On Earning a Pure Body - First Edition (artifact)
'On Earning a Pure Body' is one of dozens of books written by the Agionist Saint Katharitos. Focusing on how to perfect one's body and what it truly means to possess pure blood and a pure body, many of the suggestions in the book seem to outright contradict most of Agionist canon.
This first edition is an extremely rare and often destroyed copy written in the Saint's own hand, making it explicitly clear how much his own views differ from the modern interpretation. One of the most notable verses says, "It is not the place of us to judge those whose bodies are born weaker, or smaller, or twisted or perfect. The purity of the body is not judged by its structure or its form, it is judged by the care and love it is presented and crafted with. The most beautiful of courtesans may contain within them the cruelest and more impure of hearts, and the deformed slave may yet remain more pure than even the mightiest of Magi lords."