"Origen's view of the rational beings and his adherence to the Christian/Biblical conception of God as a spiritual personality caused Origen to present a different view of the creation of the material world than that found in Plotinus. He believed that the cosmos is an act of God's will and goodness, created for the purpose of educating the souls, and not a cosmological necessity of the unfolding of His essence as Plotinus believed. Origen's cosmological view is an adaptation of the popular Platonic view, re-interpreted to fit a Christian scheme of the creation and fall."
-- The Doctrine of the Soul in the Thought of Plotinus and Origen, Antonia Tripolitis, 1978, p. 143.
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