John Cassian brought the teaching of the Egyptian monks to the West: the twelve books of the Institutes on the monk's life and the eight principal faults, the twenty-four Conferences with the Abbots of Egypt, and his seven books On the Incarnation against Nestorius. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Contents
The Conferences, Conference 14
1Abbot Nesteros on Two Kinds of Knowledge2Practical Knowledge Comes First3Practical Perfection Has Two Parts4The Many Callings of the Practical Life5Keep to the Path You Have Chosen6The Unsettled Are Easily Swayed7The Married Farmer Who Put a Demon to Flight8The Four Senses of Scripture9From Practical Knowledge to Spiritual10The Heart as an Ark of the Covenant11The Many Meanings of Scripture12Cassian Asks How to Forget the Poets13How to Clear the Dross from the Memory14An Unclean Soul Can Neither Give Nor Receive Spiritual Knowledge15Germanus Objects That Many Impure Men Have Knowledge16Bad Men Cannot Have True Knowledge17To Whom the Way of Perfection Should Be Opened18Why Spiritual Teaching Bears No Fruit19How the Unworthy Sometimes Receive the Grace of the Saving Word