The time will come about the prophecies of the holy Cosmas of Aetolia. Hieromartyr Cosmas of Aetolia - Prophet of Freedom in Christ
The world learned about the prophecies of Saint Equal-to-the-Apostles Cosmas of Aetolia thanks to unprecedented popular veneration. Living in the 18th century (we recently celebrated 235 years since his death and 300 years since his birth), Cosmas of Aetolia was glorified by the Church not so long ago - in the middle of the 20th century. But the people never doubted that he was a saint. That is why he carefully preserved everything that related to the memory of the saint, painted his icons and remembered his every word, passing from generation to generation.
Many items associated with Saint Cosmas of Aetolia have been preserved: part of the vestment, and metal and wooden crosses that he left at the places of his sermons.
The colossal problem of those times was Islamization: living among Muslims, many Orthodox voluntarily converted to Islam. It was about the fate of Orthodoxy in the region. Saint Cosmas traveled through most of the canonical territory of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, preaching the Gospel to people who once knew the word of God, but lost their faith in many ways and moved away from the Church.
Modern historiography calls St. Cosmas of Aetolia the man who stopped the mass Islamization of Orthodox peoples. He is rightly called equal to the apostles, but not only for this reason.
It is known that Saint Cosmas performed many miracles. One of the most amazing is when he, throwing part of his vestment on the surface of the lake, moved to the other side. We also know many posthumous miracles: those who resorted to his prayerful intercession know that St. Cosmas of Aetolia is a quick helper.
Like the apostles, he was worthy of receiving the crown of martyrdom. And like them, he had the gift of prophecy.
About 200 prophecies of St. Cosmas are known - and all of them have either been fulfilled, or are awaiting fulfillment.
We know about 200 prophecies of St. Cosmas - and all of them have either been fulfilled or are awaiting fulfillment2.
I must say that his outstanding prophetic gift was appreciated not only by Christians, but also by Muslims. This is evidenced by the so-called Albanian manuscript - a collection of 72 prophecies recorded in the Koran in the Albanian language.
Reliability of the prophecies
The reliability of the prophecies has been established. As historians, we, first of all, rely on written sources, and of the early period - the end of the 18th - the beginning of the 19th century.
The oral tradition cannot be denied - a lot of things in Orthodoxy are transmitted orally - but in this case the selection takes place, relying precisely on written documents.
Many prophecies were written down either by contemporaries or shortly after the martyrdom of Saint Cosmas, so that we can assert that they were uttered by Saint Cosmas and carefully preserved by his disciples.
Practical benefits
The prophecies were and remain a guide to action - either for all people, or for the inhabitants of a particular locality where he preached.
We know of more than ten region-specific prophecies in which people were told what to do in a given situation.
“When a tree falls, go to the mountains, many people will be saved there, do not take anything with you, save yourself, the trouble will last no more than 24 hours.”
Indeed, the people of the place where this was said took refuge in the mountains and saved their lives from the Turks, according to the word of Saint Cosmas.
Another prophecy came true during World War II.
"Trouble will reach the cross, but will not go lower."
We are talking about the cross left by Saint Cosmas at the place of his sermon (by the way, many places in Greece are called "Stavros" - "Cross", because the saint preached at this place).
One 94-year-old old man remembered this prophecy, which he heard from his parents, and when the Italian troops advanced, he refused to evacuate, urging his fellow villagers to do the same. By this, he aroused the discontent of the authorities - he was even accused of sabotage. Fascist Italy was advancing, the Greek army was defeated, but, according to the saint, indeed, the Greeks fought back and did not allow the Italians to go down "below the cross" and capture this village. People were not ashamed in their trust in the word of the saint.
Classification
A variety of classifications of prophecies is possible, but now we would divide them into groups as follows.
1) Prophecies about the liberation from the Ottoman yoke of the territory of the Patriarchate of Constantinople at the time when Saint Cosmas preached - then it included not only Greece, but also the lands of Albania and Turkey, where Orthodox peoples lived.
These also include prophecies about the liberation of Constantinople.
