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The 'Euchites' or 'Messalians' were a sect that separated from the Christian Eastern (Orthodox) Church in Mesopotamia, and then extended by Asia Minor and Thrace.
A group of heterodox charismatics who developed around the 4th century. The sect was condemned in the synod of 383 but the group continued to exist for several centuries also later influencing the Bogomils of Bulgaria. The sect was condemned by St John Damascene and Timothy priest of Constantinople, expressing the sect espoused a sort of mystical materialism. The sects teaching asserted that the essence (see ousia) of the Trinity could perceived by the senses and even with carnal eyes. Also that the Trinity God transformed himself into a single hypostasis, reality or existence in order to unite with the souls of the perfected. So that God has taken different forms in order to reveal himself to the senses, that only sensible revelations of God confer perfection upon the Christian. Finally that the state of freedom from the world or passions is attained solely by prayer (hence their name- "Prayers") not through the church, baptism and or any of the sacraments. The sacraments and the church have no effect, according to the Messalians, on the passions or the influence of evil on the soul. Messalians taught that once a person experienced the essence of God they were freed from moral obligations or ecclesiastical discipline.[1] [2]
By the 12th century it had reached Bohemia and Germany.
The doctrine of this sect was declared a heresy by both Western and Eastern Christian authorities, and according with a resolution of the Council of Trier (1231) they were persecuted.
The doctrine of the Euchites was very similar to that of the Bogomils and Luciferians. They did not recognise the sacraments of the Christian church, considered Lucifer as the elder son of God, and, based on the idea that the direct descendants of Adam and Eve had to practise it to procreate, admitted incest among their members. Homosexuality was also considered a natural practice among them, and virginity in women had no value to the members of this sect.
They were mentioned for the first time in one of Michael Psellus' works, in the 11th century.
★ The Vision of God by Vladimir Lossky, SVS Press, 1997. (ISBN 0-913836-19-2)
★ The Macarian Legacy: The Place of Macarius-Symeon in the Eastern Christian Tradition (Oxford Theological Monographs 2004) by Marcus Plested ()
1. The Vision of God by Vladimir Lossky pg 111-112
2. The Macarian Legacy: The Place of Macarius-Symeon in the Eastern Christian Tradition (Oxford Theological Monographs 2004) by Marcus Plested pg 16-27
A group of heterodox charismatics who developed around the 4th century. The sect was condemned in the synod of 383 but the group continued to exist for several centuries also later influencing the Bogomils of Bulgaria. The sect was condemned by St John Damascene and Timothy priest of Constantinople, expressing the sect espoused a sort of mystical materialism. The sects teaching asserted that the essence (see ousia) of the Trinity could perceived by the senses and even with carnal eyes. Also that the Trinity God transformed himself into a single hypostasis, reality or existence in order to unite with the souls of the perfected. So that God has taken different forms in order to reveal himself to the senses, that only sensible revelations of God confer perfection upon the Christian. Finally that the state of freedom from the world or passions is attained solely by prayer (hence their name- "Prayers") not through the church, baptism and or any of the sacraments. The sacraments and the church have no effect, according to the Messalians, on the passions or the influence of evil on the soul. Messalians taught that once a person experienced the essence of God they were freed from moral obligations or ecclesiastical discipline.[1] [2]
By the 12th century it had reached Bohemia and Germany.
The doctrine of this sect was declared a heresy by both Western and Eastern Christian authorities, and according with a resolution of the Council of Trier (1231) they were persecuted.
The doctrine of the Euchites was very similar to that of the Bogomils and Luciferians. They did not recognise the sacraments of the Christian church, considered Lucifer as the elder son of God, and, based on the idea that the direct descendants of Adam and Eve had to practise it to procreate, admitted incest among their members. Homosexuality was also considered a natural practice among them, and virginity in women had no value to the members of this sect.
They were mentioned for the first time in one of Michael Psellus' works, in the 11th century.
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Bibliography
★ The Vision of God by Vladimir Lossky, SVS Press, 1997. (ISBN 0-913836-19-2)
★ The Macarian Legacy: The Place of Macarius-Symeon in the Eastern Christian Tradition (Oxford Theological Monographs 2004) by Marcus Plested ()
References
1. The Vision of God by Vladimir Lossky pg 111-112
2. The Macarian Legacy: The Place of Macarius-Symeon in the Eastern Christian Tradition (Oxford Theological Monographs 2004) by Marcus Plested pg 16-27
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