Беседа 19. Того же мар Исаака. Что такое естественные свойства, благодаря которым познающее естество 824 получает божественное знание, и что встречается ему 825 на этом пути. 826

1. Each rational 827 nature, brought into being to receive divine teaching, was created in a special way from three simple parts by the wisdom of the glorious Creator: these are desire, irritation and understanding. 828 It is necessary to know what each of these parts receiving . 829 2. The first part includes: an ardent desire 830 for everything beautiful and good, which guides rational thinking towards divine laws, humility, meekness, self-abasement, great mercy, and so on. We are created with this desirable part in order to receive when it acts in us. 831 And when this part predominates in the soul, then these 832 appear in the rational nature. 3. The second part includes: sobriety and zeal, together with courageous enduring of sorrows and all kinds of suffering, which are usually for the sake of achieving divine benefits; 833 as well as determination, 834 strength and courage of the heart, the ability to resist everything harmful and frightening - be it from demons, from people, from reptiles or from animals, from hunger, labor, need, illness and other things, even from death itself: and all this, through the action of the enemy, happens to human nature for the sake of the name of God. 835 4. The third part includes: enlightened faith of the heart, freedom from movement, hope and unceasing meditation on the wisdom of God. 5. Those first parts together are called the active part of the soul, and this one is called divine contemplation, that is, the good use 836 of that knowing part, which is thinking. 6. And when we are zealous in that active part, that is, in constant meditation 837 on virtue perceived through the body, this contemplative part, which is virtue belonging to rationality, leads thought to perfect fusion with God 838, forcing it to peer into the luminous and supermundane divine mysteries. 839 7. When things happen naturally, both students and teachers tend to follow the path. If we want to deny nature itself, then nature is usually directed towards everything that is opposite to these, preparing the activity of its bodily forces for the affairs of the enemy 840 and inciting this cognitive and rational one to exercise in all types of knowledge of evil. 841 8. But this correct path of nature is accompanied by divine Providence with constant blessings, 842 consolations and divine relaxations. The same different, wrong 843 path, such punishments as constant hopeless situations, 844 abandonment in all kinds of dangers and in all temptations, which lead to correction. 845 9 . When we voluntarily strive for difficulties 846 and devote ourselves to practicing in them, 847 caring for the fear of God, then, with God’s help, we constantly experience the pleasures of the mind. When, due to bodily relaxation, 848 we run away from them, like a child who runs away from school, striving for an idle life, then, of necessity, divine mercy brings us closer to these difficulties, against our will. The Father of Spirits 849 is very saddened by the disorder of the rational nature - even more than by the disorder of the children of their fathers according to the flesh. 10. And if it is in no way possible to avoid difficulties and exploits, 850 let us bear them voluntarily, like wise men who respect 851 themselves, so that we may receive honor and pleasure and so that we do not need to be brought to them 852 in chains and shackles. 11. If we lack good will, let us endure them with thanksgiving - even those that come from the devil: 853 then even they will lead to good consequences. 854 After: “Oh, how wonderful is the mercy of God! Who can measure the ocean of His grace? Those. a being endowed with cognitive ability. Lit. “and what are the things that are in its way.” For the three-part division of the soul, see note. 58 to Conversation 1. Lit. “What are the things from which each of these is composed in order to obtain , it is necessary to know.” Lit. "desire and excitement." Lit. “when we are excited by her.” Those. humility, meekness, etc. listed above. Lit. "who usually come for divine things." Lit. “strong disposition”, “strong mind”. Lit. “all this constitutes what happens in a hostile manner to this common nature.” Or "correct use". Lit. "in constant reflection." Or “mixing with God,” “dissolving in God.” Lit. “to peer in an enlightened manner into the divine mysteries that are above the world.” Those. the devil. Var. "to nasty things." Lit. "to the discoveries of evil knowledge." Lit. "actions that are on the right." Lit. “constant encounters with troubles that are without hope.” Lit. "to the perception of correction." Or “due to laziness on the part of the body.” Var. "difficult and tedious." Or “good results.” You might be interested in: