Salvation-Healing, Resurrection, the acquisition of the Resurrected Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, deification, and the attainment of catholicity—the ability to contain by the Grace of the Holy Spirit all that exists: the created and the Uncreated by grace—takes place in three stages: catechumenate (preparation for the Mystery of Salvation), Baptism-Chrismation (the Mystery of healing, the acquisition of the Body of Resurrection), and the Eucharist (assimilation of the New Body, learning to possess the New Body, the Body of the Resurrected Christ).
The first stage, preparation for the operation, is the period of catechumenate, obedience-slavery, when the patient (the catechumen—one who is preparing for Baptism) enters a state of being able to undergo the operation without harm—not “unto judgment and condemnation and death,” but for “the healing of soul and body, for the remission of sins and eternal life,” in a state of humility and contrition, when the temperature of the passions of egoism-pride is within acceptable limits (for example, when we stop sinning in deed…). This preparatory period is individual for everyone, meaning the duration of this period varies for each person and lasts until the patient is capable of undergoing the operation; this period is usually not short (and there is no rush because although the operation is necessary, it is not urgent—the Church never pushes anyone towards Baptism, but rather calls for thorough preparation for it!). The charitable action “Exchange your perishable flesh for the Body of Christ” is eternal (it has been ongoing for over 2000 years and will continue for ages!), it is impossible to miss, the service is eternal and always relevant for everyone, the main thing is the desire to be saved and the ability-readiness (to be obedient, to become a catechumen, that is, to embark on the path that consists of these three stages) to accept the Gift—the Body of Christ, the Holy Spirit, Eternal Life. The main thing is the correct preparation-catechumenate, because until the patient is ready, no one will perform the operation—the people will perform the rite of the operation, but the Holy Spirit will not baptize! The second stage is the operation-transplant itself—Baptism-Chrismation—the replacement of sinful flesh with the Body of Christ, death to egoistic life according to the flesh and resurrection to hypostatic, personal life in the Body of Christ, in the Holy Spirit! And after the operation-transplantation, the third stage begins—a long period of assimilation of the New Body, the Body of Resurrection, the Body of Christ in the Mystery of the Eucharist, in Eucharistic Spiritual Life; the essence of this period is teaching the created hypostasis to possess the Body of Christ, to Live Divinely, to Love Divinely, and it will last until the end of the infinite, until the created hypostasis resurrects, is deified, and becomes god by Grace!
Why, in a world of “baptized” “Christians,” are there millions, billions, but very, very few are healed, that is, Christians (of Christ, Bearers of the Spirit), just a few (“little flock”; “by their fruits you will know them!”)? For years, decades, “Christians” go to church, participate in the sacraments of the church, but they do not change (they are no different from pagans, and often even worse than them), they are not deified, they do not acquire (even a little) Divine traits, the fruits of the Holy Spirit (which the baptized should be filled with): love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith-trust, gentleness, self-control (see Galatians 5:22-25)!? But in reality, the opposite is true—they live according to the egoistic flesh and bear the fruits of the flesh: adultery, fornication, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, wrath, heresies, hatred, murder, drunkenness, blasphemy, complaining, judgment, and so on; those who do such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God, that is, they are not Christians, they are not in the Kingdom of God, in the Church, and until they repent, become catechumens (go through the Church’s instruction-preparation (catechumenate) for the Mystery both theoretically and practically), they will not be baptized by the Holy Spirit, will not become members-hypostases of the Body of Christ (see Galatians 5:19-21)! What is the matter? The Doctor is Perfect: Love-Truth—God Almighty and All-Wise, and All-Knowing; the Medicines are Eternal; the protocol and methodology of treatment-healing are impeccable (the fruits testify to this: the Most Holy Theotokos and all the saints, that is, Christians)! The problem lies with the patients—among the “Christians,” that is, among the pagans who mistakenly began to call themselves Christians! The patients are disobedient, do not follow the Doctor’s prescriptions—the sequence and methodology of treatment—and therefore do not heal! And first and foremost, what we cry out on the pages of our books is that today in churches there is no catechumenate, no one prepares anyone for the Mysteries, for the most complex and responsible operation-transplantation!!! Moreover, they have no idea (neither the priests nor the buyers of religious services) that this stage is necessary, more precisely—the most necessary (because this is what depends on the person—with God’s help; the Mystery is performed only by God!)! Therefore, no Baptism-Chrismation takes place—God-Love does not perform the operation-transplantation (the gift of the Holy Spirit) on those who are not ready!!! God is Love! Therefore, those sacrilegious, magical, pagan baptisms are merely imitations of the operation: “people baptize you, but the Holy Spirit will not baptize!” Therefore, God waits until the person is ready for the “operation” (the acceptance of the Holy Spirit with a humble and contrite heart). Woe to those who think they are Christians, but in reality, no one performed the operation on them (they were only taken to the operating room (the rite of the Mystery was performed), but the Doctor, seeing that the patient is not ready (the Doctor is Love-Truth—knows that the patient, not being ready, will not survive the operation and will die eternally, therefore does not operate on the unready, no matter how many times they are brought to Him—He is long-suffering, waiting for the repentance of all: both those who thoughtlessly bring patients to the operating room (that is, the priests and the like), and those who are brought), sent him back to prepare for the operation)!!! Thinks he is saved-healthy, but in reality, he has not even started preparing for the operation, has not even become a catechumen, but dreams of himself in a miserable demonic delusion that he is a Christian, or even an apostolic successor, a bishop…