WRITINGS 
  

Based on: Evangelist, Brev. of Martin of Aragon,  Roth 2529, fol 297 v., 15th cent.  (image modif.)

 

ἡ πρακτική

Praktiké

ASCETICAL PRACTICE 

γνωστική = ἡ θεωρητική

Gnostiké (= Theoretiké)

CONTEMPLATIVE KNOWLEDGE

 

Observation and
understanding of the self:

elimination of vices
acquisition of virtues

φυσική
Physike

Contemplation
of the scriptures
and of creation

θεωλογική
(= ἡ θεωλογία)

 Theologiké
 = Theologia

Knowledge
of God

     

 


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