These are Evagrios of Pontus (346–399) and Pseudo-Makarios, whose writings were thought to be those of Saint Makarios. (The real Saint Makarios of Egypt, c. 300–c. 390, was Evagrios’s master in the desert.) The influences of the two, however, were very different. Evagrios applied Neoplatonism, with its emphasis on the mind, to the desert spirituality, while Pseudo-Makarios, with a more biblical outlook, emphasized the totality of the person, represented in the heart. There are very few of the real