tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-210799012024-02-08T18:26:16.580+00:00The Evagrian Ascetical SystemVolume II of The Psychological Basis of Mental Prayer in the HeartUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137475782715840422006-01-31T23:29:00.000+00:002008-02-01T10:01:06.738+00:00Volume II Table of Contents Information on Publisher, Copyright and ISBN, Volume II Introduction I Treatise on the Practical Life – Text TPL (Text) -- 1 TPL (Text) -- 2 TPL (Text) -- 3 TPL (Text) -- 4 TPL (Text) -- 5 TPL (Text) -- 6 TPL (Text) -- 7 TPL (Text) -- 8 TPL (Text) -- 8.1 TPL (Text) -- 9 TPL (Text) -- 10 II Treatise on the Practical Life – Commentary TPL (Commentary) -- 1 TPL (Commentary) -- 2 TPL (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137864261842753102006-01-21T17:20:00.000+00:002006-06-01T21:46:42.136+01:00BibliographyAntirrheticus Frankenberg, W. 1912. De octo vitiosis cogitationibus (antirrheticus magnus) addit 14578. (Concerning the eight vicious thoughts (the Great Antirrheticus). Addit. 14578.) This is Frankenberg’s retro-translation of the Antirrheticus into ancient Greek from the Syriac of the manuscript. In Frankenberg (see entry), Volume II, pp. 472–545. Brenton The Septuagint withUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137863985649399132006-01-21T17:12:00.000+00:002006-01-23T07:07:32.626+00:00Skemmata -- 231 Hades is a lightless place filled with eternal darkness and gloom. 32 The gnostic (gnostikos) is a hired man receiving his wage on the same day. 33 The man living the practical life (praktikos) is a hireling awaiting his wage. 34 The mind (nous) is a temple of the Holy Trinity. 35 That mind (nous) is embodied which is a seer of all the Ages. 36 That mind is unclean which Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137863575305446502006-01-21T17:03:00.000+00:002006-01-23T07:04:23.830+00:00Skemmata -- 1 Appendix 3: The Skemmata (Text) Text: Cod. Paris. Graec. 913J. MuyldermansEvagriana (pp. 37–68)and Note Additionnelle A: Evagriana (pp. 369–83)Text: pp. 374–80Le Muséon 44 (1931)Offprint: Evagriana, Extrait de la revue Le Muséon, t. XLIV, augmenté de: nouveaux fragments grecs inéditsParis, France: Paul Geuthner (1931) The Skemmata 1 The Christ, in that he is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137863005936534822006-01-21T16:57:00.000+00:002006-01-21T17:21:35.833+00:00KGN -- VIb46 The lyre is the praktike soul which is plucked by the commandments of Christ. 47 The judgement of God will make whoever will have followed Joshua, to enter into the Promised land [cf. Num. 32, 1–5; Josh. 1, 14–15], in giving him a spiritual body and a world appropriate to him; but he will install those who on account of the abundance of their possessions will not be able to obtain it,<!--Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137862623347078292006-01-21T16:48:00.000+00:002006-01-21T16:57:03.416+00:00KGN -- VIa Sixth Century 1 The Divine Book has not made known what is the contemplation of beings; but how one draws near to it by the practice of the commandments and by the true doctrines, it has taught in a manifest fashion. 2 The contemplation of this world is double: one manifest and gross, the other intelligible and spiritual. The impious and the demons draw near to the first contemplationUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137862105480026742006-01-21T16:44:00.000+00:002006-01-21T16:53:25.646+00:00KGN -- Vb46 The high priest is he who addresses supplications to God for all the reasonable nature and separates the ones from vice and the others from ignorance. 47 We honour the angels not on account of their nature, but on account of their virtue, and we insult the demons on account of the vice which is in them. 48 Alone of all the bodies, Christ is adorable for us, because he alone has the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137861892229426062006-01-21T16:40:00.000+00:002006-01-21T16:44:52.280+00:00KGN -- Va Fifth Century 1 Adam is ‘the figure’ of Christ [Rom. 5, 14], and that of the reasonable nature is Eve, on account of whom the Christ has departed from his Paradise. 2 The hearers of the sensible Church are separated the ones from the others by places only; but those of the intelligible (Church)* which is opposed to the former (are separated)* by places and by bodies. 