Homily 22 and 23 bring us to the denouement of the preceding Homilies. The pursuit of stillness and the purification of the faculties of the soul prepare the soul to be raised to the state of Theoria - to experience God not in light of his operations but in accord with the nature of his being. It is silence in all things and beyond articulation. St. Isaac ultimately describes it as a state beyond and above prayer. One enters by grace into the treasury. Every human device becomes still because inadequate and one simply tarries long, for the Master of the House has come - the Bridegroom has arrived.
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-seven Part II and Homily Sixty-eight Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-seven Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-six Part IV
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-six Part III
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-six Part II
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-five Part IV and Homily Sixty-six Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-five Part III
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-five Part II
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-four Part XII and Homily Sixty-five Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-four Part XI
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-four Part X
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-four Part IX
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-four Part VIII
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-four Part VII
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-four Part VI
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-four Part V
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-four Part IV
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-four Part III
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-four Part II
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Sixty-four Part I
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