Published by: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, Etna, CA - 2008
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HYPOTHESIS 11: How, after death, souls are assigned to the same place as those souls which lived in a similar way on earth.
HYPOTHESIS 12: God-loving parents should rejoice and be thankful for the trials and temptations that their children endure for the sake of the Lord. As well, parents who love God should exhort their children to struggle and to risk all for the sake of virtue.
HYPOTHESIS 13: How one renouncing the world should go to a remote place; what constitutes a remote place and what benefit derives from it; and what places are most appropriate for living out the ascetic life.
HYPOTHESIS 14: From whence the fear and love of God are first engendered in man and to what extent he is obliged to fear and love God.
HYPOTHESIS 15: It is essential for those who have abandoned the world not to communicate with their relatives according to the flesh or to nurture the slightest interest in them.
HYPOTHESIS 16: We must love our relatives in the flesh equally with our other brothers, as long as our relatives lead a similar kind of life; if, however they conduct themselves in a way discordant with that of our brothers, we must avoid them as harmful.
HYPOTHESIS 17: How we who becomes a monk must bare himself of all things, and how he must dispose of everything which belongs to him. That the existence of personal property for a monk in a coenobitic monastery is clearly disastrous.
HYPOTHESIS 18: It is necessary for one who wishes to be saved to seek the company of virtuous people and, as a thing much beneficial, to question them with exceeding desire and flaming zeal, so as to learn from all those things which are essential for the salvation of the soul.
HYPOTHESIS 19: Regarding the necessity of obedience: what benefits arise from it and how a man accomplishes it.
HYPOTHESIS 20: That one should not trust in himself in anything, but should heed the advice of the Fathers in all things and should clearly confess the secrets of his heart without hiding anything.