Remember You Will Die | Cross | Classic Typography & Floral Wreath Design | Memento Mori | Orthodox Christian Art PosterThe human soul gathers qualities that coincide with its activity. As a mirror shows the image of the objects placed in front of it, so the soul becomes stamped with the impressions of its deeds and activities, of its surroundings. But while a lifeless mirror loses the reflected images when the objects are removed, the reasoning soul keeps these impressions. They can be wiped clean or removed by others, but this requires work and time. Those

all ye stars and light

And again: ‘watch ye therefore

” Blessed are those who wash their robes

When the intellect has been freed in this way from the passions we have described and been raised up to God

but strove rather to be free of them

against the snare of demons

“The First-Created Man”

having cut thee down like the fig-tree of old

Then you shall know that I am the Lord

Step 6: On the Remembrance of Death

preserve me from all dangers which overwhelm me like the waves of the sea

and then death