The Philokalia (Dobrotolyubiye): The Complete Text

Philokalia (Dobrotolyubiye) — Table of Contents

All chapters of the book «Philokalia» systematically grouped by author for convenient reading:

Anthony the Great

• Instructions of Our Holy Father Anthony the Great in 170 Chapters on Human Character and a Virtuous Life

Mark the Ascetic

• 200 Chapters of Our Holy and God-Bearing Father Mark the Ascetic on the Spiritual Law
• The same about those who think to be justified by works, 226 chapters
• The same reverend and God-bearing father of our Mark the Wanderer sent a message to Nicholas the monk

Symeon the New Theologian

• 152 Practical and Theological Chapters of Our Venerable Father Symeon the New Theologian
• By the Same Author: A Discourse on Faith, and Instruction for Those Who Say That It Is Impossible for Those Who Remain in the World and Have Worldly Cares to Reach Perfection in the Virtues
• Discourse of the Same Father of Ours, Symeon the New Theologian, on the Three Methods of Prayer

Gregory the Sinaite

• The chapters of our holy father Gregory the Sinaite: Different words about commandments, dogmas, torments and vows, and also about thoughts, passions, virtues, silence and prayer
• Other Chapters by the Same Author
• Famous Reflections on Stillness and Prayer by the Same Author, and Also on the Signs of Grace and Delusion
• The same about silence and two ways of prayer in the 15th chapters
• The same venerable father of ours, Gregory the Sinaite, chapters on speechlessness: About how a speechless person likes to sit and make a prayer

Maximus Kapsokalyvites

• An excerpt from the life of our venerable father Maxim, named Kapsokalivit

Monk Theophanes

• Monk Teofan: Ladder of divine gifts

Hesychius the Presbyter

• Hesychius the Presbyter’s Word to Theodulus on Sobriety and Virtue (The beginning and the true guarantee of the enlightenment of the soul: answer chapters and prayer chapters)

Philotheus of Sinai

• Our Venerable Father Philoteus of Sinai 40 chapters on sobriety

Nicephorus the Solitary

• The word of Nicephorus the monk about sobriety and guarding the heart

Theoleptos of Philadelphia

• A Discourse by Theoleptos, Metropolitan of Philadelphia, Explaining the Hidden Activity in Christ and Briefly Describing the Labor of the Monastic Order
• By the Same Theoleptos of Philadelphia (Chapters)

Kallistos Patriarch of Constantinople

• Chapters on Prayer by the Blessed Kallistos, Patriarch
• The method of attentive prayer of Saint Callistus, Patriarch of Constantinople
• The same briefly about prayer

Kallistos and Ignatios Xanthopoulos

• Monks Calista and Ignatius Xanthopoulos: Mastery and a rule made with God’s help about those who want to live silently in monasticism

Evagrius Ponticus

• About monasticism in Evagrius the monk, who teaches how to fight and be silent
• The same Evagrius the monk has a chapter on the difference between passions and thoughts
• The same from the chapters on sobriety

Isaiah the Solitary

• Saint Isaiah the Hermit 27 chapters on the protection of the mind

Peter of Damascus

• The first book of our venerable and god-bearing father Peter of Damascus
• The same venerable father of our Peter Damascene book two: 24 short words full of spiritual knowledge

John of Carpathia

• Our Venerable Father John, Bishop of Carpathia, to the monks who wrote to him from India, 100 consoling chapters
• The ascetic and very comforting word of Blessed John of Carpathia to the monks from India

Diadochos of Photiki

• Blessed Diadochus, Bishop of Illyricum of Photiki, Ascetic Word (Borders)
• Blessed Diadochus: 100 Actionable Chapters on Spiritual Knowledge and Discernment

Nikitas Stithatos

• Nikita, Venerable Monk and Presbyter of the Studio Monastery, Active Chapters of the Hundred and First
• The same natural chapters of the second hundred on the purification of the mind
• The same Nikita’s third hundred chapters about love and the perfection of life

Kallistos Angelikoudes

• Chapters of Calista Catafagiot (Angelicudes)

Abba Philemon

• About Abba Filimon The word is very useful

Theodore of Edessa

• Active chapters of our venerable father Theodore of Edessa
• The same venerable father of our Theodore is imagined by the Word

Elias the Ekdikos

• Preface to the Flower-Gathering
• FLOWER-GATHERING: Advice of Zealous Lovers of Wisdom, compiled by Elias the Ekdikos
• Contemplative Chapters by the Same Author
• Active and Contemplative Chapters by the Same Author

John Cassian

• On the Venerable Cassian (Introduction)
• Saint Cassian the Roman about eight passionate thoughts
• The same Venerable Cassian to Abbot Leontinus about the holy Scythian fathers and about prudence

Nilus the Ascetic

• Preface about prayer by our venerable father Nila the fasting person
• The ascetic Word of the same reverend and god-bearing father of our Nila-faster

Translator’s Afterword

• Afterword of the translator