B O Most of these prophecies - about the liberation of Greece - were fulfilled. Those concerning Constantinople are still awaiting their fulfillment.
2) Prophecies about future events - wars, disasters - and about what will happen to all mankind.
Many of the prophecies, which, as we now understand, referred to the distant future, survived only because people loved the saint very much and completely trusted him.
"A wagon without horses will run faster than a hare."
It is clear that in the XVIII century it sounded unclear and even absurd. Just like the prophecy that it will be possible to speak with a person in another city as if he were sitting in the next room:
“The time will come when people will talk from one distant place to another, for example, from Constantinople to Russia” or “The time will come when people will be able to communicate with each other over long distances, as if they were in two adjacent rooms.”
Constantinople prophecies
When the prophecy is fulfilled, it becomes clear exactly what the saint had in mind, and while it waits in the wings, different interpretations are possible3.
The leading expert on Turkey, professor at the University of Ottawa Dmitry Kitsikis, commenting on recent events, says that the prophecies of Cosmas of Aetolia about the collapse of Turkey are being fulfilled before our eyes.
“The Turks will leave, but they will return again and reach Eksamil . Of these, one third will perish, one third will believe in Christ, and one third will go to Kokkini Milia.”
A third of Turkey's population (25 million) are Alawites, says the professor, who have a positive attitude towards Christianity. Do not forget about the large percentage of secret Christians. As for a third of the population, about which it is said that she will go to Kokkini Milya, then, according to the professor, we are talking about the creation of the state of Kurdistan.
This intersects with the interpretation of Paisius the Holy Mountaineer, who loved Saint Cosmas very much. Saint Paisius interpreted this prophecy in more detail. He said that Six Mile is six miles of the sea shelf, where the interests of Turkey and Greece constantly clash. Because of these six miles, such a serious conflict will eventually occur, in which the major world powers will intervene, which will eventually lead to the fall of Turkey.
Prophecies for our time
"The time will come when you won't learn anything."
It cannot be argued that these words refer specifically to our time, but it is now quite obvious that in Western Europe and the United States - and not only - the media manipulate public opinion. In Western Europe, very little is known about what is really going on in Ukraine or Syria, just as no one knew what was really going on in Yugoslavia. Of course, if you wish, you can find information on the Internet and get to the bottom of the truth, but it is almost impossible to find out from the Western media.
“Things will appear in schools that your mind will not contain.”
Indeed, we are seeing things start to appear in schools in the West that the mind refuses to contain, such as lessons in “tolerance” towards homosexuals and entire curricula devoted to this.
"Trouble will come to you from the educated";
"What you have to endure will happen to you because of well-read people."
“What you have to endure will happen to you because of well-read people”
“Well-read” is the key word here. With all your will, Saint Cosmas cannot be accused of being against education: he founded about 1,000 schools, found funds to finance them, trained teachers, opened four educational institutions for the training of teachers and priests, and together with Nicodemus the Holy Mountaineer and his other associates published educational literature. And while saying these words. What are they talking about?
The fact that bare knowledge - "readiness", erudition - is not enough: relying only on one's own mind, on one's "I", on one's egoism leads a person to a dead end.
Indeed, one has to endure a lot because of these well-read people.
At the origins of modern post-Christian European civilization lay the European Enlightenment with its rationalism and critical attitude towards religion. If you read modern liberals, they think and act in the same way as their predecessors - Voltaire, Rousseau and others.
Saint Cosmas was an opponent of the European Enlightenment.
He said that divine enlightenment was needed. In addition to erudition, spiritual knowledge is necessary, which is achieved through the experience of church life. No matter how well-read and erudite a person is, he can be compared to a house that has only a foundation. If there are no walls, no roof, then this is a rather meaningless construction. The same can be said about people who try to do everything on their own, without God. This always leads to a dead end - and often not only these people themselves, but also entire peoples and countries.
"The springs will dry up and the rivers will become dirty."
In many regions today there is a shortage of drinking water, and unprecedented pollution - there is nothing to comment on.
