 The Alexandrian theologians Clemens and Origen combined Stoic and Platonist ideas, arguing that freedom from emotion was part of Christian perfectibility and the precondition for divinization through participation in divine love (agapê). This mystical union was described in highly emotional language, but supernaturally caused spiritual feelings as experiences of the apathetic soul were not called simply emotions. John Cassian made this combination of divine love with freedom from mundane emotions known in Western monasticism. It was employed in influential treatises by Gregory the Great and Bernard of Clairvaux. While this approach was also present in the Cappadocian fathers and Augustine, they stressed the importance of Platonic control and moderation in everyday life to their non-monastic audience. 