About the book: 2010 / Collection of ascetic writings of the fathers of the 4th–15th centuries, compiled by St. Macarius, Metropolitan of Corinth (1731–1805) and edited by Rev. Nicodemus the Holy Mountain (1749 –1809), was first published in Greek in 1782. The Greek word “Philokalia” (“Philokalia”) means: love of the beautiful, sublime, good, love of beauty, love of beauty. This refers to spiritual beauty, which a Christian acquires as a result of following the instructions of the ascetic fathers collected in this collection. The full title of the collection sounded like “The Philokalia of the sacred sober wise men, collected from our holy and God-bearing fathers, in which, through active and contemplative moral philosophy, the mind is purified, enlightened and improved.” The Greek “Philokalia” was translated into Slavic by the Monk Paisius Velichkovsky, and Later, a great deal of work on translating the collection into colloquial Russian was carried out by St. Theophan the Recluse (in the world Georgy Vasilyevich Govorov, 1815–1894). This publication is based on the 1905 edition “at the expense of the Russian Panteleimon Monastery on Athos.” With the blessing of Metropolitan Vladimir of Tashkent and Central Asia Recommended for publication by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church