BRAIN Journal - Psychological-mystical Aspects at St. Evagrius Ponticus and St. Maximus the Confessor

ABSTRACT The Holy Fathers are those who have experienced and deeply studied the mysteries of the human soul. The way a human being is being considered is very special. According to St. Maxim, man is the mediator between God and creation. Created with body and soul, man is charged with knowing God starting even with his earthly life. But, as Plato said, man must at first know himself. The Holy Fathers describe at length this path along which man, as he renounces sins, discovers God inside his heart. These descriptions are extremely actual and relevant to the modern man who seems to have lost a little of the overall picturehttps://www.edusoft.ro/brain/index.php/brain/article/view/44/15