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Prodigal passion. Prayer and reading the Scriptures protect the mind from lustful thoughts (page 2, pp. 11–12). – One should not tempt the mind with lustful thoughts and the sight of persons leading into temptation (fol. 2, p. 12). – Friendship with young people is fornication, which God abhors (page 8, p. 41). – On the influence of satiety and satiety on the development of fornication (page 43, pp. 183–184). – When lustful passion is kindled, it is useful to visit the sick (fol. 55, p. 253). – Vanity is a servant of fornication and a collector of nasty treasures (f. 56, p. 280). – Out of vanity, a person falls into lustful thoughts (fol. 58, p. 313). – About how hateful God is for prodigal sin, for which the ancients were punished (page 62, pp. 338–339). – Ridiculousness and daring soaring of thoughts are the work of the prodigal demon (fol. 68, p. 351). – If prodigal passion wounds a body tamed by abstinence and vigil, then this happens from the thought of pride (page 70, p. 360). – Those who reject small lusts are delivered from great troubles (fol. 71, p. 867). – From incontinence of the womb, lust intensifies (page 75, pp. 375–376). – Why is there in us a lustful movement of the flesh without voluptuous thoughts? (fn. 77, p. 382). – During fornication one must avoid seeing women (fol. 77, p. 382). – He who exalts himself in virtue is allowed to fall into fornication (fol. 85, p. 403). This index is based on the index appended to the works of St. Isaac the Syrian, published by Optina Pustyn in 1854. * “Ascetic words.” Reprint. Sergiev Posad. 1911. M.: “Rule of Faith”, 1998