Simeon the New Theologian

Simeon the New Theologian '

Besides-as Simeon the New Theologian writes on the third form of the Prayer-it should never be undertaken without guidance.

Describing the first form of the Jesus Prayer, Simeon the New Theologian unequivocally states that untrue visions lead man into the devil's clutches.

And Simeon the New Theologian' writes of Anthony the Great, "How could he have survived at all, in the dark tomb of heathendom, had he not constantly kept within him the image born of inward prayer?"

Indeed there was even a blossoming of this Age in Constantinople in the eleventh century (St Simeon the New Theologian), in Russia with the development of monasticism and also in the Balkans.