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1 8,16| produced upon him by the contemplation of the ancient monuments 2 9,13| entirely to the knowledge and contemplation of God, and the attainment 3 9,13| past. This is the highest contemplation—the contemplation of God 4 9,13| highest contemplation—the contemplation of God one and alone, the 5 9,13| being wholly absorbed in the contemplation of God. Therefore he who 6 9,13| attached to the object of contemplation. Thus, the basis and center 7 9,13| and the desire for divine contemplation through the abnegation of 8 9,13| highest degree of hesychia, “contemplation.” The majority of ascetics 9 9,13| to endeavoring to reach “contemplation.” He worked out a definition 10 9,13| his own of the so-called “contemplation” (θεορια), and proceeded 11 9,19| in caves and preferring contemplation to reading and writing,