“Your plates will be filled to the brim, but the food will not be eaten.”
Very accurate and amazing prophecy. In the 18th century, it was completely incomprehensible how it is: the plates are filled with food, but it is impossible to eat it. Now we see it: genetically modified foods or foods stuffed with preservatives, "tasting" of what they simply do not have. Sufficiently wealthy people can still find some more or less natural products, but perhaps every year it will be more and more difficult to do this.
"We will see our land turn into Sodom and Gomorrah."
Various forms of legalization of same-sex cohabitation, in some regions - permission to adopt children by gay couples, propaganda of all this around the world ... - there is a process of turning our land into Sodom and Gomorrah, and we all see it.
"The time will come, and the devil will circle over the world on his" contraption "".
Global surveillance, control over people - this is how this prophecy is usually deciphered. We can identify this "thing" with a system of satellites that conduct total surveillance visually or by providing services to users to maintain various types of communications.
"The time will come when the world will be ruled by αλαλα and μπαλαλα."
Αλαλα and μπαλαλα are a play on words. It can be translated as something soulless. Most interpreters link the prophecy with the modern information society, when computer technology underlies technological processes and mechanisms.
"The time will come when the whole world will be girded with one thread."
Previously, it was understood as a telegraph, but today, of course, they talk about the Internet: a thread, a web.
"After the World War, people will eat with golden spoons."
Earlier - 40-50 years ago - there were discrepancies regarding this prophecy, but today all interpreters agree that they mean the period after the Second World War, when prosperity came in Western Europe and the USA and when the cult of consumption was born.
"You will see how some will move up and others down."
This is a prophecy about mass migration. For the Greeks, “up and down” is always south and north. Another prophecy states this directly:
“When you see how some move to the south, and others to the north, it will be close.”
“It will be close” can be understood in two ways. Saint Cosmas uses these words when he speaks of the liberation of the Fatherland from the foreign yoke. But we also find this expression in him - "it will be near" - when he speaks of the times of the Antichrist.
We do not know what times this is said about, because the context is unknown: where the prophecy was uttered, under what circumstances.
Large-scale migrations of peoples have happened, of course, before, but the main thing here is “up and down” - south and north: the multidirectionality of the process and its intensity - that's what you should pay attention to. And now we are really seeing a multidirectional process. When migrants from Eastern Europe poured into the same European Union, it was migration from the north. Now we see migration from the south, and the desire of some neighbors to move to Europe (including the South) - for example, to work.
"Woe to Greece when foreign peoples settle in her land."
This is definitely our time. Saint Cosmas never opposed the Greeks to other Orthodox peoples, so here we are talking about non-believers. Greece has always been a rather monolithic state in the ethnic sense, but this is changing right before our eyes: every day thousands of Muslim migrants arrive in the country.
In one of the prophecies, Saint Cosmas is not quite politically correct:
“The filthy nations will come; when they appear, do not be afraid; when they leave, step aside." We will not comment on the first part, but the second part inspires some optimism in those who have suffered from these processes: it means that they will leave sooner or later.
“They will lend you a lot of money and demand it back, but they won’t be able to take it.”
Indeed, Greece was given a lot of loans, they demanded them back, but they will not be able to take them - this can be interpreted in the sense that Greece's debt is only growing, despite all the measures taken. This interpretation is common in modern historiography.
“Even chickens and windows will be taxed.”
“Even chickens and windows will be taxed”
It used to be taken figuratively.
Now - literally. With the onset of the crisis in 2009, in order to avoid tax evasion, the Greek government began to send tax claims on electricity bills. In cases where people could not pay, their electricity was turned off. At the end of 2012, chicken coops were also included in the list of taxable property (taking into account the number of chickens) - the first part of the prophecy literally came true.
In October 2013, the second one came true. The new edition of the real estate tax (which has been increased several times) also includes such a parameter as the number of windows in the house (the more there are, the higher the tax).
"The time will come when the wet will burn with the dry."
