DAIMONOLOGIA

    Tetrasyllable Discourse   In Which the Devil Laments his Defeat at the Hands of the Ascetics By St. Ephraim the Syrian When the wicked d...

By Lay Preacher Demetrios Panagopoulos (+ 1982) A young monk had a question: "How does Satan perceive someone's noetic prayer an...

By Stephen Beale In the war between heaven and hell, the Incarnation was God’s ultimate covert op against Satan. Satan, in his haughtines...

By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos (From the book The Science of Spiritual Medicine ) Describing the wiles and the activities of the...

By St. Nikolai Velimirovich Whoever climbs to the Kingdom of Christ must encounter obstacles, and these obstacles are numerous and varied....

THE ORIGIN OF EVIL At the dawn of creation, before God made the visible world, but after the creation of the angels, there was a great cat...

Saint Marina is known as Saint Margaret in the West. Whereas Saint Marina has always been highly esteemed and enjoyed wide popularity among...

Syriac authors took over and adapted the ancient Mesopotamian genre of precedence dispute, transforming it into a dispute or dialogue, with...

Having spoken to you many times about Paradise, the Angels and the Saints so that you may be helped, I shall now also say a few words about...

St. James, Who Was Beguiled to Worship the Devil (Feast Day - June 13) Verses Haughtiness is not the most severe passion, But through it t...

Three Homilies on the Devil Homily 3. On the Power of Man to Resist the Devil (That evil comes of sloth, and virtue from diligence, and ...

Three Homilies on the Devil Homily 2. On the Power of Man to Resist the Devil (Against those who object because the devil has not been ...

Three Homilies on the Devil Homily 1: Against Those Who Say that Demons Govern Human Affairs (Against those who say that demons govern h...

By St. Gregory Palamas The pre-eternal, uncircumscribed and almighty Logos and omnipotent Son of God could clearly have saved man from mor...

By St. Kosmas the Aitolos And so, my brethren, the first order of angels of which we spoke earlier fell because of pride and sought to be ...

My children, very much do I entreat you, Arm yourselves with the armor that God gives, That you may withstand the devil's tricks. Yo...

Knowing, then, brethren, [the Enemy’s] weakness, let us attend to ourselves, imitating the Fathers. If we walk in the way that they walked...

By St. Nikolai Velimirovich "O thou enemy, thy destructions are come to a perpetual end, even as the cities which thou hast destroyed...

By Saint Kosmas Aitolos A man named John was defeated and he became a thief. He became the captain of a band of one hundred thieves, but h...

Elder Paisios was asked the following regarding demons (called "tagalakia" by some Greeks) and the power of the Cross: - Elder, ...