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who has sanctified God and the name that is above every name in his own members, or as those untasted of good things and altogether incapable of lofty visions because of the dullness inherent in them, they should abstain from the undertaking and from the curious investigation of what is written here.

THE LOVES OF THE DIVINE HYMNS

OF OUR HOLY AND GREAT FATHER

SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN,

WHO WAS ABBOT AND PRESBYTER

OF THE MONASTERY OF SAINT MAMAS

OF XEROKERKOS. (25) The table of the divine loves a. Concerning the divine radiance and illumination of the Holy Spirit; and that God is one place, in which after their fate all the Saints have their rest; and that he who falls away from God will not have rest in another place in the life to come.

b. What was the change that took place in this father and how, having been purified to the utmost, he was united to God and what he became from what he was, his loving words to God declare from this point; who also, theologizing, speaks at the end concerning angels.

c. Who the monk is and what his work is; and to what height of contemplation this divine father ascended.

d. Instruction for monks who have just renounced the world and the things in the world; and concerning what sort of faith one ought to have towards one’s own father.

e. An alphabet of the same, in double letter-form, exhorting and guiding one who has just departed from the world to run up to perfection of life.

f. Quatrains of the same, from this point showing his love for God. g. A prayer of the same to God; and how, being joined to God (26) and the glory of God working in him, he was astonished. h. To whom God reveals Himself and who come into possession of the good through the working of the

commandments. i. That he who has become a partaker of the Holy Spirit, being seized by its light and power, is carried above all passions, not being harmed by their approach.

j. That death afflicts with grief even the stronger. k. How God was seen by him as by Stephen and Paul the apostles, here the father, being astonished, relates.

l. Theology concerning the one in all things of the tri-hypostatic divinity; and through the things he says about himself, using humility, he shames the conceit of those who think they are something.

m. Exhortation to repentance; and how the will of the flesh, united to the will of the Spirit, makes man godlike.

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τόν Θεόν καί τό ὄνομα τό ὑπέρ πᾶν ὄνομα ἐν τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ μέλεσιν ἁγιάσαντα, ἤ ὡς τῶν καλῶν ἄγευστοι καί πάντῃ ἀχώρητοι τῶν ὑψηλῶν θεαμάτων διά τήν αὐτοῖς προσοῦσαν παχύτητα τῆς ἐγχειρήσεως καί τῆς τῶν γεγραμμένων ἐνταῦθα περιέργου ἐρεύνης ἀπόσχοιντο.

ΤΩΝ ΘΕΙΩΝ ΥΜΝΩΝ ΟΙ ΕΡΩΤΕΣ

ΤΟΥ ΑΓΙΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΟς ΗΜΩΝ

ΣΥΜΕΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΝΕΟΥ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΟΥ,

ΗΓΟΥΜΕΝΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΕΡΟΥ ΓΕΓΟΝΟΤΟΣ

ΜΟΝΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΙΟΥ ΜΑΜΑΝΤΟΣ

ΤΗΣ ΞΗΡΟΚΕΡΜΟΥ. (25) Ὁ πίναξ τῶν θείων ἐρώτων α΄. Περί θείας ἐλλάμψεως καί φωτισμοῦ Πνεύματος Ἁγίου˙ καί ὅτι εἷς τόπος ὁ

Θεός, ἐν ᾧ μετά πότμον τήν ἀνάπαυσιν πάντες οἱ Ἅγιοι ἔχουσι˙ καί ὅτι ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐκπίπτων ἐν ἑτέρῳ τόπῳ οὐχ ἕξει τήν ἀνάπαυσιν ἐν τῇ μελλούσῃ ζωῇ.

β'. Τίς ἡ ἐπί τῷ πατρί τούτῳ γενομένη ἀλλοίωσις καί πῶς καθαρθείς εἰς ἄκρον ἡνώθη Θεῷ καί οἷος ἐξ οἵου ἐγένετο, οἱ πρός Θεόν ἐρωτικοί αὐτοῦ λόγοι δηλοῦσιν ἐντεῦθεν˙ ὅς καί θεολογῶν λέγει πρός τό τέλος περί ἀγγέλων.

γ΄. Τίς ὁ μοναχός καί τίς ἡ αὐτοῦ ἐργασία˙ καί εἰς οἷον ὕψος οὗτος ὁ θεῖος πατήρ θεωρίας ἀνῆλθεν.

δ'. ∆ιδασκαλία εἰς μοναχούς ἄρτι ἀποταξαμένους κόσμῳ καί τοῖς ἐν κόσμῳ˙ καί περί τοῦ, ὁποίαν τις ὀφείλει πίστιν ἔχειν πρός τόν ἴδιον πατέρα.

ε'. Ἀλφάβητος τοῦ αὐτοῦ κατά στοιχεῖον διπλοῦς προτρέπων καί ὁδηγῶν εἰς τελειότητα βίου ἀναδραμεῖν τόν ἄρτι ἀπό τοῦ κόσμου ἀναχωρήσαντα.

στ'. Τετράστιχα τοῦ αὐτοῦ, τόν πρός Θεόν αὐτοῦ ἐντεῦθεν δεικνύοντα ἔρωτα. ζ'. Ἔντευξις τοῦ αὐτοῦ εἰς Θεόν˙ καί ὅπως Θεῷ συναπτόμενος (26) καί δόξαν

Θεοῦ ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἐνεργοῦσαν ἐξεπλήττετο. η'. Τίσι Θεός ἐμφανίζεται καί τίνες ἐν ἕξει γίνονται τοῦ καλοῦ διά τῆς τῶν

ἐντολῶν ἐργασίας. θ'. Ὅτι ὁ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος μέτοχος γεγονώς ὑπό τοῦ φωτός καί τῆς

δυνάμεως αὐτοῦ ἁρπαζόμενος ἐπάνω πάντων φέρεται τῶν παθῶν, μή βλαπτόμενος τῷ πλησιασμῷ ὑπ᾿ αὐτῶν.

ι'. Ὅτι ὁ θάνατος τῇ λύπῃ καί τῶν στερροτέρων καθάπτεται. ια'. Ὅπως ὡράθη αὐτῷ Θεός ὡς Στεφάνῳ καί Παύλῳ τοῖς ἀποστόλοις, ἐνταῦθα ὁ

πατήρ ἐκπληττόμενος διηγεῖται. ιβ'. Περί τοῦ ἑνός κατά πάντα τῆς τρισυποστάτου θεότητος θεολογία˙ καί δι᾿ ὧν

τῇ ταπεινώσει χρώμενος λέγει περί ἑαυτοῦ, τῶν δοκούντων εἶναί τι ἐντρέπει τήν οἴησιν.

ιγ'. Προτροπή εἰς μετάνοιαν˙ καί πῶς τό θέλημα τῆς σαρκός τῷ θελήματι τοῦ Πνεύματος ἑνωθέν θεοειδῆ τόν ἄνθρωπον ἀπεργάζεται.