-destiny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 23:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pillars upon which rests the eternal destiny of mankind are three: creation, salvation and deification. And, especially the latter two, they are &#8220;nothing other than the extension to conscious creatures of the relations that obtain between the divine Persons&#8221; &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/the-three-pillars-of-our-destiny/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1655&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God the Father respects us</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 19:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Almighty Father respects us and our free-will choices, unlike many human beings, because He does not just forge ahead and do as He pleases, with regard to our lives. He asks us for our co-operation with Him, especially His &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/god-the-father-respects-us/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsforthesoul.wordpress.com&#038;blog=29616536&#038;post=1653&#038;subd=reflectionsforthesoul&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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