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...The Athonite monks, in addition to being constantly prayerful, following cell rules according to strength and waiting for every minute temptation, had humility and self-reproach. Their humility consisted in the fact that they considered themselves worse than everyone and worse than all creation, and their self-reproach was that in every unpleasant and regrettable case they placed the blame on themselves, and not on others, that they did not know how to act as they should, and from this came trouble and sorrow, or a temptation was allowed for their sins, or to the test of their humility and patience and love for God; reasoning this way, they did not allow themselves to judge anyone, much less humiliate and despise (2, part 3, p. 60). ...You wrote that you had a dream in which you imagined that you were on Mount Athos and picked a whole bouquet of fragrant pink flowers. By such flowers we can understand the patristic writings of those reverend men who, living on Athos and in other places, fulfilled the divine commandments and words with deeds and, out of spiritual love for us, left their saving instructions, so that we, the weak, would draw from them, and collect them like fragrant flowers, and delight our spiritual larynx with them from grief, and our opponent would give us a drink of it. The young monk you saw in a dream, coming out of one of the Athos churches, may mean your Guardian Angel. Therefore, the words spoken by him: “Walk here, but know, do not dare to engage in the vain thoughts of this world, say a prayer in your mind,” must be remembered and not forgotten, and actually fulfilled. Mount Athos is called the lot of the Mother of God. Therefore, the dream you saw may also mean that if you want to be numbered among the lot of the Mother of God, then you must imitate the life and rules of those who received salvation on Mount Athos under the protection of the Mother of God (2, part 3, pp. 58–59). One pious elder lived there in silence and solitude and always taught his disciple to maintain a silent and solitary life. After the death of the elder a year later, according to Athonite custom, they dug up the grave and found the head of the elder, exuding fragrant and healing myrrh. Many began to go to worship this chapter and anoint themselves with the healing myrrh and thereby break the silence of the student. Therefore, he reproachfully said to the deceased elder: “Father! During your life you always taught me silence and solitude, but after your death you break this.” After these words, the fragrant and healing myrrh dried up and only a simple bone remained, and people stopped going to worship. And they say that after this they found only yellow, or white, or black bones in the graves, by which they distinguished the state of the deceased souls, or they found dark, uncorrupted bodies. The whole brotherhood prayed for such people for three years, annually tearing up the grave and asking local bishops to read a prayer of permission. Some bodies remain uncorrupted even after three years. That's how they are left. The reason for this is the following: God forgives sins against God through the prayers of others, especially through church prayers and for commemoration at the Bloodless Sacrifice or for alms given for these dead, but sins against one’s neighbor - insult and untruth - God does not forgive unless the one who offended and untruthful does not satisfy the offended person in time or does not reconcile by asking for forgiveness in monasticism. Such cases may be due to self-indulgence and disobedience of fatherly commandments and commandments, for unrepentance and concealment of sins). (2, part 1, p. 72). You might be interested in: