Hello there,
You asked about Stylianos Atteshlis, aka "Magus of Strovolos". "Maugs" in Greek language means Magic or Magician; someone who performs un-explained acts or magic tricks.
haha..
Look, you have to understand a lot about Christianity of Today and Christianity when it first formed to understand what is really going on, in my own point of view. A church always is and will be an association devoted to the practice of Christianity as they pass on beliefs, values and teachings. Orthodoxy is the first organized church formed of mainstream Christianity, AKA, The Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. "Orthodox Church". Today it is referred to as Orthodox because the word, Orthodox means Traditional. All bibles, (Greek word for Book, "Bibilio".) came from the distribution from the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. (Orthodox Church) Many of the parts to the New Testament was written in whereas today, Orthodox Churches, so realistically Orthodox was the first church formed.
Catholic Churches and Coptic Church were basically part of the Orthodox Church at the begining with their services in Greek Language until later political mishaps happened and the Western Roman Empire combined the governance of a "Pope" as rule of the Empire and the Church which was forbidden in Orthodoxy. (Constantinople)
Anyway, the Magus of Strovolos, claims to have lived all these lives and became a Spiritual Being most likely to pass on a message to people he encountered in life. The basic forms of his message was;
- follow Christianity; it doesn't really matter what religion you are you are ok; and he confirms that Jesus the Christ, the God man is real and is the Messiah (Christ)
- don't be scared of people that tell you your going to hell
- you reincarnate to live another life to learn and potentially correct SINs that you have committed as a fabric of "Karma" which you caused from before; the end result is you to become devine, but if you keep sining you SUCK and will keep going through problem until you become better.
- he says, Jesus the Christ, the God man doesn't want people to go through pain of bad Karma so he heals their Karma from them
- he says, many other things ... lalala
- and he spoke 5 different languages without learning them in school, which he says he lived these lives
So, basically, the Orthodox church condemned him because they were scared of him. PERIOD.
Priests normally do not encounter the supernatural, so then this guy, Magus of Strovolos is healing people, they got scared and said he speaks to other beings. lalala
Later, because the Orthodox Church does not dis regard new teachings or wisdom that can add to our faith, the Church accepted his teachings and some monks and others may be learning from him.
the Magus of Strovolos has too many people which claimed he healed them and a lot of people the saw this happen.
If your looking for further spirituality , Follow your Heart of Goodness and learn from everybody that is good and don't join into any cults. Follow yourself. God made your soul, other people didn't make your soul. Your living for God and God lives inside of you and Jesus the Christ is real and is you savior of Karma Sin to hurry up and become divine (a good spiritual being full of experience and knowledge, everybody can be forgiven.) .
