Glavisny

The essay “Glavizna” consists of 3 parts: - practical and prudent chapters (100 chapters); - chapters are attentive and prudent (25 chapters); - chapters that are prudent and practical (100 chapters). This is a systematic presentation of the spiritual teachings of St. Simeon the New Theologian. The work covers a wide range of issues - from dogmatic foundations to practical aspects of monastic and Christian life. The work had a great influence on the subsequent development of the hesychast tradition. The main topics covered in the collection: 1. Theological foundations and dogmatics: the doctrine of the Trinity, Christology, the doctrine of the Church and the Sacraments. 2. Theoretical aspects of spiritual life: knowledge of God, deification (theosis), the presence of the Holy Spirit, human nature, soul and body. 3. Practical aspects of ascetic feat: repentance and humility, struggle with passions, prayer, obedience, love, reasoning. Many chapters contain spiritual meaning based on the author's personal experience and patristic tradition. The publication presents a translation from Greek, made in poetic form by I.M. Nosov. Contents The main points are practical and prudent The main points are attentive and prudent The main points are prudent and practical The principles are practical and prudent God to those who physically look is nowhere, for he is invisible. For those who are spiritually minded, it is everywhere, because it is present. For in everything, and beyond everything. In this he is close to those who fear Him, And His salvation is far from sinners. The memory of Christ enlightens the mind and drives out demons. The light of the Holy Trinity is evident in a pure heart, And from now on he is a participant in the fulfillment of the future glory, How much can a person hold? Promoted by the highest mercy, Still covered with a veil of flesh. Nothing else, instead of the passing of the visible, - But there is only one God, there is and there will be. Those who richly partook of His grace in this world, If they are present on earth, Many more are already attached to the next century. If they sigh for some reason, - Weighed down with “shadow” and “burden” (i.e. body). The Lord does not just bless those who teach, But first, through the commandments, the work will look upon those who are worthy, And those who saw in themselves the enlightening light of the Spirit shining, In this true vision and attention and action, What to say and teach others. It is necessary because it was said before, Withdraw the hands of those who lay hands on teaching, So that those who speak about them do not comprehend, Those who trusted them and themselves would not be destroyed by deceiving them. He who does not fear God does not believe that there is a God, because he is insane. He who believes in this fears Him, He who fears keeps His commandments. "Fear", speaking, of God, He who does not keep His commandments is a liar, And there is no fear of God in him. For where, as they say, there is fear, there is observance of the commandments. It is not in us, and there is no keeping of God’s commandments, We are no different from the pagans and infidels. Faith and fear of God, and keeping His commandments, As you clear, rewards are delivered. We are so drawn into the love of God from the fear of Him, And so we move from fear only in accordance with success, To love God. “He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me” (John 14:21). And so let us add exploits to exploits, Yes, we will prove love through deeds. When this happens, He Himself, as if He had lifted us up, loves us. When He loves us, and His Father also loves us, And, of course, the Spirit paves the way, And he prepares the church, May our abode be in one assembly of hypostases, Father and Son and Holy Spirit. The ongoing indwelling of the Trinitarian Divinity in the perfect, There is no wish fulfillment, But more than the beginning and the reason, Stronger and greater desire. For from that time on he does not leave the one who received Him calm, But like a fire that always kindles and burns, To ascend into the flame of desire creates the most divine. For the mind is unable to embrace and accomplish what it desires, Can't give a measure of desire and love, But it is necessary to achieve and embrace endless accomplishment, Always endless desire, And he carries unfulfilled love within himself. Does not imagine gaining power over the desire or love of God in oneself But how does one who does not love God position himself, It is impossible to embrace the fullness of love. Therefore, recognizing myself as the last of all, He considers himself unworthy from the heart and among those faithful to salvation. “All things are possible to him who believes” (Mark 9:23), For “faith... is counted as righteousness” (Rom. 4:5), “The perfection of the law is Christ” (Rom. 10:4). In Him faith justifies and perfects the believer, – Faith imputed (in law) to Christ, Which through the commandments of the Gospel, Affirming and expressing, He makes the faithful partakers of eternal life in Christ Himself. Faith is for Christ's sake, for His commandment to die, And to believe - to have death as an intermediary in this life, Understanding poverty as wealth Simplicity and humiliation are like fame, and in fact, celebrity. And believe - gain - hold everything in nothing, Moreover, to acquire “the unsearchable riches of the mind of Christ,” And everything visible becomes dust or smoke. Faith in Christ is not only to despise a life of joy, But also to withstand and endure every temptation, Found in sorrows and sorrows and misfortunes, Until God desires and visits us. For “having endured,” it is said, “I have endured the Lord, and have listened to me” (Ps. 39:2). Those who prefer their parents in any way to God’s commandments, They did not acquire faith in Christ, For we are entirely judged by our conscience, Even if they have a living conscience because of their infidelity. For the faithful, that is, so that in nothing and in no way, Our Great God and Savior Jesus Christ, Faith in God gave birth to the wish for good and the fear of torment. Best wishes and fear of torment, The observance of the commandments has been made precise. Exact observance of the commandments, People's own weakness shows them. Comprehension of the true weakness of our death gave rise to memory. Having acquired her as a concubine, He himself will become painfully jealous to find out, What will be his outcome and removal from his life? And diligently heeding the future, First of all, you must deprive yourself of the present. For in this and to a moderate degree of partiality, Perfect attention cannot be attracted to that. Even if he tastes it according to the dispensation of a certain God, And soon he won’t leave them and holds on to them out of addiction, All and so much attention will be given, And everyone else beyond understanding, freely accepting, And what he thinks he has will be taken from him. Renunciation of the world and complete withdrawal, Having accepted exile from all matters and morals in life, And dispositions, and persons, and rejection from the body and desire, - Intercessors bring great benefits, So ardently renounced in a short time. And even for an hour you won’t give your soul as consolation, In him, at first, he creates life, If all your relatives and friends force you to do this. For this is how the demons tease them, Let ardor quench your hearts. For even if they cannot completely bind your will, Although he is sluggish, in all ways, and weak, When every pleasure in life, You will be found courageous and inconsolable, Then, of course, the demons of our relatives were offered for compassion, They will weep and weep for your sake in front of your face. When you are unchanged and remain in such a state of battle, Those who are furious about you And you will see the hatred suddenly shown, And as those who turn away from you from an enemy, Parents and brothers and your friends, Seeing the sorrow that happens to you, Smile for the sake of those who laugh at this, So many different demons arise against you, And with fear and diligence go away to many, May you soon come to the refuge of your good (spiritual) father, Weary and burdened abiding, There are many, for the abyss of life has causes of troubles, To hate the wanting world, You must have love from the depths of your soul for God, And the memory of Him is ever-flowing. For nothing else than this With joy he creates the abandonment of everything, And it’s like litter, really, it’s disgusting. Not for the sake of blessed reasons, Or even more so dumb, But when you are called, obey quickly. For God is like this about nothing else, How he rejoices at our speed. Because quick obedience with poverty is better, Than delay with many possessions. If the world and what is in the world all pass away, God alone is eternal and immortal, Rejoice, you who are so great, That, thanks to Him, the corruptible was left behind. Perishable - not only wealth and possessions, But every pleasure and taste of sin is corruption. God's commandments alone are light and life, If he accepted the flame, brother, and ran away, I came to the hostel or to my spiritual father for this, Then even if you are a precondition on his part, Or brothers who join you in baths or brushes, Or serve other bodily ministries, But always prepared inside for fasting, To suffering, to extreme abstinence, If from your father in the Lord, Before the end you will partake of consolation, Then you find yourself obedient, And not his own in this, creating his will out of disposition. If not, you will gladly endure, How to create by will, receiving benefits mentally. This, for by keeping it, you will always be like one who fasts in everything, Both abstaining and completely renouncing his will. And then the flame in your heart, Everything is boring to despise you. If the demons do everything on their own, Yes, according to God, our intention cannot be converted or bound, Then the reverence of the hypocrites creeps in, And through them they attempt to bind those who strive. And first, as if from love, of course, and compassion, They pray to bring themselves to bodily rest, And the body will not become weak, they say, And you will not fall into despondency. Then convening useless interviews, Days in such waste themselves create. If any of the zealous, having listened, become like them, They turn to him, let him announce his destruction. If you are not carried away by their words, But he keeps himself aloof from everything and serious and insolent, Then they move into envy and create and do everything, Until he is expelled from the monastery. Can't stand it, because it's dishonest vanity, It is a commendable humility to see its opposite. The vain is burdened by the humble, Seeing the tears shed and the doubly benefited. I please God, themselves for the sake of the action, And involuntarily leading people to praise. Place your everything on your spiritual father. For everyone outside, if you bring anything, Human, I say, things and possessions. Without it, nothing can be done or created in them, You can't ask to keep things for yourself, Unless it's his own will, Or he will give it to you with his own hand. May you not give alms without your father, according to God, From the estate that he contributed, And let not you accept any of that through an intermediary, - Besides him, you will want. For it is better to be poor and strange, and listen to you, Why squander your property and give to the poor, being a beginner? Faith unshaken as in the hand of God - the spiritual father, You can give everything you want. You wouldn’t even ask for water to drink, If you happen to be burned with thirst, Before being moved by myself, Your spiritual father will offer. For burden yourself and force yourself in everything, trusting, And speaking with thoughts: “If God wants...” And if you are worthy of doing it, He reveals this, of course, to your spiritual father, And he says to you: “Drink.” And then drink with a clear conscience, If and contrary to the deadline - an hour. Having experienced spiritual benefits to the end, And having acquired the legitimate faith, Exposing God as a witness to the truth, he said: “I put this thought in myself, I will never ask my father for anything to eat or drink, Or, without it, accept something at all, Until God notifies him, and he commands me.” And so abiding, never, says, I did not fail in my intention. Having acquired the clear faith of his father according to God, Looking at him, he thinks of seeing Christ Himself. Staying with him and following him, Abide and follow with Christ firmly believes. Such a person will not want to turn to anyone else when, Will not prefer any of the worldly things, To his memory wholeheartedly and with love. For what is greater and more useful in this transitory and future life, How to stay with Christ? And what is more beautiful and sweeter than His sight? And if he is rewarded with a conversation with Him, He draws eternal life entirely from it. From the disposition of those who revile or do not tell the truth, Or those who hate and offend him who loves him, In the success of the small, the great rises. For what happens with the feeling of the heart, Into the abyss of humility and tears springs, the imaginable, The tripartite soul is buried in them, Raises the mind to the skies of dispassion, And understanding cultivates. And tasting the goodness there, He creates imputation in the rubbish of transitory life, And this, precisely, is food and drink, Without getting full and