“Strive to be united first with the Lord, and then with the Saints, so that after death they may receive you as familiar friends into everlasting dwellings.”

“When you close the doors of your dwelling and are alone, you should know that there is present with you the Angel whom God has appointed for each man… The Angel, who is sleepless and cannot be deceived, is always present with you; he sees all things and is not hindered by darkness. You should know, too, that with him is God. “

Once again he was sitting on the mountain, and looking up saw in the air someone being borne upwards, and there was much joy among those who met him. Then wondering and deeming a company of that kind to be blessed, he Prayed to learn what this might be. And immediately a voice came to him: ‘This is the soul of Amun, the monk at Nitria.’ Now Amun had persevered in the discipline up to old age; and the distance from Nitria to the mountain where Antony was, was thirteen days’ journey. The companions of Anthony therefore, seeing the old man amazed, asked to learn, and heard that Amun was just dead. And he was well known, for he had stayed there very often, and many signs had been wrought by his means. And this is one of them.