THE DOCTOR WHO CAME BACK FROM THE OTHER WORLD

the day before yesterday while reading some old book by

Kontoglou this great hagiographer primarily and author of Fotis

Kontoglou others call him Photos Kontoglou I found a very nice piece which

I wanted to share together it is called the great

bet is the great bet that exists between believers and to

the unbelievers, that is, in a few words, it also shows the war that one person makes against

each other, the unbeliever is usually a man against the believer, because the believer does not make war

on the unbeliever when he tells him that you are not walking well or that you should start

thinking more seriously about these matters and that you are seriously concerned with religious

matters and the truth of Christ, who is the only truth

of the world, there is no other truth than Christ, Christ is the only truth,

the others are about Christ, the conventional ones, so the big bet

is called I will try to read it a bit slowly and say a few

words about what it says in the bright Monday night

last midnight before I went to sleep I went out to the little orchard

we have behind our house and stood a while looking at the nearby sky with

the stars like when I saw him for the first time,

it seemed to me that sometimes man's consciousness opens up and he sees something as if

it is unprecedented when it is an ordinary thing, so at that

moment he saw the sky as if he was seeing it for the first time with the eyes of a child,

that is, how beautiful we saw then the colors, how beautiful the perfumes were, the

flowers, all of these had an unprecedented and virginal dimension, so they took

on the space of the child's soul, and when we are children,

we can retain and remember a few things from them, especially when

such a memory comes back a such a scent such a light such an ornament then

awakens these perks memories to me they seemed very deep

says the sky as if a distant chant was coming from above

it seemed to him that he was listening to me chants my mouth said softly they rise

lord our god and worshiper at his feet, a holy elder

had once told me that during these hours the heavens are opened by the air of

muskofoglu, one of the weeds that had

planted the sky and the earth full of the glory of the Lord, so indeed

he shows us, as we said, the Kontoglu's photo here is a virginal

scene so beautiful that no one, smelling the flowers of spring and looking

at the stars in the sky, feels a greatness inside him, you will

all have felt this, dear friends, looking at the sky in spring, a clear sky,

the sky is made of stars and you will you must have been moved I would

think I would stand there till daybreak as if

I had no body as if I had no connection with the earth but I thought maybe

someone in the house would wake up and be worried that I was gone so I went in and

lay down it hadn't clouded me well well sleep I don't know if I was awake or

asleep and I saw in front of me a man with a strange appearance he was

pale yellow as if dead his eyes were open and

he looked at me scared his face was like

a mask like a hide with his skin

shiny black

strange thing I didn't understand what it was and with

the other he was clutching his chest as if that creature was in pain it made me

shudder I was looking and looking at me without speaking as if I was waiting to

meet him and really all that was so

strange as if he told me a voice is so-and-so

as soon as I heard the voice I knew who he was then and he opened his mouth

and sighed but his voice seemed to come from far away as if

it came from far away as if it came from some deep

well I could see that he was in a great agony and I suffered with him

his hands his legs his eyes all obvious that he was being tortured

by my despair I went to him to help him but he motioned to me

with his hands to stop he began to scream in such a way that I froze afterwards He tells me

I didn't come, they sent me, I'm shaking all over, I'm in

a big daze, I begged God to have mercy on me, I want to die but I

can't, ah, what you said came out true, do you remember a few days before I died,

you came to my house and talked about religion, there were two others friends

unfaithful to me and those like me where you spoke they

were smiling as if you were gone they told me it's a shame that he has such a mind and believes

nonsense that the old women believe this we will have heard this too many times

dear friends what are the things you are telling us now this is what they say the old women

say the

atheists, the other day I told you the same as many other times, my friend, collect

money, you will die in the straw, you see how much I have and again I want more, then

you told me that you have made a contract with grace, that you will live as many years as you say what

do you want to spend your old age well I answered you then

you will see how old I will be now I am 75 I will pass 100

this is another delusion of the devil so that he gives people long life at the moment when

every second the human heart can stop and let the

end of life come like this, nothing guarantees us

an electric minimum electric current very minimal electric current pushes the

heart to move some fibers there pulsate little by little little by little so they transfer

this movement and a fibrillation occurs which is called there of the

myocardium and it pulsates the myocardium from this minimal current caused in

the body by biochemical reactions so let's stop for a

second and you know how sensitive the cardiograph instrument is to

record the pulses this is how it is we are talking about a minimal

current of the pa so you have a contract with the grace and he said I will pass 100

I have provided for my children my son makes a lot of money my daughter

married her to a rich man from Abyssinia me and my wife have

and provide not like you when I listen to

what the Christian priests say her end of our lives, what is the irony that

many secularists and atheists throw at those who,

when we hear about the end of life as a Christian, we only make our cross in church

because we really want the last years of our lives and our last moment

to be Christian that is, that is where we rely on being

ready to leave this world as Christians, so this

is a big chapter for us, what when we hear in church we are shocked,

we make our cross and we really say that

the ends of our lives should be Christian, that is, Christian he finds it funny and deserving of

ridicule but now let's see what happened what will you take out we told you the christian

fees than to have your pocket and not be members me to give alms and

why did your very merciless god make poor another misunderstanding that you have

to state to give alms to the poor and not us the

people, but the fact that there are poor people is for the benefit of our soul, in

essence the poor benefit us and not us so much we

benefit them little and materially and they benefit us maximally and

spiritually the poor people, rather than having your pocket, this

is everyone's ideal, the surplus that will be in our pocket now that they will

make cards and we will only have in our pocket, we will see what will happen,

so let's not take cards, dear friends, which they will stop

the money economy we have through coins and paper bills

and I will make another economy computer accounting only

with cards so you will depend on one card for everything now you have a little high in

your pants you go and get what you want when you have it card you will

have a hard time just like we had a hard time and we who don't get phone cards

have to find a phone a booth that has a phone or

beg somewhere else to make this phone because we don't want and

we refused to get phone cards

of course what I'm saying now don't take it literally

these cards are a service but it is also at the discretion of each person to take them or not to

take them we do not blame those who did not get cards because we do not have such

a right but it is good to avoid as much as we can and this is an act

of defense and an act of heroism which god will appreciate what else will

god appreciate nothing else we do at least make a resistance to

these modern media as much as we can as we see that

tomorrow they will oppress man and handcuff him don't forget that the father

paisios said that after the cards they will remove the seal on the hand and the

forehead so the protection of the hand and forehead seal

is the card so we should not take everything possible that slips through

the traps of the

card

where the doctor says to him that why should I give to the poor

to the poor who are lazy and why did he bring them into the world

the poor god blames you and god for the poor to feed them they put

you and you feed the lazy to go in heaven you listen there

heaven I know that I am the father's son and I know all the tricks well now

he slanders everyone and everything he

but believe these little minds no but you who

have such an education should go lost as you go you will

die before from me you will take your neck and your family heavy

expressions too much and it is the people who are the

robbers and they say these things but I tell you and I sign to you as a doctor that I am

that I will live 110 years saying these things spin away from here and

from there it was as if he was being roasted on some kind of grill, taking something out of

his mouth, uh uh uh, he was quiet for a while and said again what

I was saying, but in a few days I died, I died and I lost the

bet, what a commotion, what a horror, I pulled out in a daze, he swallowed and a

I climbed up and shouted mercy mercy but no one

heard me a stream kicking me some dead mouse what did I pull now and what am

I pulling what agony is this everything you said came out true you won the

bet me then when I was in the world you live in I was the smart one you see

I was a doctor and I had learned to speak and be heard mocking

religion discussing tangible things but now I see that

what I called fairy tales and portfolios are tangible are the anxiety I am in ah this one

here will be the scollis and this one will be the the gnashing of

teeth on them disappeared from my eyes and I could only hear his moans which

slowly faded away, I fell asleep for a while, but in

a moment I realized that I was being pushed by a cold hand, I opened my eyes and

I see him in front of me again this time he was even more horrible and smaller,

but he had become like a byzantine child, like a big old head

that shook it here and there, he opened his mouth and told me that in

a little while it will dawn and they will come to get me take those who sent me

I tell him who sent you he said something confused words

without understanding anything then he tells me where I am there are many others

of those who tease you for your faith and now they understood that

wits do not go beyond the cemetery are and some others that

you did good to them and they slander you because the wicked man instead of being

made happy by kindness he becomes embittered

a very wickedness of the devil the symptom is this

when we do to someone one does someone

kindness the one who receives is not happy the kindness is bitter because

it makes him feel defeated he says that they are in a worse

condition than me and cannot get out of their dark prison to

come to you as I did I am tortured very hard because I am bound

by the scourge of love as said a saint, the scourge of God's love

chastises and tortures those who did not

accept it, you who have Christ in your heart and for whom the word is the

truth, the only truth, you have won the great

bet you have won the great bet that enters between

believers and unbelievers this bet that I the pitiful one lost and

perished and I tremble and sigh and find no peace

alas in hell there is no more repentance alas for those who walk

as we walked while we are on

earth our flesh had us he got drunk and then with those who believed in god

and the next life and many people

applauded us this is what we said before dear friends

that the world applauds evil you usually see in theaters they applaud

when an actor is engaged the more obscene the obscene voice is they say

actors and the more vulgar it is, the more storms of applause

it draws and pulls from the square, and seeing this, actors give him and

profanity more and it becomes a vicious circle, while if every profanity

they disapproved of was given a gift, then we would stop this profanity that happens

in theaters and in other places but now they say all the vulgar

things that exist and that don't exist they blurt it out there because the world

applauds it as they said about Nero

that when Nero wanted to marry a second third time who

knows if the woman did not present this time to balcony that went out to where

the people had gathered in rome to see him see the bride let's say but

he introduced a teenager a young boy nero and the people instead of being

somehow saddened to see this thing wished him

applauded and I applaud Nero for this act of his

, that is, what do we see here that evil is crowned

while good is condemned,

so the flesh had drunk us and embe with those who

believed in god and the future life and the whole world

applauded us as if we were calling you fools we did

you accept this thing with kindness our experiments so great ours

wickedness I see even now how we are grieved by the bringing of evil

people but how we receive with patience how you receive with patience

their medicinal shuttles that they put out of their mouths telling them hypocrites, calling

you hypocrites, god-worshippers, blasphemers, fascists

, obscurantists, and everything else that has been added since

Kotoglu wrote them, now more have been added to the list of

atheists against Christians, if the unfortunate were in the position

I am now and saw from where I see, you would be horrified

they do of course I want it to appear to him to

appear to them and tell them to change their ways but I don't have permission just as

that rich man who begged the patriarch Abraham to

send poor Lazarus didn't send him

either we become equally worthy of

condemnation those who sin

and worthy of salvation those who are the ancestors

of

God foti

kontoglou spiritual flowers texts about immortal values ​​of

orthodox life it is worth the effort it is from papa dimitriou publications

10 lykourgou street athens the secret flowers of kontoglou

has a lot of nice pieces i read only one which is

impressive which somehow shows like many saints have seen

visions people who return from the place of suffering and those who

see the horrors that they see and so on are dear friends those

who do not believe will be surprised unfortunately and will not be able to

make up for this error so long as they are time we need this message

for those who scoff at religion and find it all a joke

to think very seriously very seriously