takes it more often. And the place where the counselor and his father stand - Like shrines (his) reverent, And he zealously takes the dust from his feet, And sprinkling it on your head and anointing your heart, As a cleansing medicine for your passions and sins, Without even daring to approach him, Not just touch any of his clothes or bedspreads, And taking anything of his in your hands, He does it with fear and shame, Judging himself unworthy not only by his sight and service, But also in the cell of his stay. Many renounce the life of this and the life of objects, Small ones do so of their own free will. God’s Word declares them well, “Many are called...,” he says, “few are chosen...” (Matthew 22:14). When, if you sit down to a fraternal meal at any meal, So it makes sense to cast all sorts of shadows over your eyes, And may you not feel the pleasantness of the brush, - But every soul that has to be miraculously frightened, Then know God’s joy for me to honor this, For the sake of fear, much of your humility, - So that, seeing the creations of God, And having been taught feelings of not caring, May you re-instill your fear into spiritual love. And this is spiritual attention, Which, spoken, you hear, Which is found between fear and love, And from the first to the second he transfers a person imperceptibly and comfortably. It is not accepted differently to God, There is no acquisition of perfect, inseparable love, If not according to spiritual attention, Which is gradually being cultivated practically, A constantly sick soul. This is because, knowing, the Apostle said: “Because of the greatness and goodness of creation, the Creator of existence is understood in proportion” (Rom. 1:20). The greatness of the heavens and the earth, the breadth, and everything else, Words cannot be seen by sensual eyes as worthy. For what crosses the mind and thinking, How can we understand bodies with our eyes? – That barely even the mind, cleared of thoughts, And freed from predispositions, Enlightened by the mercy and grace of God, With enlightenment and understanding of existence, As at night with sensual eyes we only see in that place, Where if we light a lamp, The rest of the world, in our opinion, is night, So it is in the night of sins for those sleeping, The Good Lord Light appears in the distance, - God, inconceivable to everyone, takes pity on our weakness. And then, suddenly seeing the light, the man And understanding the nature of existence, Because I've never seen him, He marvels without pain, he sheds tears of his own accord, By which he is cleansed and washed in the second baptism, About which the Lord speaks through the Gospel: “Unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, will not enter the kingdom of heaven" and, further, "Unless he is born again": And he spoke about “from above,” and “from the Spirit,” He added, “birth (John 3:3, 5). The first baptism has water, Foreshadowing the intelligent world of the Spirit. The second is no longer an image of truth, but truth itself. It is not only evil deeds that we must refrain from, But also from thoughts and concepts that are contrary, The ascetic must strive to be free. Always spend time in useful souls, To remain so unconcerned with the things of life. Like one who bares his entire body, If his eyes are covered with some kind of veil, And he won’t want to pick it up and shake it off, It cannot see the light from the nakedness of the rest of the body, Likewise, he neglected all other things, along with his estates, And freed from passions themselves, If from everyday reasoning and false concepts, The intelligent light will never see, Our Lord Jesus Christ and God Himself. Like a covering placed over the eyes, So worldly thoughts and worldly reasoning, Taking it into account, there are souls in sight. For what time, if they are left, When will death be taken away by memory, Then we will clearly see the true light, who enlightens every man, Blind from birth, He will not see with his mind and will not believe what is written by force. Once you see someone who has been honored, Co-certifies that the verb is true. He who sees with sensual eyes knows when it is night, The blind man does not listen to both. And spiritually enlightened and seeing with intelligent eyes, Having seen the true and unfading light, If, through laziness, blindness turns back to the former, He clearly senses his impoverishment, And where it will happen, no one knows. He who is blind from birth, This cannot be comprehended by any trial or action, Unless he just hears and finds out about And he won’t tell others how he heard it, Moreover, you yourself and those listening will not know, What things do they talk to each other about? It is impossible to fill the flesh with satiety, And spiritually intelligent and divine to taste goodness. For as far as the womb can serve, He will deprive himself so much, And how depressing the body is, He will be filled with spiritual food and consolation in proportion. Let's leave everything on earth - Not only wealth and gold, and other matters of life, But we will completely remove the lust for them from our souls. Let us hate not only the pleasures of the body, But also his wordless movements, And kill them through disease by sweat. For because of them is done that which comes from lust, - It is imperative that all our dead souls be, And difficult to move towards every commandment of God, Like the flame of fire always rises high, As soon as you start moving the substance, From which it ignites, Likewise, a vain heart cannot be humble. But what if you tell him something useful, So, being exposed or admonished, he will argue furiously, By boasting or consoling, evil rises. The man, having understood to contradict, I am a double-edged sword for myself, Killing, without noticing it, his own soul, And he who makes eternal life is alien to it. The one who contradicts is similar to the will of the one who creates, surrendering himself, For there is controversy, Having righteousness as a bait, By which, being deceived, we swallow the hook of sin, - It is customary to admire him, both for the sake of the throat and tongue, Spirits of wickedness to the pitiful soul, And when you ascend to the height of exaltation, Then plunge into the chaos of the abyss of sin, And those who fell from heaven are condemned. Dishonored and annoying, And greatly distressing the heart, Let him know from this that he carries an ancient serpent on his chest. If he endures in silence, Or will he be brought to account with humility with many things, - He will make him weak and weakened. If he says bitterly against it, Or he will speak with insolence, - Will give strength to the serpent to pour poison into his heart, And indomitably devour one’s inner self, - So here, every time he manages to create food, About the good corrections and strength of this pitiful soul, And she will live from here for sin, Be dead entirely to the truth. Yes, you will be taught the life of the Gospel, Don’t give yourself over to a frightened teacher, – You will not be taught how to live the devil. For the teachings of good teachers are good, but those of evil ones are evil, The sowing of the evil ones is entirely evil cultivation. Beg God with prayers and tears, Send you a leader who is impassive and holy. Try the divine Scriptures yourself, Especially the holy fathers' practical writings, What is taught to you by the teacher and primate, How to see it in the mirror and recognize it. And in accordance with the Divine Scriptures, Apply to the chest and hold with thinking, What is false and alien is to reason and remove, Deceivers and false teachers have appeared in these days. Everyone who does not see, but is determined to lead others, And he will put those who follow him into the pit of destruction, According to the voice of the Lord: “If the blind lead the blind, ...They will both fall into a pit" (Matthew 15:14). He who is blind to the One is blind to everything. He who sees in the One is in the understanding of everything, He refrains from understanding everything. And in understanding everything it becomes, And there is something understood outside. In the One this being sees everything, And in everything that exists, he sees nothing of everything. Seeing in the One through the One both himself and everyone, And he sees everything, and is hidden in Him, Sees nothing of everything. In the image of our Lord Jesus Christ, Heavenly man and God, In a verbal and intelligent person, Clearly perceptible and not clearly clothed, - There is only blood and flesh, The feeling of spiritual glory cannot be received through words, Just like those who are blind from birth, They just cannot hear the light of the sun through words.] He who hears and sees and feels, Knows the power of the verb, - Like the image that has already carried away the heavenly, And in a perfect man came the fulfillment of Christ. It is possible and worthy to lead the flock of Christ on the path of God’s commandments. The one who is ignorant or otherwise holding is revealed, That the soul’s feelings are not at all clarified and sound, It is much better for him to be led than to lead into trouble. Looking at your teacher and leader as God, If anyone thinks and speaks to have both, Which, for those of God have a disposition towards God, He who believes is in the hand of his shepherd, Life and death are their own, He will never contradict. Inattention to them gives rise to controversy, Intercessor of intelligent and eternal death. Before making a verdict - conviction, The defendant is given the opportunity to tell the judge himself After the deed was clarified and the judge sentenced, He will not contradict those who torture him, either in small or large things. Before entering this judgment seat of a monk, And opening your heart, Maybe you can contradict him, - Or how can one who thinks hide his own. After the thoughts of revelation and clear announcement, You can’t argue with the judge after God, And never to his ruler's death. For the monk, having initially entered this judgment seat, And revealing the secret of his heart, Known from the preface, If at least somehow he gained attention, - That there are thousands of deaths worthy, And for the sake of your obedience and humility, Believes to be redeemed from all vengeance and torment, And if true, then, of course, the image comprehends the sacraments. Indelibly keeping this in his thoughts, The heart will never move, Being punished, admonished and reproved. Because he who falls into such wickedness - I say, of course, discord and disbelief, To your spiritual father and teacher, - Into the trap and depths of hell, while still alive, he is sadly carried away, And it becomes the home of Satan and all his evil spirits, Like the son of disobedience and destruction (Matthew 12:43–45). I beg you to obey this, Direct your thoughts with intent, And strive with all diligence, Let us not descend into the spoken evils of hell. But pray to God fervently all the time and say: "God and Lord of all, He who has power over every breath and soul, The only one who can heal me! Hear my prayer, damned one, And there is a dragon nesting inside me, By the invasion, having killed Thy All-Holy Spirit, consume. And me, poor and naked of all virtue, To my holy father's feet, Deign to fall down with tears, And his holy soul in compassion, Have mercy on me, attract me. And give, Lord, humility to my heart, And thoughts befitting a sinner, Who ordered You to repent, May you not completely abandon a soul once formed, And instead of the whole world, I chose and preferred You. Weigh, Lord, that I wish to be saved, Even if my evil custom creates a stumbling block for me. But everything is possible for You, Master, Which is impossible for humans." Laying a good foundation of faith and hope in the monastery, Piety with fear and trembling; On the stone of obedience to spiritual fathers, Unshakable feet firmly established, And as those who listen to those commanded from God’s lips, And on the basis of this obedience, Heavenly edifying him in humility of soul, - Soon they prosper, and prosper to them, This is great and the first success is to deny oneself. For fulfilling someone else's will, not your own, Not only the rejection of your soul, But even that mortification that brings about peace creates everything. The demons rejoice at their reproachful father. The angels marvel at the one who humbles himself to the point of death. For such a one does the work of God, Becoming like the Son of God, Obedience to Him who fulfilled His Father unto death, Much and inappropriate contrition of heart, Darkens and confuses thinking, And it destroys pure prayer and humility of the soul, Heart disease creates. Here is also bitterness and unskillful blindness, Through them, demons push despair into spiritual ones. Whenever this happens to you, monk, Find zeal and desire for perfection in your soul many, May you want to fulfill every commandment of God, Do not utter even an idle word and do not sin, And the saints cannot be left behind any of the ancients, To the point, attention and understanding. If you see yourself being hindered, From the barren despair of the tares, Let us not suffer harm at such a height of holiness, In stirring up thoughts in you and saying: “It is impossible for you to be saved in the midst of the world, And keep all the commandments of God, without omission." Then you sat in a corner alone, Collect yourself and direct your thoughts, And give good advice to your soul, and say: “Why are you sorrowful, my soul, and why do you trouble me? Trust in God, that