Prep. Symeon the New Theologian. On the Purpose of Christian Life. 1980, №3. P. 67.

3

 Prep. Maximus the Confessor. Illness. Book 2. Questions and answers to Thalassius. Question 42. "Martis". 1993. P.111.

4

 Prep. Symeon the New Theologian. Words. Moscow, 1892. The second word. P. 30.

5

 On the Purpose of the Christian Life. Sergiev Posad, 1914. P. 41.

6

 Cm. Priest. Pavel Florensky. Consecration of Reality// Theological Works. №17. Moscow, 1977. Pp. 148-152.

7

 The Monk Macarius of Egypt says: "Christians have their own world, their own way of life, and their mind, and their word, and their own activity. Such are the way of life, and the mind, and the word, and the activity of the people of this world. Christians are another, and peace-loving people are another. The distance between the two is great" (St. Macarius of Egypt, Spiritual Conversations, Epistles and Words, Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, 1904, Conversation 5, p. 40).

8

 Prep. St. Symeon the New Theologian writes: "His name is unknown to us, except the name 'He Who Is,' the ineffable God, as He said (Ex. 3, 14)" (Simeon the New Theologian, St. Divine Hymns, Sergiev Posad, 1917, p. 272).

9

 Svyashch. Pavel Florensky. The pillar and ground of truth. Moscow, 1914. Pp. 98-99.

10

 St. St. Basil the Great says: "The exercise in virtue is likened to the ladder that the blessed James once saw, with which one part was close to the earth and touched it, and the other stretched above heaven itself" (St. Basil the Great, Creations, Ed. 3. Part 1. Moscow, 1891. P. 155). "The Ladder" of St. St. John clearly carries out this idea of the interdependence of both virtues and passions in the spiritual life of a Christian.

11

 St. Isaac of Syria says: "Every virtue is the mother of another virtue. Therefore, if you leave the mother who gives birth to virtues, and go to look for daughters before you find their mother, then these virtues turn out to be vipers for the soul. If you do not reject them, you will soon die" (St. Isaac of Syria, Words of Asceticism, Moscow, 1858, Word 72, p. 528).