{"id":7485,"date":"2019-11-17T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2019-11-16T09:26:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T14:26:25","slug":"7485","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7485","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Porphyrios on Blocking Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c.Satan appears according to the kind of person you are. If someone has not set out on the spiritual life in a normal manner, or if he is burdened by something hereditary, he sees Satan appearing before him and causing mayhem and so on. Sometimes a person can even end up with schizophrenia. The schizophrenic is affected by the experiences of the fallen life of his forebears. And something else. Don\u2019t give any rights of access to the devil. I don\u2019t allow even one resentful thought to remain within me, not a single flash of egotism, in case the devil finds an open window. An open window is a right of access. When you distance yourself from God, you put yourself in danger, because Satan finds you on your own and takes dominion over you. Pay heed to what I say, because I have some experience of these things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Wounded by Love\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7486\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dsc05370-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dsc05370-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dsc05370-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dsc05370-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dsc05370-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c.Satan appears according to the kind of person you are. If someone has not set out on the spiritual life in a normal manner, or if he is burdened by [&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-7485","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\/7485","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=7485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7488,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions\/7488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}