Evagrius Ponticus

A sketch of the mystical teaching of this fourth-century Christian philosopher. For him, 'theology' is prayer and the immediate, experiential knowledge of God, which we reach by 'practice' and the 'contemplation of nature'. You can connect him with the Yoga Sutras, if you wish (more about this later).

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• practice
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[1integrity]

@LooksAeterna partially true since his practice and doctrine was not officially banned for centuries and then ONLY the Origenistic view of soul prior to death and demonic salvation was condemned but we can still benefit A LOT from common practices of the monks and ascetics of the time. For example, Evagrius wrote down almost 500 canonically approved Scripture verses that monks used to fight 8 vices of the flesh and demonic temptations as found at orthodoxwiki org site under Evagrius_Ponticus

[1integrity]

you might enjoy the links to Greek and English text of Evagrius Ponticus found at orthodoxwiki - org site under Evagrius_Ponticus

[LooksAeterna]

from Evagrius and he from Catholic dogma.

The essence of Gnosticism to which the state church opposes does not appear to be considering the flesh evil (some have thought so, others not), but that salvation depends not on sacraments of the official church as much as on the very direct knowldege of G_d which Evagrius equates with theology. One might ask whether his views didn't get banned for the same reasons the gnostics did.

So you might want to make up your mind "Can't have it both ways".

[LooksAeterna]

What irritates me about your otherwise wonderful contributions based on the Christian treasures is that you fail to mention (as in this case and with Origines) when the views of a teacher you cite have been officially banned by Church authority. Also and at the same time you thus hide the Church's opposition to what you expect the listener to sympathize with, you participate in the Church's oversimplification of the Gnostics' positions which were likely as diverse among each other as they differ