The Road to Salvation . A brief outline of asceticism" by Theophan the Recluse is one of the most famous teachings on moral theology and asceticism. Theophan the Recluse thus begins "The way to salvation": "The last goal of man is in communion with God - and the way to it: it is faith with walking in the commandments, with the help of the grace of God. I would attach only the word: this is the way! Go! It is easy to say: this is the way, go! But how to do it? ” Theophanes the Recluse distinguished in the Christian life: “three degrees, which, by their property, can be called as follows: 1st conversion to God, 2nd purification or self-correction, 3rd sanctification . On the first, man turns from darkness to light, from the region of Satan to God; on the second, he purifies the temple of his heart from all impurities in order to receive the Lord Christ coming to him; on the third, the Lord comes, dwells in the heart and has supper with him......... *** Author of the book St.. [ ) Theophanes is an extraordinary man and a prolific writer. Having been a teacher and head of theological educational institutions, a member of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, an abbot of the Russian embassy church in Constantinople, a bishop, in 1872 Theophanes goes into prison (from where his nickname is the Recluse), in which he will remain for the rest of his earthly life for as long as 28 years. However, Theophan the Recluse himself claimed that he was locked "not in the forms of the strictest asceticism, but in the forms of unobstructed scribery" .. The words of s. Theophanes on this occasion: "When your prayer is strengthened to such an extent that everything will keep you in the heart before God, then you will have a prison without a prison..." Theophan the Recluse did not write specifically dogmatic works. The main themes of his writings are moral theology and asceticism. Theophanes has many interpretations of the Holy Qur’an. The Scripture . Theophan the Recluse also owns many translations (primarily "Compassion") of ancient Christian ascetic literature.