Purification
The first movement of the soul toward God
This exploration is coming soon. It will cover purification — katharsis — as the first stage of the classical threefold ascent from the practical life toward theosis.
The exploration will examine what the tradition means by purification: not self-punishment or the suppression of natural desire, but the reorientation of the whole person through the disciplines of watchfulness, fasting, and metanoia — genuine change of mind. It will ask why transformation requires this kind of sustained preparatory work, and what apatheia — the fruit of purification — actually feels like as a lived state rather than an abstract ideal.