Гимн 23. Озарением Духа Святого прогоняется в нас все страстное, как тьма от света; когда же Он сокращает лучи Свои, мы подвергаемся нападению страстей и злых помыслов 235 .

Your light, my Christ, illuminating me, revives and revives me, for to see You is life and resurrection. But how (the) actions of Your light occur - I cannot say. However, I (myself) knew and know, my God, that even if I (was) in illness, in sorrows or sorrows, even if I was kept in chains and in prison, and (languishing) with hunger, even if I were enveloped, my Christ, in even more difficult and terrible (circumstances); Thy light, having shone, drives away all this as darkness, and Thy Divine Spirit suddenly makes me find myself in peace and light and in the enjoyment of light. I know that sorrows are like smoke, thoughts are darkness, temptations are arrows, worries are darkness, passions are beasts, from which You, O Word, once freed and delivered me, little by little illuminating me with Your Divine light. And now, although I am in the midst of all this, You, Christ my God, keep me invulnerable, covering me with Your light. But since I very often stumble, sinning every hour, because I am proud and anger You, I need Your gracious punishment, my Christ, the effect of which I strongly feel within myself, through the removal of the Divine light covering me. For just as when the sun sets, night and darkness come, and all the animals go out to prey, so when Your light ceases to cover me, immediately the darkness of life (envelops) me, covers me with a sea of ​​​​thoughts, the beasts of passions devour me, and I am wounded by the arrows of all kinds of thoughts. When, moved by compassion, You again take pity (on me) and hear my lamentable cries, and hear my sighs, and accept my tears, and want to look upon my humility - the one who sinned unforgivably; then you see in the distance, like a rising star, and little by little you expand (it is not You yourself who change in this way, but You open the mind of Your servant to vision) gradually more and more, and you are seen like the sun. For when darkness runs away and disappears, I think that You come - omnipresent. When will You, O Savior, surround me completely, as before, when will you cover me all and embrace me all; then I am freed from evils, freed from darkness, temptations, passions and all kinds of thoughts, and I am filled with goodness and joy, filled with joy and unspeakable complacency, seeing terrible sacraments and extraordinary miracles, seeing what no human eye has seen and could not see, no ear can hear, and which has never entered the hearts of mortals (I Cor. 2:9). From this I am greatly amazed and go into a frenzy, and am completely alienated from everything that is on earth, praising You with incessant voices, my God, and noticing in myself an extraordinary change and (extraordinary) way of intervening the omnipotent hand: how by the illumination and manifestation of Your light alone You drove away all sadness, tore (me) out of the world and, mysteriously uniting with me, immediately restored me to heaven, where there is no sadness, no sighing, no tears, no serpent biting the heel, and showed me that life, which for all people is disgusting, cramped, difficult to pass, or rather, impassable, is not difficult and sorrowless. For which of the people ever could or will be able to be in heaven, with or without a body, and on what wings will he fly there? Elijah was taken on a chariot of fire, and before him Enoch - not to heaven, but to (some) other place, (albeit) not on his own, but was nevertheless transfigured. But what is this (in comparison) with what happens in us? and is it even possible, tell me, to compare the shadow with the truth, or the servant and slave spirit with the sovereign, omnipotent and Divine Spirit, which affirms and strengthens every created essence? For all other things are creatures, but He alone is the Creator, as inseparable from the Father and the Son also. These three are God, for the Trinity is one God. She brought everything into existence, She created everything, She created in the world according to the flesh for our salvation the Word and the Son of the Father, inseparable from the Father and the Spirit. He was truly incarnate through the influx of the Spirit and became what he was not, a man like me, except for sin and all iniquity, God together and a man visible to everyone, having His Divine Spirit co-present (with Him) by nature, with which He gave life to the dead, opened the eyes of the blind, cleansed lepers, cast out demons. Having also endured the cross and death and was resurrected by the Spirit, He ascended in glory and renewed the path to heaven for all who undoubtedly believe in Him; and He poured out the All-Holy Spirit abundantly on all who show faith by works, and now He pours It out abundantly on such. Through Him, He adores those with whom He was closely united, invariably changes them, showing them from people to be children of God, brothers of the Savior, joint heirs with Christ, heirs of God, Gods who abid with God in the Holy Spirit, although bound only by flesh, but free in spirit, who easily ascend with Christ into heaven and have acquired full citizenship there in the contemplation of blessings that the eyes have not seen. So, what is the fiery chariot that captured Elijah, and what is the conversion of Enoch in comparison with this? I think that like the sea, once divided by a rod, and the manna that came down from heaven, they are only an image, and all these were symbols of truth: the sea - baptism, the manna - the Savior; so both are the image and symbols of this, which has incomparable excellence and glory, since the uncreated by nature is superior to the created. For the manna, called bread and food of angels (Psalm 77:24-25; Exodus 16:4), which those people ate then in the desert, ceased and disappeared, and they all who ate it died without having partaken of life. The flesh of my Master, being deified and full of life, makes all those who eat it partakers of life and makes them immortal. The Redeemer of the world does not lead them through the depths of the sea and does not resettle them from Egypt to another country, again bearing corruptible fruits for people, and does not even command us to wander for forty years in order to receive the promised land; but those who are baptized with undoubted faith and who at the same time partake of His flesh and blood are soon raised from death to life, from darkness to light and from earth to heaven. Having first drawn me away from corruption and death and freed me all with the sensation and knowledge [of that], He - most amazing of all - showed me a new heaven and (Himself) - the Creator of everything dwelt in me, which none of the most ancient saints was vouchsafed. For once He spoke through the Divine Spirit and by His power performed miracles; Essentially, God was in no way united with anyone before Christ my God became man. For, having assumed a body, He gave (to us) His Divine Spirit, and through Him He is essentially united with all the faithful, and this unity is inseparable. Alas for me! (for I sigh heavily for the error of people) how do we not believe in Christ? how shall we not follow (Him)? Why don’t we want that life? how do we not desire His incorruptible and incorruptible wealth, nor ageless glory, nor (eternal) abiding with Him? how, clinging to perishable things, do we think to be saved, not loving Christ more than (everything) visible and not hoping to be with Him after death, but remaining more insensible than logs and stones? But, O my Christ, deliver me from this (voluntary) madness and teach me to love You - the life of all the faithful. For to You, with the Father and Your Divine Spirit, as the King and Creator of all, God and Master, is due glory and praise, honor and worship, now and always, forever and ever. Amen. In l. paragraph 36 chapter; in P. r. 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