Too many processes taking place inside a person are not amenable to his control. This is understandable, because our flesh is a complex mechanism operating according to the laws established by the Creator. But, having given man freedom, He endowed him with the ability to decide for himself whether to maintain himself in spiritual and bodily purity or to indulge in filth. In order to support a person in the struggle against temptations, prayers from desecration were sent to him.
Different interpretations of the concept of desecration
One of the most common forms of desecration of the flesh is male sin in the form of nocturnal ejaculation (pollutions) or dreams of an erotic nature. It should be noted that the definition of this category of sin by modern clergy is largely at variance with how many pillars of Christianity in past centuries understood it.
Suffice it to recall that the famous Rules of St. Athanasius the Great say that one cannot consider desecration an involuntary outflow caused by a dream in which the man had scenes of his copulation with his legal wife. In this case, the prayer of desecration in a dream is not read, of course, if we are not talking about periods of fasting. It is important to note that the universally recognized theologian does not recognize the sin itself as a seed eruption - it is only an external consequence, but the desires that gave rise to it.
Dominated by sinful thoughts
According to the teachings of the Holy Fathers, the causes of involuntary expiration are divided into six main categories, and the last three are not considered sinful. Examining them, usually begin with carnal thoughts and lusts, since they are the most common.
Of course, sinful thoughts and the voluptuous desires they cause are visited by people of various ages, but young men and adolescents are most susceptible to them. Especially often the devil sets his nets to monks, because of the peculiarities of his lifestyle, devoid of natural marital relations. In order to strengthen them in the fight against carnal temptations, there is a special monastic prayer against desecration, read both in cases of evil attacks and for their prevention.
Intentional stimulation of lust
Of course, both carnal thoughts and lusts can be caused by purely physiological reasons for which there is no human guilt, but the fact is that instead of trying to reduce their impact as often as possible, people intentionally incite them and stimulate them, eventually finding them satisfaction in masturbation.
For this, the devil presented them with a wide range of tools and instruments. This is viewing a certain kind of video material, and reading the relevant literature, and talking on topics that a pious person is unworthy to touch. In all these cases, especially if they are accompanied by masturbation, human guilt is undeniable.
To resist the evil schemes, there is a prayer from the desecration of masturbation, which anyone who is subject to this scourge can easily find in the Complete Prayer Book. However, remember that just reading the text is not enough. A sincere desire is needed to defeat evil and relentless control of one’s own thoughts.
The path in the devil’s net
Another reason for causing desecration is called arrogance and pride. It should be noted right away that in this case we are talking not only and not so much about night outpourings, but about the desecration of the whole human soul and body. To verify this, it is enough to carefully consider both of these concepts, which carry a sinful foundation.
Arrogance is not the ability to think in high categories, but only a consequence of an overly overrated assessment of one’s mental abilities. Pride is often spoken about. Hardly anyone can doubt her perniciousness. Both one and the other property encourages a person to sometimes consider himself superior to generally accepted moral principles.
Without hesitation, he goes beyond the bounds of both religious and universal norms, and therefore becomes the easy prey of the devil, luring him into his nets. Unaware of the danger, he, even if for one reason or another does not commit the physical act of adultery, willingly surrenders to him in his thoughts, which ultimately leads to desecration of his outpourings. In this case, prayers from desecration will have a beneficial effect only if his forces are deliberately aimed at eradicating the root causes of sin - overwhelming his arrogance and pride.
Dominated by gluttony and drunkenness
At the heart of the third reason for the outpourings that the church views as sinful are gluttony and addiction to alcohol. They themselves are grave sins, generating a string of disastrous consequences. However, some explanations should be made here, without which the further story will be incomplete.
The sin of abuse of God's gifts
According to Christian canons, food is not something sinful. Without it, nothing living can exist. Sin is its immoderate consumption, colloquially called gluttony. Not only priests but also doctors warn of his harm to humans. Excess calories provoke lust in a person, which results in thoughts and desires that cause nightly outpourings that defile a person.
Wine or any other alcoholic drink in itself is also not a sin. It is enough to recall how Christ at the wedding in Cana of Galilee turned the water into wine, thereby blessing him. Sin is drunkenness, that is, abuse of wine. It is quite obvious that under the influence of excessive amounts of alcohol, a person, having lost control over his thoughts and emotions, can become an easy prey for the devil, directing his consciousness to sinful thoughts.
Wine and bread are the gifts of God, but both in the first and in the second case, it is necessary first of all to control yourself while eating, and even more so drinking alcohol, so as not to turn them into destruction for your soul. Only in this case, prayers from desecration, if nevertheless there is a need for them, will bear fruit.
Natural and therefore sinless causes of ejaculation
In addition to the above three reasons for involuntary, mainly nocturnal ejaculation, there are three more that are caused by completely natural causes and do not contain anything sinful that can defile a person. First of all, this is an absolutely normal manifestation of the activity of male seminal glands.
The Lord Himself arranged our body in such a way that these important organs cannot remain inactive for a long time. If the product they produce turns out to be unclaimed, they simply throw it out at the first opportunity, and there is nothing unnatural in this. If sometimes mothers panic when they find suspicious spots on the sheets of their sons, this happens solely from their ignorance. In this case, prayer from nightly desecration is inappropriate, of course, if the outpourings are not caused by masturbation.
Diseases and their consequences
Following further, it is necessary to mention also such a reason of emissions as physical weakness and illnesses. In this case, it is ridiculous to classify them as manifestations of sinfulness. The Christian Church, deeply humane in nature, always called for sympathy for all those suffering and afflicted with ailments. According to her canons, for example, even the most serious sin - suicide - is not blamed if he is committed by a mentally ill person.
Illness and physical weakness are also sufficient grounds for complete release from fasting or for its significant mitigation. So that ejaculation, caused by the weakness of the body of a sick person, in no case can be blamed on him. In this case, as in that described above, prayers from desecration, if they are read, are purely preventive in nature.
The attacks of Satan and the fight against them
And finally, another reason why erotic images that entail involuntary ejaculation can be visited by men in nightly dreams is devilish excuses. Sometimes the enemy of the human race, having lost hope of introducing a person to the temptation and incline him to the path of sin, chooses the moment when his consciousness is paralyzed by sleep and is able to freely let in any vision from which it would certainly recoil from wakefulness.
In this case, the brain, which is held captive by the devil's visions, involuntarily gives command to all the organs subordinate to it. The heart begins to beat faster, the chest heaves in intermittent breathing, and the seminal glands, deceived by false alarm, prepare to release the product of their activity. For people prone to this misfortune, the only effective means of struggle may be prayer for the desecration of the body.
Prayer is an effective weapon in the fight against the evil
It is known from the works of the oldest church fathers that from the first days of Christianity, after Jesus Christ, by His Resurrection from the dead, destroyed the centuries-old kingdom of hell, the forces of darkness are constantly striving to avert His followers from the fulfillment of Divine commandments, one of which prescribes evading adultery, as physical, and spiritual, created in our minds. To this end, the progenitor of evil seeks to defile the souls and bodies of people, especially during the hours of night sleep.
To confront him and his army, numerous prayers were created, among which the most famous is the prayer from the nightly desecration of Basil the Great. Written in the 4th century, it saved many generations of Christians from the depths of hell. They resort to it in especially severe cases. But not only it can become a worthy weapon in the struggle for its own purity - spiritual and physical.
Experienced confessors recommend combining it with such well-known texts as prayer-worship to the King of Heaven, the Fiftieth Psalm and the phrase “Lord have mercy!” Pronounced forty times. In this combination, prayer from desecration is most effective. When the entire body of these sacred texts is read, the Grace of God, capable of wresting it from the hands of the evil one, is called to help the Christian soul. This article talked about men and their temptations. All of the above to a large extent applies to women, of course, adjusted for their physiological characteristics.