Ibid., col. 921-924.

206

PG, t. 120, col. 499 AB.

207

PG, t. 44, col. 164.

208

On the dark forces that envelop the human spirit, see Spiritual Discourses, XXIV, 2; XLIII, 7-9, etc.: PG, t. 34, coil. 664, 776-777. [Russian translation: The Works of St. Macarius of Egypt, pp. 181-182, 280-281.]

209

The author of "The Meaning of Life" (Moscow, 1918), who died in Russia at the beginning of the revolution, is unknown in the West. He is the only "Sophian" whose theological thought has remained fully Orthodox.

210

St. Irenaeus of Lyons. Against Heresies, V, prel.: PG, t 7, col. 1120: St. Athanasius the Great. Homily on the Incarnation of God the Word, 54: PG, t. 25, col. 192B; St. Gregory the Theologian. Roem. dogmatica, X, 5-9: PG, t. 37, col. 465; St. Gregory of Nyssa. Long Catechetical Homily, 25: PG, t. 45, col. 65 D.

211

PG, t.150.

212

PG, t. 90, col. 621 AB. 213

213

PG, t. 91, col. 1308.

214

Ibid., col .1309

215

H. U. von Balthasar. Kosmische Liturgie, s. 267-268.

216

PG, t. 90, col. 1108 AB.

217

PG, t. 94, col. 1464 A.

218

PG, t. 123, col. 1156 p.

219

PG, t. 3, col. 640 P; 648 D; 1072 V.

220

Three words about Wisdom, to Bishop. Ignatius (according to the RCP. 431 of the Synodal Library in Moscow), ed. Ep. Arsenius, Greek text and Russk. transl., Novgorod, 1898.

221

PG, t. 94, col. 1029, 1032.

222

Creations, vol. III, p. 101; Christian Reading, 1842, IV, p. 395.