3 Just as Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137861615502838282006-01-21T16:35:00.000+00:002006-01-21T16:40:15.586+00:00KGN -- IVb46 The ‘four corners’ signify the four elements, ‘the object’ which has appeared signifies the gross world, and ‘the various animals’ are the symbols of the orders of men: and that is what appeared to Peter on the roof. [Cf. Acts 10, 11–16 for the whole chapter.] 47 The demon of anger battles day and night with those who draw near to obscure matters and wish to write concerning them, that (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137861339238538802006-01-21T16:30:00.000+00:002006-01-21T16:35:39.320+00:00KGN -- IVa Fourth Century 1 God has planted for himself the logikoi; his wisdom, in its turn, has grown in them, in their reading writings of every sort.<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[1]<!--[endif]--> 2 ‘That which is knowable of God’ [Rom. 1, 19] is in those who are first by their genesis, and that which is not knowable of him is in his Christ. 3 That which is knowable of the Christ is in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137861042905942782006-01-21T16:26:00.000+00:002006-01-21T16:30:42.946+00:00KGN -- IIIb46 The judgement of the angels is the gnosis concerning the illnesses of the soul, which makes those who have been wounded ascend to health. 47 The change happening ‘in the blink of an eye’ [1 Cor. 15, 52] is unique which will overtake each one according to his degree by consequence of the judgement and which will establish the body of each according to the degree of his order. Indeed, thatUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137860771719098622006-01-21T16:21:00.000+00:002006-01-21T16:26:11.783+00:00KGN -- IIIa Third Century 1 The Father alone knows the Christ, and the Son alone the Father [cf. Matt. 11, 27], the latter as unique in the Unity and the former as Monad and Unity. 2 The Christ is he who alone has in himself the Unity and has received the judgement of the logikoi. 3 The Unity is it which now is known only by the Christ, (and is)† it of which the gnosis is essential. 4 ItUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137860475867801842006-01-21T16:15:00.000+00:002006-01-21T16:21:15.936+00:00KGN -- IIb46 The separable art of the artisan contains his work and the wisdom of God contains all. And just as he who in word<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[1]<!--[endif]--> separates the art of the artisan from (the artisan)† breaks his work, so he who in his thought separates the wisdom of God from him destroys all. 47 The Trinity is not placed with the contemplation of sensibles and of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137860128202657102006-01-21T16:11:00.000+00:002006-01-21T16:15:28.253+00:00KGN -- IIa Second Century 1 The mirror of the goodness of God, of his power and of his wisdom, is those things which in the beginning, have from nothing become something. 2 In the second natural contemplation we see the ‘greatly various wisdom’ [Eph. 3, 10] of Christ, that of which he made use to create the worlds; but in the gnosis which concerns the logikoi, we have been instructed on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137859858025694272006-01-21T16:05:00.000+00:002006-01-21T19:09:36.343+00:00KGN -- Ib46 All that which is in potentiality in the bodies is naturally in them also in act; they are connatural with those from which they came forth. But the nous is free of form and of matter. 47 There is nothing which might be in power in the soul and which could be able to leave it in act and exist separately; indeed, that (i.e. the soul)† is naturally made to be in the bodies. 48 All Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137859541328046752006-01-21T15:57:00.000+00:002006-01-21T16:05:41.380+00:00KGN -- Ia Appendix 2: The Kephalaia Gnostica (Text) Translator’s Note We have translated the Kephalaia Gnostica of Evagrius Pontikos into English from the French translation of M. Antoine Guillaumont, who translated from the Syriac version intégrale (S2), established by M. Guillaumont, which is, presumably, the authentic Syriac translation of the lost Greek original. The reader should refer to the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137859063569778072006-01-21T15:53:00.000+00:002006-01-23T06:56:08.733+00:00Gnostic -- 226 The time of explanation is not the same as the time of discussion. It is also necessary to reprimand those who prematurely make objections. That, indeed, is the habit of heretics and disputers. [French] 27 Do not speak