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Macarius of Egypt was a fourth-century Egyptian Christian monk and hermit. Considered a saint in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, he founded a monastery that bears his name and is now in possession of the Coptic Orthodox Church. This collection of writings, originally ascribed to this saint, has in recent years had its authorship questioned....

know the things that are under the earth, and that are above the heavens? 11. Let us then leave these things, and rather seek, like good men of business, to gain possession of a heavenly inheritance and the things that are profitable to our souls. Let us learn to gain possessions which will stay by us. If you, who are but human, begin to search the thoughts of God, and to say, “I have found out something, and comprehend it,” the human mind will be found surpassing the thoughts of God. But in this
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