{"id":10383,"date":"2021-10-17T21:06:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T01:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10383"},"modified":"2021-10-02T21:07:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T01:07:14","slug":"elder-ephraim-of-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10383","title":{"rendered":"Elder Ephraim+ of Arizona\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Struggle, my child; isn\u2019t the present life a time for struggling? Isn\u2019t the life of every earthly man but a dream? Raise the noetic eyes of your soul and behold heavenly hosts of angels and archangels. Lift up the eyes of your mind higher and behold the blissful place of Lucifer, who was once a rising star, now empty.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what a great destination! What a supremely holy calling! There, by the throne of God, souls will see the divine beauty of Christ and will be led up from knowledge to knowledge and from theoria to theoria with a superabundance of i idles of divine grace!<\/p>\n<p>But in order to obtain these heavenly blessings, we must display bravery and mettle, and must engage in battles with- i ml turning our backs in defeat, keeping before us Jesus, Who aid to us: \u201cBe of good cheer; I have overcome the world,\u201d\u00a0 the ruler of this world will be cast out.\u201d\u00a0 So\u00a0 trusting in the invincible power of the crucified Christ, let us dedicate ourselves with simplicity to the struggle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Counsels from the Holy Mountain\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10384\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Image2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Image2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Image2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Image2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Image2-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggle, my child; isn\u2019t the present life a time for struggling? Isn\u2019t the life of every earthly man but a dream? Raise the noetic eyes of your soul and behold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10385,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions\/10385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}