Word IX, which states that Christians should not practice witchcraft and magic

Cathedral witchcraft is considered one of the most dangerous but effective methods of magic. Modern sorcerers and witches now rarely resort to such rituals. And all because only selected representatives of the magical art know the secrets of the rituals. Many techniques have been forgotten. But those people who took advantage of sacred rituals received instant results and were satisfied.

Let’s try to figure out what the concept of “conciliar witchcraft” means, when it is allowed to use the technique, and what difficulties the practitioner will encounter.

What is this type of magic?

Cathedral witchcraft refers to magical rituals performed in temples. Let’s assume the option of organizing a ritual at home, provided that the practitioner has the necessary attributes. You will also need the texts of the necessary prayers.

In general, cathedral witchcraft is resorted to in different situations. Some rituals are so simple that anyone can perform them at home. But it should be remembered that any magical action is condemned by the clergy. Moreover, they claim that a terrible punishment awaits the sorcerer, regardless of whether he uses white or black magic.

Cathedral witchcraft rituals are often performed in churches. Only the presence of an esotericist in a sacred place is considered unacceptable. That is why this type of magic is considered dangerous.

On Easter, Christmas, and Trinity Sunday, on the territory of large cathedrals, you can see more than a dozen sorcerers. They have to fight for the right to be the first to enter the church.

Villagers are usually aware of who is practicing witchcraft in the area. But when they see a witch, they don’t drive her away: they are afraid of punishment.

Magic and sorcery: how they manifest themselves in our lives

Magic and magic are not the same thing.
Magic is an occult practice, and magism is a worldview built on the principles of magic. It happens that a person has never practiced magic, but in his worldview, actions, and outlook on life he shows obvious magic. Nowadays, it is important to understand these concepts, since religion itself is often understood as something magical. Let us try to understand, first of all, what magic is.

Magic (lat. magia

- witchcraft, sorcery) is a set of rituals and actions aimed at influencing the surrounding reality with the help of mysterious forces. These are incantations, spells, love spells and lapels, all kinds of accompanying rituals (for example, tying knots, writing certain words and diagrams), as well as the necessary tools: talismans, knives, needles, bones, hair, blood, resin, herbs, etc.

Usually, magic is turned to as a convenient means at hand that does not require serious mental investment. It’s so simple - say a verbal formula, blow, spit and believe that now everything will change. However, behind the magic itself lies a serious worldview (in fact, what can be called magism). It is worth getting acquainted with him in order to understand the key differences between magism and the Christian faith.

Christianity confesses that everything in the world is subordinated to Divine Providence. There is nothing that is missing from the wise and sensitive care of the Heavenly Father. Even sorrows and troubles, even our spiritual falls are allowed by God for our possible admonition. Therefore, true good can only be achieved through personal appeal to God. Man is endowed with free will, and therefore he is free to turn to Christ, which

no matter what happens around him (whether war, revolution, economic crisis, etc.).
The magical worldview believes that there is neither God’s Providence nor unconditional freedom, but there is a secret, hidden force that invisibly embraces the entire universe. People, invisible spirits, the elements of nature - all are subject to the occult laws of influence. Whoever finds the key to these laws owns the world. To put it figuratively, in magic it is believed that all things in our world are connected by invisible threads and that a correctly cast spell affects these threads. In magic, people themselves are just living dolls, to which the threads of an invisible puppeteer are attached. With the help of magic, you can pull the desired thread, and no matter how much the living doll resists, the effect will be irresistible - illness, damage, stimulation of sexual desire, etc. It is surprising that there are very many conspiracies involving threads and knots. The process of tying, in particular, is interpreted as a process of inducing or removing damage: “A sick person is tied with a thread, therefore, the disease is tied; a person is tied up - so is the disease; the thread is removed from a person, and the disease is removed with it; the thread is thrown, buried in the ground, placed in the hole of a tree, which is then clogged, the associated disease is thrown with the thread and buried in the ground” ( Eleonskaya E.N.
Fairy tale, conspiracy and witchcraft in Russia. M., 1994. P. 174).

