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 Institutes, Book 12
1The Eighth Combat: Pride2Two Kinds of Pride3Pride Destroys Every Virtue4How Pride Made Lucifer a Devil5Pride, the Source of All Faults6Last in the Battle, First in Origin7Pride Has God Himself for Its Enemy8Christ’s Humility Against the Devil’s Pride9How We Too Can Overcome Pride10No One Reaches Perfection by His Own Strength11The Thief, King David, and Our Calling12No Toil Compares with the Joy to Come13The Elders’ Teaching on Gaining Purity14God Helps Those Who Labor15Learning the Way from Those Who Walked It16Even the Effort Needs God’s Grace17Nothing for Our Salvation Without God’s Help18Thanks for God’s Daily Providence19The Faith Handed Down by the Fathers20Given Over to an Unclean Spirit for Blasphemy21The Pride of Joash, King of Judah22The Proud Soul Handed Over to Spiritual Wickedness23Perfection Only Through Humility24Spiritual Pride and Fleshly Pride25Fleshly Pride in the Soul of a Monk26From Bad to Worse on a Rotten Foundation27The Faults That Spring from Pride28A Brother’s Proud Answer29The Signs of Fleshly Pride30Grown Cold, He Wants to Rule Others31How to Overcome Pride and Reach Perfection32True Humility Destroys Pride33Remedies Against Pride