Download or read book The Philokalia Vol 1 written by G.E.H. Palmer and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has exercised an influence far greater than that of any book other than the Bible in the recent history of the Orthodox Church.