A different kind of discrimination
What we think determines what we see
The Garden, a model of memory
Plato's wax tablet model
The parable of the sower
Illusory memories
The Nature of diakrisis
Cassian on diakrisis
A method from Theophan
Recognition
Esotericism as a path in three stages
Meat diet and milk diet
CHAPTER EIGHT:
The struggle for metanoia
Metanoia as change of Being
A forgotten psychological process
Saint Anthony on the Spirit of Metanoia
The New Man as the Prodigal Son
The struggle with eroticism
The problem of the passions
A transformed eros
Mneme Theou 257
The one thing needful
Faith without works
Apatheia: purity of heart
A prayer for repentance
CHAPTER NINE:
Keys to Ascesis
The science of repentance
Saint Paul and the ascetic struggle
Saint Anthony on types of seeker
"The love of the soul is its salvation"
"The Kingdom of Heaven is taken by force."
Agrypnia: The alnight vigil service
Fasting 296
Obedience and Cutting Off the Will
The hospitality of Abba Moses
Keeping the Commandments
CHAPTER TEN:
Kephalia Gnostica on three renunciations
Dying to the world
The turn toward reality
The Two Nights
The Second renunciation
"Transcending reason with my thought"
The Strait Gate : third Renunciation
Saint Silouan of Mount Athos
Bitter waters
CHAPTER ELEVEN:
Gnosis not Gnosticism
The survival of Gnosis
Gnosis is not Gnosticism
The Alexandrian tradition
A world without gnosis
The question of education
Paedia and catechism
Different world-views
Knowledge of God's omnipotence
'The Life of Moses'
CHAPTER TWELVE:
The Wise and Foolish Virgins
The quest for energies
From glory to glory
The wedding garment
Five wise virgins
Shining faces
"Ask and it shall be given to you."
Christianity as a state of being
The startzi
Who is it that asks?
The prayer of Joseph the Visionary
The control of the senses
Guarding the mind
The five virgins as the senses
CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
Prayer as inner development
Five kinds of prayer
The Jesus prayer
Degrees of prayer
Magnetic Center
Gregory of Nyssa's Ark
Passive unconscious stage
attraction to the way
Second passive stage
gravitation to God
Watchfulness and assent
The two 'legs' of the tradition
The renewal of faith
Koinonia as communion
Non doing
CHAPTER FOURTEEN:
A Christian Anthropology
The power of Self-knowledge
The Athos abbey as a model of man
The house of four rooms
Predisposition or prepossession
"1. Provocation: (Russian: prilog)
"2. Conjunction: (Russ: sochetanie)
3: Joining: (slozhenie)
4 & 5 The Struggle against habit
6. Captivity: (Russ: plenenie)
Observation of provocations
CHAPTER FIFTEEN:
Eight types of provocation
Resisting provocation
Practice of Self-observation
First provocation - Gluttony
Second provocation - Impurity
Third provocation - avarice
The fourth provocation - sadness
The fear of opening ourselves to God
The fifth provocation - anger
The sixth provocation - accidie
The seventh provocation - vainglory
The Eighth provocation - the demon of pride
CHAPTER SIXTEEN:
Philosophical Conclusions
Imperfection of doctrine
Assent as a force in human life
The philosophy of assent
The psychology of assent
Assent and understanding
The investigation
A perennial philosophy?
A relationship of faith
Validity of Philosophy
The moral dimension
Personal experience
The common ground of faith
