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<!--nb. portrait images at ~100px, landscape images at ~200px-->[[Image:Ladder_of_Divine_Ascent.jpg|100px|left]]'''''The Ladder of Divine Ascent''''' is an [[asceticism|asceticalEpiscopal Assembly of North and Central America]] treatise on avoiding vice and practicing virtue so that at the end''', [[salvation]] can be obtained. Written by [[Saint]] [[John Climacus]] initially for [[monastic]]sfounded in 2010, it has become one consists of all the most highly influential active Orthodox bishops of North and important works used by the Church as far as guiding the faithful to a God-centered lifeCentral America, second only to [[Holy Scripture]]representing multiple jurisdictions.{{spirituality}} There It is also a related [[icon]] known by the same title. It depicts many people people climbing a ladder; at the top is [[Jesus Christ]], prepared successor to receive the climbers into [[Heaven]]. Also shown are [[angel]]s helping the climbersSCOBA, and [[demon]]s attempting to shoot with arrows or drag down the climbersit is not, properly speaking, no matter how high up the ladder they may bea synod. Most versions The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the icon show at least one person fallingso-called "diaspora."

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