The principles of magic are clearly presented in the famous legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The story, the answer to which scientists still cannot find, is captured in European chronicles of the Middle Ages. On June 26, 1284 (even the day was recorded), in the German city of Hamelin, a rat catcher-musician led 130 children playing the pipe, who disappeared forever. Before this, the city suffered greatly from rats, the invasion of which in the Middle Ages was sometimes compared to an epidemic. The magistrate promised a large reward to anyone who rid the city of rats. It was then that the flutist appeared, demanding, if successful, to give him as much gold as he could carry. The city fathers immediately agreed. The rat catcher took out a magic pipe; All the city rats came running to its sounds, and the rat catcher led them out of the city, enchanted by the enchanting melody. Meanwhile, the magistrate regretted the hasty promise and refused the flute player a reward. Appearing a little later, the Pied Piper of Hamelin played the magic flute again, only this time the city children came running to him, whom the Pied Piper took away from the city - either to the river, or to a mountain gorge, where they disappeared. Scientists have come up with different versions trying to explain this story; it is suggested that this legend may be a veiled reflection of a children's crusade, and the removal of prisoners after an unsuccessful battle, or the death in the mountains under a landslide of children led by a musician to a holiday in a swampy basin... As for rats, they say that they react to a high-frequency sound produced by tin pipes commonly used by rat catchers in those days. This event is captured on the stained glass window of the Hamelin church, which was made around 1300, and people of that era perceived what happened as a manifestation of magical spells. Indeed, in occultism, it is the performance of certain actions, a magical ritual (in this case, the performance of an enchanting melody) that inevitably entails certain consequences in people’s lives (in the Hamelin legend, the departure of children).

If in Christianity spiritual success depends on how open a person’s heart is to Christ, how much a person fulfills the commandments of Christ and strives for God, then in magic there is a rare indifference to God. It’s not that atheism is professed in magic - sometimes in conspiracies the name of God is mentioned, and the person being charmed is called a servant of God - however, all the goals of magic are exclusively earthly in nature. Here everything is achieved through one’s passionate effort in breaking through to the spiritual world: achieving success, money, health, the favor of a loved one, etc.

Not a living appeal to God, but the action of laws, the expectation of the effect of one’s rituals - this is what magic professes. And if in Christianity spiritual perfection depends on a personal meeting and unity of the human soul with God, then in magic technology and mysterious ritual are present in the foreground.

Let's lift the curtain. In fact, all the secret knowledge of modern magic comes down to knowledge of the witchcraft pyramid. The witchcraft pyramid is the four “truths” that are taken into account in magical rituals: imagination, volitional effort, faith in magic and observance of secrecy. For effective witchcraft, the magician must, firstly, use a vivid imagination, fantasy, colorfully and emotionally presenting the necessary objects and faces; secondly, he concentrates all his attention, all his will on the magical action; thirdly, he unforgettably believes in him (and not in God, even if he mentions the name of God), believes that his word will be fulfilled, and fourthly, he does not reveal his secrets to anyone. And therefore, here we will not meet a single ray of light descending from Heaven, we will not meet that Divine help and spiritual consolation that is given in response to the pure and peaceful prayer of a Christian.

Researchers note that magic recognizes several spheres in our universe. The higher sphere is inhabited by good spirits, and the lower sphere by evil demons. If Christianity testifies that dark spirits reside in a radically different sphere of existence than light angels (the former in the celestial sphere, and the latter in heaven) and that contact with the latter requires a pure life and warm prayer, then in magic the situation is completely different. In magic it is believed that with the help of secret ceremonies one can come into contact with invisible spirits, not only evil ones, but also good ones, and supposedly receive help from them. Moreover, an agreement can be concluded with spirits, and then the magician controls the spirits in his own interests - they belong to the sorcerer while he lives, and after death the magician forever belongs to these forces. But the sorcerer doesn’t think much about the latter. He thinks about something else, namely: if the world is subject to spirits, and spirits to spells, then the one who masters spells becomes his own king and god.

Of course, it is a deep mistake to believe that good spirits can be won over by rituals and spells. Because for communion with the angels, one needs loyalty to God, Whom the angels serve, sincere prayer and cutting off carnal and spiritual passions, and not passes, whispering and inhaling overseas incense. And those spirits that pretend to be good to magicians are actually not as good as they seem.

Magic in its inner essence is inseparable from ancient paganism. Paganism professed polytheism - polytheism. And if Divine Revelation testifies to a God who exceeds our created world, then in paganism the gods are just parts of the material world, just as the heavenly bodies and stars are part. They, gods in the pagan understanding, are also limited, dependent on fate and all kinds of vicissitudes, and therefore, in a certain sense, they can be controlled. Magic turns to invisible spirits, these “gods” close to people, but turns with the goal of making them serve a person in achieving his earthly interests.

So, in magic there is an attempt to manage your life and the world around you without obedience to God, and instead of personal unity with Him, you yourself are offered to achieve perfection. Since such goals in reality are unattainable for a fallen person, fallen spirits help create an imitation of power and perfection. Let us remember how Satan tempted Jesus Christ Himself before the start of the gospel sermon: “And the devil said to Him: I will give you power over all these kingdoms and their glory, for it has been given to me, and I give it to whomever I want; Therefore, if You worship me, then everything will be Yours” (Luke 4: 6–7). Christ decisively rejected the seducer, but the tempter offers the same temptation to people in the form of mysterious knowledge, extrasensory self-development and occult “power” over the world.

The question is often asked: is there a ritual in magic to dedicate the soul to the devil? Such a ritual really exists, however, without those colorful mythical details about the appearance of the devil in reality and the drawing up of a “mutually beneficial” contract. There is simply a ritual of special actions from the category of black magic, which we will not describe, and in which an unfortunate person devotes his soul to the devil. It is assumed that the temporary price of the “contract” is strength and power over other people and nature (if you want, induce illness, but if you want, give healing), the eternal price is hellish torment of the soul.

Let us once again pay attention to the key truth in magic. For a magician, the moral values ​​and spiritual content of the invisible world are not important; he recognizes the operation of laws, that certain magical passes must inevitably be followed by the desired consequences. Thus, the main thing in magic is a correctly performed ritual. This is the fundamental difference between magic and church sacraments, which cannot help a person without his living relationship with God. Even if the ritual side is outwardly correctly observed, say the sacraments of communion, a person may not partake of Christ, since he turns out to be an unworthy communicant. The effect of church sacraments on a Christian is directly related to his personal internal state, to his personal relationship to Christ. In magic, all this is not important: you performed the ritual, believed in its effectiveness, and nothing more is required.

Unfortunately, some Christians also have a magical attitude towards church sacraments, when baptism, communion, weddings and other sacraments are understood as means to earthly well-being by virtue of the most perfect action. Be baptized - and you will be protected from all temptations, take communion - and you will not get sick, get married - and you will avoid divorce - this is what a superstitious person with a magical consciousness believes. And often a person does not suspect that he (perhaps himself an active fighter against sorcerers and magicians) is in the grip of an occult worldview. Magic manifests itself, for example, in the following phrases: “If you baptize your children, they will still be less sick” (and if you haven’t baptized them yet, then don’t let anyone near the baby - they’ll put the evil eye on you), “Light a candle and you’ll pass the exam,” “Be sure to type Epiphany water helps against the evil eye.” That is, magic manifests itself when a person forgets about God and relies only on visible ritual, and also when earthly and mercantile things are obviously expected from the spiritual.

This also happens when the read prayer rule is perceived as a guarantor of all kinds of success, as if some kind of pledge obliging spiritual forces to fulfill all your wishes. Even church services are perceived by some as something magical, some kind of action full of ancient and obscure aesthetics, which in itself endows a person with invisible power. It is important for a Christian to remember: in prayer, the most important thing is communication with God, who knows how to organize a person’s life. We entrust our lives and successes to Him. In the sacred rites of the temple, a person ascends with his soul to God, and God looks at the heart and therefore gives grace as the person’s soul turns to Him.

The magic of many of our contemporaries is manifested in the fact that, for example, a person believes that he became ill only because someone wished him bad or, God forbid, cast a spell on him. Thus, a sick person forgets about the Providence of God, that God takes care of us through our sorrows and illnesses. Attention is unjustifiably drawn to the magical idea of ​​the cause-and-effect relationships of slander, curses and ill-wishing with our troubles and illnesses. Someone else’s word or an evil eye seems to be the root cause of suffering, but the holy fathers called sorrow a Divine visitation: it is in them that the spirit of a Christian is nurtured, when a person is distracted from vain earthly aspirations and turns his soul to what is eternal.