I will confess to Him. For the salvation of my face is not my works, but my God. For who will be justified by the works of the law? For “no one living will be justified in Your sight.” But by faith in my God Himself I hope to be saved, For the sake of His ineffable gift of compassion. Follow me, Satan, I will worship the Lord my God, And I have served Him since my youth, Who is able to save me by His sole mercy. God, who created me in His image and likeness, God does not require anything else from us people, As long as you don’t sin, that’s all. But the preservation of the inviolable image and supreme dignity, In which by nature I stood, And wearing a tunic of an enlightened spirit, - We abide in God, and He in us, The virtues of the gods and sons of God receiving the message, Signified by the light of attention to God. From laziness and negligence, joining the soul, If the rules (of prayer) are deviated from the usual, - And they bring an eclipse of thinking, and so much despair, What timidity and blasphemous thoughts are brought to the heart, And not be able to enter the usual place of prayer, Tempted by the demon of despondency, And it’s absurd to think against everything that’s been done. Having found out the reason and where it came from, Enter carefully your usual place of prayer, Yes, to the philanthropic God who fell for you, He will be begged for with lamentation and tears, Deliverance from the burden of despondency and evil thoughts. In illness, staying and interpreting, From those there will soon be liberation. He who has acquired a pure heart has conquered timidity. Only purifying when he casts her down, Not struggling at all - Or completely insensitive And that is a friend to passions and demons, Suffering from vanity and conceit, I want to be something, exist nothing, Or timidity can be a slave and an assistant, Trembling like a child in wisdom, And fearing fear, where there is neither fear nor timidity, - He who fears God is not afraid of demons of aspirations, Neither the weakness of their attacks, nor the evil man’s reproaches. Like some kind of flame or scorching fire all the time, Living in inaccessible places and dark places night and day, Those who run away from him more than he does from them, Let us not be cut off by what comes from him, A fiery ray of God's fire. Who walks in the fear of God, He who dwells among wicked men is not afraid, And bearing the invincible weapon of faith, With him he is strengthened and able to do everything, - And what many consider burdensome and impossible. But like some giant among the monkeys, Or a lion roaring among the passing dogs and foxes, The firmness of wisdom amazes them and frightens their minds, Like an iron rod, imposed by the wisdom of the word. May you not be surprised if, having timidity, Fearing everything, you tremble. For it is still imperfect and weak, - Like a baby, given a scarecrow. For timidity is the passion of babies, And a vain soul worthy of laughter. You don’t want to say a word against this demon, For words are of no use to a trembling and wavering soul. Leave them and, as much as you have the strength, humble your thoughts, Yes, you’ll soon notice how timidity is consumed. Someone was once overcome by despondency, He found his mind sluggish and dark, and his soul dissolute. As if it were a small thing, the tears (were) to dry up from his heart, And the flame within yourself becomes extinguished by the Spirit, And the entire church of his body - filled with children. Moreover, the torpor that is coming to him It brought him into an immeasurable sleep. As necessary, shorten the usual follow-up Resisting this through abstinence and vigilance, Soon his heart hardened from conceit, Shyness crept into him. When he noticed her again, existing in himself, - He left his cell without time; Into a dark place and gone dark, Standing there and raising your hands to the sky, And imprinting the sign of the cross on myself, Raising the eye of the soul to God - just as he humbled his thoughts - Immediately the demon left his timidity behind. The most powerful, fierce enemy is vanity, Stole his thoughts - To steal him away and again convey his timidity to the demon, - What, in fact, having understood, he marveled, May his soul be freed from such snares of the devil. I know a lot about everything, There is a difficult-to-understand plexus of this Both malice and the way of demons exist. For I recognized the timidity of the demon with the fact that despondency Converging and composing, And this helps and adds up. And one - fear in the soul with the bitterness of the creator, The other is eclipse and omission, Also blinding of the soul and mind, And the despair of the one who does it. The test of those who strive is despondency, Let us intercede for them to achieve humility. With those who succeed in prayer or are diligent in prayer, Despondency, especially, the demon is most likely to fight, usually For none of the other demons is attached to such. Is it by house-building permission that this should be on them? Or from bodily violations the strength we have received, - Which is what I especially believe, and that is the verb. I ate a lot and my stomach was heavy, and I slept when I was full - Passion prevailed over my mind, and it was defeated. Then, having abstained beyond measure, I made my mind dark and difficult to move, - I fell into the same passion again. There are times when, due to air mixing, I don’t know how to say - The gloomy density of the southern wind, This will be encountered by those who strive. Dejection is the death of the soul and mind. If God would allow him to act on us according to his power, and not one of those who strive would ever be saved. Ours, however, is to resist him, According to the one power of God, with which to raise us up secretly, And clearly show up as winners yourself. It is impossible for any mortal to rebel, Having raised Himself from the dead without help. When the stolen mind goes deep into self-conceit, And he will think of himself as something to be militant, At that time, invisibly, his enlightening grace evaporates, And soon leaving his vain, he immediately exposes his weakness, - Like wild dogs running at him with passions, He, despairing, not having, Where should I run to be saved? He resorts to the Lord who can save him, through humility. How in a desert impenetrable and full of animals he understands himself to be. Therefore, overcome by inexpressible fear and inscrutable trembling, Cries out to God like Jonah from the whale and the sea of life, Like Daniel from the den of wild passions and lions, Like three youths from the furnace of burning fire planted by lust, Like Manasseh from the brass forging of this mortal and mortal body, - And hearing him, the Lord delivers him, From the abyss of inattention and friendship with the world, Like the prophet from the whale, Let him not turn to him in future, Delivers him from the den of evil thoughts of lust, Snatching and devouring human souls, like Daniel, From the passionate predispositions of fire, Burning and damaging the very soul, And to the inappropriate deeds of the one who forcibly persecutes and attracts - Irrigating his soul with the Holy Spirit, like those of the Israelites, And this earthly and heavy flesh, and the flesh standing in passions, Keeping unhumbled and unfallen, He makes him a son of light and day, And immortality is already here giving him something to eat. The soul, living difficultly in the humiliation of this body, Competing in his pleasures, Feeling the complacency of this air, - It is immovable to every virtue and commandment of God, Like aggravated and bound by ill-spoken malice. Having been erected by the diseases of suffering and tears of repentance, The burden of the flesh will be shaken off, And the sweetness of earthly wisdom will wash away with streams of tears, And above humiliation it will become visible, And freedom will be awarded from tyrannical passions, - Immediately, prophetically, she cries out to God: “Thou hast torn my sackcloth to pieces, and thou hast girded me with gladness, For let my glory sing to You, and I will not be moved” (Ps. 29:12-13). Three Divine Scriptures, In which the mind willingly settles, it usually indicates. I say it’s better for two to be, - Do not contend against Scripture, let it not be, But between the beginning and the end, the middle is not taken into account. I say from city to city, And from country to another country he crossed, Not even the path that I traveled, Call it a country or a city, Even if he sees many certain and wonderful things on it. For he who passed from Egypt to the promise of the land, And the universe in her, everything that happened between, remembers, But not like from the first to the second, and from the second to the third city, Or he says to cross the country, But how from slavery to freedom, and from darkness to light, And from captivity to the native fatherland dispensation. So from ostracism to dispassion, And from the passions of enslavement - into the freedom of the Spirit, And from an unnatural predisposition, Which the law calls spiritual captivity - Into the supernatural ascent, From the abyss of life and storm to the extra-worldly silence, the destination, From the bitterness of everyday worries and sorrows, Into the indescribable sweetness and unconcern with every earthly thing, From the many lusts of misfortune and turmoil, To the unique and attractive state of one’s own and love, Our human minds move naturally. The transition of the mind from the visible to the invisible, What is higher than the feeling of this, willing accommodation, - Oblivion of everything that happened before creates. I am his silence, truly, And I call silence a country and an opportunity, To which he who is worthy to ascend will no longer be like Moses, Who created such forty days and nights on the mountain, But it's good to be approved there, He will never return to those below, Becoming the home of the Trinity here, And he himself will dwell in the Trinity, as in the very existence of Her heavenly Kingdom, Love, namely, holding him and not allowing him to fall. Not only silent or obedient, But also the manager, and the one who stands before many - and the employee himself, By managing - free from all worldly things, unambiguously. For if we worry, We will be found transgressors of God's commandment, saying: “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, Or what to wear, for all this is what the pagans seek” (Matthew 6:25, 31-32). "See that your hearts not be overloaded with gluttony, And drunkenness, and the cares of this life” (Luke 21:34). Having a preoccupied thought in the things of life - For they are cared for and enslaved. If he cares about himself, he also cares about others. Free from this, neither about yourself nor about others, If he is a bishop, if he is an abbot, if he is also a deacon by fate. Or will he neglect the simplest and smallest things, Creating and doing everything pleasing to God, Unconcerned in everything you do and in your life. There is inactive care, and there is carefree action, As well as vice versa, active carelessness, And preoccupied idleness. Just as the Lord announced, saying: “My Father works until now, and I work,” and further: “Do... don’t let things perish in vain, But... abiding in life and eternity” (John 5:17, 6:27), – Without eliminating activity, But he taught us how to do things without worry, saying the same thing: “Who..., by caring, can add height... to himself... by one elbow?” (Matthew 6:27), – Eliminating non-functional concerns. About the rivers that actually appear: “And why do you worry about clothing and food? Do you not see the flowers of the field and the birds of the air, Somehow it grows, does He nourish them?” (Matthew 6:26–28) Eliminating one and affirming the other, the Lord teaches us As the unconcerned should, Concerned, act And how can carefree beings refrain from doing inappropriate things? May you not ruin your home, When you want to create your neighbor. For see how difficult and inconvenient it is, Yes, if you don’t deign to attack him, you will destroy yours, But you won’t be able to recreate anything else. If perfect impartiality, You will not acquire worldly things and possessions, You don’t want to be assigned to look after things, May you not find yourself captured by them, And instead of accepting the reward of service, A thief and robber of a church will not be condemned. If you are forced to do this by the primate, Like a scorching fire in your hands, be positioned, And driving away the pretext of thoughts through declaration and repentance, Unharmed, primate prayer, may you be preserved. Not only is he not knowledgeable about dispassion, But he doesn’t even believe that such a thing can exist on earth. After all, having never denied himself before, And he boldly did not drain his blood, For the sake of this truly blessed life, Anything else that can be honored can be created, To acquire dispassion? Likewise, the one who thinks to have the Holy Spirit, having nothing, He never believes when listening to His actions, And there is someone in our generation, Along with the Apostles of Christ and the Saints from time immemorial, Acting by God and moving by the Spirit, In the vision of this it appears clearly and clearly. Each according to his own condition, He judges what his neighbor has, When it is about virtues or vices. Another is the dispassion of the soul, and another is the dispassion of the body. For the first thing sanctifies the body with its lordship and illumination of the Spirit, The second, in