{"id":839,"date":"2015-01-09T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=839"},"modified":"2015-01-09T16:15:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:15:16","slug":"modern-sorcery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"Modern Sorcery&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard of a godless man who rolls \u00a0up various little \u00a0icons and puts inside of them\u00a0in hairs, little\u00a0pieces of wood, needles, beads and other things. When the Church censored this man he simply said, &#8220;I am a psychic.&#8221;\u2026 Then I asked [a man] if he had anything given to him by that sorcerer. &#8220;Yes I have this little box that looks like a small Gospel book,&#8221; he said. I took it and when I opened it I discovered various little icons rolled up inside. I enrolled them one by one and found inside them beads, hairs and some tiny pieces of wood. I took these things away from him and the man was freed. You see what a craftsman the devil is!&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Paisios<br \/>\n~Spiritual Struggle<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/135991_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-840\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/135991_t.jpg\" alt=\"135991_t\" width=\"113\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard of a godless man who rolls \u00a0up various little \u00a0icons and puts inside of them\u00a0in hairs, little\u00a0pieces of wood, needles, beads and other things. When the Church censored this man he simply said, &#8220;I am a psychic.&#8221;\u2026 Then I asked [a man] if he had anything given to him by that sorcerer. &#8220;Yes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}