Description: "Appearing for the first time in English, this volume contains a translation of the Kephalaia Gnostika, the first three chapters of the recently-discovered "Second Part" of the corpus of St Isaac of Nineveh (or "the Syrian"). This text touches upon many aspects of the "life of stillness," that is, the spiritual life of hermits who would later be called hesychasts, and the author explores and explains the various levels and forms of prayer and spiritual experience from his own experience"--