and of itself, Nothing can be useful to the acquisitive. One is the immobility of mental and physical joints, Another is the acquisition of virtues. And the first is diligent by nature, The second and natural movements make everything silent. Not to desire anything from the world of pleasures and pleasures, There is no equal to eternal and invisible benefits. For one is this, and another is this. And many neglected the first, The least of the people were concerned about the latter. It’s not that if you reject something, This is to be crowned with the glory of God, But there is a big difference between these two. For many possessing other passions, That they are very small, through many labors and illnesses, It is not so that when one is satisfied with simple clothes, And not to desire bright robes - that is, to be clothed with the light of God. For this is one thing, and that is another. For those who are conveniently overthrown by thousands of lusts Steadily these are the ones who seek through all suffering, And those who fulfill the commandments become sons of light and day. One is humility of speech, and the other is humility of mind. And another humility, and another - the color of humility and its fruit. But the beauty of this fruit, and the pleasure of beauty is different. And, besides this, from the fruit of this action. We have one of these with us, And with us - all kinds of thinking, all kinds of wisdom, All sorts of thoughts and things to say, And do what leads us to humility. Holy humility and so on, its properties, His gifts and actions are a gift from God, and not from us. No one will ever be honored with them, If the worthy in oneself does not sow the seeds. Not indignation in dishonor and annoyance, In temptations and sorrows there is one thing. And another thing is favor towards them. And the prayer for those who do this to us is another thing. And another thing is their love from the heart, Mental representation of the face of each of the (creators) of them, And like sincere friends, without passion, Hug in tears of pure love, There are no traces of trouble at all, More than all that we have said, When, even at the very time of temptation, Who has equal and similar, invariably, disposition, To the face of those who revile and are untruthful and condemning, And those who accuse, and who annoy, and who spit at him, And to those externally located in the disposition of friendship, Those who do similar things secretly, but do not hide. Incomparably this, further, I accept to be great, Being in complete oblivion: To them, if someone happened to insult him, Neither absent nor present, Don’t remember anything from the past, But, like friends and them, without a clue about what happened, Take into fellowship and eat together. Neither remembrance of God nor love of God, Neither fearing Him nor keeping His commandments. Because this is one thing, and this is another. The perfect, however, and the dispassionate - both exist. One is sinlessness, and the other is keeping the commandments. For these are those who strive and live according to the Gospel, Those are the only ones who first acquired dispassion. It’s not that if it’s all idleness, then it’s also silence, And it’s not that if there is silence, then there is silence. First, those who do not want to know anyone have a share in the blessings of God, There is nothing good to do. Secondly, those who create teaching are always attentive to God, And those who sit down to the word of the implanted wisdom of God, And testing the depths of the Spirit, And marveling at the mysteries in the teachings of God that are encountered. The third thing is that those who do it are doing things intelligently, With attentiveness to preoccupied thoughts and thoughts. It’s not so much removal as moving from place to place, It is essentially true wandering. But this is one thing, and that is another. For the first is those who believe, Yes, due to the smallness of the fickle mind, Or because of the excess ardor of those striving for even better feats. The second is for those crucified to the world and the world's things, And always wanting to be with one God and the angels, And not returning to humanity at all. One thing is to confront and fight with enemies, Another is to completely defeat and conquer and kill them. Those who strive and practice abstinence. The second is dispassionate and perfect. But these are all actions in the light of the dispassion of the walking saints. Those who see this beyond themselves, They will not be seduced by anything, But let them see how they walk in vain in the darkness. Many, one because of one thing, Very small ones - with instilled fear and love for God, The only ones, helped by the highest grace, They will soon correct the virtues of doing, And they reach out to the spoken one. Let others be left to wander around as if “in the dark,” According to the words “not on the way”, according to - “And I will let you go according to the plans of their hearts, They will go forward in their endeavors” (Ps. 80:13). Those who were in temptation, For the sake of zeal for beauty, the verb will carry power. Otherwise, the one who holds what is said sensually will understand, - Flat will have the intentions of understanding, Moreover, he will invent false inventions in his own sense, Far from the truth of what is being said, As if deceived, it will be very. Whenever you rise above the body of humiliation, For the sake of the illnesses and sweats of many, And out of my own compulsions, It’s easy and how you can carry it spiritually, As if feeling neither fatigue, nor hunger, nor thirst, But at the time, it’s more “in the mirror”, despite the fact that Seeing what no one has ever seen And your soul is pricked by that attraction, You will make a sob, added to the tears, Then may I and the beautiful humility be remembered, How to unite with God to the end, And boldness towards Him is not shameful. The leaders are attentive and prudent Repentance is not suitable for anyone who thinks of God, To the one who repents - thinking of God. For as far as the east is from the west, The thought of repentance is so much higher. For as a man who is in sickness and infirmity, Or a poor man dressed in rags and crying out for alms - And he who truly does works of repentance is called. The one who thinks God is like one who is brought up in the royal court, In the lordship of the most royal attire, And he always speaks with his existing king, And from him it is clear to those who hear every hour, Attending to God Inattention to others is the cause and intercessor of everything - And the multitude of His illumination is complete blindness, And, above feeling, super-perfect feeling - Everything outside of His existence is insensibility. For with what and how, and where, and what, and how, - What it is - unknown, And to recognize or understand this is not possible at all - How will the feeling exist? And isn’t that more than a feeling? The mind is in the feeling of its weakness, Insensitive to what is higher than feeling, For “whose eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, And there is no sigh in the heart of man” (1 Cor. 2:9), How will the feelings be exposed? That which the Lord gives us is above feelings, Gives us a different feeling and a higher feeling, Yes, those that are above feelings, His gifts and talents, Supernaturally, through all the senses, We feel clearly and purely. Anyone insensitive to the One, He is insensitive to everything. Just as he who has a feeling for the One is in the feeling of everything, And there are feelings of everything outside. There is everything in the feeling, and it is not covered by the feeling. He who is deaf to the Word is deaf to every voice, And he who hears the Word hears everyone. He, being deaf to every voice, hears everyone and no one, If only not in the Word of the only ones who create words. And not them, but the only Word silently speaking in the voice. He who hears, and sees, and feels, That the feelings of the soul are by no means clarified and sound. Holding it like that, I haven’t yet heeded that That the visible creation was created by those who saw above, And a secret place visible to the mind. He was compared and became like senseless and beasts of burden. And, having become like, remains so, - Without returning yet, without calling out, Or having returned to my former dignity, According to the gift of the economy, Our Master and Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. If you are below, do not torture those above. Before you become superior, May you not worry about those below, Yes, if you slip, you won’t fall away from both. More precisely, you will not be destroyed with those below. Just as from the last poverty of the king, Elevated to wealth and famous dignity, And clothed with a bright robe from him, And the one appointed to stand before him, He himself sees the king with desire, And, as a benefactor, he loves The robe in which he has put on clearly understands And the wealth given to him comprehends, - So the monk, truly removed from the world and the things in it, The one who is called is clearly perceptible, And to the height of spiritual understanding, Built up through the doing of the commandments, - It is not false to see God himself, And he clearly understands the change that takes place in him, For he always sees the grace of the Spirit illuminating him, Which is called the robe, and the royal scarlet, Moreover, therefore, he himself is Christ, For in Him, those who believe, put on Him. Enriched with heavenly wealth, By the coming, I say, and the vitality of what was said, “I and the Father will come and make our abode with him” (John 14:23), - In the attention of the soul comprehends the venerable one, Spreads wealth throughout the chambers of his heart, As if talking to God to each other, It appears before the face in an unapproachable dwelling light. Triblessed - diligent through holy deeds and deeds, Pay attention to what is being said. Angel - and nothing more than a river - Achieved through understanding and attention, And to those close to God, as if the Son of God had appeared. In the same way as standing by the seashore, Sees the endless abyss of water, The edge, however, cannot embrace them, But the part that he looks at So into the endless abyss of God’s glory, Through understanding, the worthy one can look and see her intelligently, - But, as far as the intelligent eyes of his soul can see, he sees. Like someone standing by the sea not only sees it, But he also enters its waters as much as he wants, Those who want to be spiritual - to participate, To the extent that attention is forced through desire, Just like standing in the sea near the shore, While outside the waters, he sees everything, and understands the abyss of the waters, When he begins to enter the waters and immerse himself in them, To the extent that he descends, he deprives himself of understanding from outsiders, So those who participate in God’s light, To the extent that they succeed in divine attention, Accordingly, they fall into inattention. Like entering the waters of the sea up to your knees or loins, Everything is clear, the being beyond the waters sees, When will he descend into the abyss, He will no longer be able to see anything from the outside, If not just one thing to know, That everything is in the depths of the sea, This is what happens in the spiritual success of those growing, And to the perfection of attention and understanding of the ascendants. Whenever you are successful in spiritual accomplishment, Thus the glory of the Lord is cleverly reflected, And the attention of reason, and the revelation of secrets, They mysteriously show the grace from above, Raising attention to what is higher than those that exist. Approaching perfection, And those who already see, as it were, in part, Boundlessness and immensity, they would have seen him, For as far as the light of attention penetrates, - They accept the knowledge of their inattention. As soon as it is unclear what appears to them, And as shown in the mirror, With their minds they will be able to see what is visible, - It would be more favorable to become united in participation with Everything that embraces itself in itself; And all that in the depths of the Spirit, As if in the midst of an abyss of light-like endless waters he would be destroyed Because in complete inattention, As if above all attention, More precisely - from any concept of naked, Immersing myself in all the divine light, Moreover, in what he abides, to gain, Yes, I would be inspired to comprehend it. But remains in the depths of God's light, Without being allowed to look outside at all. And this is “God is light,” and the most ultimate light, And to those present - peace of all understanding. Motionless, at that time, the ever-moving mind, And, by all appearances, it becomes incomprehensible, As soon as everything is covered with the Divine cloud and light, - Truly abides in understanding, And he will feel and taste, there is good in him. For not like the depth of the sea waters, So is the depth of the Holy Spirit, But he abides by water, living, eternal life. Everything here is incomprehensible, Inexplicable and immense, In it the mind, having crossed everything visible and conceivable, happens And in this alone it motionlessly moves and turns, Light in light, and not light in itself, For then he sees not himself, but above himself, And from the glory there, he does not heed all his concepts, changing. Measures that have achieved perfection exist. Living, he abides in Him, God, Blind, as