During a ghost-evoking seance, a group of young people noticed that the plate moved, and that’s pretty much all they remember. They dispersed and never talked about it. One of them converted after more than 20 years and started to analyses what had happened. It all started with youthful stupidity, walking away from God.
A friend committed suicide, and so they decided to call up ghosts to find out why he did it. But something happened. No one remembers exactly what it was, but at least for one of them, it changed his life completely. He was a young 15-year-old practicing Catholicism and even thinking about becoming a priest. Everything suddenly changed. In a very strange way, all the obstacles he faced in life disappeared. He passed exams for which he was not prepared, and teachers with whom he had conflicts left. That’s how it started. Later, there were bigger things. Money and success At a certain point in his life, he came to the conclusion that the impossible did not exist. He felt that he could do anything. He had dedicated people around him. What others did, for example, for a few days in seven people, they were able to do in one day in two.
That’s how it looked to someone looking from the sidelines, but the reality was quite different. Everything he got never met all his needs. If he needed money, he got it, often inexplicably, but never so much that it was enough to take care of an issue 100 percent. It was like building a house without all the necessary materials. You make a foundation but don’t have enough cement. The result is that you build on sand. You put in windows and doors but don’t have all you need, so you only put them in the front of the house and leave holes in the back. A nice facade, but unstable and in danger of collapse. When he perceives that he could lose everything, he joins a secret organisation—let’s call it occult.
However, for everything he gets, you have to pay a terrible price. Not material but mental. The soul sinks into darkness. Thoughts become depressive. Life teeters on the brink of suicide.
When his life was already just a ruin in the material and spiritual spheres, he unexpectedly gets an offer to go to a remote place, practically a wilderness. He goes and, in silence, slowly begins to understand what happened.
He decides to return to God. He faces the final battle—the battle for his soul. However, he is further dismantled by the conviction of his own greatness and does it alone without God. He loses and gives up everything. Knowing that it’s over, he tries to pray but can’t recall the words of the prayer. He feels only a terrible emptiness, and death is already inside him.
It is at this moment of total defeat and total collapse that he sees a helping hand. God saves him, and from that moment on, he is never alone again. Always with God, always.
However, life in hell leaves a stigma that hurts. Every look back causes terrible pain in the soul.
You don’t have to go through it. All you have to do is think before you do something. Thinking doesn’t hurt, but rejecting God hurts a lot. It is a pain that never passes. All the riches of the world given by Satan will not satisfy your thirst; you will always lack them. Only God has the water of life that is able to soothe your soul.
Always remember this, always.
Arkadiusz Niewolski
Catholic during the Great Apostasy 
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