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The Inner Challenge: The Eight Evil Thoughts According to Evagrius Ponticus. Catechesis by Don Fabio Rosini on Spiritual Combat. Thirteenth Meeting: Sloth, Part One Today we enter the challenge of understanding the analysis of the demon of sloth. We are in this challenge in which we see these eight evil thoughts according to the framework of Eastern spirituality that correspond to our seven deadly sins. We understand the demon of sloth in a fairly similar way, even if in our Western understanding it is also accompanied by the part of the vice of the thought of sadness. For us, the demon of sloth is one and the same with that of sadness, while for the Eastern scheme it is a closer relative of envy; in fact, sloth has in common with sadness a sort of gravitational force that drags down, downwards. Sloth is a deflation of the being that leads to having to deal with a very dangerous fight that we must not make the mistake of trivializing, even according to Evagrius Ponticus it is the most devastating demon but, in turn, once won it lets an unspeakable peace arrive in the soul. The demon of sloth is indolence, which creates addiction to mediocrity.