Letter 1548: The spiritual life is a journey with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
If someone asks why incorporeal things are less subject to passions and corruption than bodies — I reply: because bodies are composite and dissoluble, while incorporeal substances, being simple and without parts, do not admit of dissolution. The soul, being immortal and simple, does not undergo the same afflictions as the body, which is compound and mortal.
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Latin / Greek Original
ἘΡΙΘΤΟΙΑΆΌΜ . Υ. -- ΕΡΙΘΤ. ΟΟΧΙ].
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