SAINT SILOUAN THE ATHONITE - Part 3 (Pure Prayer/Noetic Stillness/Imagination/Ascetic Struggle/Uncreated Light)

"Keep thy mind in hell, and despair not." -St. Silouan

The Staretz' Teaching, continued:

Chapter 6: Pure Prayer and Mental Stillness

• Concerning the Three Forms of Prayer
• On the Development of Intrusive Thoughts
• Hesychasm - Christ's Commandment to love God with all one's mind, and with all one's heart
• Anthropological Basis of Hesychasm
• Experience of Eternity
• The Start of Spiritual Life - Struggle against the Passions

Chapter 7: The Imagination and the Ascetic Struggle against its Various Aspects

Chapter 8: Uncreated Divine Light and Ways of Contemplation

• Godlike Impassibility (Dispassion)
• The Darkness of Divestiture

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