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DESCRIPTION:The Promises of Our Lord\nA Discourse by Symeon the New Theologian \nWhat then are the promises of our Lord Jesus Christ\, God’s Son Himself\,\non which he hangs? Listen intelligently to that which He promises us. “…there\nwill be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents”\, and again\, “Him who comes\nto Me…I will by no means cast out”… Elsewhere He says\, “Draw near to Me and I\nwill draw near to you”\, and “Come to Me\, all who labor and are heavy laden\, and I\nwill give you rest…And He says\, “If you who are evil men know how to give good\ngifts to your children\, will not your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those\nwho ask Him?” \nHe who ceaselessly keeps all these things in mind\, and others like them\,\nand occupies himself with them day and night\, and thinks of them with mind and\nsense and puts them zealously into practice\, will gradually be separated from\nmemory of the world\, of secular affairs\, of possessions\, and of his own family and\nfriends\, and correspondingly draw nearer to spiritual things. As he daily\nadvances he will notice how the thoughts of the passions to which he is prone are\ngradually withdrawing\, then how these passions themselves diminish\, and how\nthe heart is softened and comes to humility; then in turn how the heart gives rise\nto thoughts that bring about humbleness of mind…Nevertheless he arrives at this\nthrough many tribulations and the more he is humbled the more he feels\ncompunction. Humiliation brings about affliction\, but affliction feels the\nhumility that is its source and makes it grow. This activity\, which is exercised by\nthe fulfilling of the commandments\, washes away – what a marvel! – every stain\nfrom the soul. It expels every passion and every evil lust\, by which I mean not\nonly those of the body but also of the world. Thus a man will be set free in soul\nfrom every earthly desire\, and that not only from physical bonds – it is as when\none puts off a garment and is completely stripped. Rightly so\, for the soul is\nstripped of its insensitivity\, which God’s apostle calls a “veil\,” that “lies on the\nhearts” of the unbelieving…Then\, just as he who has been physically stripped\nnaked sees the wounds of his body\, so he who has been stripped spiritually may\nclearly see the passions that cling to his soul… So he applies the commandments\nto them as medicines\, and trials as cautery\, and is humbled and sorrowful\, and\nfervently seeks God’s help. He clearly sees the grace of the Holy Spirit coming to\nhim and tearing all these [passions] away from him one after the other and\neliminating them until it has entirely freed his soul from them all. The coming of\nthe Paraclete grants freedom to the soul\, not merely in part\, but completely and\ntotally…Thus it renews and restores a man both spiritually and physically\, so that\nsuch a person seems to be clothed\, not with a corruptible and gross body\, but\nwith one that is spiritual and immaterial and even now ready for the rapture…For\nwhenever the mind is united to the objects of intellect it finds itself entirely\nbeyond the realm of sense\, even though it appears to be looking at sensible\nobjects. \nSymeon The New Theologian. The Discourses. The Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist\nPress\, 1980. 187-189.
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