Orthodox Christian Monasticism - Hesychasm

heart or the "Inner man" reflects trough her nature God. But the sin, covering it, had covered too He who is mirrored in her. As soon as we clean the heart, we see the immage in which is reflected the model. He who cleans himself, seeing himself, sees in himself God as some see the sun in the miror, without to turn towards Him to see Him in his Hypostasis.

But in what nature is this transparence, on the basis which the mind, contemplating her, contemplate in the same time God? The mind gathered in its intimacy, in the heart, finds their God. Because our intimacy or our heart, when is found, is not found empty, but in her indefinite bounderies is reflected the presence of Christ. There is Christ, that has entered as foreruner at the baptism, there is the Kingdom of God, found in us, there is the house of Christ, where do not enter the things of this world and who advances deeper in the heart and comes closer to God. Introduceing the mind in his heart, through the renounciation of all thoughts, he finds Christ who enhabits her.

The ceasing of the activity of mind, that the descent in the sould of the divine work rewuire, does not make superfluous the efforts of the mind, that she was sharpened and enalrged in comprehension more delicate and more comprehensive. Because the exclusive work of God, which is inaugurated in the moments of extasis of the present life and will remain alone in the future life, is proportional with the stage which the mind has attained through her efforts, therefore is a function of the purification of passions, without which the mind could not have been apt to be lifted to the ecstatic love of God.

It is prayer that makes the mind to return from all things, from all ideas. The self-transparence is gained by the mind during prayer. The mental prayer searching in the beginning, with the name of Jesus, the place of the heart, or the central point of the subject, show us that the mind, even if is preocupied mainly with God, she search God through intimacy with the object himself. Thus the prayer searches in the heart or in the heart Jesus and as much as enters and establish in the heart more fully, as much is more dominated of the certitude that she has found Jesus,

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