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Around the year 520 A.C., some scholars in „Scythia Minor“
(meaning in Romanian Dobrogea of today), came from the Left Pont
to Constantinople and then to Rome in order to propose their solution
as regarding the acceptance of the Christian doctrinal polemic
related to monophysite. They were called „the Schythian Monks“ and
their point of view must have been very unusual that had not been
understood and had not been finally officially adopted. However, in
a tacit way they have discovered traces in the canonic conclusion
where, without declaring it, they must have found some purpose
and some values. But the episode it worth being mentioned due to
the fact that it illustrates a stereotype and even a scenario with a
secret significance. This lucky instant, an instant of collective inspiration,
bears within a symbolic fact and it be repeated under different
shapes and sometimes even more intensely than during that
long gone century. We find it repeated in the mail of Saint Nicodim
from Tismana to the bishop Eftimie of Tîrnovo, regarding the angels
revealed by Dionisie Areopagitul; in the epistle of St. Vasile from
Moldoviþa to the bishop in Kiev; in the philosophy dissertation that
Nicolae Milescu — the Sword Bearer writes for the use of Port-Royal
(in the XVII century); in the conception of Dimitrie Cantemir who, by
the „incrementa atque decrementa“ discovered Giambattista Vico,
with his „corsi i ricorsi“. In his own way, Brîncuºi in Paris, was also
„a Scythian monk“, bringing about an archaic solution form his
Carpathians; and maybe even I.L. Caragiale, foreseeing the modern
theatre, could be included in the same category. Eminescu himself,
in 1880, by his still not well-known national doctrine would anticipate
the more recent „tiers-mondist“ movements; G. Cãlinescu by
writing the first anthropological history of a European literature, in
1941; Nicolae Iorga, who set the grounds of the Historiographical
School from „Annalles“, the monk of Filota, the anthem writer of the
XIV century translated in Venice, Ioan Cassian the initiator of the
community life in the West in the IV century A.C., Dionysius Exiguus,
the initiator of the Christian calculation of „this was after Jesus Christ“,
in the VI century; Nicolae Grigorescu, the painter from Barbizon (in
the XIX century), foreseeing the evanescent colours of the impressionists;
Petru Movilã, the bishop of the XVII century, author of the
orthodox „Belief Symbol“ in Iaºi"; they are all, in their own way, „Scythian
monks“ by repeating the historical scenario and by their important
attitude. They appear with an idea of losing the charade and
therefore, with a solution that had not been previously foreseen showing
the power of creating independently and unprovoked but also
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