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The Conferences

John Cassian · 1997

Ramsey's translation in the Ancient Christian Writers series. Cassian's 24 conferences with the Desert Fathers (late 4th/early 5th c.) — foundational text for Western monasticism, eight thoughts/eight vices schema, contemplative prayer. Load-bearing for the developmental-theology arc's pre-medieval contemplative substrate.

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God & Work

What this book knows

The soul's ascent to God requires disciplined formation of attention, desire, and communal obedience—contemplation is the one necessary thing.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Primary
Religion: Primary

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The one thing is theoria, or the contemplation of God—Mary chose the good part which shall not be taken away from her.
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Holy persons feel daily burdened by earthly thoughts, falling from loftiness of mind—reasons to make constant lamentation and be struck by compunction.
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We subordinate idle meditation and fruitless reading to toilsome poverty, following what the Apostle's authority taught by example.
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It is we who make rough the smooth paths of the Lord with the wicked hard rocks of our desires, disdaining what once sustained us.
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faith-and-doubt

The daily grace of Christ absolves his holy ones from the law of sin and death which they constantly and involuntarily come up against.
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It is more nobly virtuous to remain unmoved amid persecution, clinging to God's protection, acquiring strength from weakness.
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