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You ask to pray for deliverance from pride, but you yourself worship this idol, and do not want to humble yourself: how can my prayer succeed? I assure you that in such a proud state of yours you cannot have the right to see and judge things; the enemy shows you everything in a different way, which is not at all the case. “Be sure that they are well disposed towards you, and sincerely regret you, and are not at all laughing at you, as you think, in thinking about becoming a monk.” You don’t want to sign anymore, because it’s not out of humility, but out of pride and malice; instead of defeating it, and you still add; Because of this, you cannot calm down in any way, and even more the enemy will pour his poison into your heart, and from then on you will be dead to God, but alive to sin; for the enemy will devour everything in your good deeds. I don’t give you a blessing for this, but I advise you to humble yourself, then you will find peace: what I earnestly wish for you, I remain a great sinner I.M. March 8, 1851.
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