Subdivision of passions according to genesis
(origin and development)
1. Gluttony | 2. Lust | 3. Greed | 4. Wrath | 5. Sorrow | 6. Despondency | 7. Vanity | 8. Pride | |
Addiction chain | The root of subsequent passions | Father of greed (love for money) | Mother of wrath and sorrow | Father of sorrow | Mother of despondency | A Spawn of sorrow and vanity | Excessive vanity gives birth to pride | The limit and source of passions, the root of evil. |
Definition | Addiction to delicious and plentiful food | Addiction to carnal passion through thought or deed. | The desire to make wealth | Loss of peace of mind (division of soul) | Sinful sorrow (from an external source) | Feeling of inner dissatisfaction and devastation (from internal state) | Addiction to the futile (in vain) glory of man, love of honors. | Excessively high opinion of oneself and neglect of others; arrogance, haughtiness. |
Different kinds of passions | 1) Food before the set time 2) Gluttony 3) Voluptuousness | 1) Fornication. 2) Adultery. 3) Sexual perversions. 4) Fornication in thoughts. | 1) Greed is a passion for possession. 2) Stinginess is a passion for conservation. Greed wants to capture something that belongs to others, avarice is afraid to give its own. | 1) Internal – embarrassment, irritation. 2) External 3) Vindication (revenge, resentment). | 1) Sadness from lesion, loss, default 2) Sadness from apprehension, fear and care. 3) Sadness from previous anger. | 1) Despondency that drives to sleep: laziness. 2) Despondency (boredom) driving from home in search of communication and entertainment. | 1) The exaltation of carnal benefits, talents and visible things. 2) The exaltation of spiritual exploits. | 1) Contempt for others. 2) Attributing all good deeds to yourself |
How passion is expressed | The manifestations of gluttony passion include drunkenness, drug addiction, smoking. | The passion of fornication affects people of any age. | Greed can take the form of entrepreneurship, collecting, embezzlement. Outwardly, it may look like thrift. | Anger usually causes dissatisfaction with any passion. | 1) Feeling of sadness, spiritual bitterness. 2) Anxiety. More often manifested in the soul of a person who has a deep attachment to earthly things. | Burnout, fussiness, distraction in prayer. Extreme despondency is despair and suicide. | A thirst for recognition and praise. Vanity accompanies all virtues. | Resentment, pride, intransigence, self-justification, grumble, consumer attitude to God, the Church and people, contrariness, selfishness, lack of generosity. |
God’s intention (design) | Food from the Tree of Life. John.6:48 | Love and Unanimity in God. Genesis.2:18 | Man caring for the world and cultivating it. Genesis.1:28 | The zeal of God, flowing from the cares of the world. John.2:17 | Human creative activity. 1Cor.3:9 | The fruits of human labor John15:5 | The consecration of the fruits of labor, the glorification of God in your affairs. Mt.6:9 | The acquisition of divine dignity, deification (theosis). John.17:21 |
Man's natural need after the fall | Nutrition | Reproduction | Survival in a fallen world | Righteous anger | The need for labor | Civilization building | – | – |
What commandment this passion is breaking | But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life… Lk. 21:34 | Flee from sexual immorality… t the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 1Cor.6:18 | Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have… Hebrew 13:5 | But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother[c] will be liable to judgment … Mt.5:22 | Jesus, seeing that he had become sad, said, “How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! Lk. 18:24 | And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart Lk. 18:1 | And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites… Mt.6:5 | Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall Proverbs. 16:18 |
Holy Scripture about passion | Book of the Wisdom of Sirach 37:30–34 | Mt.5:28,31–32; 1Cor.6:9–10 | Lk.12:15–22; Mark.10:23–24; 1Tim.6:6–10,17–19 | Mt.5:21–22; Eccl.7:9; James.1:20; Eph.4:26 | 2Cor.7:9–10 | Ps. 42:5 | Mt.6:1,5,16 | Jac. 4:6; 1Cor.13:4; Daniel.4:34; Jerem.50:31–33 |
Ways of struggle (How to cure) | 1) Fasting. 2) Food only at the scheduled time. 3) A person needs to end of the meal before satiety. 4) Simple food. 5) Abstinence from alcohol. 6) Eat, but to not regalia | 1) Abstinence from excess food, wine and sleep. Abstinence of the tongue. 2) Physical work. 3) Confession. 4) Prayer against prodigal thoughts. 5) Reading the Holy Scriptures | 1) Alms. 2) Strengthening faith in the Providence of God. 3) Remembering about death | 1) Abstinence in food. 2) Silence of the mouth with embarrassment of the heart. 3) A request for forgiveness of insults to those whom I offended. 4) Prayer for the one who offended me. | 1) Prayer with tears. 2) Mercy. 3) Hate the world. 4) Reflection on future blessings and bliss in paradise. 5) Acceptance of everything that happens as a gift of God. 6) The praise of God. | 1) Labor 2) Zeal in prayer and for every good deed. Self-enforcement education. 3) Patience. 4) Daily schedule 5) Remembering about death. 6) Avoid unnecessary information. 7) Avoid people who avoid work (lazy ppl) | 1) Do not notice praise towards yourself. 2) Distrust of their virtues. 3) The desire not to stand out from others. 4) Modesty in speech and clothes. 5) Self-shame, contrition of sins. 6) Silence. | 1) The memory of your own sins, the memory of death, meditation on the good deeds of God, up to the suffering and death on the Cross. 2) Self-restraint. 3) Requests for forgiveness or help from other people. 4) Prayer for all, even the simplest needs. 5) Attribution of all good deeds to God. 6) Obedience to your mentor. |
Some features of the struggle | Graduation is needed. Fasting should be kept secret. | Avoid voluptuous impressions and feelings | Alms require gradual skill and secrecy. | It is necessary to develop patience. | Thanksgiving prayers | It is useful to read the lives of ascetics. | You should compare yourself with the image of the person who Christ taught about. | Hard physical labor can help cure extreme degrees of pride. |
Virtue | Abstinence | Chastity | Non-possessiveness | Kindness | Hope | Sobriety | Humbleness | Love |