People with a magical consciousness think about God somehow abstractly, impersonally, and often don’t think about Him at all. In the best cases, they present the Divine as the highest principle according to which our life should be organized, as if some kind of cosmic law, the violation of which entails suffering, but they do not notice a higher personal principle in Him. Therefore, they do not know how to ask God for anything and do not know what it means to trust Him in their lives. Let us note in passing that those Christians who do not have a living sense of standing before God in prayer, who rely on the text of the prayer, as if acting on its own, and pronounce the words of prayers only according to custom, for the sake of ritual - such Christians slide into a magical understanding of the world spiritual.

And if a person believes that he is able to achieve spiritual heights only through his own efforts, if perfection itself is considered as a certain result of the method of spiritual self-development, then magic is also noticeable in this. For the result is expected from human efforts, verbal formulas and passes in themselves, while the heart with its feelings, the mind with its thoughts, the will with its wishes remain without a living appeal to God.

True spiritual life is based on trust in God (and therefore, entrusting one’s destiny to Him), a heartfelt turn to Him and the fulfillment of His commandments, and not on the mechanical performance of rituals and thoughtless utterance of even the most churchly prayers. Actually, Christian perfection is the transforming action of God in the soul of a person, which the person himself either contributes to or hinders. And the entire fullness of church life, with its services and sacraments, with its traditions and rituals, with its prayers and spiritual culture, is the environment in which the human soul should reveal itself in its free, warm and sincere ascent to the Heavenly Father.

Who uses cathedral witchcraft?

Methods of cathedral witchcraft are used by both white and black magicians. Ordinary people who have an understanding of the rituals can also use the techniques.

The rituals of cathedral witchcraft will help:

• get married soon and successfully;
• cope with illness;
• lime the opponent;
• return the relationship;
• to cause damage or the evil eye;
• conceive and give birth to a child;
• get rich;
• bewitch your loved one.

It should be remembered that rituals cannot be reversed. Before turning to the Higher Powers, it is worth thinking. The desire will certainly be fulfilled, provided that all the rules of the ritual are followed. But there will be a price to pay for this.

Witches and sorcerers often perform rituals on Orthodox holidays. Such rituals are considered the most effective.

If the witch is the first to touch the church bracket on the door with her lips, she will gain witchcraft power for the year ahead. Sorcerers perform this ritual on Easter. They await the return of believers from the religious procession, and strive to enter the temple before the parishioners, having first kissed the bracket.

What Orthodox rituals are directly related to witchcraft?

The Church failed to completely eradicate the Old Believers. Religion absorbed ancient rituals and modified magic. People did not want to give up knowledge and habitual actions that they had adhered to for centuries. There was a synthesis of new and old faith.

The tradition of swimming at Epiphany is mistakenly perceived as an obligatory church event. Dahl's dictionary writes that splashing is necessary for those who were born celebrating Christmastide. By caroling, telling fortunes, dressing in magical monsters, a person sins. They take a dip to cleanse themselves of sins. Among the Slavs, the ritual was mandatory for children; the liquid cleansed children of sins, bestowed good health, and treated illnesses. Epiphany night is the time when rivers and reservoirs become holy according to church canons.

At Epiphany, witches collect water for witchcraft and magic. Holy water is used to cast love spells, send misfortunes, illnesses, and heal. Actions are accompanied by prayers. Healers, sorcerers, black practitioners reproduce the “Our Father.”

The temple servants deny the possibility of damaging the church walls. The prayer to Matrona of Moscow is used by believers to protect against magical influences.

Wanting to harm an enemy, they light a candle for the repose of a living person. They reinforce the action with witchcraft texts. Black fortune telling can cause illness and lead to death. This allows you to damage the church using sacred rituals for sorcery.

How to get married using this type of magic?

Some rituals are available to ordinary people. For example, girls can turn to cathedral witchcraft if they dream of marriage. It is important to follow the instructions. The practitioner must choose the day on which the young couple is getting married.

During the wedding, the girl prays to Saints Peter and Fevronya. The text of the prayer is free. You can voice your wishes for your future chosen one.

After the wedding is over, the girl needs to approach the newlywed and try to touch her, or best of all, take her hand. At the same time, you should say: “You got it, but it spread to me.” After this, it is better for the sorceress to get lost in the crowd. But she must leave the church first, without looking back and without crossing her forehead.

Four important questions about damage

Modern media today are full of invitations, advertisements and programs about healers and psychics who, for a small fee, are ready to remove damage from a person. All of them, as a rule, use Orthodox symbols to win the trust of believers.

How does the Church feel about corruption?

It is very important to know the Church's position on this matter so as not to succumb to temptation. To do this, you should know 4 answers to important questions about damage.

