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Our elders admirably describe the nature of this malady as like that of an onion, and of those bulbs which when stripped of one covering you find to be sheathed in another; and as often as you strip them, you find them still protected.

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The Works Of John Cassian

The collected writings of John Cassian, a foundational fourth-century monastic writer whose works on prayer, spiritual combat, and communal life shaped Western Christian monasticism.

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