The Bulgarian soothsayer and healer Vanga is widely known in the world as a woman who during her life possessed the gift of foresight and healing. Many people consider Wang 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 (the current territory of Macedonia). She lived for 85 years, from the age of thirty she had the gift of foresight, after which Vanga began to receive people and provide them with various assistance in everyday needs.
Contrary to the view of many, the Orthodox Church is extremely negative about Vanga, and this applies not only to the Russian Church, but also to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. This 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 more carefully examine how and with what strength Wang made predictions and healings.
The Bulgarian prophetess herself said that the strength in her was from "great spirits." Moreover, the predictions of the old woman were made while entering the trance last. Vanga said that these “forces” entered her, gave her instructions, and it was precisely in an unconscious personality that prophecies were realized. Therefore, the healer did not remember anything during the sessions.
Such conditions are obsessed with demons. It is known from the Holy Scriptures that the dark forces know the future, they can even work miracles. Therefore, the Church proclaims to people: the powers of the Vanga were not holy divine grace - therefore, there can be no talk of holiness either. Holy people, prophets made predictions 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 Vanga, entering a trance, began to publish an animal growl, spoke in other voices. All this is evidence of an obsession with evil forces.
The theological prophets have nothing in common with Christianity. 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 by Orthodoxy and completely rejects the real fact of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. Accordingly, the salvation of mankind by God through suffering on the cross cannot be considered.
Wang did not deny the possibility of rebirth of souls, which is alien to Christianity. She also believed that souls could enter other people. In particular, she explained by this the periodic absence of her memory of her relatives and friends.
According to Wanga, human life is completely predetermined, there is global fatalism. The Orthodox Church teaches that all of humanity is predetermined only for salvation, but each person has free will. Each person has the right to choose a life path and decide whether to strive to be with God or not.
In addition, Wang believed in the existence of aliens and was positive about the teachings of the Theosophists. The result of the latter was the healer’s desire to erect a temple in which the “icons” were painted by Svetlin Rusev, a vivid representative of the course of Theosophy. The interior of the “temple” is a heavy sight: the images are executed in dark, terrible Theosophical tones, alien to Christian traditions. In this building is the image of the healer herself, on which she blesses the priest. This indicates 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 life she was a vehicle of dark forces and was in spiritual charm. The prophetess herself before her death said that she was going "down." The holy ascetics in the dying hour, on the contrary, thought about the high - about God and about the future eternal life in the kingdom of heaven.
