Κεφ. ΝϚ'
The Signs of Spiritual Health
True freedom from passion is evidenced by the purity of our thoughts and dreams, leading to a nourishing union with the holy powers through spiritual knowledge.
We will recognize the signs of freedom from passion by our thoughts during the day and by our dreams at night. We will call freedom from passion the soul’s health, and knowledge its nourishment, since knowledge alone is what joins us to the holy powers—if, as is natural, union with incorporeal beings comes from sharing the same spiritual disposition.12
Read the original Latin
Τὰ τῆς ἀπαθείας τεκμήρια, μεθ’ ἡμέραν μὲν διὰ τῶν λογισμῶν, νύκτωρ δὲ διὰ τῶν ἐνυπνίων ἐπιγνωσόμεθα· καὶ τὴν μὲν ἀπάθειαν ὑγείαν ἐροῦμεν εἶναι ψυχῆς, τροφὴν δὲ τὴν γνῶσιν, ἥτις μόνη συνάπτειν ἡμᾶς ταῖς ἁγίαις δυνάμεσιν εἴωθεν· εἴπερ ἡ τῶν ἀσωμάτων συνάφεια ἐκ τῆς ὁμοίας διαθέσεως γίνεσθαι πέφυκεν.
Notes
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