Nowhere else. So we see instinct or intelligence in animals, but it's an instinctual intelligence.
For example, birds return from warmer climates to their old nests.
Or the female, regardless of species, gives birth to her young, and protects them for the perpetuation of the species, which is called conservation through divine providence.
And if you would like, we can also speak of the training of animals.
Which is seen to be at random and not by rationalization, because they do things mechanically and not rationally.
Understand? They are lured and taught.
The dog which passes through the ring of fire, the horse which is used in equestrian, the bear that stays on two legs, the dog which carries a ball in his mouth...
the penguin that jumps through a hoop, the dolphin which jumps when you throw something in the water.
So those are instinctual mechanisms, and they are not rationalized instincts.
In the same way we trained lightning to go through a pipe and into the ground so that the house does not catch fire.
How we trained electricity to go through two wires, so that we have light.
How we trained water to go through a tube and to wet the ground where we want it to.
How we trained rock, and transformed it into cement to be firm and transformed it into concrete.
How we trained pitch and tar, and we made asphalt.
So all these things are subject to our human mind's mechanisms, and not according to their own will.
God created Adam as a great ecologist.
Because when He gave him all of creation, He said to him:
Look, all these are yours.
Use them, see to them, take care of them, eat from them, rejoice in them, entertain yourself with them, rejoice.
Man neglected this essence and he performed the first ecological degradation.
The first ecological degradation is not the cutting down of trees or the throwing of trash into a body of water.
No, it is the original sin, which turned even nature against him.
Because even nature was in a divine state.
The tree grew and sprouted on its own, it did not need to be sprayed with minerals or phytotechnical substances, so that it did not rot or that its bark would not become worm infested.
The grass did not grow together with weeds, later the ground was cursed to give off thrones and thistles.
The meadow's flowers grew on their own to make man glad.
Animals fed themselves, so that man could make use of them.
But man did not know how to use them, and his actions made fire burn him, water drowned him, wind killed him, the cold freezed him.
The wolf to eat him, the bear to rip him apart.
Through the Resurrection all people were given the gift of being able to be healed of the original sin.
How? Through the Baptism through Christ. By submerging in the name of the Holy Trinity.
And as proof that this Christian Baptism is the true one and the one left and justified by God, in the hierarchy of the Sacraments...
we find its bases in Christ where?
In the Egyptian Patericon and in the lives of the Saints, we see people who are not enslaved by the Adamic passions, basically Adam's state before the fall, which domesticated wild animals.
Read about Saint Symeon the Stylite, when a priest went into the forest and commanded a deer to come to him.
The deer came to him, and the priest killed it and took its meat, and then he became demonically possessed and began to shake violently.
And they took him to Saint Symeon the Stylite.
And Saint Symeon asked him, what did you do? And he said, "I profaned God's creation."
"I commanded the animal to stay in the name of God, and then I killed it."
And Saint Symeon absolved him and said: "Do not use God's name any longer for the sake of your passions."
From the wilderness, Clement and Gerasimos; one had a lion, another had two dragons, another had two bears.
So each one was guarded by wild animals.
No need to say, Saint Theodora of Sihla who walked during the winter and wolves would accompany her.
No need to say, Saint John the Recluse of the Neamt Mountains, he who became Saint Athanasius the Athonite.
He forced demons to do work in the monastery.
Peter the Athonite put demons to plow the fields, and even trapped them in some large clay bowls.
And the Virgin Mary came and said, "Let them go, because they are your doctors, otherwise none of you will be saved. (force you to grow spiritually)" Look what power man has.
Because people were altered, people no longer perceive spiritual things. They perceive things rationally.
Meaning according to the flesh. Saint Paul says: Our fight is not against flesh and blood, but rather against the spirits and powers of darkness.
Because we are subjected to Satan through the passions.
So the devil no longer comes to your face and says, "I will kill you, because I don't like your face."
No, he throws you into debauchery, drunkenness, and drugs and you kill yourself in this way, but you still do his will.
Do you understand? Therefore, Satan overwhelms you with great ease. The consumerist society does not know how to fight against Satan.
It is a barbaric hoax of the passions under the pretext of those sparks of white magic, black magic, working through spirits, spiritism, etc.
So they justify their own inabilities, through these maleficent works, as you would say in superior terms.
But those are not real, those are the works of the devil for the foolish man.
Because the perceiving man, that is gifted and strengthened by God, conquers all.
Doesn't He say: I gave you power to trample upon snakes, scorpions, and dragons.
If someone harms you, or if you eat or drink something deadly, you will not perish, but you will be delivered.
The teachings of the Holy Fathers in regards to the devil's working upon the person...
And especially teachings that were cultivated in the monastic settings...
and have been preserved even until our times, which were reinvigorated through the patristic teachings of the 18th century...
especially through the teachings of Saint Nicodemus the Athonite and Saint Paisius Velichkovsky, in Mount Athos and Moldova...
They say that the method in which the devil tries to influence man and his soul and mind, and through this his whole life, is through his thoughts.
It is a subtle form of energy, which because of its common root in the soul, which is made in the likeness of God and which has a divine nature and not materialistic one...
And the guardian angel on one hand
as well as the spiritual nature of the fallen angel
There exists this possibility of communicating through thoughts.
Which is not a palpable, material thing; it is not something you can weigh or describe.
However, this does not mean that it does not exist.
As proof, we have many thoughts and we can recognize their existence only because we are met with them.
And that is why the Holy Fathers teach that...
the method by which a person can escape from this trap which the devil lays for him in an unseen way, and most of the time which he is not aware of, is by
is through the confession of these thoughts, but done in specific conditions, and not done anywhere, at anytime, and to anyone.
And only to people chosen and gifted by God, which are able to receive what is called the confessing of one's thoughts.
Why? Because when you say your thoughts to another person, having doubts whether it is a good or evil thought, whether you should carry out the action or not, determining what is its benefits and its downsides.
Precisely here is the scope and working of the devil, by the placing of a thought in a person's mind, he hopes that this person will accept it, until he carries out the action.
Through this method, any sin is carried out; it comes from a thought.
So, of course, the Holy Fathers teach us that if we want to be saved we must reveal our inner thoughts, but as I said not in any manner.
But specifically towards these fathers or these people which are chosen by God, and are gifted the ability to truly help us. First, to find out what God's will is...
Second, to help us discern good from evil, and third, to make the right decision.