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OF THE MONASTERY OF SAINT MAMAS OF XEROKERMOS. (25) The table of divine loves α΄. Concerning divine radiance and illumination of the Holy Spirit; and that God is the one

place, in which after their fate all the Saints have their rest; and that he who falls from God will not have rest in another place in the life to come. β'. What was the change that came upon this father and how, having been purified

to the utmost, he was united to God and what he became from what he was, his discourses of love toward God henceforth declare; who also, speaking as a theologian, speaks at the end concerning angels. γ΄. Who the monk is and what his work is; and to what height this

divine father ascended in contemplation. δ'. Instruction for monks who have just renounced the world and the things in

the world; and concerning what kind of faith one ought to have toward one's own father. ε'. An alphabet by the same, with double letters, exhorting and

guiding him who has just departed from the world to run up to the perfection of life. στ'. Quatrains by the same, the toward God of him henceforth

showing love. ζ'. Supplication by the same to God; and how being joined to God (26)

and the glory of God working in him, he was amazed. η'. To whom God appears and who come to be in possession of the good through

the working of the commandments. θ'. That he who has become a partaker of the Holy Spirit, by the light and

its power, being seized, is carried above all the passions, not being harmed by their approach. ι'. That death afflicts with grief even the stronger ones. ια'. How God was seen by him as by Stephen and Paul the

apostles, the father, being astonished, here recounts. ιβ'. Theology concerning the one in all respects of the tri-hypostatic divinity;

and through what he says about himself, using humility, he puts to shame the conceit of those who think they are something. ιγ'. Exhortation to repentance; and how the will of the flesh to the

will of the Spirit, united, makes man godlike. ιδ'. Thanksgiving to God on account of the gifts of which he was deemed worthy by Him;

and that the office of the priesthood and of the abbot is dreadful even to angels. ιε'. How, seeing the glory of God, he was moved by the All-Holy

Spirit; and that the Divine is within and without the universe, but also

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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. ιδ'. Εὐχαριστία πρός Θεόν τῶν δωρεῶν ἕνεκα, ὧν παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἠξιώθη˙

καί ὅτι φρικτόν καί ἀγγέλοις τό τῆς ἱερωσύνης καί ἡγουμενίας ἀξίωμα. ιε'. Ὅπως βλέπων τήν δόξαν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐνηργεῖτο ὑπό τοῦ Παναγίου

Πνεύματος˙ καί ὅτι τό Θεῖον ἐντός καί ἐκτός ἐστι τοῦ παντός, ἀλλά καί