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As we know, Evagrius of Pontus was a monk and the author of numerous works on various ascetic and mystical topics. He was born in Ibora, in Pontus, in 345 and died in 399 in Kelia, Egypt1. He wrote more than thirty treatises on different topics among which the central place is occupied by the so-called trilogy, Practicus, Gnosticus, and preserved mostly in Syriac with fragments in Greek, Kephalaia Gnostica. Due to Origenistic controversy and its condemnation at the Council of Constantinople in 553 a lot of Evagrian works have been considered as promoting Origenism and have not survived in the original Greek language. In Greek language we have only works on ascetic and spiritual topics, often under the name of other authors like Nilus of Ancyra (Tractatus ad Eulogium, De vitiis quae opposita sunt virtutibus, De oratione, De octo spiritibus malitiae, De malignis cogitationibus), but his works in the field of cosmology, eschatology and anthropology have been irretrievably lost or have been transmitted to our times in Syrian, Coptic, Latin or Armenian translations. The writings of Evagrius bear the traces of different places and people that shaped him and contain many elements apparently difficult to reconcile with one another. Firstly, it was a milieu of great Cappadocian Fathers (Caesarea and Constantinople), where the ideal dominated was the Greek paideia, excellent knowledge of rhetoric, theological defense of the Nicene Creed and the world of ecclesiastical politics and diplomacy2;

“Non errores mentis sed logismoi faciunt haereses”. The passions as a source of heresy according to Evagrius Ponticus