if not by nature, looking, Having become higher than any natural vision, Like new eyes, and better ones, Beyond those of nature, incomparably, having accepted, Inactive and motionless How to complete your action. Non-conceptual, as in that which is beyond the concept, connection, Where there is no action of the mind, Or to reasoning or thinking, Or the concept is not movement at all. For the incomprehensible and the impossible, He cannot comprehend or recognize, And as if in such, he calms down with peace, Real estate of blissful insensibility, In a feeling affirmed inexpressible, It is not useless, enjoying, good. Not worthy of achieving such a measure of perfection, And in such possession there will be blessings, And he doesn’t say making excuses, Something is impossible, Or that there is perfection, but it is indistinct. But let him know, informed by the Divine Scriptures, Something possible and true, It happens and clearly acts. By omission and inaction in the commandments, Each person, accordingly, deprives himself of such benefits. Many people read the Divine Scriptures, Small and readable power and concept, The same when it is impossible to be, They declare what is spoken by the Divine Scriptures, When even they are recognized as unfaithful, Or they reinterpret his evil, And for the present tense it is said, To the future they are judged. They pass it off as something that has already arrived and is constantly present. And so they have no just court, No distinction between what is true in divine and human things. From the beginning God created two worlds, the visible and the invisible, - There is one kingdom of the visible two worlds in Himself, It bears images in accordance with what is visible and what is visible to the mind. For such, respectively, two suns shine, Sensual is one thing, and smart is another. And what the sun is in the visible and sensible, Then in the invisible and intelligent is God, For the Sun of Truth both exists and is spoken. So, therefore, there are two suns, One is sensual, the other is smart, Like two worlds, as the verb says. And one of the two, taking the sensory world and everything in it, Illuminated by this feeling and the visible sun, Another one, smart and what is in him, It is illuminated and enlightened by the Smart Sun of Truth. The sensual - by feeling, the intelligent - by the Smart Sun, Separately from each other they are enlightened, Having no connection or attention with each other, Neither the smart to the sensual, nor the sensual to the smart. One of all visible and visible to the mind, Man was created by God in two ways, Having a body composed of four elements, Through them, it participates in these elements and lives in them. The soul is intelligent and immaterial and incorporeal, Inexpressibly with such and incomprehensibly united, And dissolved unmixed and unfused. That is, there is only one person - living, mortal and immortal, Visible and invisible, sensual and thinking, He who looks above the visible creation, who listens with his mind to what is visible. How, therefore, in two worlds two suns are divided according to their action, Same for one person One body, the other illuminates his soul, And from its light of participation, each illuminated by it, According to the ability to accept its strength, Either richly or sparingly. The sensual sun is understood, but does not understand. Smart - and understood by the worthy, And he sees everyone, and even more those who see Him. The sensual neither speaks nor gives speech to anyone. Smart - and speaks with his friends, and gives speech to everyone. Having illuminated the sensual in feeling, The warmth of the rays only dries up the moisture of the earth, But it does not fertilize plants and seeds at all. What is intelligent makes both things obvious in the soul: Dampness dries up passions, And the shame that is from them is cleansed, And obesity penetrates into the smart land of the soul, They feed little by little on the virtues of planting. The sensual sun rises and enlightens the sensual world, And everything that is in it: people, animals, livestock, etc. For the sake of which equal and light gives equally. And leaves a place for the dark that illuminated it. Smart - always shines and shines, Everything is inconceivably contained in everything for everyone. It has departed from those created by Him, And everything retreats from them, without retreating, In everything, everything being for everyone, and nowhere, In all All visible creations, and All of them outside. All in the visible and All in the invisible, The principles are prudent and practical The beginning is Christ, the middle and perfection. In all, for He is the first, the middle, And the latter, as in the former, exist. For in Him there is no difference among such, Neither as a barbarian, nor as a Scythian, nor as a Hellene, nor as a Jew, But Christ is everything and in everything. The Holy Trinity, reaching out to everyone, From the first to the last, Like from a certain head to the feet, It composes everyone, holds them together and unites them, And, composing, makes them firm and indestructible. In each of them One and the Same is reflected, proclaimed, In Her the last are first, We, the faithful, must see all the faithful as one, And think in each of them to be Christ, And so treat him with love, How ready to be to lay down our souls for him. And we must not say or think anything evil, But see everyone as good as we said. For even if you see someone suffering from the passions, Not your brother, but hate the passions that war against him, And if by the lusts and predispositions of the tyrant, - Then be brought to greater mercy, Yes, not when you yourself are tempted, - Being a transformation (from non-existence to being), - In the same way as the intelligent ranks of the higher powers, They are illuminated according to order from God, From the first rank of authority to the second, From him to another, and in order, Divine, light-throwing passing through everyone, So the saints, illuminated by the divine angels, By the union of the Spirit, being bound and united, They are equals and competitors. For from the saints who went before, through generation and generation, Through the doing of God's commandments the coming saints, Accepting God's grace according to participation. And as if there were some kind of golden chain, Each of them being one link, Connecting by faith and deeds and love, So that they can be one, And become a chain in the one God, Unable to stop soon. If anyone is false through hypocrisy, Or soon crushed by one passion, Or a little insufficient due to negligence - Accepts fate, is not considered among the all-perfect, But how obscene and unskillful is laid aside, Yes, the tension happened at the wrong time, The rupture will create chains for the union, And separation in the inseparable. And sadness will create in both, In those that are in front, behind the last, In these same cases, due to the removal of those suffering in front. Connections with the last of all saints, In love and strong wishes, Through humility, not coveting, But some small amount of unfaithfulness accrued to him, Will never be joined at all, And it will not be okay with the saints who were first and preceded, Even if everyone thinks he has faith, Out, for he will be cast out from them, As in the place that is appointed, And in which to be joined by God, before the age, was provided, Through humility, not desiring. According to God, crying predetermines humiliation, Then joy and joy unspeakable. By what is according to God, humility, The hope of salvation also increases. For how much from the heart does anyone consider himself to be more sinful than all people, So much so does hope grow with humility, And it blooms in his heart, announcing, That for his sake she expects to be saved. How deep does one descend into humility? And he rejects himself as unworthy to be saved, For such he mourns and opens sources of tears, - (So) with them, respectively, Spiritual joy rises in the heart, Hope flows from her and grows with her, And it provides the most reliable certificate of salvation. Everyone needs to pay attention to themselves and understand Yes, not to dare with one hope, Without crying for God and spiritual humility, Neither humility nor tears, Without the subsequent spiritual hope and joy. There is a imaginary humility from negligence and lethargy, And the conscience of strong condemnation, Which those who have obtained salvation understand as an intercessor, - For joyful crying was not associated with it. There is spiritual crying beyond humility, And it’s like purgatory for sins, So those who weep, understand, and wander in vain, thinking so For they are deprived of the sweetness of the Spirit, Mysteriously in the mansions of intelligent souls, And they do not taste the goodness of the Lord, That is why such people soon become inflamed from anger, And the world, and what is in the world, They cannot completely neglect it. He did not neglect this at all, And hatred from the heart for this has not been acquired, Never hope for your salvation, He cannot acquire something solid and heavenly. Here and there he always puts himself into doubt, Without laying a foundation on a stone. Cry has a dual effect, Like water, tears extinguish the flames of passions, And cleanses the soul from their filth, Like fire, it gives life through the coming of the Holy Spirit, And it ignites, and lights, and warms the heart, And it binds him to the aspiration and desire of God. Look and recognize the actions taking place in you, And from them experience the benefits offered to you every hour. She is the deposition of all earthly wisdom for beginners, To everything related, personal and friendly - Impartiality and rejection All things and estates - Neglect and neglect Not only down to the needle, but also to the body itself. Like the flame of a burning furnace, He who throws earth extinguishes it, In the same way, the worries of life And every addiction to the simplest and smallest thing, The ardor of the heart, which was initially kindled, is destroyed. External things and people, and everything that is in life, Who created the heart with all-perfect feeling, And he accepted them into oblivion, Like a wall, having crossed addiction, As a stranger to the world and to what is in the world, to everything, - Gathering your mind and creating one thought: That and always that he cares about judgment and retribution, And he is completely captivated by the indescribable fear of such I'm falling over from talking about this. Someone like a condemned man, wrapped in shackles, At the disgrace of this life it happens - The fear of judgment carried deep within. Hence, of course, and like some executioner, I am drawn by fear, Walking towards death, he appears, Understanding nothing else but illness and torment, Which will undergo eternal vengeance, Carrying this indelibly in the heart; This is where the fear comes from, Nothing human at all, Doesn't leave him to care, For, as if already nailed to a tree, And greatly tormented, driven to death, Nor allow myself to look into whose face, I take no word about the honor or dishonor of men. Any, for, dishonor and humiliation, Worthy of yourself, from the heart, having, He doesn't worry about being harassed. All kinds of food and drink, and decoration of clothes, The fear that brings death is abhorred, And he neither eats bread nor drinks water with pleasure, He will give only what the body needs, Just enough to live. And he will become a slave of all, with the reasoning of the commanded. Who gave himself as a slave according to God to his fathers for fear of torment, It’s not an easy disease - it’s a disease of your heart, receiving a command, Not detaching - fear of bondage. This is not friendly or flattering, Or how, in the order of command, he will obey, But the more increasing will prefer itself, And the bonds that bind will desire, And the executioner - the strengthener - will love, How can I not accept liberation from them at all? For the hope of deliverance makes illness easier, Which, in fact, is disadvantageous for the ardent repentant. For everyone who begins life according to God, helpers - The torment of fear and the illness that comes from it. Without such illness and bonds and executioner, He did not rely on the sand of his deeds alone, But even in the air he imagines, without a foundation, to build a house, Which, in fact, is impossible. For this disease does not give birth to all joy, And these bonds break the bonds of all sins and passions, And this executioner is not all death, But does he intercede for eternal life? If someone doesn’t want to push away and avoid, An emerging disease from the fear of eternal torment, - But by the will of the heart to follow him, And bind yourself more with these shackles, - In proportion, it will go along the path faster, And before the face of the King of kings he will present himself. Together with the sight of Him, it is unclear, as it were, His glory, The fetters will be released immediately, The executioner's fear will run far from him, And in his heart, illness will turn into joy and become a source, Exuding sensual tears in an ever-flowing stream. In the mind there is silence, meekness and indescribable sweetness, And to all obedience to the commandments of God, Free and unhindered flow. Until then, newbies, Having ascended to the middle of prosperity, And, in fact, happening, This light and source of the heart, Suddenly changing and changing, Having within oneself the light of the All-Holy Spirit, He