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This publication is a "Word of ascetic" St. Isaac the Syrian, the greatest theologian of the VI century. According to Reverend Filaret (Gumilevsky), "St. Isaac has devoted his whole life his soul solitary study, and draws teachings are not performed such deep psychological information as the teachings of St. Isaac proshed very much spiritual contemplative life, Isaac is holy teachings of the sublime contemplation and based on solid experiences. Spiritual life is depicted in his sermons in the annex to the most elusive states of the soul. " Great Spirit-bearing ascetic monk in his Isaac "by the words" reveals his own spiritual experience to people aspiring to the highest goal of human existence - communion with God and the salvation of souls. Text "ascetic words" published in translation from the Greek, implementation and published in 1854 by the Moscow Theological Academy. Selected explanatory notes in this volume made taking into account the text of the third revised edition of "ascetic words" St. Isaac the Syrian (Trinity-Sergius Lavra, 1911). Translations into publication in 1911 checked against the transfer of Venerable. Paisius Velichkovsky, the text of the publication Feotoki Nikifor, the Greek manuscripts of the Moscow Synodal Library and some translations from Syria to Western