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Thus far, Ficino's combination of St. Thomas' Summa Contra Gentiles and Proclus has produced an excellent criticism of Aristotle's hylomorphism. Having only begun to dip his toe into the esoterism which marks his revival of the Neoplatonic tradition, it is very easy to anticipate Ficino's hierarchy of bodies, form, soul, the angels, and God mirroring that of Proclus' heneads.

The oft-maligned Gnostics are undeserving of criticism by those who do not understand their system, let alone by Christians who make no effort to understand such. If your first instinct after reading St. Irenaeus isn't to "extract the noble from the base metals" of Gnosticism, then one's understanding of Christian mysticism shall be eternally impoverished as a result.

I was introduced to St. Nektarios of Aegina from the 2021 film, Man of God (which I highly recommend you watch if religious films are your "thing"), and his portrayal of great erudition and piety is well-demonstrated throughout this collection of various essays by St. Nektarios. To imagine that he was regularly being persecuted against by other Orthodox Christians, while praying and fasting for them, is astounding.