Texts of the Philokalia

(Incomplete)

• Saint Isaiah the Solitary
  • On Guarding the Intellect: Twenty-Seven Texts

• Evagrios the Solitary
  • Outline Teaching on Asceticism and Stillness in the Solitary Life
  • Texts on Discrimination in respect of Passions and Thoughts
  • Extracts from the Texts on Watchfulness

• Saint John Cassian
  • On the Eight Vices
  • On the Holy Fathers of Sketis and on Discrimination

• Saint Mark the Ascetic
  • On the Spiritual Law: 200 Texts
  • On Those who Think that They are Made Righteous by Works: 226 Texts
  • Letter to Nicolas the Solitary

• Saint Hesychios the Priest
  • On Watchfulness and Holiness

• Saint Neilos the Ascetic
  • Ascetic Discourse

• Saint Diadochos of Photiki
  • On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination: 100 Texts

• Saint John of Karpathos
  • For the Encouragement of the Monks in India who had Written to Him: 100 Texts
  • Ascetic Discourse Sent at the Request of the Same Monks in India

• Saint Theodoros the Great Ascetic
  • A Century of Spiritual Texts
  • Theoretikon

• Saint Maximus the Confessor
  • Four Hundred Texts on Love (Foreword to Elpidios the Presbyter)
  • Two Hundred Texts on Theology and the Incarnate Dispensation of the Son of God, Written for Thalassios
  • Various Texts on Theology, the Divine Economy, and Virtue and Vice
  • On the Lord's Prayer

• Thalassios the Libyan
  • On Love, Self Control, and Life in accordance with the Intellect (written for Paul the Presbyter)

• Saint John of Damascus
  • On the Virtues and the Vices

• A Discourse on Abba Philemon
  • Discourse

• Saint Theognostos
  • On the Practice of the Virtues, Contemplation and the Priesthood

• Saint Philotheos of Sinai
  • Forty Texts on Watchfulness

• Ilias the Presbyter
  • A Gnomic Anthology

• Theoretikon

• Theophanis the Monk
  • The Ladder of Divine Graces

• Saint Peter of Damascus
  • Book I: A Treasury of Divine Knowledge
  • Book II: Twenty-Four Discourses

• Saint Symeon Metaphrastis: Paraphrases of the Homilies of Saint Makarios of Egypt
  • I. Spiritual Perfection
  • II. Prayer
  • III. Patient Endurance and Discrimination
  • IV. The Raising of the Intellect
  • V. Love
  • VI. The Freedom of the Intellect

• Saint Symeon the New Theologian
  • On Faith
  • 153 Practical and Theological Texts
  • The Three Methods of Prayer (Attributed to Saint Symeon)

• Nikitas Stithatos
  • On the Practice of the Virtues: One Hundred Texts
  • On the Inner Nature of Things and on the Purification of the Intellect: One Hundred Texts
  • On Spiritual Knowledge, Love and the Perfection of Living: One Hundred Texts

• Theoliptos, Metropolitan of Philadelphia
  • On Inner Work in Christ and the Monastic Profession
  • Texts

• Nikiphoros the Monk
  • On Watchfulness and the Guarding of the Heart

• Saint Gregory of Sinai
  • On Commandments and Doctrines, Warnings and Promises; on Thoughts, Passions and Virtues, and also on Stillness and Prayer: 137 Texts
  • Further Texts
  • On the Signs of Grace and Delusion, Written for the Confessor Longinos: Ten Texts
  • On Stillness: Fifteen Texts
  • On Prayer: Seven Texts

• Saint Gregory Palamas
  • To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia
  • A New Testament Decalogue
  • In Defence of Those who Devoutly Practice a Life of Stillness
  • Three Texts on Prayer and Purity of Heart
  • Topics of Natural and Theological Science and on the Moral and Ascetic Life: 150 Texts
  • The Declaration of the Holy Mountain in Defense of Those who Devoutly Practice a Life of Stillness

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