Note 775 — Chapter VI
Neil Buchanan translation
Footnote 775:
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Origen defended the teleology culminating in man against Celsus' attacks on it; but his assumption that the spirits of men are only a part of the universal spirit world is, as a matter of fact, quite akin to Celsus' view. If we consider the plan of the work περι αρχων we easily see that to Origen humanity was merely an element in the cosmos.