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 8
1Abbot Serenus’s Hospitality2Germanus Asks Where the Hostile Powers Come From3Scripture, a Field of Many Foods4When Scripture Bears Two Meanings5A Question to Be Held with Reserve6God Created Nothing Evil7The Origin of Principalities and Powers8The Fall of the Devil and the Angels9Did the Devil Fall Through Envy?10Where the Devil’s Fall Began11The Deceiver and the Deceived Both Punished12The Crowd of Demons in the Air13The Hostile Powers Fight One Another14Why Evil Spirits Are Called Powers and Principalities15Why the Heavenly Powers Are Called Angels and Archangels16The Prince of the Demons Holds Court17Two Angels Stay Close to Every Person18Two Philosophers Send Demons Against Antony19Demons Can Only Enter a Mind Already Emptied20Germanus Asks About the Angels and the Daughters of Men21The Sons of Seth and the Daughters of Cain22Germanus Objects That There Was No Law Yet23The Law of Nature Bound People from the Beginning24Those Who Sinned Before the Flood Were Justly Punished25A Liar and the Father of the Lie