Therefore, the path to the revelation of the Kingdom of God in us, to the acquisition of the Holy Spirit, which the Church of the declared leads, can be schematically depicted as follows: first, we overcome laziness (but I don’t want to! but as soon as I want to, everything will work out) – we fulfill (more precisely, we try to fulfill God’s commandments, because they cannot be fulfilled without the Holy Spirit) all God’s commandments (and not our interpretations of God’s commandments) – we recognize our nothing-being, we humble ourselves, we no longer rely on ourselves, our forces – God comes (When the last thread of hope in ourselves breaks, then absolute trust is born, which is a guarantee of accepting faith, meeting with God in the Freedom of the Holy Spirit)! In the following parts, we will talk in detail about the path from pre-trust to the acquisition of the Holy Spirit, about the methods of declaration and how to declare pagans (and those who have already been baptized, but have not received the Holy Spirit), how to show the declared hell (not to tell about hell, but to help him see, experience it), etc.
Therefore, God gives the grace of the Holy Spirit only to the humble! And humility (knowledge of one’s nothing-being) is acquired only by zealous fulfillment of God’s commandments (and not our interpretations of God’s commandments – which affirm a person in egoism, throw her into an even deeper hell of selfhood). And God’s commandments (what God wants) are known only by the Church, the Body of Christ, the Eucharistic parish! Therefore, the declaration takes place only in the parish and under the guidance of the parishioners (Spirit-bearers).
The Church gives God’s commandments, correctly explains them (what exactly God wants) and shows that Christians live by these commandments. And the declared, trying to fulfill them, recognizes his powerlessness (hell). Knows that there are people who fulfill God’s commandments (not by themselves, but by the Holy Spirit, God), and he cannot move a finger – comes to the state of knowledge of his helplessness, humility, no hope on himself, and here the Lord gives the Holy Spirit (to those who ask from the depths of hell, from the depths of humility)! Therefore, the descent into hell occurs only in the Church (parish), because only through the mediation of God’s commandments (zealous fulfillment by the declared), which only the Church knows, and in order not to fall into despair from being in hell, the declared must be under the omophorion of the Church. Because if a person sees hell without God – he perishes! (Judas saw himself a sinner (in hell) without God, forgot about Him – therefore he severely harmed himself, ‘perished’; Peter saw hell, his sin, but with Christ – therefore he did not fall into despair, but survived, although he wept bitterly).
Let’s give an example-parable for a clearer understanding of the essence of what we are talking about. In order for the ‘Stream’ of God (God’s Grace; for us to be carriers of God’s energy (Grace)) to flow through us, we must become ‘zero’, not continue to be ‘phase’! We must zero ourselves (become ‘nothing’) and then the Heavenly Electrician will let through us the Divine Energy, ‘Stream’, produced at the Heavenly Power Station – in the depths of Divine Hypostatic Triune Love! As long as some energy (force) – that is, ‘ours’, flows through us, God-Love cannot give Grace (God – ‘Phase’, and creation – ‘Zero’), because Phase on phase will cause a short circuit (more precisely ‘long’, ‘eternal’, hellish short circuit) – hellish fire! Therefore, God gives gifts only to those who can receive (only to the graceless), Power – only to the powerless, Wisdom – only to the mindless, etc. Therefore, God gives gifts only to those who, by zealous fulfillment of God’s Commandments (and not their interpretations of God’s Commandments!) have recognized their nothing-being, giftlessness, those who have emptied themselves of ‘their own’: ‘It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me’, ‘I am powerless so that the power of God may dwell in me’, ‘when I am weak (this weakness is not laziness and relaxation, not lukewarmness, but the fruit of titanic struggle for the fulfillment of God’s Commandments against egoism; it is humility, which is the result of defeat (the egoist cannot not be defeated) in this duel not for life, but for death – V.A.) – then I am strong (with God’s power – V.A.)’. As long as there is even the slightest ‘voltage’ in us – God does not give the Spirit (Divine Hypostatic Energy of absolute Love in kenotic absolute Freedom). We must be in a state of absolute trust (absolute no hope in ourselves and ‘our’ forces; we must become superconductors (enter a state of superconductivity), that is, resistance (to God’s will, the Grace of the Holy Spirit) in us must be equal to zero!!!) and surrender without the slightest resistance (‘tension’, ‘resistance’) to God: ‘ourselves, one another and all our life (and everything in it) to Christ God let us give’! This is the state of God-receptive humility (how to enter it – details in the following parts. By the way, we started this series of catechetical talks (‘Parts’) for this very reason – how to acquire the Holy Spirit).