For the first time in English, we present Fra. Luis de Granada’s “Libro de la Escala Espiritual”, (1562) of J. Climacus’ “Ladder of Divine Ascent.”What this particular work is and is not.What this work is:This is a translation of the “Libro de la Escala Espiritual”, with the notations and verbiage translated and commented on by Fra. L. de Granada. O.P.. This work is from his initial effort of 1551. According to the late E. Allison Peers, Fra. Luis de Granada had mad...

The Ladder or "The Ladder of Divine Ascent" is an ascetic book written for a monastic community by John Climacus around the year 600 AD. It was composed for John, the Abbot of Raithu, which is a monastery situated on the shores of the Red Sea.The work became very popular in the Eastern Orthodox church and remains widely read today, usually during the period of Lent. The work studies the means of ascending to the peak of religious perfection by a sequence of thirty steps, which brin...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the austere stillness of Mount Sinai, Saint John Climacus gathered the hard-won wisdom of the desert into a single, searching vision of the spiritual life. The Ladder of Divine Ascent sets before the listener a path of thirty steps, tracing the soul’s passage from renunciation and obedience through repentance, vigilance, and the struggle against the passions, and onward to stillness, prayer, and the fullness of divine love.Ma...