“Therefore, force yourselves to purify your soul and body. Do not accept filthy thoughts at all, and you will see what I am telling you, and then you will certainly be persuaded by my words. Test everything I have written to you so far, and you will find in practice that I am telling the truth from experience. Wherever there is obedience, humility, and struggling, the demons can never take a person captive. Hardness, disobedience, and pride give birth to despondency and negligence. Then all the demons come and turn the soul of that person into a dunghill and a stable. And the y do not relent until they make him responsible for new and old sins, and totally captive. So exert yourself, my child, along with all the other sisters. For if you are negligent, you will of necessity undergo bad and awful things. But if you exert yourselves, you will save yourselves eternally.”

– ‘My Elder Joseph’

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