City a Desert - Series One: St. Isaiah the Solitary on Guarding the Intellect, Part I скачать в хорошем качестве

City a Desert - Series One: St. Isaiah the Solitary on Guarding the Intellect, Part I

1. There is among the passions* an anger of the intellect, and this anger is in accordance with nature. Without anger a man cannot attain purity: he has to feel angry with all that is sown in him by the enemy. When Job felt this anger he reviled his enemies, calling them "dishonourable men of no repute, lacking everything good, whom I would not consider fit to live with the dogs that guard my flocks' (cf. Job 3o: 1, 4. LXX). He who wishes to acquire the anger that is in accordance with nature must uproot all self-will, until he establishes within himself the state natural to the intellect To see more Philokalia Ministries content, visit our website at: www.philokaliaministries.org.