On Purity Newly translated from the Greek 2 Purity is an affinity to incorporeal nature. Purity is the beloved house of Christ and an earthly heaven of the heart.
Purity is the repelling of desire by desire and the total extinguishing of fire by immaterial fire.
The one who is discrete feels even in sleep no movement nor change of his condition. The rule and bound of perfect and complete purity is to hold as equal in value both animate and inanimate, spiritual and material bodies. 5 Truly blessed is the one who is in experiencing every body or color or beauty still remains unstirred. 20-22 Do not wish to overcome with justifications and controversies the demon of fornication. For if the Lord does not demolish the house of the flesh, they watch and fast in vain who consult to overturn it.