Written by Greg Pantelidis BSc(Hons)
gregpantelidis@gmail.com
1. Guard your mind. Guard your heart. Guard your tongue. Guard your body.
2. How can the Shekinah, the Holy Spirit, come if you only care for food, possessions (including knowledge), glory, and romance?
3. There is great joy in being frugal in food, frugal in possessions, having non-glory, and non-romance.
4. The way of life full of joy is: frugality, chastity, humility, and self-denial.
5. The virtues are not ours. The talents are not ours. So cease from vanity, pride, and boasting.
6. The Shekinah, the Holy Spirit, is given to those persons who repent and are baptized in the Orthodox Christian Way, or repent and confess to an Orthodox Christian Confessor Priest.
7. The Shekinah, the Holy Spirit, can only come through repentance and Orthodox Christian Baptism or repentance and Orthodox Christian Confession.
8. O Lord, guard me from overeating, from stealing and overpossessing, from disobedience, from vanity, from pride, and from unchastity.
9. O Lord, ignite my heart to burn with perfect love of God, and perfect love of my brethren.
10. Lord Jesus endured dishonor, poverty, and pain. Let us imitate our Lord and also endure dishonor, poverty, and pain.
11. If we lived with frugal food, frugal possessions, non-glory, and non-romance, life on earth would be paradise.
12. Keep the Law of Moses in mind, heart, tongue, and body. Keep the Law of Lord Jesus in mind, heart, tongue, and body.
13. In every place keep the Law of Moses. In every place keep the Law of Lord Jesus.
14. Practice mental lawfulness. Practice heart lawfulness. Practice verbal lawfulness. Practice bodily lawfulness.
15. Great peace have they who practice the Law of Moses. Great peace have they who practice the Law of Lord Jesus.
16. The call of the gospel teacher is: “Repent and keep spiritual law, Judgment Day draws near”.
17. Study and practice the Law of Moses day and night. Study and practice the Law of Lord Jesus day and night.
18. Always be joyful and cheerful when you meet your brethren. When you are alone you may mourn and weep for your lawlessness.
19. Practice the first, second, and third love towards God. Practice the first, second, and third love towards your brethren.
20. To keep the Law of Moses and to keep the Law of Lord Jesus you must have faith in God. Faith in God gives the grace and power to keep the Law of Moses and the Law of Lord Jesus.
21. Practice humility always. Practice obedience always. Practice self-denial always.
22. Orthodox Christians are warriors of Lord Jesus. They wage war against the forces of the dragon: false Gods, black magic, superstition, delusion, overeating, stealing and overpossessing, vanity, disobedience, pride, despair, unchastity.
23. Live in the desert of noetic stillness. Through noetic stillness you will advance in virtue and spiritual knowledge.
24. Purify your heart. Purify your mind. Purify your tongue. Purify your body.
25. Reject the teaching of the demons. Reject the cunning, malice, pride, blasphemy, vanity, and unchastity of the demons. Wage unceasing war against the demons.
26. Never hold an untested opinion. Always have your opinion tested by the elders and brethren.
27. The Orthodox Christian Church must be guarded by sound doctrine, sound ethics, and sound traditions. The Orthodox Christian Church must be fortified by sound doctrine, sound ethics, and sound traditions. The Orthodox Christian Church excommunicates every member that deviates from sound doctrine, sound ethics, and sound traditions. The Orthodox Christian Church is the ark of salvation. Outside the ark of salvation there is no salvation.
28. Test your opinions. Test your thoughts. Test your desires.
29. To remain with God you must always practice good. Good unites us with God. Evil separates us from God.
30. Great peace have they who keep the Law of Moses. Great peace have they who keep the Law of Lord Jesus.
31. Victory against sin belongs to Lord Jesus. We must devote our life to Lord Jesus so He can give us victory against sin.
32. Read frugally, to be refreshed and enlightened.
33. Obey superiors and authorities. Superiors and authorities have been ordained by God.
34. The mystery of God can be lived only through repentance. For repentance is the message of every Orthodox Christian teacher.
