A well-formed person who has acquired some store of knowledge and good manners is said to be a cultured or civilized person. But few people know that the terms “cult”, “cultural” and “culture” come from the concept of “religious cult”. Cultural pursuits appeared in connection with religious cults as part of human concerns about putting everything beautiful in the service of God. So a cultured person in the true sense of the word is a person of spiritual culture. In this context, Father Raphael Noika called his book “Culture of the Spirit.” The Holy Spirit is the One who spiritually enriches man, and people who thirst for divine beauties are bearers of the culture of the Spirit.

From the creator of the electronic file. Translation of the book Hieromonk Raphael Noika was carried out at the St. George parish of the city of Chisinau (Chisinau diocese of the Moldavian Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate). Translation by Tatyana Avdeeva, editing by Olga Koverina, under the general direction and editing of Archpriest Vitaly Shinkar. May Christ save them for their good works. The translation of the book from Romanian into Russian was blessed by the author. The book was published by the publishing house “Holy Mountain” in 2006. When preparing the book for printing, the translation manuscript was changed and edited at the publishing house. In this file, the text is given not according to the publisher's version, but according to the Chisinau original translation. The formatting of the table of contents is based on the publication of the “Holy Mountain”.