The Ladder of Divine Ascent

Translated by Archimandrite Lazarus Moore

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(English) · Translated by Archimandrite Lazarus Moore

Contents 30 sections

Step 1: On renunciation of the world
Step 2: On detachment
Step 3: On exile or pilgrimage
Step 4: On blessed and ever-memorable obedience
Step 5: On painstaking and true repentance which constitute the life of the holy convicts; and about the prison
Step 6: On remembrance of death
Step 7: On mourning which causes joy
Step 8: On freedom from anger and on meekness
Step 9: On remembrance of wrongs.1
Step 10: On slander or calumny
Step 11: On talkativeness and silence
Step 12: On lying
Step 13: On despondency.1
Step 14: On the clamorous , yet wicked master—the stomach.2
Step 15: On incorruptible purity and chastity to which the corruptible attain by toil and sweat.2
Step 16: On love of money or avarice
Step 17: On poverty (that hastens heavenwards).5
Step 18: On insensibility, that is, deadening of the soul and the death of the mind before the death of the body
Step 19: On sleep, prayer, and psalm-singing in chapel
Step 20: On bodily vigil and how to use it to attain spiritual vigil and how to practise it
Step 21: On unmanly and puerile cowardice
Step 22: On the many forms of vainglory
Step 23: On mad pride, and, in the same Step, on unclean blasphemous thoughts
Step 24: On meekness, simplicity, guilelessness which come not from nature but from habit, and about malice
Step 25: On the destroyer of the passions, most sublime humility, which is rooted in spiritual feeling
Step 26: On discernment of thoughts, passions and virtues
Step 27: On holy solitude of body and soul
Step 28: On holy and blessed prayer, mother of virtues, and on the attitude of mind and body in prayer
Step 29: Concerning heaven on earth, or godlike dispassion and perfection, and the resurrection of the soul before the general resurrection
Step 30: Concerning the linking together of the supreme trinity among the virtues.9

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