"Understand from this, beloved, that since multiform fantasy is an invention and creation of the devil, it is very welcome to him and useful in achieving our ruin. Holy fathers rightly call it a bridge, by which the murderous demons enter our soul, become mixed with it and make it a hive of drones, a dwelling place of horrible, evil and impious thoughts and of all kinds of impurities both of body and soul." Take care too, for the devil is a crafty imagineer, he will first fan your flames to understand God's word, then slowly he will introduce in you a small pinch of vanity - that you have achieved understanding unlike your neighbors. Then, he will thrust his sword into your mind and inflate it into thinking that you and you only understand God's word, God's will - until pretty soon you are so full of yourself that there is no room for God.

Great thinkers and very learnered minds have presupposed that they have the ability to understand the makings of God. Some have even managed to rethink creation to exclude the need for God. These prideful children are indeed lost in their own imaginations. They have esteemed their education to be so great that they, like the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel, are able to reach the heights of God. Education is to further our appreciation of God, His word, His sacrifice, His path, His will - not to substitute it. This self-proclaimed ramblings of the highly learnered are sadly dumb to the very simplest fact that God is, was, and shall always be. But the Devil has fluffed up their vanity to such heights that they have lost sight of the path to God.

It is important to understand something about the devil. He was an angel. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Sataniel. All arch-angels. But Sataniel imagined himself equal to God and thus fell. Angels, as is all living things, come from God. An extension of His will. When Satan fell, this connection was removed. Therefore he has an emptiness that can never be filled. He will search and search. He will consume and consume and will never be filled. He is the very understanding of want. And so this poor rechid dying creature is angry, hates you, me, all mankind. For he has been removed from the living vine and can never be grafted back. And because he was once an angel, he, like God, was above all imagination. And so he knows how to enter your thoughts. He knows how to tweak your mind to tilt towards his devilish delights. And so we must firmly stand against such foolish imaginations.

Movies are make-believe. Harmless unless you imagine that the story they tell is real. Even those so called "based on real events" or "based on a true story" are slightly altered to make them more marketable. The movie The Passion of the Christ was laughed at and considered totally unmarketable. It's story was very true to the Bible, and Hollywood thought it would never sell. A half-billion dollars in sales proved them wrong. The point being, that imaginations surround us from outside and inside, we must safe-guard ourselves from their influence in our lives. To insure that we remain fully realized in this existence. Yes we will fall, yes we will sin, yes we will make many, many mistakes - but the believer in Christ's conquest through the cross will prevail against these natural occurrences and be triumphant That through the power of confession and repentance, we can be reborn daily.

Be true to yourself. Accept that you not only have failed, but will fail many more time. Accept that you have sinned and will continue to sin. As we have stated before, being Christian is the most unnatural thing you will ever choose to do. But there is a very famous saying; that when I have come to the point when I am no longer struggling with the world, I will find myself very far removed from God.