Chapter

 1 1|       of Christianity with the world, and the inevitable decline
 2 1| Christianity did not enter the world either as a pessimistic
 3 1|         beside which the whole world is insignificant. “For what
 4 1|        he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? (
 5 1|       26). The affairs of this world impede the movements of
 6 1|    soul, and the goods of this world accumulate around it, choking
 7 1|      is an institution of this world, while in the beyond men
 8 2|        from the society of the world which was torn by hatred.
 9 3|   communicating with the outer world only by letter, and to receive
10 4|      has spread over the whole world; but many years of effort
11 4|        in the entire Christian world. Unfortunately there has
12 5|     ascetics withdrew from the world to the desert, they were
13 5|        represented the secular world, and hence had to be uprooted
14 5|        luminous quality of the world to come, constitute three