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wholly simple, uncompounded, indivisible in nature, at once unsearchable, accessible inaccessibly. For I am truly seen, I am shown lovingly, being transformed according to what is possible for each person; I do not suffer this, but those who see are deemed worthy to see me thus. For otherwise they have no strength nor can they contain more, and for this reason the same ones sometimes see a sun, when they have their mind purified, and sometimes a star, when they are found under the gloom and the night of this body. The fervor of love makes me fire and splendor. For when the ember of friendship is kindled in you, then I, seeing the eagerness of your heart, am found being united to it and providing light and, as it were, being shown, I who created fire by a word. For the virtues of the soul lie beneath as matter, in which the divine light of the Spirit, being grasped, is also named according to the underlying matter; for it does not possess its own name among men. Therefore, when a person is filled with compunction and weeps, then this is also called water, for it cleanses, being united with the tears it washes away every stain. (170) But when mourning extinguishes the anger of the heart by its cooperation, it has been named meekness; but again, being kindled against impiety, this becomes through it what is called zeal, and again it is called peace and joy and kindness, because it bestows both on the one who mourns and makes joy gush forth like a spring in the heart. From which all sympathy and mercy is poured out, flowing forth from the soul to all, especially to those wishing to repent and be saved; for it has mercy on all, and to these it also runs with, and works with, and supports, and suffers with in all things, being united to their soul by intention and discerning with the mind the beauty of repentance, it possesses a more genuine love for them. And it is called humility, as the person who has tasted its sweetness comes to regard all the things of the world, but also the soul itself and his own body and every deed that is done as nothing

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ἁπλοῦν ὅλον, ἀσύνθετον, ἀμέριστον τῇ φύσει, ἀνεξερεύνητον ὁμοῦ, προσιτόν ἀπροσίτως˙ βλέπομαι γάρφ ὡς ἀληθῶς, δείκνυμαι φιλανθρώπως κατά τό ἐνεχόμενον ἑκάστου τῶν ἀνθρώπων μετασχηματιζόμενος˙ οὐκ ἐγώ τοῦτο πάσχω, ἀλλ᾿ οἱ ὁρῶντες οὕτως με βλέπειν καταξιοῦνται. Ἄλλως γάρ οὐκ ἰσχύουσιν οὐδέ πλέον χωροῦσιν καί διά τοῦτο οἱ αὐτοί ποτέ μέν καθορῶσιν ἥλιον, ὅταν ἔχωσι τόν νοῦν κεκαθαρμένον, ποτέ δέ ἄστρον, ὅταν ὑπό τόν γνόφον ἄρα καί τήν νύκτα τοῦ σώματος εὑρεθήσονται τούτου. Πῦρ δέ καί αἴγλην ποιεῖ με τό ζέον τῆς ἀγάπης. Ὅταν γάρ ἀναφθῇ ἐν σοί ἄνθραξ ὁ τῆς φιλίας, τότε κἀγώ τό πρόθυμον ὁρῶν σου τῆς καρδίας εὑρίσκομαι ἑνούμενος αὐτῷ καί φῶς παρέχων καί ὥσπερ δεικνύμενος, ὁ τό πῦρ λόγῳ κτίσας. Αἱ ψυχικαί γάρ ἀρεταί ὑπόκεινται ὡς ὕλη, ἐν αἷς περιδρασσόμενον φῶς τοῦ Πνεύματος θεῖον κατά τό ὑποκείμενον τῆς ὕλης καί καλεῖται˙ ἴδιον γάρ οὐ κέκτηται ὄνομα ἐν ἀνθρώποις. Ὅταν οὖν κατανύσσηται ἄνθρωπος καί δακρύῃ, τότε καί τοῦτο λέγεται ὕδωρ, καί γάρ καθαίρει, τοῖς δάκρυσιν ἑνούμενον πάντα ῥύπον ἐκπλύνει. (170) Ὅτε δέ σβέσῃ τόν θυμόν τῆς καρδίας τό πένθος τῇ συνεργείᾳ τῇ αὐτοῦ, ὠνόμασται πρᾳότης˙ πάλιν δέ ἀναπτόμενος κατά τῆς ἀσεβείας τοῦτο γίνεται δι᾿ αὐτοῦ, ὅπερ ζῆλος καλεῖται, εἰρήνη δ᾿ αὖθις καί χαρά λέγεται καί χρηστότης, ὅτι καί τά ἀμφότερα δωρεῖται τῷ πενθοῦντι καί ὡς πηγήν βλύζειν ποιεῖ τήν χαράν ἐν καρδίᾳ. Ἐξ ἧς πᾶσα συμπάθεια καί ἐλεημοσύνη ἐκχεῖται ἔξω ῥέουσα ἀπό ψυχῆς τοῖς πᾶσι, μάλιστα τοῖς μετανοεῖν θέλουσι καί σωθῆναι˙ καί γάρ τούς πάντας ἐλεεῖ, τούτοις δέ καί συντρέχει καί συνεργεῖ καί συγκροτεῖ καί συμπάσχει ἐν πᾶσιν, ἑνούμενος κατά ψυχήν αὐτῶν τῇ προαιρέσει καί τεκμαιρόμενος νοΐ κάλλος τῆς μετανοίας γνησιεστέραν κέκτηται πρός αὐτούς τήν ἀγάπην. Ταπείνωσις δέ λέγεται, ὡς τά τοῦ κόσμου πάντα, ἀλλά καί τήν ψυχήν αὐτήν καί τό ἴδιον σῶμα καί πρᾶξιν πᾶσαν ὡς οὐδέν ἡγεῖσθαι γινομένην ἄνθρωπον τόν γευσάμενον τῆς γλυκύτητος τούτου