The innocent will be forced to share sorrows and troubles with the guilty. When punishments are sent down from God and humanity, with its thoughtless behavior, brings disasters on itself, innocent people will also suffer them.
Saint Cosmas said that there is no need to be afraid of this. Many fear the end times, focusing on the negative aspects.
Saint Cosmas warns of difficult events: there will be wars and troubles - he did not hide this. But at the same time, he spoke about the fact that with Christ, with the Church, nothing is scary. Even if one has to endure martyrdom, an Orthodox person should not lose heart and be afraid of this.
We see this in his prophecies, and even more so in his teachings: nothing can separate a person from Christ, except the person himself.
“The time will come when the enemies will take even the ashes from the hearth from you. But you do not change your faith, as many others will do ”;
“What will you have, give everything, take care only of your souls.”
This is a very important call. All material goods, conveniences, stability are illusory, there is no place for the earthly in the future - "take care only of the soul and Christ."
HOLY COSMA OF ETALIS
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1. “You will see how people will fly across the sky like kites and send fire to the world. Those who will live then will run to the cemetery and will shout: come out, dead ones, so that we take your place.”
2. "Birds with metal noses and wings will fly across the sky."
3. "You will be eaten by birds with iron beaks."
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4. "You will see how a wagon without horses will race faster than a hare."
5. "The time will come, and carts without horses will drive around the steppe."
6. "Iron horses will appear, moving extremely fast."
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7. "The time will come when the whole world will be girded (tied) with one thread."
8. "The time will come when people will talk from one remote area to another, for example, from Constantinople to Russia."
9. "The time will come when people will be able to communicate with each other over long distances, as if they were in two adjacent rooms."
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10. “The time will come, and the devil will circle over the world on his“ contraption ”.
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11. "The springs will dry up and the rivers will become dirty."
12. "Your plates will be filled to the brim, but the food will not be eaten."
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13. "The time will come and you will not learn anything."
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14. "We will see how our land will turn into Sodom and Gomorrah."
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15. "Priests will become more wicked than all."
16. "Priests will become like the common laity, and the laity will become like wild beasts."
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The elder saw many years ago what state mankind would come to.
He was worried, but by no means sowed panic among people, but said:
“Out of the evil that reigns today, great good will come.”
Neither was he a revolutionary who sowed the seeds of rebellion and disobedience in the Church.
He urged us to treat priests as follows:
“Laity, honor your priests!
If suddenly you have to meet a priest and a king,
put the priest above the king.
And if the priest and the Angel, first greet your father,
for the priest is superior to the angels in his office.
the site begins a series of publications of the prophecies of Athos saints and elders. The first article is devoted to the predictions of the Holy Mountain ascetic Cosmas of Aetolia (1714-1779). This saint, glorified by the Church in the Equal-to-the-Apostles rank, was not only an outstanding Orthodox educator, he is rightfully considered a great prophet of modern times. Saint Cosmas of Aetolia left unique, amazingly accurate prophecies about the future development of mankind.
These are not inventions in the spirit of the false prophecies of the notorious Nostradamus, with the aim of leading a person away from the Lord Jesus Christ, but genuine testimonies of the Holy Spirit, designed to help us not fall into the devil's nets and keep the Orthodox faith pure.
The saint saw with his prophetic gaze what global problems modern society would face. Many of them are only in their infancy now, and are likely to become even larger in time. Perhaps, speaking of intolerable taxes, the impossibility of obtaining truthful information and the collapse of the educational system, the Saint had in mind some future events. Nevertheless, already today, in our daily life, we can quite trace the trends that St. Cosmas repeatedly mentioned.
Some of the prophecies of St. Cosmas are directly related to. At least this is what many church and public figures, economists and political scientists say. The words of the prophecies are actively discussed in the Greek press, on television and on the Internet.
The credit system became a mass phenomenon in the US and Europe after World War II. By the mid-1960s, half of American families bought cars and appliances on credit, by 1973 - about two-thirds of all goods were sold on credit, this lifestyle meant the habit of enjoying things even before they were redeemed, and rooted the psychology of mass consumption . Loans were taken for everything: cars, housing, furniture, household appliances, clothes, vouchers and food.