falls to the ground, She screams and cries out in amazement and fear, As a thing beyond nature, beyond words, beyond concept, And it happens to be like a man, From somewhere who received the burning of his womb by fire, Who is scorched and cannot bear the flames of burning, He remains as if in a frenzy, Not being able to come to my senses at all, Filled with ever-flowing tears, and cooled by them. The fire of desire burns stronger, This is why he sheds more tears, And washed by their outpouring, it shines brighter. When, completely ignited, the light becomes Then what was spoken will be fulfilled: “God is uniting and speaking to God,” He united so much with those already aligned, If God wants on our part, - How much will it open - Seen as worthy and listened to. Not how much anyone should suffer or see anything, And if first someone is united with the All-Holy Spirit, Humble and pure, simple and contrite heart, From illnesses and sweats. Let no one deceive us with empty words, And let us not deceive ourselves, There is no repentance or true repentance in us, No fear of God in our hearts. Our soul became neither in the sense of impending judgment nor eternal torment. For if she had acquired this and was in it, For without this, our cruel heart can never be softened, Neither our soul can acquire spiritual humility, We can neither become humble. One cannot be united with the Holy Spirit. Not united with Him with purification, Not in understanding and attention to God, perhaps, Neither is worthy of humility to the secret virtues of teaching. As soon as the student reads in warehouses, That which is told in rhetoric and philosophy, Not only will it not be beneficial, But even what he started, he would rather neglect it and leave it, For the sake of not containing the thought of the verb, at all - force, What about perfection, saying, But it will also work in the posterior abduction. For they, having looked up to the heights of virtue, And how far behind the top they themselves are, having realized, That it will be impossible for them to climb to the edge, Having been led to the opinion - Partly begun as useless will be despised, Whenever still withheld, And those ruled by passions will hear, All people and all animals and beasts, Considers himself to be the most unclean And, being dishonored, he rejoices, and being reviled, he blesses, And he prays for his enemies with tears and heart disease, Begging God and asking for them, - Trying to make yourself equal to those. Then convicted by the Divine Scriptures, And this is in fact shown by the saints, Indignantly, they confess the impossibility of achieving this. When and what without this fulfillment, It is impossible, they will hear, to be saved by him, Then, finally, not wanting to eradicate evil, And to repent of their sins, - They despair of themselves. The sheep's skin represents one image, Being different according to the inner man, Everyone, sometimes, filled with untruths, Full of envy and zeal and the pleasures of the stench, Those who are filled (with grace) and saints are revered, - Nor the purified eye of those who have souls, Nor can those who are able know them by their fruits. In reverence and virtue, And the simplicity of the heart of the transient, They offend and, neglecting them, pass by. Talker and teacher speaker, They also mean to be more spiritual. And regarding the idle talk of the one who acts carefully - They declare him a peasant and dumb. From the one who speaks in the Holy Spirit, Highly wise and proudly sick of the devil, How they turn away from the wise and proud, His words hurt me more than touching me. From the womb or from the teachings of the rounding word, And their imaginary salvation, Praised and accepted. And so there is not one among those, It’s good and how things are going to see and judge the mighty. “Blessed are you,” says God, “ The pure in heart, for they will see God” (Matthew 5:8). Isn’t every single virtue of a pure heart, Neither two nor ten have increased the accomplishment, But only if all together To say, as a single entity, But it’s not that they alone can create a pure heart, Without the coming and action of the Spirit. For, like a coppersmith, art through his tools Not a single one can be put to use at all, So, obviously, man creates everything, And uses virtues as tools, Without the spiritual fire of coming, They remain inactive and useless, Defilement and slime do not cleanse the soul. Where there is deep humility, there are abundant tears. There is the coming of the Holy and worshiped Spirit. All purity and holiness comes to Him who acts. And they see God, and God sees him. “To whom,” He says, “I will look, So against him who is meek and silent, and who trembles at My words” (Is. 66:2). A man of passion can win, And he accepted the power not to do evil, Not to think about it is no longer possible. Piety is not only to do good, But also not to understand the evil. For he who understands evil cannot obtain a pure heart, How dirty it gets, This is a pure heart, I realized, Not only not to suffer from some kind of passion, But also not to understand anything evil or worldly, Whenever you come to the will for something. To have a single memory of God in oneself in an unstoppable desire, For in pure light the eye sees God purely, When there is nothing else that prevents understanding. That, I say, is dispassion, That outside not only become matters of passion, But also alienated from their lust. But also naked in our minds from the concept of them. As and when we want, we are above the heavens, Beyond everything, becoming visible and sensual, Only by turning off our feelings, And with our mind, entering into that which is beyond feeling, Capturing the feeling into yourself by force, Like an eagle has its wings. A mind without feelings does not show its actions, And, crazy, feelings – your own – no way. The heart speaks and is pure, That not a single concept or thought of everyday life acquires in itself, What is so sacrificed and united to God, That neither the burdens of remembering life nor its joys, But it’s like passing the third, in understanding, heaven, And see the guarantees of the good promised to the saints, And the eternal blessings themselves, by the permission of human nature, There is a predestination there, According to, verily, a sign and reliable indication, By which someone even heeds purity, And, as in a mirror, he sees himself. Just as the one outside the house does not see the prisoner inside, So, crucified to the world, of course, and put to death, I did not gain any feelings for those things in the world. In the same way that a dead body is not related to the living, Not to the dead bodies lying with him, Has no feeling So he who appeared outside the world in the Spirit and existed with God, Can't have feelings for the world Or become addicted to his things Although the body is subject to needs. And before the resurrection of bodies and souls there is a resurrection, - By deed, strength, experience and truth. For when mortal wisdom is destroyed by the immortal mind, And deadness is driven out by life, The soul, as if raised from the dead, confesses itself and sees - Just as those who rise from sleep see themselves - And the one who raised her will know God, Whom, understanding and giving thanks, Comes out of the feelings and the world of everything, Filled with indescribable pleasure, And every mental movement calms in Him. One is brought in from us, the other is given to us from above from God. For how much through sickness and sacred sweats we are cleansed - We are enlightened by the light touchingly. And as much as we are enlightened by light, we are purified by tears, The other is given by perceiving from above. Many have contributed, That which, as usual, was not accepted from God. And, obviously, from the same ones, Cain and Esau created and suffered. For, if not by right thoughts and piety, By location and ardent faith, And many humility, God will neither look upon him nor accept what is brought. If so, then what is from Himself, And he will not want to reciprocate the one who brings it. The world is dead and those of the world are unto the saints. Therefore, even though they look, they see their good deeds, Neither, by listening, are they able to understand at all in the Holy Spirit, Their divine words are spoken. But also spiritual - worldly and evil people see evil deeds, Or horrified words cannot contain them, But even these people, looking at what is in the world, do not see, And listening to what is worldly, As without hearing the feeling is located. So, no communication between these and those Or those who are spiritual do not exist. How clear is the separation of light and darkness, “What,” for it is said, “is the communion between light and darkness, Or what part of the faithful is with the unfaithful" (2 Cor. 6:14-15), So the Holy Spirit who has such separation, And removal from those who do not have. For the first have their residence in heaven, Already becoming angels from people, The latter still sit in the ancestral darkness and shadow of death, Nailed to the ground and things in the ground. And the first with smart and non-evening light, The latter are illuminated only by the sensory. And the first ones see themselves and those nearby, The second - themselves and those who are nearby, constantly seeing, What people are and how people die, And, not paying attention, they do not believe about the Judgment, And that there will be an uprising and retribution for what is known to everyone. If the Holy Spirit is in you - In every possible way, from His actions that occur in you, You will know what the apostle says about Him. Verb, for “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Cor. 3:17). And that “the flesh... is dead for sin’s sake, But the Spirit lives for righteousness’ sake” (Rom. 8:10). And that “those who are Christ’s are, The flesh is crucified with passions and lusts” (Gal.5:24). “Behold, be baptized in the Holy Spirit, Put on Christ completely” (Gal.3:27) – And the sons are of light, and in the unevening light they walk, And, looking at the world, they don’t see, And, listening to what is in the world, they do not hear, So, after all, it is written about bodily people, And, hearing about divine things, they do not understand, They cannot contain what is of the Spirit, So, for me, you will understand regarding those who have the Holy Spirit within themselves. The body is worn, but is not in the flesh, - “But you,” it is said, “are in the flesh, but in spirit, Therefore the Spirit of God dwells in you” (Rom. 8:9). The world is dead, and peace be upon them, “To me,” for, it is said, “the world will be crucified, and I to the world” (Gal.6:14). These leading signs and wonders operating within themselves, There is a real God-bearer and standard-bearer, Having God, recognizing the All-Holy Spirit Himself, Verb and act in yourself what Paul said. Having not yet realized this within myself, Let him not deceive himself - there is still flesh and blood, Obviously, darkness is brought upon oneself by the lusts of the flesh. Flesh and blood of the Kingdom of God, Which is the Holy Spirit, they will not inherit. One from divine baptism, We accept the abandonment of the sinner, And we are freed from the recent oath, And by the coming of the Holy Spirit we are sanctified. The other is perfect grace, But “I will dwell in them and be like” (2 Cor. 6:16), not immediately. For this is in the faith of those established, And there are cases that prove it. For after our baptism, Inclined to evil and shameful deeds, We lose holiness itself in everything possible. Through repentance and confession and tears, Accordingly, we accept the forsaking of what we have sinned before, So - and holiness with the highest grace. Repentance is the washing away of the filth of shameful deeds. After this - the communion of the Holy Spirit. Not simply, but by faith and disposition and humility, But even after the complete abandonment of the sin, From the father and guarantor of adoption. For this reason, it is good to constantly repent according to the commandment. For, “repent, ... for the kingdom of heaven has drawn near” (Matthew 4:17), - Doing prompts us without measure. Grace of the All-Holy Spirit, Christ is given to betrothed souls as a pledge. And just as without a pledge a woman cannot firmly unite with a man, Yes, I want to reliably get married one day, So a reliable soul does not accept identification, One day we will become together with her Lord and God forever, And mysteriously and ineffably join Him, And taste Him of unapproachable beauty, If the pledge does not accept His grace and clearly acquire it within oneself. In the same way as written symbolic charters, If those not signed by worthy of faith witnesses are accepted, This is not a reliable guarantee, So before doing the commandments and acquiring virtues, There is no solid illumination of grace. For, as witnesses to those who agreed, So for the spiritual pledge, The commandments to do and perform virtues have been established. For what is done through them receives the pledge of possession, Each of those who are coming will be saved. Only if what was agreed upon through the doing of the commandments is written first, Then it is sealed and signed with virtues, - Then the Bridegroom-Christ gives the ring to the bride-soul, Just like a bride, before marriage, she only accepts a deposit from the groom, The agreed dowry and the gifts presented in it, After marriage, take tea, So the bride, the faithful Church, and the one soul of each of us, Previously, the