What is the evil eye and damage?

The Church has a clear answer to this question: they do not exist in the worldly sense - someone talked about money, conspiracies, rolling eggs, etc. But at the same time, there are carriers of evil in the world - creatures who have abandoned God, and they can cause evil to people (this is precisely what the concept of possession implies). But a believer is protected by the Lord from all evil, and they are powerless to do anything to him.

The evil eye and damage are pagan concepts that became a natural reaction of primitive man to a cruel world. The Church condemns such views and fights them.

About evil forces:

• Orthodoxy's attitude to curses
• Who is Lucifer
• Who is the Antichrist

In the Old Testament, the Lord gives a clear commandment - not to turn to sorcerers and fortune-tellers, but to kill them. This law was given because the essence of paganism contradicts the teachings of the Church and the Lord. It should be remembered that without the will of God the sorcerer will not be able to harm anyone. In turn, Christianity implies the existence of evil spirits, whose demonic will is behind all terrible phenomena called corruption.

Bible, Holy Scripture

What prayers should I read against corruption?

Since a believer is protected from all evil influences by the power of the Lord God, he does not need any special prayers against corruption, which is why they do not exist.

During the reception of Baptism, the Christian himself or his godfather speaks the words of renunciation of Satan, thereby transferring himself into the hands of God. From that time on, God’s hand was over him and protecting him. The purity of Baptism guarantees protection from demonic influence; of course, the possibility of temptation remains. In case of apostasy from the Lord, nothing can protect a person.

Important! All the methods and conspiracies offered by sorcerers and healers are powerless and have nothing to do with the Church.

What protection is there from the evil eye and damage?

The only thing is not to believe in them and rely on the mercy of God!

You should not set yourself up for these things, because according to your faith, so be it unto you. There is no need to see everyone you meet as a sorcerer or turn to fortune tellers for help and answers. The Lord clearly decreed that fortune tellers should not be contacted, so it is unlikely that their services are due to God’s inspiration; rather, on the contrary, they are assistants and tools of the devil.

Only by staying in the bosom of the Church, being a sincere believer, relying on the Lord, can you protect yourself from demonic influence.

What to do if you are jinxed?

Stop thinking about it immediately. Sometimes misfortunes happen in life and people think that it is damage or the evil eye. A believer should think about whether he has strayed from the true paths and how to return to them. People do not want to take responsibility for their actions and strive to shift everything to ephemeral evil eyes and damage.

How to protect yourself from the evil eye and damage

You should think and assume whether these troubles are the result of wrong decisions and actions? Maybe I should repent of something?

It should be remembered that some of the troubles that happen to believers in life can be God's instrument for teaching and instruction.

Priests usually say in such cases: “The Lord is visiting,” which means God’s will has been accomplished in a person’s life and he needs to draw the appropriate conclusions.

What subtleties should be observed in this type of magic?

In order for the ritual to bring results, it is important to follow the rules for organizing the ritual. This is the only way to achieve quality. We list the main requirements:

1. You cannot be the first to arrive for service. It's important to be the last to arrive. You are even allowed to be late.
2. It is forbidden to betray other magicians. Sorcerers feel each other. If they find themselves in the service together, you cannot greet or look at your colleague, even if representatives of black and white magic collide.
3. During the service you need to stand behind the backs of those praying, without attracting attention. Black magicians cross themselves with their left hand, and then spit. White sorcerers may cross their foreheads, but more often than not they do not.
4. You need to walk around the cathedral against those walking towards you. It is forbidden to walk with everyone else.
5. Sorcerers do not kiss icons, they only pretend to. Many black magicians even spit during this process and whisper their desire. They believe that it will certainly come true.
6. If you need to buy church paraphernalia (candles, crosses, oil), money for the purchase is given without change. Taking anything from the hands of Orthodox Christians is prohibited.
7. The sorceress must cover her head so that not even a hair remains after she leaves. The same condition applies to male magicians.
8. Representatives of black magic usually read prayers, but turn to other Forces and pronounce the text backwards.
9. During the service, do not let strangers touch you; those who know a lot about magic can simply rob you of a couple of years of your life.
10. Collective witchcraft perfectly helps to get rid of damage, curses, obsessions, troubles, use this power for good.

These are the basic rules that a magician practicing cathedral witchcraft should know about.

