Origen
(c.185-254c.) An early Christian Father who accepted the task of guarding the purity of the Teachings of Christ.
Christian theologian. He was head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria (203-231). His doctrines were condemned by the Council of Constantinople in 553. (WD)
The Teacher bids thee read the words of Origen.
Thou wilt begin to understand the transgressions committed by the Church.
The ways of Origen’s school will be of guidance for our day. (LMG I, 167)
According to Ruffin, the biographer of Origen, the writings of Origen suffered many “corruptions”; otherwise they would never have been published, and might even have been destroyed. (LHR I, p 196)
Appollonius of Tyana was called to visit the Brotherhood, but He, in his incarnation as Origen, accepted the most difficult task of guarding the purity of the Teaching of Christ, and for this He suffered imprisonment instead of dwelling in the Abode of the Brotherhood and participating in the joyous work there. (LHR I, pp 202-203)
As the great Origen said, “Our mind alone is unable to comprehend God Himself, but can intuit Him as the Father of all beings from the beauty of his creations and the splendor of Nature.
And Origen continues: “Therefore, we cannot consider God as being a particular incarnation, or as incarnate at all. God is Uncompounded Spiritual Nature, excluding all complexes. He is intelligence, and at the same time the source and origin of all intelligence in Nature and Creation. God, Who is the origin of everything, should not be considered complex; as otherwise it might appear as though the elements that have created everything considered complex existed before their very origin.” (LHR I, pp 306-307)
I strongly recommend that you read the works of the great Origen, that brilliant expounder of the true Teaching of Christ. (LHR I, p 385)
see also Council of Constantinople
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