A collection of ascetic writings of the fathers of the 4th–15th centuries, compiled by St. Macarius, Metropolitan of Corinth (1731–1805) and edited by St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (1749–1809), was first published in Greek in 1782. The Greek word “Philokalia” (“Philokalia”) means: love of the beautiful, the sublime, the good, love of beauty, love of beauty. This refers to spiritual beauty, which a Christian acquires as a result of following the instructions of the ascetic fathers collected in this collection. The full title of the collection sounded like “The Philokalia of the sacred sober wise men, collected from our holy and God-bearing fathers, in which, through active and contemplative moral philosophy, the mind is purified, enlightened and improved.” The Greek “Philokalia” was translated into Slavic by the Monk Paisius Velichkovsky, and later, a great deal of work on translating the collection into colloquial Russian was carried out by Saint Theophan the Recluse (in the world Georgy Vasilyevich Govorov, 1815–1894). This publication is based on the 1905 edition “at the expense of the Russian Panteleimon Monastery on Athos.” The third volume of “Philokalia” includes translations of the works of the holy fathers: Diadochos of Photicus, John of Carpathus, Zosimas of Palestine, Maximus the Confessor, Abba Thalassius, Theodore of Edessa, St. Theodora, Abba Philemon, Rev. Theognostus, Philotheus of Sinai, Elijah the Presbyter and Ekdik. With the blessing of Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia VLADIMIRRecommended for publication by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church