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Saint John Climacus instructing the monks of Sinai, from manuscript Greek 418, folio 248 recto, a manuscript of the twelfth century.

In Step Twenty-six of The Ladder of Divine Ascent we read,Ὥσπερ διάφορα τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τὰ φῶτα, οὕτως πολλαὶ καὶ διάφοροι τοῦ νοητοῦ ἡλίου αἱ ἐν ψυχῇ γινόμεναι ἐπισκιάσεις· ἄλλη μὲν γὰρ, ἡ […]