pledge from the Bridegroom-Christ only receives the Spirit, Eternal blessings and the kingdom of heaven, After leaving here, take tea, Certified through a pledge, That the agreement with her will not be false. How and when the groom hesitates while away, Or is absent for some other reason, And will make marriage postponed for now, If, being angry, the bride despises his love, And the pledge charter will either blot out or tear up, Then your hopes for the groom will immediately disappear, - That’s how it came to be in my heart. For if one of those who struggle says: “How long must I suffer?” And he will neglect abstinent diseases, And through negligence about the commandments, And abandonment of unceasing repentance, As if he would blot out or break the agreement, - Immediately the pledge and hope in God completely disappears. If the love of her betrothed groom changes to another, And will be brought to cohabitation with him, openly or secretly, Not only does nothing presented to her from her groom make her happy But both vengeance and reproach are what is according to the law, So, exactly, it came to us. If anyone changes his love for the Bridegroom Christ, To lust for some other object, openly or secretly, And his heart will be kept in her, - She will become hateful and vile to the Groom, And unworthy of union with Him. For He said: “I love those who love Me.” The deposit in those who have acquired it is indescribable, - Incomprehensibly comprehending, holding on uncontrollably, Without looking, seeing, living and speaking, And moving, and moving the one who has acquired, Removing from it, the icon is imprinted in it, And, again, in the absence of hope, finding within it, So that no presence is strong, Neither the retreat is irreversible, Imagining the one who has acquired does not create. And so, without having it, as having it, And having, as if not having, the one who acquired it is located. In the same way, as inside a house at night, someone stands With the windows closed everywhere, And lightning will suddenly shine bright on him, Unable to bear the eyes of her radiance, He immediately guards himself, closing his eyes, and collects himself, So, exactly, and with a soul closed into feelings, - If outside them when, as if through a window, the mind penetrates, By the brilliance of what is in it, I say, of course, the Holy Spirit, Being overturned, the radiance cannot bear the unbearable light, Escaping, as if into a house, into the sensual and human. Each of these signs must be understood, Received as a pledge of the Spirit from the Bridegroom and Master Christ, And if someone has accepted, let him try to keep him. If you have not yet been awarded it, Let him try through good deeds and deeds, And accept it with ardent repentance, And preserve through doing the commandments, And the acquisition of virtues. Like the roof of any house on a foundation, So the foundation is laid for the sake of the roof, As necessary and required. And no matter how a roof is built without a foundation, it follows that Not necessary or useful for life, Through the commandments work is observed, And the acts of the commandments, by God's gift, How the foundation is laid And neither the grace of the Spirit abides in us, Doing no commandments, without the grace of God, Is it necessary or beneficial for us to eat. In the same way as the bloodless house Due to the negligence of the one who built it, he was left so, Not only is it useless to eat, But ridicule also intercedes with the builder, So he laid the foundation for doing the commandments, And erecting walls of lofty virtues, If you do not receive the grace of the Spirit in understanding and attention, There are those who are imperfect, and those who are perfect are pitied. For for two reasons he was deprived of it in every possible way: Or neglected repentance, Or in the collection of virtues, like limitless matter, Some of those who seem to us to be the smallest have clumsily become impoverished, To complete the house of virtues, - Since it is impossible without them, through the Spirit grace, If for this reason the Son of God and God came down to earth, May He reconcile us through Himself, Existing enemies, with His Father, And may He clearly draw us to Himself, Through His Holy and consubstantial Spirit, Then from such a one who falls from grace, Entirely, no reconciliation with Him, He did not receive the Spirit through communion. “If anyone binds fire into the depths,” says the Wise, “ Won’t Reese burn [his]?” ( Proverbs 6:27 ) I say: Who, having received an unbearable and heavenly fire in his heart, He will not be ignited and enlightened, And the Divinity itself will not give shine, Corresponding to purification and communion of fire? Purification – participation will follow. When this happens, all by God, by grace, On the one hand, from passionate lusts and pleasures, He who has communed with the Holy Spirit is delivered. It is not separated from nature by bodily needs. And, being freed from the bonds of passionate lust, And joined to immortal glory and saturation, Constantly forced to be higher and to pass with God, And not for long that understanding, And leave the insatiable sweetness. As one who is bound by the body and corruption, - He is pulled and attracted, and returns to the earthly. Because of this, he receives the same sadness at that time, Which, I suppose, a sinner, When the soul is separated from the body. As a body-loving and life-loving, voluptuous and peace-lover, Removal from such is death, So to the one who loves purity and God, the immaterial and virtue, Death, in fact, is separation from those in the slightest thought. For if the sensual sees this light, He will close his eyes for a while, or they will be covered by someone else, He’s sad and sad, and he can’t stand it at all, And even more so if you see something necessary and glorious, How much more is he enlightened by the Holy Spirit, And seeing the blessings there in reality or with the mind, while awake or sleeping, Those “who eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And it did not enter into the heart of man" (1 Cor. 2:9), “What even angels desire to penetrate” (1 Peter 1:12) - If one is torn away from such understanding by anything, - Will he be sad and grieved? For he imagines himself to be death, And alienation, of course, from eternal life. Man is twofold, having a composition of soul and body, And the world can be similar to it - visible and invisible; And everyone, obviously, according to their own affairs and affairs of wisdom, It is fitting to be separated. From here, I truly understood about “nightly and sleepy” (visions). For whatever the soul is occupied with while awake, or immersed in, In the same way, in dreams one either fusses or philosophizes. Or, for he is wise about human things, Or learning from the divine and heavenly, Visions come into sight, According to the prophet, he philosophizes: “And their young men will see visions” (Joel 2:28), – Without being deceived, but looking at the truth, When the desired part of the soul during passions and confusion, Both satiation and taste are irritated by life, - These are exactly what the soul sees in dreams. If her irritability against her fellow tribesmen becomes brutal, - He dreams of attacks from animals, wars of reptiles, and dreams of battles, Squabbling as if at a trial, he rushes among them. If her rationality is filled with arrogance and pride, About admirations that float in the air, And the thrones of high departments, And leading the people in chariots, The only true visions are Which should not be called dreams, Became, from the coming of the Spirit, and free, From every pressure and work of passions, - Being the teaching of the divine to all, And let us think about future rewards and rewards, Being life above living life, - Carefree, undistracted, silent, pure, Filled with mercy, wisdom, attention to heavenly things, And good fruits cultivated by the Spirit, Otherwise, and not as such, - Deceit, frustration and complete obvious deception. Alone, many, solitary, Others mixed, taking the hostel, satisfied life. Others stand before the people, admonish and teach, Of which are different physically and mentally, I would not choose any of this for the sake of anything else, And to speak about praise or censure of worthyness, - But in every and all deeds and deeds, For the sake of God and according to God, life is all-blessed. How a life is made up of different skills and arts of people, using one another in action, namely, and promoting, And also passing on to each other, and receiving from each other, Naturally providing bodily requirements, - The same can be seen in spiritual ones. Taking part in one another's virtues, And completing one another’s path of life, In a single intention, of the two, they all converge. Those who strive according to God - to please Christ God, And receive reconciliation, through the Spirit, communion with the Father, And prepare your salvation through this, This, for, is the salvation of every soul and every person. When this doesn't happen, Vain is our weariness and vain work, The path of all life is in vain, Not to this, walking along it, leading. It's like leaving the whole world, And to the mountain, like silence, retired, And from there, solemnly writing to those in the world, Pleasing some, flattering and praising others, Seized by an obscene and all-evil harlot woman And to a faraway land, To get rid of her memory, Then he who forgot the intention for which he reached the mountain, And to those who come together with that harlot, so to speak, To write to the one who strives and pleases them, Even if not with the body, but with the heart, in every way, and with the mind, Sympathizing with such will, Taking, as it were, from their plexus. As far as the world is concerned, And cleansing the feelings and hearts from all evil lust, So those who live in the mountain and the cave, If praise and appeasement, And they allow themselves fame from people, - They are worthy of reproach and abandonment, For our hearts will be like those who go astray, testing God. For he who wants his life to be heard, Both name and residence in the world, They commit fornication, as the people of old, the Jews, are from God, as David said. Faith that is towards God, heavenly, From the world and what in the world he renounces believes, That the Lord is merciful and generous, And he waits for those who come to Him to repent. Knowing that through dishonor he honors his servants, And through extreme poverty he makes them rich, And through annoyance and humiliation he glorifies them, And through death - eternal life as their participants, And he claims as his heirs, Hurries like a thirsty deer to the immortal source, Through them and to the rise in them, as if on a ladder, he steps, - Through it the angels ascend and descend to help those ascending. According to the strength of our will and diligence, waiting, he remains, It’s not that it’s fun to see us sick, But it’s like a duty to at least give us rewards - More humane. Those who do not come to Him disorderly, The Lord does not leave you completely to fall, But seeing them who are exhausted, he helps and helps, Directing their hand powerfully from above, and raising them to Himself, It contributes explicitly, together and implicitly, unknownly and clearly, Until all those who climbed the stairs, And everyone will be joined to everything, And everyone will forget earthly things, staying with Him there, Whether in the body or outside the body, I don’t know, And living together, and enjoying untold blessings. It is right to place a yoke on our necks before the commandments of Christ, And neither spur nor stay behind, But the right and courage to walk in them until death, And remake ourselves, - New, truly, God's Paradise, Through the Holy One will not want to enter, so that the Spirit may live in us. And at the time when we have completely acquired Him, Inhabited and teacher, If He commands and entrusts service to any of us, According to His will, let him do it boldly. You can’t demand it too soon, It is not possible to accept the election given by people, - But to abide in the commandments of our Master and God, After we have been ordained to serve in divine objects, If we are drawn by the Spirit to another ministry, Let us not resist either doing or deeding. God, for, do not be idle, Not in the same thing, Which they completed to the end, wants us to stay, And be ever-motivated to achieve better achievements, According to the Divine, namely, and not one’s own, walking according to the will. Having made his will dead, Became completely weak-willed, - Without the will of those who exist and live and move at all, If not just one, I want to say, Unfeeling and motionless. After all, plants, if they move and grow, To create movement and growth by natural will, Everything animate and natural has will. So, having mortified his own will through abstinence and diligence, Completely out of his nature, And he can act not at the desire of any “good” or “evil”. Eager to kill his will - I must do God's will, And, instead of one’s own will, introduce God’s into oneself, And grow and instill it in your heart, And watch this carefully - Planted and grafted, Has it taken root somewhere in the depths, has it sprouted, Yes, the tree would become united into one; It grew and blossomed, and the fruit was red and sweet, So that the earth itself, which previously received the seed, will not be recognized, And the root, it was grafted onto it, The incomprehensible and ineffable thing, Cutting off his own