them altogether in order to think the real? This was made more acute for Origen by his immense stress on the transcendence of God. On the one hand, the separation between God and the world was made so sharp that it became necessary to think away all the forms and shapes we derive from our contemplation of creaturely existence in order to think worthily of Him, but on the other hand, the fact that God confers upon this world rational and mathematical character by maintaining it as the object of His