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novapsyche"[Origen, student of Clement of Alexandria, believed that] God alone is unbegotten, a simple and indivisible intellectual nature, permitting no addition of any [kind]. He [sic] is absolute unity, the source from which all intellectual nature or mind commences. God is incorporeal, eternal, immutable, and impassible, beyond space and time. He transcends all, self-sufficient and self-contained, beyond thought and being, greater than anything mankind can understand or that can be measured. Although transcendent and incomprehensible, God can be known through the Son or Logos and through the beauty of his works. [...]
"The Son or Logos is the firstborn of God, the perfect image and wisdom of the Father, the sum total of his world ideas. As such, the Logos has existed with God from the beginning as his wisdom, and has no beginning in time.... The first creation of God through the Logos is the Holy Spirit.... Preceding from the Logos, the Holy Spirit is eternal and incorporeal, and is equal in honor and dignity to God and the Logos. God, the Logos, and the Holy Spirit form and eternal, divine triad. They are three distinct beings possessing a unity of essence, will, and thought."
--Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age, Antonia Tripolitas, pp. 109-10.
"Origen's doctrine of the soul, its nature, and destiny is his most original synthesis of Platonism of the Bible and his most controverted. He taught that all souls were created from all eternity as pure spirits, perfect, equal, and free, and participants in the life of the Logos and in perfect communion with God."--Ibid., p. 111.
"The Son or Logos is the firstborn of God, the perfect image and wisdom of the Father, the sum total of his world ideas. As such, the Logos has existed with God from the beginning as his wisdom, and has no beginning in time.... The first creation of God through the Logos is the Holy Spirit.... Preceding from the Logos, the Holy Spirit is eternal and incorporeal, and is equal in honor and dignity to God and the Logos. God, the Logos, and the Holy Spirit form and eternal, divine triad. They are three distinct beings possessing a unity of essence, will, and thought."
--Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age, Antonia Tripolitas, pp. 109-10.
"Origen's doctrine of the soul, its nature, and destiny is his most original synthesis of Platonism of the Bible and his most controverted. He taught that all souls were created from all eternity as pure spirits, perfect, equal, and free, and participants in the life of the Logos and in perfect communion with God."--Ibid., p. 111.