Lending in the form of government loans has also become widespread. Similar assistance was provided by the United States to the states of Europe after the Second World War, the European Union helped the countries that are its members.
Exactly what St. Cosmas says in his prophecy happened to Greece: "she was lent a lot of money." Greece came to an economic collapse as a result of strict implementation of the recommendations of the European Union. For many years, she was actually imposed more and more loans. Even in 2009, when Greece's insolvency was no longer a secret, EU officials imposed another huge package of euro loans on it.
The consequence of this was that Greece fell into a financial hole and a trap, and is currently forced to work only to service this debt, having lost a significant part of its sovereignty. In fact, we are witnessing the fulfillment of the second part of the prophecy of Cosmas of Aetolia: the Europeans "demanded the money back."
The final part of the prophecy of St. Cosmas says that the financial resources imposed on the Greeks will not be returned back to the creditors who allocated them.
2. “You will be taxed heavily, unbearably, but you will not be able to get your way.”
By signing a "memorandum" with a trio of international creditors, the Greek government committed itself to implementing austerity measures. As a result, what St. Cosmas prophesied about came true: the debt burden of politics was shifted to ordinary citizens, who were “imposed with a heavy, unbearable tax.” However, such measures did not bring the desired effect and the creditors could not "get their way": the Greek debt not only did not decrease, but also increased significantly.
3. "Even chickens and windows will be taxed."
On the one hand, this prophecy can be understood figuratively - almost everything is now taxed, on the other hand, literally: when assessing country houses by the tax office in some countries, the number of windows on houses and the number of pets are taken into account.
The same thing happens in Greece. With the help of the E9 tax stamp, in an exceptionally short time, people were "asked" to describe in detail everything they own, without giving time to understand what was happening.
In Greece, numbers E9 and E3 indicate a set of legislative acts, according to which citizens of the country are required to submit to the tax authorities an inventory of real estate that is in their personal use, which, of course, is taxed.
Since the start of the crisis, the government sends payment notices on electricity bills to avoid tax evasion. In cases where people cannot pay huge tax fees, they turn off the electricity.
4. "People will become poor because they will not have love for trees and plants".
One of the reasons for the current plight of many Greek families is the refusal to obtain food by their own labor and maintain their own household.
Having entered a united Europe, the Greeks abandoned the country's self-sufficiency and began to fit into the pan-European division of labor. Following the directives of the European Union has led to a reduction in fishing, viticulture and many other forms of agriculture.
Many farmers in the 90s, in exchange for financial support from Europe, cut down vineyards, put herds of sheep under the knife and abandoned their fields.
5. "The time will come when you won't know anything."
Modern mass media try to form public opinion: they present only facts that are beneficial to them, dispense information, sometimes use unverified and even deliberately fictitious data. As an example of lack of freedom and lack of publicity, we are usually given, first of all, totalitarian countries. However, even in the so-called progressive, democratic states, the situation is no better: do modern Europeans really know much about the crisis in Greece or the situation in Syria?
6. “Things will appear in schools that your mind will not contain.”
Many schools in our time have actually become centers of anti-Christian propaganda. When drawing up the school curriculum, the Orthodox tradition is not taken into account, and any attempts to change this situation are met with fierce resistance.
In this regard, the words of the great saint Athanasius of Paros are recalled: “If parents do not watch where their children are sent and what children learn, then the time will come when our people will weep bitterly in the ruins.”
7. "We will see how our land will turn into Sodom and Gomorrah."
Unfortunately, the saint's prophecy is coming true in our day. The perversions for which the Lord once wiped out two ancient cities from the earth have become widespread. Every day they become more and more commonplace and are already perceived by many not as shameful perversions, but as a variant of the norm. Many countries have already legalized same-sex marriage. The European Union will soon require all its members to formally recognize their legitimacy.
8. "After the World War, people will eat with golden spoons."
