He also translated from Greek into Latin a life of St. John Chrysostom ( Venice, 1533 ); the Spiritual Wisdom of John Moschus ; The Ladder of Divine Ascent of St. John Climacus ( Venice, 1531 ), P. G., LXXXVIII.

The terms hesychia and Hesychast are used quite systematically in the Ladder of Divine Ascent of St John of Sinai ( 523 – 603 ) and in Pros Theodoulon by St Hesychios ( c.

Books used by the Hesychast include the Philokalia, a collection of texts on prayer and solitary mental ascesis written from the 4th to the 15th Centuries, this collection existing in a number of independent redactions ; the Ladder of Divine Ascent ; the collected works of St Symeon the New Theologian ( 949 – 1022 ); and the works of St Isaac the Syrian ( 7th C .?– 8th C .?

Ladder of Divine Ascent ( icon ) | The Ladder of Divine Ascent icon showing monks ascending to Jesus in Heaven, top right.

Of John's literary output we know only the Κλίμαξ () or Ladder of Divine Ascent, composed at the request of John, Abbot of Raithu, a monastery situated on the shores of the Red Sea, and a shorter work To the Pastor ( Latin: Liber ad Pastorem ), most likely a sort of appendix to the Ladder.

Icon of The Ladder of Divine Ascent showing monks ascending ( and falling from ) the ladder to heaven, with Jesus at the upper right helping them.

John Climacus is shown at the top of the Ladder of Divine Ascent ( icon ) | The Ladder of Divine Ascent, with other monks following him, 12th century icon ( St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai ).

An icon known by the same title, Ladder of Divine Ascent, depicts a ladder extending from earth to heaven ( cf.

This volume contains the Life of St. John by Daniel, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, and To the Pastor, and provides footnotes explaining many of the concepts and terminology used from an Orthodox perspective, as well as a General Index.

* St John Climacus and the Ladder of Divine Ascent Sermon

* John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent By Colm Luibheid, John Henebry ( Google Books )

This understanding is taught within the works of ascetics like Evagrius Ponticus, and the most seminal ascetic works read most widely by Eastern Christians, the Philokalia and the Ladder of Divine Ascent ( the works of Evagrius and John Climacus are also contained within the Philokalia ).

Icon depicting The Ladder of Divine Ascent ( 12th century, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai ).

One book commonly read during Great Lent, particularly by monastics, is The Ladder of Divine Ascent, which was written in about the seventh century by St. John of the Ladder when he was the Hegumen ( Abbot ) of St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai.

The Sunday which ends the fourth week is dedicated to St. John Climacus, whose work, The Ladder of Divine Ascent has been read throughout the Great Lenten Fast.

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, considered the greatest epic of Italian literature, derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter directly or indirectly from Arabic works on Islamic eschatology: the Hadith and the Kitab al-Miraj ( translated into Latin in 1264 or shortly before as Liber Scale Machometi, " The Book of Muhammad's Ladder ") concerning Muhammad's ascension to Heaven, and the spiritual writings of Ibn Arabi.

* The Ladder of Divine Ascent

Muhammad ’ s famous Night Journey, when the prophet travelled through the Heavens, has been seen by scholars as the obvious prophetic parallel to Jacob ’ s equally famous vision of Jacob's Ladder coming down from the Heavens.

Jacob's Ladder by William Blake ( c. 1800, British Museum, London ).

Some of the more developments include the Theory of Constraints, management by objectives, reengineering, Six Sigma and various information-technology-driven theories such as agile software development, as well as group management theories such as Cog's Ladder.

The island ’ s two-floor museum situated in a building near the base of Jacob ’ s Ladder was opened the same year and is operated by the St Helena Heritage Society.

Besides the Ladder, in some monasteries the Paradise of the Holy Fathers by Palladius and the penitential sermons of St. Ephrem the Syrian are read during Matins.

Jacob's dream of a Jacob's Ladder | ladder of angels, c. 1690, by Michael Willmann

Ladder logic is a programming language that represents a program by a graphical diagram based on the circuit diagrams of relay logic hardware.

The hundred-year-old core ranch was originally owned by California-based Elsinore Land & Cattle Company, but in 1992 was acquired by Gerald Lyda of San Antonio, Texas who renamed the property La Escalera Ranch ( Spanish for " The Ladder ").

Originally owned by California-based Elsinore Land & Cattle Company, the 100-year old ranch was acquired by building contractor Gerald Lyda of San Antonio, Texas and renamed La Escalera Ranch ( Spanish for " The Ladder ").

Malverne is served by its Police Department, Volunteer Fire Department ( Norwood Hook, Ladder & Hose Company ), Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Police Reserve, Department of Public Works, Emergency Management Commission, Public Library, Youth Board, and village television station-MalverneTV 18.

The Sharpsburg Borough Volunteer Fire Department has continuously served the Borough since it was first organized on August 29, 1871, with the creation of the Hook and Ladder Company by W. C. Meyer.

Emergency services are provided by the Douglass Township Police Department, Friendship Hook and Ladder and Keystone Fire Companies of Boyertown ( North Sector ), Amity Fire Company and West End Fire Company ( South Sector ), and Boyertown Ambulance ( North Sector ) and Goodwill of Pottstown ( South Sector ), all of which are dispatched by the Berks County Communications Center.

In Step 27, 21 of the Ladder ( Step 27, 22 – 3 of the Holy Transfiguration edition ), St John of Sinai describes Hesychast practice as follows:

* St John Climacus ( of the Ladder ) Orthodox icon and synaxarion for Fourth Sunday of Great Lent

The 152 Park St station holds Engine 1, Engine 2, Engine 3, Engine 4, Ladder 1, Rescue 1 and Rescue 2.

Icon of The Ladder of Divine Ascent ( the steps toward theosis as described by John Climacus | St. John Climacus ) showing monks ascending ( and falling from ) the ladder to Jesus.

Jacob's Ladder as an analogy for the spiritual ascetic of life had a large diffusion through the classical work The Ladder of Divine Ascent by St. John Climacus.

* Fire Station # 2-Engine 2, Ladder 2, Rescue 1-1610 Makaloa St .-Pawaa

Saint John Climacus ( c. 7th Century AD ), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites, was a 7th century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai.

* Venerable John Climacus of Sinai, Author of " the Ladder " March 30 feast

* Sr. Pascale-Dominique Nau, When God Speaks: Lectio Divina in Saint John of the Cross and the Ladder of Monks ( Rome: Lulu. com, 2011 )

* Saint John Climacus of Sinai, author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent

* Venerable Acacius of Sinai, who is mentioned in The Ladder of Divine Ascent ( 6th century )

One of the most significant was the Conspiración de La Escalera ( Ladder Conspiracy ), which started in March 1843 and continued until 1844.

The Ladder Conspiracy involved free blacks and slaves, as well as white intellectuals and professionals.

The Immovable Ladder.

Cover of U. S. lesbian publication ' The Ladder ( magazine ) | The Ladder ' from October 1957.

Jacob is also the protagonist of the Testament of Jacob, of the Ladder of Jacob and of the Prayer of Joseph, which interpret the experience of this Patriarch in the context of merkabah mysticism.

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