Guidance to the spiritual life. On the path to immortality. Vyacheslav I. Yatsenko

health of his body, for the health of his soul and his heart. However, the reason-devil can also bring some benefit to the ascetic. Through his actions, he points to the ascetic his shortcomings, errors, weaknesses, passionate affections, which must be overcome on the path of spiritual development.

      7. Reason-devil forms a sense of superiority and pride

      The man who is guided by the reason-devil, we will call him “a man of the reason.” What is the life of a man of the reason?

      Constructing relations between people, the man of the reason always ignores the personality in the person, tends to build only impersonal relations according to the scheme “tyrant – slave”, “persecutor – victim”, and always shows pride and a sense of one’s superiority over the interlocutor. But pride must be feared because of it grace is lost.