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Unwritten tradition As early as the second century, Clement of Alexandria - a man who combined the full inheritance of Christianity with that of a sophisticated member of the Greek intelligentsia - was teaching a psychological method, a form of Christian ascesis, which afterwards came up time and again in the teachings of the early Fathers like a basic pattern - but which has been more and more ignored over the centuries, repeatedly surfacing for brief periods in the historical record. (Clement was once regarded as a saint, but more recently has been removed from the list of Saints accepted by the Western churches.) My investigation of these early psychological teachings, developed in my book A Different Christianity, shows that although they appear monastic, in fact they offer a science so complete that it can also provide effective alternatives to the classical monastic method. Their methods aim at the same objectives as do Eastern practices such as Yoga, but after detailed study it seems to me that they do so in a way that, once properly understood, is more suited to modern Western man. Here, with their origins in the second century but drawing for descriptive data on other older and younger sources, may be the solutions, the hope, so urgently needed by modern man.
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