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38. Virtue and spiritual knowledge lead to immortality, their
absence is the mother of death.
39 Distress that accords with God ' s will puts an end to sensual
pleasure, and the destruction of such pleasure is the soul's resurrection.
45 . Concentrate your intellect, keep watch over your thoughts,
and fight with any of them that are impassioned.
66. Curb the impulses of desire by means of self-control and
those of anger with spiritual love.
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I 4. The soul's immortality resides in dispassion and spiritual
knowledge ; no slave to sensual pleasure can attain it.
24. If you have been given spiritual knowledge, you have been given
noetic light ; should you dishonour that light, you will see darkness.
2 7 . Woman symbolizes the soul engaged in ascetic practice ;
through union with it the intellect begets the virtues.
49 When the intellect devotes itself continually to divine realities, the soul 's
passible aspect becomes a godlike weapon.
5O . The intellect cannot be transformed by spiritual knowledge
unless it first detaches itself from the soul's passible aspect by means of its
own virtues.
54- The intellect is perfect when transformed by spiritual knowledge; the soul is
perfect when permeated by the virtues.
56. The intellect falls from the realm of spiritual knowledge when
the soul's passible aspect abandons its own virtues.
70. Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and
humility erase them.
7 9 A pure soul is one that loves God, and a pure intellect is one
divorced from ignorance.
8 8 . A son of God is a person who through wisdom, power and
righteousness has become like God.
89. The soul's disease is an evil disposition, while its death is sin put into a
ction.
3 9. Mental evil resides in the misuse of conceptual images ;
active sin consists in the misuse of material things.
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4 Withdraw your soul from the perception of sense objects , and
the intellect will find itself in God and in the realm of intelligible realities
.
5. Intelligible natures that can be grasped only by the intellect
belong to the realm of divinity, while the senses and sense objects
have been created for the service of the intellect.
6. Use the senses and sense objects as a means to spiritual contemplation but, o
n the contrary, do not use what provokes the
desire of the flesh as food for the senses.
7. You have been commanded to mortify the acts of the body ( cf.
Col. 3 : 5) , so that when the soul has been made dead to pleasure
you may bring it back to life through your ascetic labours.
2 5 . As by nature the soul gives life to the body, so virtue and
spiritual knowledge give life to the soul.
4 1 . A man deadened by the passions is impervious to advice and
will not accept any spiritual correction.
47. Do not think that the loss of virtue is a minor matter, for it
was through such a loss that death came into the world.
4 8 . Obedience to the commandments is the resurrection of the
dead, for by nature life follows upon virtue.
49 When the intellect was deadened by the breaking of the
commandment, the death of the body was a necessary consequence .
50 . Just as Adam through transgressing became subj ect to death,
so the Saviour through obedience put death to death.
51 . Put evil to death so that you will not rise up dead and thus
pass from a minor to a major death.
53. He who has put his passions to death and overcome ignorance
goes from life to life.