35. Guard your tongue. Guard your eyes and ears. Guard your mind. Guard your heart. Guard your body.
36. Attachment to food, possessions (including knowledge), glory, and romance is transcended by faith in Lord Jesus and a devotion to Him through repentance and the sacraments of the Orthodox Christian Church.
37. The word of a carnal person defiles. The word of a spiritual person refreshes and enlightens.
38. Lord Jesus grants victory. (See John 16:33). Lord Jesus grants freedom. (See John 8:36).
39. Consider your daily routine. Consider your nightly routine. Consider your weekly routine. Consider your monthly routine. Consider your yearly routine. In all the above establish a godly, good, logical, responsible, practical, and efficient routine.
40. We get distracted by eating and drinking, gathering possessions (including knowledge), seeking glory, and seeking romance. We must always remember that we must prepare for eternal life by keeping the Orthodox Christian Faith, by keeping the Law of Moses and the Law of Lord Jesus, by fasting, by charity, by humility, by obedience, by chastity.
41. How wonderful it is for the mind to be still, the heart to be still, the tongue to be still, the body to be still.
42. Practice non-wealth, non-glory, and non-pleasure and you will be happy and free.
43. Be frugal in food, frugal in possessions, seek non-glory, seek non-romance, and you will be happy and free.
44. All knowledge belongs to God. All virtue belongs to God. All spiritual gifts belong to God. We are just vessels of God’s knowledge, virtue, and spiritual gifts. Only through the sacramental life of the Orthodox Christian Church do we progress in knowledge, virtue, and spiritual gifts. Only by faith and devotion do we increase in knowledge, virtue, and spiritual gifts.
45. Practice charity towards all. Assist the need of all. Greet all. Give to all. Serve all. Do good to all. Help all. Love all.
46. Practice the first, second, and third self-denial. The first self-denial is the renunciation of the material world. The second self-denial is the renunciation of your own opinion and will. The third self-denial is the renunciation of all glory, honor, and praise, and the ascribing of all knowledge and achievements to God.
47. Practice self-denial always. Commit yourself to the wisdom and economy of God. Seek God’s will in all of your pursuits and you will find blessing and success.
48. Practice perfect obedience to your spiritual father. Practice perfect obedience to your elders in Christ. Practice perfect obedience to your guardian angel. Practice perfect obedience to Lord Jesus.
49. Unbelief, pride, lawlessness, and despair are all of the dragon. We must always hope in God and have undoubting faith, humility, and keep the Law of Moses and the Law of Lord Jesus.
50. Have an honest heart. Be honest about your likes, dislikes, and neutralities. Have an honest and discerning tongue. Have a simple, honest, humble, and watchful mind. Have honest and true bodily behavior.
51. For the Shekinah, the Holy Spirit, to effect knowledge, virtue, and spiritual gifts in us we must have faith, repentance, and humility.
52. Do not obstruct the Holy Spirit by your pride. Be always humble and obedient to the Holy Spirit.
53. We have need of humility, non-wealth, non-glory, and non-pleasure.
54. He who loves does not seek wealth. He who loves does not seek glory. He who loves does not seek pleasure. Love seeks none of these things.
55. Do not impose your opinion and will on others. Let them be free to belong to the continuity of their thoughts, feelings, words, and actions.
56. Let go of thoughts. Let go of feelings. Let go of words. Let go and be free, still, and Comforted!
57. Let go of food, possessions (including knowledge), glory, and romance. Let go and be free, happy, joyful, still, and Comforted!
58. Consider your mental continuity. Consider your heart continuity. Consider your verbal continuity. Consider you bodily continuity.
59. Purify your mental spectrum. Purify your heart spectrum. Purify your verbal spectrum. Purify your bodily spectrum.
60. If you work to purify your spectrum you will change yourself and thus the world.
61. Change the world by changing your mind. Have a pure, simple, and humble mind. Have a watchful and enlightened mind.
62. Know that we will soon depart from here. So be free of food, possessions (including knowledge), glory, and romance. Be free and Comforted!
