Conversion l. Conversion means the heartfelt determination to turn away for good from everything that through repentance has been recognized as detestable, that has been very deeply regretted. It means wanting to make a final break with everything that up till now had given way to the powers of Mammon, lying, impurity, and murder. The will turns away from all sin. It means rejecting all self-idolatry, all pride in one's own efforts, all glorification of self. This turning point of the will is decisive.
Man turns away from idolizing man.
Conversion means deliberately rejecting all the ways of a world that makes man the center of every event and action and still leaves him fettered in injustice, murder, lying, impurity, insincerity, and inertia. In particular it means rejecting a piety or Church life that has not truly left behind all these things. It means turning with one's whole will away from the spirit of this world, from the Zeitgeist. Conversion means deliberately rejecting all subordinate spirits, all demigods and demon princes, rejecting any form of magic, sorcery, or power of suggestion. He turns with his whole will to Christ, the historical Jesus of the four Gospels, the Christ, who through His Holy Spirit fully reveals God's heart, God's nature, God's character and will.