The Bulgarian soothsayer and healer Vanga is widely known in the world as a woman who, during her lifetime, possessed the gift of foresight and healing. Many people consider Vanga a saint, but the Orthodox Church has a different attitude to the life and work of the Bulgarian "miracle worker".
Vanga was born in 1911 in the small town of Strumica (present-day Macedonian territory). She lived for 85 years, from the age of thirty she had the gift of foresight, after which Vanga began to accept people and provide them with various assistance in everyday needs.
Contrary to the ideas of many, the Orthodox Church has an extremely negative attitude towards Vanga, and this applies not only to the Russian Church, but also to the Orthodox Church in Bulgaria. Such an attitude is quite natural, because Christianity rejects all sorts of extrasensory perception, witchcraft and fortune-telling. In order to better understand the life of the "old woman", it is necessary to delve more carefully into how and with what power Wang made predictions and healings.
The Bulgarian soothsayer herself said that the strength in her comes from "great spirits." Moreover, the predictions of the eldress were made during the entry into a trance of the latter. Vanga said that these "forces" entered her, gave her instructions, and it was in the unconscious personal state that the prophecies were realized. Therefore, the healer did not remember anything during the sessions.
Such states are demonic possession. It is known from the Holy Scriptures that dark forces know the future, they can even work miracles. Therefore, the Church proclaims to people: the powers of Vanga were not holy divine grace - therefore, there can be no question of holiness. Holy people, prophets made predictions being in a clear mind, which cannot be said about the soothsayer of Bulgaria (both from her words and from the words of eyewitnesses and participants in various sessions). Thus, in Vanga, the personality was suppressed by demonic forces.
During the sessions, there were cases when Wanga, entering a trance, began to emit an animal growl, spoke in different voices. All this is evidence of an obsession with evil forces.
Has nothing to do with Christianity and the theological ideas of the soothsayer. In particular, Vanga told how Christ appeared to her in the form of a ball of fire. She went on to say that Christ has no form. Such a teaching is unacceptable to Orthodoxy and completely rejects the real fact of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. Accordingly, the salvation of humanity by God through suffering on the cross cannot be considered.
Vanga did not deny the possibility of soul rebirth, which is alien to Christianity. She also believed that souls can enter other people. In particular, by this she explained the periodic absence of her memory of her relatives and friends.
According to Vanga, human life is completely predetermined, global fatalism takes place. The Orthodox Church teaches that all humanity is predestined only for salvation, but each person has free will. Each person has the right to choose the path of life and decide whether to strive to be with God or not.
In addition, Wanga believed in the existence of aliens and had a positive attitude towards the teachings of theosophists. The result of the latter was the desire of the healer to erect a temple in which the "icons" were painted by Svetlin Rusev, a prominent representative of the Theosophical movement. The interior decoration of the "temple" is a difficult sight: the images are executed in dark, terrible theosophical colors, alien to Christian traditions. In this building there is also the image of the healer herself, on which she blesses the priest. This indicates a great spiritual charm and pride, because in the Christian tradition such a blessing befits the Mother of God.
All these testimonies are indications that Vanga is not a saint, but during her lifetime she was a conductor of dark forces and was in spiritual delusion. The soothsayer herself, before her death, said that she was going down. On the contrary, the holy ascetics at the hour of death, thought about the high - about God and about the future eternal life in the Kingdom of Heaven.
