I was already thinking poorly from fear. There was only one thought - to get out of here as soon as possible. But how? If she realizes that I don't need her terrible "helpers", she will destroy both me and my loved ones so that I don't spill the beans. After all, she revealed her secret to me. And then I won't live! I was in a panic, my thoughts were confused, I did not know what to do, how to get out of this terrible story. Suddenly, a literal insight came. As if from the outside, as if from somewhere outside. A saving thought struck me. Now I knew what to say. Pulling myself together, I seemed to say quite calmly:

"Maria Ivanovna, today I came to you after an appointment at the clinic and I am very tired. Now my hungry husband will return home, and I have nothing cooked... And my son still needs help to do his homework, but he has no strength. Let's put it this way: I have a free day the day after tomorrow. I'll come to you,

And we will do everything that is necessary without any haste. Ok?

"Okay, daughter, let's do this. I'll be waiting for you. Come," and the old woman gently hugged me by the shoulders, "be sure to come."

I don't know how I got out of her apartment, how I got to the bus stop. Fear pierced me to the bone. Something had to be done. Somehow get out of this situation, and even save the life and health of people close to me. I am a person far from the Church, although I was baptized by my grandmother as a child. Sometimes, on major holidays, she would go to church, of course, and light candles. Well, in general, like many others. I don't even know why, but at this terrible moment in my life, I felt that help could only be expected from the Church. But it was already dark, and all the city churches were closed. I did not know any priest, there was no one to ask for help. I was seized by a terrible, inhuman fear. Paralyzed the will, thoughts. I was in a panic, I didn't know what to do. But then again some kind of insight. Suddenly a thought came to me: there is a monastery not far from the city. The monks live there permanently, which means that I will definitely find one of the priests, and although it is already nightfall, they probably will not refuse help and advice. That's how I got to you."

HOW TO BECOME SORCERERS

1. Most often, the witchcraft "profession" is hereditary. The ability to communicate with evil spirits passes from older generations to younger generations. All the most famous sorcerers had ancestors who had been engaged in magical "arts" for generations. In fact, neither Y. Tarasov, nor Y. Longo, nor Maria-Stefania conceal this, and the biographies of Dzhuna Davitashvili, A. Kashpirovsky, David Copperfield (Kotkin) and many other less or very little known sorcerers and psychics testify to this.

Demons who helped ancestral sorcerers always pass on to their descendants, sometimes even "jumping" over generations, and without any special initiation procedure. In such cases, the child unexpectedly has a feeling of his magical power, as if knowledge of spells and rituals that no one told him about is revealed from within. This is how the magical abilities of Helena Blavatsky, Wolf Messing and Aleister Crowley were discovered. The latter wrote: "Even before I reached the age of adolescence, I already knew that I was a BEAST, the number of which is 666. I did not yet fully understand what it meant – there was only a passionate ecstatic feeling of identity (with the personality of the Antichrist – Author)." But it was only at the age of 21 in Stockholm that Crowley experienced the main mystical insight that turned his whole life towards professional magic (sorcery): "I woke up and realized that I possessed all the magical means necessary to realize and satisfy that part of my nature that had been hidden from me until that moment."

2. There are also cases when a dying sorcerer or sorceress handed over a demon who collaborated with them during his lifetime to a stranger who agreed to accept this "gift" if the sorcerer did not have close relatives or they themselves did not want to be "happy" in this way.

3. In some cases, people who want to possess magical power and power consciously go as apprentices to hereditary professional sorcerers, who undergo appropriate initiations (initiations).

4. Others come into contact with demonic forces thanks to books: manuals on magic and occultism. The latter include, first of all, the Kabbalah and books that have a Kabbalistic basis, for example, the works of Eliphas Levi, Dr. Papus, Aleister Crowley, the theosophical works of Helena Blavatsky, Helena and Nicholas Roerich. The same purposes are served by manuals on the technique of Reiki, Lamaist, Hindu, Krishna and many other soul-destroying literature.

5. There are also cases when demons in human form appeared to people deprived of the grace of the Holy Spirit for many personal sins and offered their cooperation and help in solving their problems. Some of these "lucky ones" later became sorcerers.

There are also many descriptions of other very different and very individual ways of coming into direct contact with evil spirits, which there is no point in listing, since they all have something in common. This common feature is, firstly, the lack of grace (personal or hereditary) of the individual, and secondly, the desire to use some supernatural forces to solve some of his own completely earthly and always sinful tasks, which, as a rule, are masked by some plausible pretext. It is in such cases that the saying is used: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."