Here Cosmas of Aetolia was probably referring to the relative prosperity that came to Western Europe and the United States after World War II. In a consumer society, people work not to support their lives, but to acquire the ability to consume. Now the idea of a purchase rather than the act of purchase serves as a motivation for employees. In modern society, consumption is on a symbolic level: "To be a consumer ... means to be included in a specific set of cultural symbols and values" .
This is what Saint Cosmas had in mind when he spoke of "golden spoons". On the one hand, they are a symbol of well-being, which has become available to the general population, on the other hand, consumption, elevated to an ideal and cult by modern society.
“People of our era did not survive either war or famine. “And in God,” they say, “we don’t need either.” They have everything and therefore value nothing.”
The modern crisis is primarily of a spiritual nature: the deification of the flesh and one's "I" inevitably leads to a lack of meaning in life and ideals.
9. "The time will come when people will close themselves in big boxes, and their fathers will die in small ones."
Obviously, we are talking about the mass migration of villagers (mainly young people) to cities, where they will live in "big boxes" - multi-apartment skyscrapers. Parents of migrants, abandoned by their children who left in search of a better life, will live out their lives in villages in small houses - "small boxes".
10. "You will see how some will move up and others down."
11. “When you see how some move to the south, and others to the north, it will be close.”
In his prophecies, St. Cosmas predicted processes that have received especially rapid development in our time: mass migration and emigration. Thus, millions of emigrants from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe poured into the European Union. A similar situation is observed in Russia, where hundreds of thousands of so-called guest workers, citizens of the states of the former USSR, move every year in search of work. In parallel, mass internal migration is also observed in our country.
All these circumstances fit into the general outline of globalization processes. In a situation where national customs and religions are gradually being lost, talk about a single world religion and culture will sound stronger and more weighty. Undoubtedly, all these globalization processes bring the coming of the Antichrist closer to one degree or another. Saint Cosmas speaks about this in his prophecy.
12. "The time will come - and where the guys now hang their guns, the gypsies will hang their musical instruments."
“We have lived to see the time that St. Cosmas of Aetolia spoke of... Where the monks used to labor, where their rosary used to hang, now radios are singing and soft drinks are hissing!.. Yes, apparently, a few more years will pass and that this is no longer needed. In general, from what is happening, the conclusion follows: life is approaching the end. The end of life and the end of this world is coming."
13. “Your plates will be filled to the brim, but the food will not be eaten.”
The contemporaries of Cosmas of Aetolia, of course, did not understand how one could remain hungry with an abundance of food, because in those days there was still no concept of food contamination.
Now the situation has changed, and we are beginning to penetrate the meaning of this prophecy: nitrates, food additives, preservatives, radiation, chemicals, hormones, genetically modified foods - all these phenomena, we, unfortunately, encounter in everyday life.
“Fruits, tomatoes, other fruits are grown on hormones! The fruits - then ripen in one night, but those unfortunate people who have an increased sensitivity to hormonal drugs, it turns out, do not give a damn? Let them get sick, right?.. Animals have also been spoiled. At least take chickens, at least calves. Forty-day-old chickens are pumped up with hormones to the weight of six months old. A person eats their meat, but what benefit will he get from it? In order for cows to give more milk, they are also stuffed with hormones ... And if they had left it as it was determined by God, then everything would go on as usual and people would drink pure milk! And besides, from these injections everything becomes tasteless. Tasteless foods, tasteless people - everything has become tasteless. Even life itself has lost its taste for people. You ask young guys: “What do you like?” - "Nothing", - they answer. And they are big guys! “Well, tell me at least what do you like to do?” - "Nothing". That's what a man comes to! By the works of his hands, he thinks to "correct the mistakes" of God. In order for the chickens to lay eggs, the night is turned into day. Have you seen the eggs laid by such hens? After all, if God made the moon shine like the sun, then people would go crazy. God created the night for people to rest, but what have they come to now!”
Unfortunately, there are more and more such examples every day. We have become hostages of environmental pollution and human intervention in natural processes. As you can see, such a development of events was predicted by Saint Cosmas back in the 18th century.
