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General information
==General information==
 
Strictly speaking, any human error i.e. any acceptance of a false thought as truth is prelest: "The source of self-delusion and demonic deception is the false thought" (St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)). But Holy Fathers wrote mainly about the errors in the human judgement about spiritual matters, especially about the judgement about personal spiritual state.
 
True judgement about oneself is tightly connected with the passions of pride and vainglory and is distorted by these passions. The degree of prelest is the degree of such distortion, i.e. the amount of falseness in the true view of oneself and the degree of difficulty of change from the false view to the true one.
Different kinds of prelest are described by many Holy Fathers, including the Fathers of [[Philokalia]]: Saint [[Gregory of Sinai]], Saint [[Maximus the Confessor]], Saint [[Symeon the Metaphrast]], Saint [[Symeon the New Theologian]] and others.
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