63. Do you have a problem in your mind? Do you have a problem in your heart? Do you have a problem in your tongue? Do you have a problem in your body? We must solve all these problems.
64. The aim of the Orthodox Christian teacher is to solve the problems of persons. In particular the overeating, stealing and overpossessing, the disobedience, the vanity, and the unchastity of persons.
65. Let go of food, possessions (including knowledge), glory, and romance. Then you will be free also of your wrath, sorrow, lethargy, pride, and envy. Let go and be free! Let go and be Comforted!
66. How can the Shekinah, the Holy Spirit, come when you do not let go of food, possessions (including knowledge), glory, and romance? Let go and the Shekinah will come. Let go and give place to the Shekinah!
67. To receive the Shekinah, the Holy Spirit, you must believe in the Trinitarian Lord: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and repent and be baptized in The Orthodox Christian Way. If already baptized, you receive the Shekinah if you repent and confess your sins to an Orthodox Christian Confessor Priest.
68. Aggression is as clear psychological problem. An Orthodox Christian must not have aggression but humility, meekness, mercy, and love.
69. Do not be hostile to friends, enemies, and neutrals. Instead always practice humility, meekness, mercy, and love.
70. Do not dominate or oppress other persons. When you respect their freedom and self-determination they function well and can practice the talent and virtue granted to them by God.
71. Change the world by: 1) Practicing mental virtue. 2) By associating with spiritual persons. 3) By avoiding sights of non-virtue, and by avoiding words of non-virtue. 4) By avoiding the words and practices of unbelievers.
72. Humble yourself greatly. (See Sirach 7:17). Exalt your fellow persons. Never belittle your fellow persons. Rank yourself below all your fellow persons.
73. We must seek to change ourselves and walk in the path of gospel virtue and gospel wisdom.
74. We must change from our faults and practice the Law of Moses and the Law of Lord Jesus.
75. Change your mind. Change your heart. Change your tongue. Change your bodily practices.
76. Only persons who speak the language of our likes, dislikes, and neutralities are our spiritual kin.
77. Seek your betrothal to Lord Jesus. Seek your marriage to Lord Jesus.
78. Let go of your opinion and will. Embrace the opinion and will of your elders in Christ. Let go and be free! Let go and be joyful! Let go to find the Way of Life! Let go to find the Way of Light!
79. Simplify your mind. Humble your mind. Purify your mind. Sanctify your mind.
80. Let every event you encounter raise you to contemplation of the spiritual equivalent.
81. The Lord created us to be married to Him for all eternity. This marriage is eternal life, eternal joy, eternal Comfort!
82. Always practice humility, meekness, mercy, and love. These four virtues make you kin to God and the saints.
83. Be true to God and true to yourself and all will go well.
84. Your conscience will teach you everything. Each person’s conscience is their teacher.
85. Self-denial leads to freedom. Practice self-denial always. Practice self-denial and be free!
86. The wise do not dominate others. The wise respect the freedom of others and allow them to cultivate their potential.
87. Practice the three humilities. First, rank yourself below every person. Second, ascribe your knowledge to God. Third, ascribe your virtue to God.
88. Fast in secret. Give charity in secret. Pray in secret. Confess in secret. Commune in secret. Keep all the above hidden from the world.
89. The dragon tempts us to break the Law of Moses and the Law of Lord Jesus. Let us be guided by these two laws and let us never transgress them.
90. All virtue is born from faith and self-denial. These two give place to the Holy Spirit to effect every virtue in us. Practice perfect faith and perfect self-denial always.
91. (John 6:47): “Amen amen I say to you, he who believes in Me has eternal life”.
92. (John 8:12): “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life”.
93. (John 11:25-26): “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die”.
94. (Mark 9:23): “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes”.
95. (Mark 11:24): “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them”.
96. (John 5:24): “Amen amen I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life”.
97. (John 7:38): “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water”.
98. (John 8:24): “ Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins”.
99. (John 14:12): “Amen amen I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father”.
100. (Mark 16:16): “He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned”.