Is magic in the church safe and why is it sinful?

The religion of Christians is intertwined with the traditions of paganism. The Orthodox faith eradicates witchcraft and idolatry.

The Church does not accept magic, predicting the future, witchcraft healings, inducing and removing damage and curses.

Esotericists consider the rituals of believers - anointing, drinking wine, eating prosphora - as witchcraft. Cahors, bread is identified with the body, the blood of Jesus. The sacrament of communion brings a person closer to the Lord.

Priests classify witchcraft and black magic involved in church rituals as demonic actions and idolatry. The Bible prohibits contacting unearthly creatures and ignoring the word of God.

White magic rituals in the temple

Attributes of divination are candles made of yellow wax, crosses, icons depicting the faces of saints, prayer books, holy water. Witchcraft is performed on ordinary days and major holidays.

The texts of magical spells contain appeals to church saints. Black sorcerers combine Christian rites and dark anti-Christ rituals. They attract the spirits of the dead.

Turning to the unclean is dangerous for both parties. Those affected by the consequences atone for sins and atrocities committed. Before a church event they fast with soul and body. Prayers, solitude, meditation are companions of divination.

For love

Magical love spells work gradually. The object of the love spell is not morally depressed if witchcraft was not used in the church. Rituals performed with crucifixes, genetic information of the victim in the graveyard can provoke death.

White rituals help make a person pleasant to communicate with the opposite sex. This is not necessarily a love spell. You can evoke feelings of love and achieve family happiness without communicating with dark forces.

The magical component is a love spell performed with two church candles, mirrors, a red ribbon, and sacred water. The wax products are tightly tied with tape and dipped into the liquid, avoiding contact with the wicks. Actions are carried out opposite the reflective surface. Having placed the flames on the saucer, light them with one match from a new box.

A magic spell with church appeals is whispered to the fire:

My Father, Lord Most High. I appeal to you to heed the pure word. With your power, turn (name) towards me. To be love, purer than water, hotter than flame. I will put out the church fire - he will remember me, he will be overcome with longing, he will not fall asleep, he will not wake up from the magic until he reaches my house.

Exposing Church Rituals (the essence of church magic)

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“One has only to read the breviary and follow those rituals that are continually performed by the Orthodox clergy and are considered Christian worship to see that all these rituals are nothing more than various methods of witchcraft, adapted to all possible cases of life.
In order for a child, if he dies, to go to heaven, you need to have time to anoint him with oil and bathe him with the utterance of well-known words; in order for the parent to cease being unclean, you need to cast well-known spells; so that there is success in business or a quiet life in a new home, so that bread is born well, the drought ends, so that the journey is safe, in order to be cured of an illness, so that the position of the deceased in the next world is eased, for all this and a thousand other circumstances there are known spells, which the priest pronounces in a certain place and for certain offerings.” L.N. Tolstoy from a letter to the Synod’s decision to excommunicate him from the church on April 4, 1901. Most of the church rituals that take place in the church are based on magic. It's important to understand this. Take for example the ritual of communion: a person is given a piece of bread - the flesh of Christ and red wine - his blood. And what matters is not what a person drinks and eats. The important thing is that he consciously sets himself up to eat the flesh of Christ and drink his blood. In Voodoo magic - the most terrible of magics - this is the blackest rite: to eat the flesh of your defeated enemy and drink his blood in order to make his essence your slave forever. The rite of communion uses the principle of identification. Identification means the transfer of astral-mental properties from one entity to another. That is, a person, identifying himself with Christ, takes on the properties of an already deceased person, thereby joining the world of the dead. Baptism is a rite of blocking the development of a person’s essence, a rite of connecting the next donor to the egregor of the Orthodox Church. This is a way to make a person blind so that he never understands what is happening in his life and in the world around him. What is baptism? Let's turn to the brochure “On the Sacrament of Baptism,” published by the Orthodox publishing house “Blagovest” in 2001 and analyze some aspects of this rite.

1. About sinfulness.

“...man is naturally born a sinner and guilty before the justice of God.” The main task of the church is to awaken a sense of guilt in a person, force him to pray and repent, and keep him in fear.

If this is successful, a person becomes a “servant of God” (remember: “The servant of God is baptized in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit...”), a “slain sheep” and joins the “flock” of Christ, and becomes ideologically controlled. Added to this is the energy dependence that is placed on a person during the rite of baptism.