will through the fear of God, I don’t know how, it’s as if he really doesn’t think, God gives him His will, And he keeps it unforgettable in his heart, And opens the eyes of his thinking to the knowledge of her, And strength makes it possible to fulfill it. This is how the grace of the Holy Spirit works, As soon as with all the strength, zeal, And disposition with unstoppable aspiration, God Himself is mysterious and unknown to us, We do what is taught and commanded, Without missing anything, Then we, as faithful and obedient, How He is clearly revealed to true disciples and friends, As of old it was revealed to His holy disciples and apostles, And through them to all who believed in His name. And then we become sons of God by grace, As Paul says: “As many as are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, And they are joint heirs with Christ” (Rom. 8:14, 17). Of those worthy to become with God in the unity of the Spirit, And taste His unspeakable goodness, No one desires the glory of dishonor and disdain, Brought to him from people - No stones considered meaninglessly “valuable”. The heart is not attached to the running wealth, He wants to know neither kings nor princes, Not by princes - but by many - the suppressed. Neither great nor tall is charged with such things, No intercessors think they are of great glory, He doesn’t want anything else glorious and bright for people, - So that neither wealth can descend into some kind of poverty, Not from the authorities and great power, You cannot fall into final disgrace and wickedness. If you have accepted the remission of all your sins, Or through investing in a holy and angelic image (i.e. monasticism), What kind of love and thanksgiving will this be for you, Because he is worthy of thousands of vengeances, Not only getting rid of them, But also sonship and glory, And was worthy of the kingdom of heaven? This is turning in thinking and always thinking, Be ready and prepare in advance, Let us not fail to honor you, Who has honored you, And thousands of Forgiven sins, But in all your deeds, glorify and honor, And He Himself would have mutually glorified you more, - whom he honored above all visible creation, And He called Him His sincere friend. How much more honest does the soul achieve than the body? There is such a verbal person better than the whole world. Not by the size of those creations in it, looking For this reason, you should be honest, man. But looking at the grace given to you, And having understood the dignity of your intelligent and verbal soul, Sing above all that is visible to God, who has honored you. Let's see how we glorify God. He is glorified by us in no other way, How he was glorified by the Son. Through this He glorified His Father, And through this He Himself is glorified by the Father, And let us fulfill this with diligence, So that through this we glorify our Father, The proclamation of the one who accepted (John 17:1), And may we be glorified by Him with the glory of Jesus, What He had before, how the world was to be, is from Him. What is the Cross, taking mortification to the world, And if anything else from the sufferings of Christ, who endure much with patience, We imitate Christ's sufferings, And through them we glorify our Father and God, As His sons, by grace, The soul, completely from inclination and addiction to the visible, Clearly not delivered, The sorrows that befall her and the threats that come upon her, But he cannot bear away from demons and people without care, But, as bound by a passion for human things, He is stung by the vanities of his possessions and is burdened by the deprivation of his things, And she suffers greatly from the ulcers inflicted on her body. If anyone has torn his soul away from inclination and lust of the senses, Not only those around him, He despises possessions and possessions, And how alien and strange, deprived of them, Carelessly settled down, But the burdens inflicted on his body with joy, And endures with decent thanksgiving, Seeing always, according to the divine Apostle, The outer smoldering man The inner one is renewed day after day. Otherwise, not a single one of God’s sorrows can be endured with joy, - Attention, for, perfect in such a necessity, Always walking in the darkness of inattention and hopelessness, The light of patience and consolation cannot be seen at all. Anyone who assumes skills from mathematics, To penetrate into the secrets of God, Will never be honored to see - Until he first wants to be humble, And which, if he acquired knowledge by throwing it away. And to the wise in heavenly divine faith the following, Guided by them, he will descend with them into the city of the Living God, And, guided and enlightened by the divine Spirit, He sees and learns that none of the other people I could not see or learn, And at that time he is taught by God. The disciples of the wise of this age consider people foolish, - Those who exist are truly insane, Armed with the enemy from possessed wisdom, Which God deprived of reason, according to the divine Apostle, And which the godly voice - earthly knows, spiritual, demonic, Outside, for, being such of the divine light, Those in it, you can’t see the miracles, Those who are established in the light and what is in it - seeing and teaching, How the lost are understood Being lost ourselves, And those who have not experienced the ineffable blessings of God. Just for the sake of approaching and seeing those who are in the world, Those who are filled with God's grace want to And perfected by that attention and wisdom, Yes, they are seeking some kind of reward for themselves, For the sake of reminders of God’s commandments and good deeds, - May they not hear, understand, and believe?! For those who do not walk in darkness by the Spirit, And they don’t think about where they’re going, Maybe recovering from their current self-importance, Those of the Holy Spirit will accept the true teaching, And having given birth to God’s will legally and, without wasting time on trifles, having listened, they will repent, And having created it, someone will receive a spiritual gift?! If they cannot become intercessors for such benefit, Mourning the blinding of the hearts of those They return to their huts, Praying night and day for their salvation. For they will never be saddened by anything else, Abiding unceasingly with God, And filled with every good thing. However, even now there are passionless and saints, And filled with divine light, Circulating in our midst, So the compositions that have killed theirs are those on earth, For all uncleanness and passion-driven lust, That not only from themselves they would never even think, Nor create an evil aspiration, But no one else is attracted to this, A change in the dispassion that surrounds them, They would delight in being subjected to, - Divine words constantly read, And, believing in divine things, They teach in the wisdom of the Spirit. Now, if in perfect attention, Would they become the divine Scripture, Having believed what God said, And the benefits given to us?! Because from conceit and negligence, They are not involved in such Both those who received communion and those who teach about them, Not believing, they are not telling the truth. What is the purpose in the flesh of the economy of God's Word, In every divine Scripture which is declared, Why not, in every possible way, sympathetically, make us partakers of ours? For for this reason the Son of God became the son of man, To create us humans as sons of God. For this purpose, in fact, by nature He erects, By giving us birth again in the Holy Spirit, And directly leading us into the kingdom of heaven, More precisely, it is within us that we have it, granting us Yes, not in the hope of entering into it, But in his possession the beings cry out: “Our life is hidden with Christ in God” ( Col. 3:3 )! Baptism does not take away our autocracy and self-determination, Henceforth let us not be tyrannized by the devil involuntarily. For us there is after baptism, Or abide in the commandments at will, For which reason we were baptized by the Lord Christ, And follow His commandments, Or deviate from this right path, And to our opponent and enemy the devil, To flow again through evil deeds. After the baptism of the evil one, those who yield to their wills, And those who are delighted to do so, They falsely alienate themselves from holy baptism, No, because it changes each of us, Or from the way he was created, he transforms nature, But God created good (for God did not create evil), Unchangeable in nature, as created, and in essence, Who, by free will, deigns and wants, That's what he does, whether good or bad. For as a sword is given both for evil and for good, Without betraying its own nature, But he remains iron as he is, So a person acts and does, as it is said, what he wants, Nature does not come from one’s own. Pardon saves more than one, But neglect sends one into the fire. For “I have hungered and thirsted,” verily, Not the only thing said And not for one day, but for a lifetime it is proclaimed. So is the feeding of Christ, the drinking and clothing, And if anything else follows, Not just once, but always and in everything, Your slaves should take it upon themselves, Our Lord and God confessed. Inseparably divided, And the very things that exist in each individual of those in need, How do some people conclude that they are poor? Let the hundred poor be as one Christ, For Christ was by no means divided. So, he who gave one coin to the ninety-nine, The only one who annoyed or struck, Is it not to him who said in every way and always speaks, “Because thou hast made one of these... the least, “Will you do it for me” (Matthew 25:40) – ?! He who gave alms to a hundred, is able to give to others, He sent away many who begged him and cried out, Just as he who has not nourished Christ will be judged by Him, Because He is in all of them, And instead of each of the smallest ones separately, feeding from us. He gave everyone everything they needed today, And in the morning he who can do this, If he neglects certain brothers, And from hunger or thirst or cold he will leave them to perish, - He himself will neglect death, And he will despise Himself, who said: One can take heed from this, That the Lord works separately for each of the poor and our brothers, Speaking truly - “They created it for me”, The same as oshuyu - “They didn’t do it for me.” For he only sees those who have not been pardoned by us, Or unjustified and misappropriated, And thousands of other victims somehow, but also neglected, As if this is enough to condemn us. For it is not them, but ourselves, that we neglect, They are all separately created by Jesus Christ. For this reason He deigned to perceive the face of every poor person, And He likened Himself to every poor person, - Yes, not one of those who believe in Him, He did not exalt himself above his brother, But everyone, seeing his brother and neighbor as his God, No less than my brother, But he understands Him who created him, And, like Him, he accepts and honors, And he will exhaust everything to serve him, How Christ and God drained His blood for our salvation. I am commanded to have my neighbor as myself, But through all my life I must have it this way. And give to everyone who asks, This is how he intends to create throughout his life. And who wants others to create for him, Others will be asked to create such things themselves. So, as one who has his neighbor as himself, It is not tolerated to have anything more than what your neighbor has, But if he has it and does not give it away without jealousy, Until he himself becomes a beggar, And he will not be likened to those who are near him, The commandments of the Lord are not fulfilled, - So those who want to give to those who ask, If you have acquired up to a coin or a loaf of bread, He will turn away from anyone who asks him; What does someone else want to do to him? And he fed and gave drink to all the poor and the least, Who dressed and did everything for them, He despised and disdained only one, - As Christ despised the hungry and thirsty God, This may seem hard to everyone, This is why they glorify the blessing of broadcasting within oneself: “Who can create all this, To serve and nourish everyone, And not to neglect any of them?” With all certainty blatant: "Which love of Christ embraces us, Reasoning like this: If one died for all... everyone died.” (2 Cor. 5:14) Like collective commandments, Contains all the private commandments, So are the collective virtues, Private virtues contain. For he who sells his property And he who squanders it on the poor and poor, At once he fulfilled all the individual commandments as one. For the one who asks to give has no more demand, Or not turn around to someone who wants to borrow from him. So the one who prays unceasingly - this is all he concluded, And already the seventh day to praise God on the day, Or in the evening and in the morning and at noon he is not in need, Having already completed everything, as much as is required by the rule, And at chosen times and times we pray and sing psalms. So God, who gave people the attention, Clearly acquired in himself, All that is holy has passed through the Scriptures, And I received every benefit from reading, And there will be no need to read books anymore, (As the divine inspiration who wrote the Scriptures, And from Him He reveals the unspeakable of hidden secrets), But he himself will become a book inspired by God, New and Old carrying within itself, And rested in God as ruling perfection, You might be interested in: