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To those who deny the existence of God, and assert that the world is self-existing, and
that all things in it are made by chance, without the divine providence, ANATHEMA!

To those who say that God is not a spirit, but flesh; or that He is not just, merciful, wise,
omniscient, and such like blasphemies, ANATHEMA!

To those who dare to say that the Son of God and the Holy Spirit are not consubstantial
and equal in honour with the Father; and who profess that the Father, and the Son, and
the Holy Spirit are not one God, ANATHEMA!

To those who madly assert that the coming of the Son of God into the world in the flesh,
and His voluntary passion, death, and resurrection were not necessary for our salvation
and the expiation of sin, ANATHEMA!

To those who reject the grace of redemption preached in the Gospel as the only means of
our justification before God, ANATHEMA!

To those who dare to say that the most pure Virgin Mary was not a virgin before
childbirth, in childbirth, and after childbirth, ANATHEMA!

To those who do not believe that the Holy Spirit inspired the prophets and apostles, and
by them instructed us in the true way to eternal salvation, and confirmed the same by
miracles, and now dwelleth in the hearts of all faithful and sincere Christians, and guideth
them into all truth, ANATHEMA!

To those who do not confess with heart and mouth that the Holy Spirit proceedeth from
the Father alone, essentially and hypostatically, as Christ sayeth in the Gospel,
ANATHEMA!

To those who reject the immortality of the soul, and deny that the world will have an end,
and that there will be a future judgment, and eternal rewards for the virtuous in heaven,
and punishment for the wicked, ANATHEMA!

To those who reject all the Holy Mysteries held by the Church of Christ, ANATHEMA!

To those who reject the Councils of the Holy Fathers, and traditions which are in accord
with divine revelation, and which the Orthodox Church piously maintains,
ANATHEMA!

To those who reason that Orthodox sovereigns are elevated to their thrones not by God’s
special good will for them, and that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are not poured out upon
them during the anointing for the fulfillment of this great calling; and who likewise dare
to rise up against them in revolt and betrayal, ANATHEMA!

To those who mock and blaspheme the holy icons which the Holy Church receiveth, in
remembrance of the works of God and of His saints, to inspire the beholders with piety,
and to incite them to imitate their examples, and to those who say that they are idols,
ANATHEMA!

To the Theosophists and other heretics who dare to say and teach mindlessly that our
Lord Jesus Christ did not descend to the earth and become incarnate only once, but hath
been incarnate many times; and who likewise deny that the true Wisdom of the Father is
His Only-begotten Son, and, contrary to the divine Scriptures and the teaching of the
Holy Fathers, seek other wisdoms, ANATHEMA!

To the Masons, the occultists, spiritualists, sorcerers, and all who do not believe in one
God, but honour the demons, who do not humbly surrender their life to God, but strive
to learn the future through the sorcerous invocation of demons, ANATHEMA!

To the blasphemers of the Christian Faith, the ecumenists who say that they do not
confess the Orthodox Eastern Church to be One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, but
madly say that the true Church seems to be a combination of various heresies,
ANATHEMA!

To those apostatize from the Orthodox Faith and accept other beliefs, to the scandal of
our brethren, and fall into schism, ANATHEMA!

To the persecutors of the Church of Christ, the impious apostates who have lifted their
hands against the anointed of God, who slay the sacred ministers, who trample the holy
things underfoot, who destroy the temples of God, who subject our brethren to
iniquisition and have defiled our homeland, ANATHEMA!