Chapter 3Evagr.1.3
Κεφ. Γ'
The Kingdom of Knowledge
The kingdom of God is defined as the profound, transcendent knowledge of the Holy Trinity.
The kingdom of God is the knowledge of the Holy Trinity, which reaches as far as the mind's own existence and surpasses its incorruptibility.
Read the original Latin
Βασιλεία Θεοῦ ἐστι γνῶσις τῆς ἁγίας Τριάδος συμπαρεκτεινομένη τῇ συστάσει τοῦ νοός, καὶ ὑπερβάλλουσα τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν αὐτοῦ.
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