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A word to the reader

Dear brothers and sisters!

You will get acquainted with the book, which opens the distant horizons of most

difficult path - the path of prayer feat. his modest olume, but ery intense intense

spiritual thought of the work will help many eager to embark on this life-saing way

to surie in a difficult spiritual battle. he alue of this book lies in the fact that the author reeals his own e"traordinary

e"periences, through which comes to life before us the ancient #rthodo" tradition two

thousand years e"alts people from earth to heaen. $ had a chance for their lies a lot

to read on this sub%ect and $ must say that in the present work we find some ery

important aspects of the practice of prayer, which is indicated for the first time.

he way of doing an internal open for a monk and a layman, is open to any heart,

striing earnestly to &od. 'articularly important is the study of ways to worship in our

time, when a man grows more tightly to the ground, less able to mountain gusts.

here is no doubt that this book, so loingly written by a true deotee, so imbued

with ardent sympathy to the monastic feat, but after the loss of manuscripts with the

understanding and diligently restored by his followers, will sere as a healing spiritualfood for the hungry all the truth. Yes, &od(s blessing will rest upon this work.

Archpriest &eorge )ree, chaplain of the city of *oscow,

rector of the church of #ur +ady

+ife-giing ource in the sarina and

atiity of the /irgin in 0rylatskoye

1rom the publisher

Dear readers!

)efore you work, written in the late 23(s by Archbishop Anthony 4&olynsky-

*ikhailosky5 - monk-ascetic, prayerful way of deelopment past achieement. $t

was a time when our country reigned an absolute deficiency of the spiritual and the

literal te"t of these were rare, een in samizdat. )ut it seems that today, despite the

aailability of ascetic writings, this work may be useful for those who are motiated

by a desire to %oin the prayer e"perience of the fathers of the #rthodo" 6hurch. he

book, based on personal e"perience, represented by the patristic tradition of making

smart. $t generally describes the teaching of the ascetic 1athers 7esus 'rayer, the

action of the grace of &od.

8nfortunately, the original manuscript is lost and the te"t has reached us in the lists of

significant distortion, with numerous arbitrary insertions. hese circumstances did notallow to publish the material in the form in which it is presered. $t took a serious

editorial work on the reconstruction of the te"t, with the possibility of retained

features of the author(s style.

1or information about the fate of the author(s ery limited and contradictory,

scanty documentary eidence does not allow you to recoer in the fullness of a

biography of )ishop Anthony 49 :;<=5. >oweer, this does not detract from the alue

of this work, as well as the work of the architect or the iconographer is not impaired

because the remains nameless, because the fruits of acts committed by the glory of

&od, are the property of the general church.

?ditor



1oreword

*y 1ather $f possible, let this cup pass from me@ neertheless not as $ will, but as

thou wilt 4*att. =.B;5.

?"pressed here are two thoughts - +ord, hae mercy on me and )lessed be the

+ord, thy holy will - is the essence of the 7esus prayer. 1irst of all, you need to know

that 7esus 'rayer is the essence of effectie repentance, 6hrist the +ord indicated. heteaches a desire to cut off the doer of his will, to loe &od more than the creature,

truly humble, truly know yourself, did themseles no hope, not to ascribe all the good

itself, but to &od and for eerything to render >im glory.

'rayer brings 7esus to &od, and reconciliation with &od creates a true loe of

neighbor. 'rayer unites the soul with her fiance - the +ord, and the conersation is

between &od and the soul. he great thing 7esus 'rayer begins with erbal working in

an actie period and e"tends to the contemplatie period, raising a person to true

spiritual life of a chaste and dignified those who are not defiled with women 4Ce.

:.5, age of the dispensation of true spiritual irginity , spodoblyayutsya highest

irtue - a isual prayer.

'rayer, as the action in her speech, mind, heart and the pirit of &od, has theappropriate name. $t is erbal, intelligent, actie, smart-heart. hese three types of

prayer aailable to a person during his oldness actiity, that is, until his total

commitment to the will of &od. he ne"t two types of prayer is acquired only by

ascetic purification of the heart from the passions and sin, and are referred to as smart-

heart samodizhnoy drien by the >oly pirit, and the multiplication of pure heart, or

neparitelnoy. he latter is true contemplatie prayer, repeating all the irtues, all of

them being a mother, to perfection of the spiritual chastity. he most desering

through this prayer gien to the connection of the soul with the >eaenly )ridegroom

in a single breath. he person then becomes the supreme gift - a isual prayer. hen,

%oining with the +ord, he sees, urazumeaya, the great mystery of &od and >is

wisdom, glorifies his whole spiritual being, the >oly rinity, courted in the heart of

&od.

#n the way to &od, prayer is urgent spiritual weapons of the mind, as the battle is

with the spirits of darkness, through the force of passion, passions with ourseles,

with the flesh and the world, which belongs to the earth, the earth and entail. 'rayer -

the sword of the pirit - all these hordes of eil posekaet, resulting in a complete

failure, e"posing the impotence of anger before the power of &od, gies comprehend

the human weakness in the fight against eil and change human nature itself. 'rayer

purifies the mind is inulnerable, who is weak in itself, but reinforced by &od and the

soul through all the deadly temptations, glorifying &od - the Almighty 6reator.

he 7esus 'rayer 1rom the heart come eil thoughts bo 4*att. :2.:;5 - so prophesied sweetest

mouth the +ord 7esus, 'odigopolozhnika, >ead and 1ounder of making true

repentance. After the fall, after the man loed his eil imperfect and perfect will of a

diine will, malice entered his heart. alienated the soul from self-will of the +ord, and

there was only a man with his puny efforts. he must confront the eil that is

impossible without the help of &od and the human mind and soul, loing self-will,

hae lost their grace, and with it the ability to distinguish between good and eil, hae

lost the argument, e"posing intrigues of the deil. the $gnorance - on, clouded mind,

who loed her will, - eneloped the mind and soul. the $gnorance led to doubt, and

hence the confusion, which is the mother and daughter all the passionate waes,

towering in the human heart . o the ship of the mind and soul constantly immersed ina sea of confusion, potoplyaemy willfulness.



All this happened with a person because of aberration. *y heart was filled with

unnatural habits - the passions, and the latter, rooted in the heart, fused with human

nature and against the desires of the mind and heart inole the person in his

unseemly passionate life. atan, being the originator and head of the darkness, was

not slow to come to the soereignly darkened mind and passionate heart. o the heart

that is designed to be the abode of &od, become a den of thiees - the demons and passions. *an dwells in the fall, mind and soul strayed from nature, moed into the

state nizheestestennoe.

&et out of this grae situation one can not on its own. 'assions got the strength of

nature, while atan is a lot stronger and more cunning than the ine"perienced mind

and intercepts all human intention to do good, why people sometimes, making, as it

seems good, reaping the fruit in the form of heightened passions. ometimes a man

despairs of his salation and leaes the works, and sometimes that is worse, imposes

on herself. )ut be aware that in such a desperate man is only when he is fighting is not

the name of &od, and tries to fight his own strength. hose who in &od put their trust,

the name of &od wins, and defeated isiting again stands up and fights until the final

ictory.Darkness of ignorance, mankind has been embraced to the time of the coming of

6hrist. 'eople languished, constantly confused and grieing heaily, his whole being

crying out to &od and the +ord brought to enforce what has been destined for

e"pulsion from paradise grandparents - to reeal the seed of a woman to hit the snake

in the head 4cf. &en. B :25. 6hrist was conceied in the womb of the /irgin, was born,

took away the burden of the sin of all mankind, and fight against sin.

'odigopolozhnik and mankind learned how to distinguish good from eil, and how

to fight with the deil. 6onquering, >e preiously won the whole power of the enemy

to man, it became clear how to fight and defeat the demons and their eil passions

besopodobnye.

atan, the abode of the heart, is hidden in it, embraces darkness of passion and

delight in the suffering person, usually by acting so as to embarrass him and to be

recognized, not to discoer his whereabouts. atan, being a murderer from time

immemorial, whispers from the heart of all anger and immediately disappears, and the

man takes it for his own thoughts. At this points to the +ord, saying, 1rom the heart

come eil thoughts bo 4*att. :2.:;5, the thoughts that defile the mind and soul,

depried of their natural inherent ciilian dispensation. 6ombating the scourge must

start with his first appearance before it in the bud. Yet the eil is not rooted, it is easy

to cut off, only to find it. A cut-off occurs is the sweetest name of the +ord 7esus.

?manating from the heart of the eil generated by the originator of eil - the deil.

he deil, flatterer and cunning, the center of all abominations, seducing humanthoughts, promises to eeryone is what he is most passionate desire. )eing a crafty

cunning, the deil comes to man, and always e"ceeds the fine subtlety of the human

mind. 6oncealing its presence, it gies them posed for thinking thoughts that belong

to the person. Deceied by the person becomes totally captie deil, they find

themseles, therefore, doomed to eternal damnation, unless the +ord does not protect

the rights of >is grace.

he trick the deil his superior sophistication of the human mind, and therefore it

is impossible and useless to the person on their own, to deal with the deil, acting

through the heart of passion. $t is not possible until people get from &od the power

and authority to tread on the power of the enemy. )ut you need to pass a

comprehensie art, acquire the e"perience of struggle and ictory oer the deilthrough temptation, sufferest the grace of &od. And it is then only possible when



people will be around for the march 'odigopolozhnikom 6hrist, fighting and

defeating the eil power of the grace of &od, which always works through prayer.

&race guards prayer, leads him to be gradually gies useful and safeguard against

in%ury.

All of humanity, as stated aboe, until the coming of 6hrist on earth was eneloped in

darkness of ignorance, and people were dying in the darkness, not knowing the truth,oppressed by the deil, generating eil in their hearts. 6hrist, >is death, trampling

death, destroyed the prison of hell, gae all interested persons an opportunity to help

him escape, and as the Almighty, he brought out of hell kept there all the faithful.

After that, all the holy fathers, aware of human weakness, seeing the almighty power

of &od, oercome eil with its originator, and the drier, wanting to follow 6hrist in

the fulfillment of the will of the >eaenly 1ather, knowing, at the direction of the

+ord, from eil accept its beginning, its own strength to the point of salation not

started. All of them made his salation power of &od(s grace, rebelling against the eil

at the ery moment of its inception, destroying its power sweetest name of 7esus

6hrist.

+ord, constantly calling to prayer, triumphs oer eil, soothes the human spirit,restores inner peace and has a mind to continue staying in prayer. e"t we will talk

about how to operate flawlessly name of the +ord 7esus 6hrist against all eil, the

name by which all the holy fathers hae won the battle with the deil.

'rayers to the >oly 6hurch lot, and they are all strong in otgnanie adersary. )ut the

power of prayer depends on the strength of mind, from e"perience in recognizing the

enemy tricks, to distinguish between good and eil, it depends on the ability and hae

fun in prayer. he mind is weak, like our own, to collect the account in your prayers

scarcely able, because, being accustomed to a life of sensual, he is in prayer peculiar

to his dreams of sensual things, why people only body to be an icon, and the mind and

his heart soar knows where . 'lease note, not accustomed to be kept in prayer,

dierted the mind is not able to control himself, the language is not free to utter words

of prayer, because of the diersity and many of these words. he point is not, and if

they moe, or too slow.

0nowing all this, the holy fathers, teachers and workers of true repentance hae

chosen the main weapon of few words 7esus 'rayer, receied the >oly pirit, giing it

an adantage oer all other. All that e"ist in the #rthodo" 6hurch prayers are

effectie and salutary, but the prayer +ord 7esus 6hrist, on of &od, hae mercy on

me a sinner, which contains the name of the +ord 6hrist and the prayer of the

penitent sinner, always attracted the minds of fleeing. ome of the holy fathers

worked unceasingly other short prayers, but most predominantly engaged in the

prayer of 7esus. Anyone who wants to work for the +ord 7esus prayer in the making, perhaps because of its breity, work, learn freely without coercion prayer-language,

which gradually attract the mind and senses.

he point of doing this prayer is to banish all thought, which is from the heart, and at

the same time, preent the penetration of the heart coming from outside the sinful

thoughts and desires, to teach the memory is always before &od #mnipresent, and the

mind - always read the prayer and listen to it alone, instead of any other, een natural

for him, thinking. his leads oer time to what he did not form an eye, nor ear heard,

and the heart of man is not zydosha 4: 6orinthians @;5, through the making of a

man(s heart was built by the abode of the )lessed rinity.

*aking 7esus prayer, called by the holy fathers sobriety, should be an integral core of

the monastic life. $t is also necessary for all the laity, for without the remembrance of&od to be saed no one can.



his simple, seemingly thing as reading a short prayer, in fact, is not so simple.

'rayer has different types or degrees, which are referred to as erbal, intelligent,

actie, cleer, heart, heart-smart samodizhnoy by multiplying heart pure isual. At

each leel need clarification of an e"perienced person. Awareness is ery important,

because a smart suit doing the +ord our salation, giing the man a prayer at the right

time of his grace is necessary. &reat need for e"perienced, knowledgeable mentor, ateacher, elder, held not only the initial degree of prayer, but prayer and isual, which

could be free and inulnerable to the student through all the temptations. A skilled

pilot knows what kind of temptation and at what time can attend fleeing, he was

tempted to warn any instruction, indicate how and what to do in order to aoid

mistakes, will e"plain how to recognize the deilish cunning of the attack of demons

left and with the approach under the guise of goodness right side.

)ut alas! ome do not hae the time and desire to adequately train the mind, heart,

word and making this great, others, haing the desire, do not know how to proceed,

and to him. ome also start, but there are sensual, carnal mind, e"ercising, liing

willfully, on my own, and think about themseles while they spend the spiritual life.

hose do not realize what a truly spiritual life begins for the great mercy of &od onlywhen people betray themseles wholly to the will of &od. And this is only possible

after the purification of mind from obscurations and purification of the soul from the

passions. 8ntil then, people did not lie spiritually, and sophistication of human -

carnal knowledge of the mind, een if he knows the whole theory of 6hristian

theology and the great in the eyes of the people. uch networks are often caught in the

carnal mind and the delusion that the worst of all, the true bearers of the spiritual mind

is considered nepraomyslyaschimi. uch praying for 'rayer )ook, say the workers

are ignorant of mental prayer, and fell into the charm, but in fact themseles deceied

and ignorant. he march them not to salation, and from him.

he ancient 1athers, the great creators of intelligent doing, writing about the 7esus

'rayer a lot. )ut they begin with a description of the high degree of contemplatie

prayer, write a prayer of the heart-smart samodizhnoy, omitting the preious initial

leels. #nly a few of them relate to prayer multiplied by cardiac actiity and its

accompanying temptations dreamy. $n this case all the fathers write briefly and

coertly, and that(s why.

Ehen the 1athers wrote about the 7esus prayer, then the pilot had a lot of workers are

knowledgeable, and there was no need to describe in detail the initial stages, because

there was someone to guide. Also, read the scriptures and untrained people could, and

could only get the benefit prepared. )ecause fathers hae written briefly and coertly.

Ceady and in the brief description will understand right and unprepared mind will not

hurt her. ot eeryone understands that prayer is a spiritual man begins to act onlyafter it starts to fully the will of &od. 8ntil then the prayer is only actie. )itter is

mistaken is he who takes her spiritual. $f you hae unfinished doing the carnal mind is

taken as the spiritual, it is a seduction and sorrow.

6urrently, e"perienced workers are almost gone. Anyone who desired to do the prayer

at the ery beginning questioned the accuracy and success of their actions. lightly

more care and not seeing the fruits desired, it leaes is a sacred thing, and sometimes

een blasphemes it. o the person is remoed from the possession of the heaenly

mind, manifest on earth by 6hrist@ ozsiya worlds light of reason. A loss of this

dooms to die on the mental darkness in which humanity has resided until the coming

of 6hrist. Ehen lost the ability to praise &od is reasonable, then glorify one language,

and words are not without reason kindles the heart, but quenches it. o $, with all my weakness, weeping and lamenting of their powerlessness, still



keen to keep a reasonable worship to &od that does not fall, and prepared the growing

numbers of their hearts in the house of &od. All eager to truly praise &od, $ dare

suggest these words are not as guidance, because you are wiser to me, but in the form

of brotherly adice, sharing what $ hae in my poerty. $nstead of relying on his

strength, but only relying on the almighty power of my +ord, re%ecting his own

philosophizing and all that he has no eidence in cripture or in the inspired writingsof the 1athers, acquainted with the life e"perience of repentance, lay out all of what he

once had, and great demand, requiring literally eery word is now written.

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