Escape from the Prince of Evil

For just as from one Adam the race of men was multiplied over the earth, so one depravity of passion infiltrated the entire human race. The prince o evil is thus able to sift all of them by continued crass, vain and passionate thoughts...he fills every soul with a dark ignorance, blindness and forgetfulness. Only those escape him who have been reborn from above and have been transported in mind and heart to another world, as it is said, "Our citizenship is in Heaven" (Phil. 3:20).

Macarius-Symeon, Homily 5.3 (George Maloney translation, 1992, p. 64)