Chapter 2Evagr.1.2
Κεφ. Β'
The Kingdom Within
The kingdom of heaven is defined as the soul's liberation from passion paired with spiritual insight.
The kingdom of heaven is the soul’s freedom from passions, joined with a true knowledge of created beings.1
Read the original Latin
Βασιλεία οὐρανῶν ἐστιν ἀπάθεια ψυχῆς μετὰ γνώσεως τῶν ὄντων ἀληθοῦς.
Notes
- 1 ↩Rendered “freedom from passions” in the Evagrian ascetic sense: freedom from disordered passions, not emotional numbness.
The Praktikos companion
A daily portion of stillness
Chosen Portion delivers one short contemplative reading and a guided moment of silence each day — the ascent, one step at a time.
Chosen Portion is the paced doorway into this collection: it portions the dense mystical treatises into one daily reading plus guided silence, exactly as the 14-day plan teaches.
- Daily bite-sized excerpts from the contemplative classics, never a wall of text
- A built-in timed stillness practice that grows from 2 minutes to 10
- Gentle progression through the tradition — the app remembers where you are on the ascent