A misreading of the Philokalia can create a cultic, fanatical religion that once stood in lethal opposition to Jesus Christ himself. We may adopt with great profit the spiritual principles that we find in the Philokalia, but we need not apply its monastic practices to our lives in every historical detail. As the twenty-first century beckons us forward, a parallel rediscovery of the spiritual treasures of the Christian East now lies before us. The Philokalia reemerges in a world of massive technological,