This topic is meant to discuss the initiatic practices (or the lack of thereof) within the traditions of Orthodox Christianity, more specifically, those that supposedly existed in the monasteries of Mount Athos in Greece in the past century.

We know that Vasile Lovinescu, the Romanian traditionalist writer visited Mount Athos in 1935, seeking initiation, and although his efforts did not come to fruition due to not being a citizen of Greece and thus not being ...