THE ANATHEMAS AGAINST ORIGEN.

I. IF anyone asserts the fabulous pre-existence of souls, and shall
assert the monstrous restoration which follows from it: let him be anathema.

II. IF anyone shall say that the creation (thu paragwghn) of all reasonable
things includes only intelligences (noas) without bodies and altogether
immaterial, having neither number nor name, so that there is unity between
them all by identity of substance, force and energy, and by their union
with and knowledge of God the Word; but that no longer desiring the sight
of God, they gave themselves over to worse things, each one following his
own inclinations, and that they have taken bodies more or less subtile,
and have received names, for among the heavenly Powers there is a difference
of names as there is also a difference of bodies; and thence some became
and are called Cherubims, others Seraphims, and Principalities, and Powers,
and Dominations, and Thrones, and Angels, and as many other heavenly orders
as there may be: let him be anathema.

III. IF anyone shall say that the sun, the moon and the stars are also
reasonable beings, and that they have only become what they are because
they turned towards evil: let him be anathema.

IV. IF anyone shall say that the reasonable creatures in whom the divine
love had grown cold have been hidden in gross bodies such as ours, and
have been called men, while those who have attained the lowest degree of
wickedness have shared cold and obscure bodies and are become and called
demons and evil spirits: let him be anathema,.

V. IF anyone shall say that a psychic (yukikhn) condition has come from
an angelic or archangelic state, and moreover that a demoniac and a human
condition has come from a psychic condition, and that from a human state
they may become again angels and demons, and that each order of heavenly
virtues is either all from those below or from those above, or from those
above and below: let him be anathema.

VI. IF anyone shall say that there is a twofold race of demons, of which
the one includes the souls of men and the other the superior spirits who
fell to this, and that of all the number of reasonable beings there is
but one which has remained unshaken in the love and contemplation of God,
and that that spirit is become Christ and the king of all reasonable beings,
and that he has created(1) all the bodies which exist in heaven, on earth,
and between heaven and earth; and that the world which has in itself elements
more ancient than itself, and which exists by themselves, viz.: dryness,
damp, heat and cold, and the image (idean) to which it was formed, was
so formed, and that the most holy and consubstantial Trinity did not create
the world, but that it was created by the working intelligence (Nous dhmiourgos)
which is more ancient than the world, and which communicates to it its
being: let him be anathema.

VII. IF anyone shah say that Christ, of whom it is said that he appeared
in the form of God, and that he was united before all time with God the
Word, and humbled himself in these last days even to humanity, had (according
to their expression) pity upon the divers falls which had appeared in the
spirits united in the same unity (of which he himself is part), and that
to 319 restore them he passed through divers classes, had different bodies
and different names, became all to all, an Angel among Angels, a Power
among Powers, has clothed I himself in the different classes of reasonable
beings with a form corresponding to that class, and finally has taken flesh
and blood like ours and is become man for men; [if anyone says all this]
and does not profess that God the Word humbled himself and became man:
let him be anathema.

VIII. IF anyone shall not acknowledge that God the Word, of the same
substance with the Father and the Holy Ghost, and who was made flesh and
became man, one of the Trinity, is Christ in every sense of the word, but
[shall affirm] that he is so only in an inaccurate manner, and because
of the abasement (kenwsanta), as they call it, of the intelligence (nous);
if anyone shall affirm that this intelligence united (sunhmmenon) to God
the Word, is the Christ in the true sense of the word, while the Logos
is only called Christ because of this union with the intelligence, and
e converse that the intelligence is only called God because of the Logos:
let him be anathema.

IX. IF anyone shall say that it was not the Divine Loges made man by
taking an animated body with a yukh logikh and noera, that he descended
into hell and ascended into heaven, but shall pretend that it is the Nous
which has done this, that Nous of which they say (in an impious fashion)
he is Christ properly so called, and that he is become so by the knowledge
of the Monad: let him be anathema.

X IF anyone shall say that after the resurrection the body of the Lord
was ethereal, having the form of a sphere, and that such shall be the bodies
of all after the resurrection; and that after the Lord himself shall have
rejected his true body and after the others who rise shall have rejected
theirs, the nature of their bodies shall be annihilated: let him be anathema.

XI. IF anyone shall say that the future judgment signifies the destruction
of the body and that the end of the story will be an immaterial yusis,
and that thereafter there will no longer be any matter, but only spirit
nous): let him be anathema.

XII. IF anyone shall say that the heavenly Powers and all men and the
Devil and evil spirits are united with the Word of God in all respects,
as the Nous which is by them called Christ and which is in the form of
God, and which humbled itself as they say; and [if anyone shall say] that
the Kingdom of Christ shall have an end: let him be anathema.

XIII. IF anyone shall say that Christ [i.e., the Nous is in no wise
different from other reasonable beings, neither substantially nor by wisdom
nor by his power and might over all things but that all will be placed
at the right hand of God, as well as he that is called by them Christ [the
Nous, as also they were in the reigned pre-existence of all things: let
him be anathema.

XIV. IF anyone shall say that all reasonable beings will one day be
united in one, when the hypostases as well as the numbers and the bodies
shall have disappeared, and that the knowledge of the world to come will
carry with it the ruin of the worlds, and the rejection of bodies as also
the abolition of [all] names, and that there shall be finally an identity
of the gnpsis and of the hypostasis; moreover, that in this pretended apocatastasis,
spirits only will continue to exist, as it was in the reigned pre-existence:
let him be anathema.

XV. IF anyone shall say that the life of the spirits (nopn) shall be
like to the life which was in the beginning while as yet the spirits had
not come down or fallen, so that the end and the beginning shall be alike,
and that the end shall be the true measure of the beginning: let him be
anathema.

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