On the Mystical Life, Volume II Book

	Introduction	7
	St Symeon's Life and Times	13
	The Life of our holy Father, Symeon the New Theologian, Priest and abbot of the Monastery of St Mamas	21
	Charismatic vs. Institutional: On Confession and the Role of Experience	39
	The Shape of St Symeon's Thought	55
	The Ascetic Life: Renunciation, the Struggle for the Virtues, and Dispassion	56
	The Vision of God: St Symeon the Mystic	81
	The Glory	81
	A Personal and Sacramental Experience	105
	The Theologian	121
	Of the Holy Trinity	123
	Of Participation in the Life of the Trinity	134
	Of the Word Made Flesh	140
	Of the Image of God in Man: Fall and Restoration	147
	For Future Generations: St. Symeon the Contributor	175
Appendix	Letter on Confession	185
	Bibliography	205
	Index of Scriptural References	211
	Index	213