Unfortunately, these ailments have become the scourge of our society and resonate with pain in the hearts of every believer. Spiritual neglect, ignorance of the basics of Orthodoxy, narcissism and egoism make people helpless when attacked by the spirits of evil, plunge them into despondency, apathy, unwillingness to live, push them to communicate with psychics, sorcerers, healers of various stripes.

The churching of the sick, his liberation from sinful fetters, his participation in the sacraments of the Church requires from the clergy painstaking, serious work and much knowledge.

To be honest, this knowledge and experience are lacking in many who face these problems, the problems of the spiritually ill. For them, this book is primarily intended, compiled on the basis of the materials of "The Intrigues of the Demons", which have long become a bibliographic rarity.

The sick themselves with great interest get acquainted with everything that is written by Hieromonk Panteleimon, who has extensive experience in communicating with the spiritually ill and has been conducting prayers with incantatory prayers for seven years now. All this becomes more relevant and topical against the background of the rapidly multiplying Satanism, which, hiding behind various guises, cripples the souls of people, plunging them into hellish torments already here on earth.

We cannot hide from this problem, we cannot go anywhere. It meets us everywhere: at work, in the family, on the street, and it seems that "Satan is running the show here," and we are all his hostages and God is far away. But this is very, very different!

We only need to follow the path to Him, without turning or making this path easier, which sometimes seems incredibly difficult to us.

Correction of oneself and one's spirituality is possible under strictly defined conditions. It is time for all of us to understand this, to abandon unnecessary and dangerous tossing and turning. The truth has long been open to us, the Savior Himself says to us: "I am the door. By Me whosoever shall enter, he shall be saved; and he will come in, and go out, and will find pasture." [John 10:9.]

But if we open this door, then we are obliged to fulfill spiritual laws and commandments, and not betray Christ at every step, trying to gain something, to facilitate something...

Let us put on the armor of courage, patience, and humility, and then we will understand that the burden of Christ is easy to bear. All our difficulties and sufferings are due to the separation of the soul from Christ, this source of grace and life. Let us unite with Him, let us nourish our souls with joy and peace, let us receive the words of eternal life: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." [Matt. 12:28.] If not... No one else will do this work for us. This must be done by us, together with Christ.

To help us, this book will be specially intended for people who begin their spiritual life with the burden of sorrows and illnesses.

Let us not grumble about pain and suffering, we ourselves are guilty of them. Thank God that He has not abandoned us and is still waiting for our repentance. Let us hasten to Him for liberation from the heavy fetters of sin, let us be delivered from the enslavement of the devil and gain the joy of spiritual life.

Who, who lives in the terem?

The woman who came to the church and asked for help was very excited, frightened and all in tears: "Help, something incredible is happening with the apartment, it's scary to be there!"

Very often we have been hearing such requests lately. The consecration of restless dwellings becomes one of the main needs, on which priests spend a lot of time and effort and, at times, inopportunely. We wave our fists after a fight: it turns out not to consecrate an apartment or a house, but to cleanse it of undesirable tenants, all sorts of spiritual abomination.