In the Eastern Orthodox Philokalia it was emphasized that such knowledge is not secret knowledge but rather a maturing, transcendent form of knowledge derived from contemplation ( theoria resulting from practice of hesychasm ), since knowledge cannot truly be derived from knowledge but rather knowledge can only be derived from theoria ( to witness, see ( vision ) or experience ).

Its importance in the economy of salvation is discussed periodically in the Philokalia where as direct, personal knowledge of God ( noesis ; see also Noema ) it is distinguished from ordinary epistemological knowledge ( speculative philosophy ).

St. John Cassian is not represented in the Philokalia except by two brief extracts, but this is most likely due to his having written in Latin.

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 ).

* ( hyperēphania ) hubris-in the Philokalia, this term is rendered as self-esteem.

* ( lypē ) sadness-in the Philokalia, this term is rendered as envy, sadness at another's good fortune.

* ( akēdia ) acedia-in the Philokalia, this term is rendered as dejection.

In the Philokalia the word dejection is used instead of sloth, for the person who falls into dejection will lose interest in life.

In the Philokalia the word dispassion is used for apatheia, so as not to confuse it with apathy.

The book is a " principal spiritual text " for all the Eastern Orthodox Churches ; the publishers of the current English translation state that " The Philokalia has exercised an influence far greater than that of any book other than the Bible in the recent history of the Orthodox Church.

Philokalia ( sometimes Philocalia ) is also the name given to an anthology of the writings of Origen compiled by Saint Basil the Great and Saint Gregory Nazianzus.

That book about a Russian pilgrim who is seeking advice on interior prayer helped popularize The Philokalia and its teachings in Russia.

The collection's title is The Philokalia of the Niptic Fathers, or more fully The Philokalia of the Neptic Saints gathered from our Holy Theophoric Father, through which, by means of the philosophy of ascetic practice and contemplation, the intellect is purified, illumined, and made perfect.

Philokalia is defined as the " love of the beautiful, the exalted, the excellent, understood as the transcendent source of life and the revelation of Truth.

The Philokalia is the foundational text on hesychasm (" quietness "), an inner spiritual tradition with a long history dating back to the Desert Fathers.

This was to begin with the seminal work Philokalia, which, through hesychasm, leads to Phronema and finally theosis, which is validated by theoria.

The revival of elders in the Slavic world is associated with the name of Paisius Velichkovsky ( 1722-94 ), who produced the Russian translation of the Philokalia.

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 .?

Some of his writings are collected in the Philokalia.

Although these works were individually known in the monastic culture of Greek Orthodox Christianity before their inclusion in The Philokalia, their presence in this collection resulted in a much wider readership due to its translation into several languages.

Some works in the Philokalia are also found in the Patrologia Graecae and Patrologia Latina of J. P. Migne.

His works are excerpted in the Philokalia ( Greek for " love of the beautiful "), the Eastern Orthodox compendium on mystical Christian prayer.

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Paisius wrote theological epistles to his disciples and translated into Church Slavonic a large number of Greek theological writings, including the Philokalia.

Writings by the Trappist monk Thomas Merton on hesychasm also helped spread the popularity of The Philokalia, along with the indirect influence of J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey, which featured The Way of a Pilgrim as a main plot element.

Basil the Great and the Philokalia, which was compiled by St. Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain and St. Makarios of Corinth.

Their concerns were contrary to the original compiler of The Philokalia, Nicodemos, who wrote that the Jesus Prayer could be used to good effect by anyone, whether monastic or layperson.

They released four of the five volumes of The Philokalia between 1979 and 1995.

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He also played an important role in translating the Philokalia from Church Slavonic into Russian.

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Paisius Velichkovsky's translation into Church Slavonic, Dobrotolublye ( published in Moscow in 1793 ), included selected portions of The Philokalia, and was the version that the pilgrim in The Way of a Pilgrim carried on his journey.

The Philokalia teachings have also influenced the revival of interior prayer in modern times through the centering prayer practices taught by Thomas Keating and Thomas Merton.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

It is only then that the ancient habits of feeling and the classic orderings of material and psychological experience were abandoned.

The third Act of Faust 2, is a formal celebration of the union between the Germanic and the classic, between the spirit of Euripides and that of romantic drama.

Faust rescuing Helen from Menelaus' vengeance is the genius of renaissance Europe restoring to life the classic tradition.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

The latest and, significantly, greatest fruit of this theatrical vine is The, an adaptation of Basho's classic frog-haiku by Roger Entwhistle, a former University of Maryland chemistry instructor.

The classic case is Railroad Commission v. Pullman.

The statement also points to a classic paradox: The more men turn toward God, who is not only in himself the paradigm of all unity but also the only ground on which human unity can ultimately be established, the more men splinter into groups and set themselves apart from one another.

More than a beautiful visualization of the illustrious adventures and escapades of the tragi-comic knight-errant and his squire, Sancho Panza, in seventeenth-century Spain, this inevitably abbreviated rendering of the classic satire on chivalry is an affectingly warm and human exposition of character.

Yet there is the classic case of the Gershwins' `` The Man I Love ''.

The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

" Österreichische Kanzleisprache " is now used less and less, thanks to various administrative reforms which have led to there being fewer of the classic civil servants, the Beamter.

The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus ' objection to the label.

The classic example, considered by their American counterparts quite curious, was the maintenance of the internal comma in a British organisation of secret agents called the " Special Operations, Executive " — " S. O., E " — which is not found in histories written after about 1960.

The classic work of Jewish mysticism whose origins date back 2000 years, the Zohar, is quoted liberally in all Jewish learning ; in the Zohar the idea of reincarnation is mentioned repeatedly.

The Enquiry is widely regarded as a classic in modern philosophical literature.

A classic example is the evolution of a fourth cusp in the mammalian tooth.

A classic example of this is the replacement of the non-avian dinosaurs with mammals at the end of the Cretaceous, and of brachiopods by bivalves at the Permo-Triassic boundary.

Charles Dickens ' David Copperfield is another such classic, and J. D.

Rice ( Oryza sativa ) is a classic example.