14. “The time will come when there will no longer be the former agreement between priests and laity”
15. "Priests will become the same as ordinary laity, and the laity will become like wild beasts."
Saint Cosmas tried with all his might to prevent such a development of events, because he saw his task in making the Church the center of concentration and training of forces interested in the spiritual revival of the Motherland: “The Holy Church is our mother. She is the fountain that quenches the thirsty. And the priests must serve every day so that the Lord blesses the people and saves the country.” “Just as a shepherd looks after his sheep, so the priest must visit the homes of Christians day and night, not eat and drink, taking their things, but, on the contrary, if a husband quarreled with his wife, father with son, brother with brother, neighbor with neighbor, strive to establish love between them.
16. "What will you have - give everything, take care only of your souls."
17. “The time will come when the enemies will take even the ashes from the hearth from you. But don't change your faith, as many others will."
The saint warns us: in order to save our lives, we must sacrifice all material goods and comforts, but we must not betray our faith. These words echo the words of his teachings: “Let our body burn, let it be roasted; let them take all earthly things from us (they have no place in the future, give them away, they are not yours). Take care and take care only of the Soul and Christ - only this is necessary for you, no one can take them away from you against your will. Keep them and don't lose them."
July 20th, 2018 03:10 pm
THE TIME WILL COME…
Prophecies of St. Cosmas of Aetolia 250 years ago.
When a cart without horses will race faster than a hare.
When people will talk from one distant area to another, for example, from Constantinople to Russia.
When people can communicate with each other over long distances, as if they are in two adjacent rooms.
When you don't know anything.
When your plates are filled to the brim, but the food cannot be eaten.
When we see our land turn into Sodom and Gomorrah.
When the devil will circle over the world on his "thing".
When the whole world will be girded with one thread.
When you see how some move to the south, and others to the north.
When the filthy nations come; when they appear, do not be afraid; when they leave, step aside.
When even chickens and windows are taxed.
When wet will burn with dry.
When the enemies will take even the ashes from the hearth from you. But you do not change your faith, as many others will.
When thieves and robbers will no longer hunt in the mountains. They will live in cities, dress like ordinary people, and come in broad daylight to rob you.
When demons enter the dwellings under the guise of small boxes, and their horns stick out on the roofs.
When you see iron birds, which either fly peacefully through the sky, or spew fire.
When you see several villages that are located in one house.
When you hear the devil climb into the box and scream from there about the abundance of inedible food.
When such things appear in schools that your mind cannot contain.
In the 18th century, it was said that the time would come when the robbers would stop hiding in the mountains, and would live and steal in the cities. This was said by St. Cosmas, whose words are worthy of being cast in gold and placed in a conspicuous place on everything.
He spoke words incomprehensible to his contemporaries. But we - late births - habitually live in the atmosphere of the fulfilled prophecies of Cosmas. He said that they would run on the roads faster than a hare, a cart without a horse. And then listeners smiled and winked. Like, "Here it floods!" And we habitually sit behind the wheel of a car or in its interior, and overtake hares.
Cosmas said: "The world will be entangled in a thin thread, and if you sneeze in Constantinople, then in Moscow it will be heard." I don’t know what the direct listeners thought, but our sneezes are really heard all over the world, thanks to the telephone, computer, and so on.
Cosmas talked about iron birds, either flying peacefully across the sky, or even spewing fire, about several villages that fit in one house, about the devil who climbed into a box and screamed from there. And today we really live in high-rise buildings that contain several villages at once; silvery iron birds habitually fly above us. Only the TV from the "box" managed to turn into a flat plasma, but the devil still often screams from it.
I mean that the words of Equal-to-the-Apostles Cosmas, strange for the 18th century, have become an everyday fact in the 20th and 21st centuries. And that means you can trust the saint. His words are correct. They are true, including in relation to the robbers, who once wore skins and lived in the mountains (in our country - in the forests), and now they are dressed in expensive suits and live in cities.
Theft has a very specific psychology. I do not think that I will say everything to the bottom and everything is correct, but I think the following. The thief invents for himself the right to steal, some justification theory. "I can steal from the state because it steals from me and everyone else." Or "I am a member of a superior race, and I can take whatever I like from members of an inferior race" Here are examples of two justification theses for the existence of theft under socialism and under colonialism, respectively. And there are such exculpatory theses for any model of theft: from putting your hand into someone else's pocket in the crowd to criminal privatization.
The thief does not want to work and despises the creative, painstaking daily work. Either he is like a thief "zapadlo", or he is aristocratically weaned from elementary diligence, or something else. But in his opinion, others should work, and he has the invented right by him to select or secretly appropriate the fruits of someone else's labor. Moreover, in sizes far exceeding the needs of an individual.
If the appropriated fruits of other people's labors reach enormous proportions, the thief needs to be legalized. Don Corleone always wants one of his sons to become a senator or governor of one of the states. At certain stages and in certain volumes, wealth gives birth to power. Wealth becomes power itself or is closely associated with existing power. Petty thieves will continue to be caught, but the genius of theft will become a senator, or a parliamentarian, or something like that.
Obviously, education or its formal presence will not interfere with this, he will need high-status housing and the attributes of a new way of life. He really seems to come out of the forest, and change his skin to a suit, and begin to live in a mansion, and not in a cave among the looted treasures.
With a perspicacious eye, Saint Cosmas saw from the 18th century this metamorphosis of criminality that took place in later centuries. Another of his prophecies is about this: "Trouble will come to you from the educated." In the broad sense of the word, it was the "educated" who taught many people to believe that there is no God, and that man is the son of a monkey. They made it so that (according to Cosmas) "your plates will be full, but you will not be able to eat food", and - "the rivers will become dirty." But in the narrow sense, in the sense of stealing, they - the educated - will also succeed. Here we will hear the voice of a different choir, but singing about the same thing. Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, once said that an ordinary thief can steal a bag of coal, but a highly educated thief can steal a railroad. With coal compositions, of course.
The educated scoundrel is the scourge of our time. A thief in a wool suit and a shirt with gold cufflinks. A thief on the podium, a thief in a judicial mantle or a chair of a big boss. A thief, climbing into business for the sake of appropriating someone else's, and into politics - for legal immunity. He is proud and sure that he "has the right." He is contemptuous of the rest of mankind and in other times would have gladly bought himself a nobility. Its virtues are the resourcefulness of the snake, indefatigability in craftiness, suspicion, pathological greed. He is insatiable as hell, and depraved as a character in degenerate Roman history. There is nothing holy for him, although from the screen of a box or plasma he is talkative in his discussions about the shrine.
A simple person has absolutely nowhere to go from this all-corroding rust. And if he is kind, this simple man, he closes his eyes and ears, saying, “Lord! Save! But if he is rotten, this simple man, then he is tormented by envy at the sight of the success of the wicked. He also wants to join the alchemy of paper theft, to manipulate numbers and laws. He wants fame, idleness and luxury. Wants impunity and permissiveness. And when trouble comes, this simple man, with the rot of envy inside, will be punished in the same way as the one whom he envied. According to the laws of spiritual kinship, they are the same.
And we need to see trouble. We need to accurately identify it and understand whether we can influence the situation. If we can’t, then it’s better to withdraw, as if leaving a house that is ready to collapse. In addition, suffering from educated thieves is not the only misfortune of modern humanity. Here, for example, what else St. Cosmas saw in the distance, and what we see in front of our noses.
There will be such things in schools that your mind will not contain.
We will see our land turn into Sodom and Gomorrah.
People will be poor because they will not have love for trees and plants.
Saint Cosmas, called the Aetolian, said and did many other things for the benefit of the poor sinner for consolation, those who seek reason - for admonition. And to the wicked - to cool the soul inflamed with passions. Perhaps he will shudder with fear or cry with tenderness. After all, while sinners repent, and the wicked tremble from pricks of conscience, life goes on.