of God [i.e. theologize] incautiously, and never define the Divine. For definitions are <of things which have come to be and> of things which are composite. [Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137858713159232022006-01-21T15:41:00.000+00:002006-01-23T06:39:35.446+00:00Gnostic -- 1 Appendix 1: The Gnostic (Text) Text: Évagre le PontiqueLe Gnostic ou A celui qui est devenu digne de la scienceÉdition critique des fragments grecs…Antoine Guillaumont et Claire Guillaumont1989Sources chrétiennes, No 356Les Éditions du CerfParis, France. The Gnostic or Towards Him Who Has Been Found Worthy of Gnosis 1 Men of praktike will comprehend words (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137857737744115722006-01-21T15:33:00.000+00:002006-01-23T06:21:56.206+00:00OTT (Text) -- 1540 The mind would not be able to see the place of God in itself not having become higher than all <mental representations> which are in [sensible] objects. It will not become higher, however, if it does not unclothe itself of the passions, which are what, by means of the mental representations, bind it together with the sensible objects. And the passions it will lay aside by means of theUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137857564756233562006-01-21T15:30:00.000+00:002006-01-21T15:32:44.760+00:00OTT (Text) -- 1438 Christ raises the rational nature put to death by vice through the contemplation of all the Ages. The Father of Christ raises the soul which dies the death of Christ through the gnosis of himself, and this is what is said by the Apostle, the ‘If we die together with Christ, we believe we will also live with him.’ [Rom. 6, 8.] 39 When the mind, having unclothed itself of the old man, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137857426807000362006-01-21T15:27:00.000+00:002006-01-21T15:30:26.816+00:00OTT (Text) -- 1334 Since there also occur successions of demons—the first during the war having grown weak and not being able to set in motion the passion which is dear to it—having observed these things closely, we find them to be thus: When the thoughts of a certain passion are rare for a long time and there suddenly occurs a boiling and movement of this passion, although we have given no cause at all Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137857217143160342006-01-21T15:22:00.000+00:002006-01-23T06:15:07.020+00:00OTT (Text) -- 1230 Of the unclean thoughts, some are seen in the road of virtue, and some next to the road. And as many as prevent the commandments of God from being kept—these sojourn next to the road. As many, again, as do not persuade us not to keep the commandments, but suggest that they be kept in such a way as to appear to men—all of these are seen in the road, since they corrupt our goal or the manner Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137856878845677292006-01-21T15:19:00.000+00:002006-01-21T15:21:18.850+00:00OTT (Text) -- 1026 If one of the anchorites should wish to receive the gnosis of discernment from the Lord, let him first willingly work those commandments which are in his hands, omitting nothing, and thus, during the time of prayer, ‘let him ask’ gnosis ‘from the Lord who gives to all generously and without reproach, and let him ask doubting nothing,’ neither tossed by the waves of faithlessness, ‘and it willUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137856276687771392006-01-21T15:09:00.000+00:002006-01-21T15:22:22.506+00:00OTT (Text) -- 1127 Thus those who live the life of solitude during the day are tempted by demons and fall into various thoughts; at night, again, in their sleep they battle with winged asps, are encircled by carnivorous beasts, are engirdled by serpents and are thrown headlong from high mountains. It also occurs that, having been awoken, they are again encircled by the very same beasts and they see the cell Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21079901.post-1137856141752879212006-01-21T15:05:00.000+00:002006-01-21T15:20:13.670+00:00OTT (Text) -- 924 The demons do not all tempt us at once, nor do they cast thoughts into us at the same time, on account of the fact that it is not the nature of the mind to accept the mental representations of two sensible objects during the same period of time. For we said in Chapter 17 that an unclean thought does not occur to us without a sensible object. Even if our mind, being extremely quick in its Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0