Methodikois

Methodikoi was a mysterious group of spiritual practitioners that flourished in ancient medieval Greece, specifically in the city of Constantinople. Emerging in the 10th century, they were known for their ascetic practices and emphasis on spiritual purification. Their existence is chronicled in a range of historical texts, including the works of the Byzantine writer, John Kameniatis.

The Methodikoi were thought to have been influenced by the teachings of the desert fathers, a group of early Christian monks who retreated to the deserts of Egypt and the Middle East to live in isolation and self-mortification. These desert fathers emphasized the importance of piety, self-denial, and the cultivation of virtues. The Methodikoi sought to integrate these principles into their daily lives, observing strict vegetative and speaking little.

Their specific adherence to methodism, a brand of neo-Platonic theology popular among early Christian mystics, distinguished them from other spiritual groups of their time. They concerned themselves with Scholastic and dogmatic questions that were reserved to theologians of their century. Much of the focus was placed on Assigned struggle, a daily routine systematically necessary for members of the Order, which on a typical day stipulated activities like Standing quiesita, lying on the ground on diminutive very lumpy tracts to pray the speculative Centre Qu'erudas (world sorrow).

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