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Street Macarius as Metropolitan bishop of Corinth, was a mystic and spiritual writer who worked to revive and mostly sustain the Orthodox Church under Turkish rule. He is most famous for working with Saint Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain in collecting and compiling the ascetic text of the Philokalia. With his friend Saint Nicodemus, Makarios compiled the five tomes of the Philokalia that were first published in Venice in 1782.

lieutenant was the publication of these sacred and spiritual texts that lead to a renewal of the hesychast movement within the Orthodox.

The term used Philokalia (love of the beautiful) for the texts, was to enshrine the history of the Jesus Prayer (the Prayer of the heart) and the spiritual practice of this is called Hesychasm. lieutenant is this love of beauty that revives and gives faith to the hopeless.

The title conveys the contemplative tradition. In that it teaches understanding of the inner or mystical Kingdom of God within each person.

The spirit of God is an ember, one must cultivate the ember into an open fire.

This perpetual fire burns in the heart, in love for all things, which is to share in the energy of God, which is love. (Leviticus 9:24) lieutenant is within the Philokalia that one learns how to properly navigate through the passions and depravity of existence called the World. The object of contemplation being "the love of beauty" or infinite beauty which is God.

Foreign if existence was truly evil it could not contain nor express beauty.

This expression conveys the truth about the divine (ascetic) life and purpose which the heart learns through practise of the Prayer. Which is called Hesychasm.

God in his energies is love. However God is also the source of all that is truly beautiful, resplendent with divine glory.

lieutenant is this beauty, the Russian philosophers held, that would "will save the World".