St Maximus the Confessor: Through fulfilling the commandments the intellect stripes itself of the passions...
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Through fulfilling the commandments the intellect stripes itself of the passions.
Through spiritual contemplation of things visible it casts off impassioned conceptions of such things. Through knowledge of things invisible it discards the contemplation of things visible. Finally it denudes itself even of this through knowledge of the Holy Trinity.
St Maximus the Confessor
