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THE SEVENTH BOOK: The manner of man one becomes who, once initiated, has zealously preserved the grace which comes from the Mysteries

1. Perfection in virtue resides in the will
2. How the Mysteries influence our wills for goodness
3. How pleasure and pain test the will
4. How true sorrow consists of hatred of sin
5. The Christian as the temple of God
6. The virtue of detachment
7. How we ought to sorrow over sin
8. Such godly sorrow springs from the love of God
9. The Christian's joy
10. The source of our joy is love for God
11. How the love of God issues in self-giving and self-surrender
12. How self-surrender leads to joy
13. How love for God leads to forgetfulness of self
14. Examples of selfless service for Christ
15. The life in Christ may be summed up by love and joy

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THE SIXTH BOOK: How, when we have received grace from the Holy Mysteries, we are to preserve it

1. The necessity of preserving the grace which we have received
2. How we must cleave to Christ, the source of our life
3. How the love of Christ leads to detachment from the things of earth
4. How Christ in His love is united to us
5. How we should esteem ourselves as members of Christ
6. How love of Christ leads to true repentance
7. How we must constantly meditate on these things
8. The law of the Spirit in the law of love
9. How we must apply our minds to this law
10. The spiritual profit of meditation on Christ
11. On the Beatitudes of Christ (a. poverty of spirit, b. Godly sorry, c. gentleness, d. hunger and thirst for righteousness, e. compassion, f. purity of heart, g. striving for peace, h. suffering reproach for Christ
12. Christ the Exemplar of our perfection
13. How mediation is based on unceasing prayer
14. The benefits of frequent Communion

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THE FIFTH BOOK: What the consecration of the holy altar accomplishes

1. The altar and the sacred Mysteries
2. The ceremonies of consecration
3. How the rites signify man's consecration to God
4. The meaning of the ceremonies of purification
5. The meaning of the anointing of the altar
6. The appropriateness of the sacred relics
7. The remaining sacred rites and their significance

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THE FOURTH BOOK: How Holy Communion contributes to our salvation

1. The Greatest of all the Mysteries
2. How the Eucharist completes Baptism and Chrismation
3. The Eucharist perfects the other Mysteries
4. Excursus - Christ's atoning work
5. The Eucharist as the application of atonement
6. How this Mystery unites us to Christ
7. How Christ's flesh sets us free from the law of the flesh
8. How the Eucharist enables us to worship "in spirit and in truth"
9. How the Eucharist makes us sons of God
10. How the Eucharist forms the new man in Christ
11. The Eucharist compared with Baptism
12. Christ as our Ally in the Struggle
13. How, in the Eucharist, Christ is the reward for victory
14. Excursus - a comparison of martyrdom and Baptism
15. The sanctifying effects of the Eucharist
16. How this union with Christ delivers from sin
17. How Christ re-creates us through the Eucharist
18. How Christ by setting us free becomes our King
19. How our very bodies benefit from the new life
20. The future glory of those who live in Christ

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THE THIRD BOOK: What the holy chrism contributes

1. How Scripture links the gift of the Spirit with anointing and imposition of hands
2. How Christ Himself was anointed with the Holy Spirit
3. How Christ is the Source of our spiritual anointing
4. How Chrismation confers the gifts of the Holy Spirit
5. The efficacy of the holy chrism
6. The Sacraments as means of our salvation
7. Summary: Chrismation makes us partakers of Christ, the Anointed One

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THE SECOND BOOK: What contribution Holy Baptism makes to the life in Christ

1. How the Holy Mysteries unite us to Christ
2. Baptism as the new birth in Christ
3. How the various ceremonies preceding Baptism prepare for the new life in Christ: a) The exorcism, b) The insufflation, c) The stripping of the candidate, d) The renunciation, e) The recitation of the Nicene Creed, f) The anointing before Baptism
4. The baptimal act and its significance
5. The invocation of the Three-fold Name
6. How we in Baptism appropriate the saving acts of Christ
7. Baptism and original sin
8. The deliverance which Baptism obtains for us
9. How Baptism confers newness of life in Christ
10. Exursus - on the resurrection of the dead
11. How apostasy cannot destroy Christ's gift
12. Baptism and the powers of the age to come
13. How the effects of Baptism are shown
14. The example of the martyrs for Christ
15. How Baptism enables us to endure all things for Christ
16. How experience prepared the saints
17. How Baptism has converted scoffers to Christ
18. Baptism as a personal experience of God
19. How this experience engenders love for Him
20. The testimony of Saint John Chrysostom to this effect
21. Summary: The effects of Baptism

THE FIRST BOOK: How the life in Christ is constituted by means of the divine Mysteries of Baptism, Chrismation, and Holy Communion

1. How the life in Christ begins in this life
2. The life in Christ consists of union with Him
3. The intimacy of our union with Christ
4. In this union Christ is all-sufficient
5. We attain to this union by newness of life
6. Christ bestows this new life through His Mysteries
7. Christ's saving work as the foundation of the new life
8. How the righteous under the Old Covenant looked forward to their deliverance by Christ
9. How Christ opens to us the gates of life
10. The ransom which Christ has paid for us
11. The Mysteries as the means by which we appropriate Christ's saving work

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"I give waters in the wilderness,

rivers in the desert,

to give drink to My chosen people,

the people whom I formed for Myself

that they might declare My praise." - (Isaiah 44)

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FRESCO OF THE RIVER OF FIRE

West End of the 16th century Monastery of Voronets, Romania

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Recorded in loving memory of Photios Kontoglou & Father Philotheos Zervakos

"The Vision of an Anonymous Monk"

Homily delivered by Elder Ephraim as Abbot to the Brotherhood of H.M. Philotheou on January 8th, 1976.

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"...A nun said to me that in our time a 'hot anti-hesychastic wind' is blowing which is burning everything..."

Orthodox Psychotherapy - The Science of the Fathers

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Chapter 5: Hesychia as a Method of Healing

1. Hesychia (Stillness)
2. Hesychasm
3. Anti-hesychasm

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