“To what person of intelligence, I ask, will the account seem logically consistent that says there was a ‘first day’ and a ‘second’ and ‘third’, in which also ‘evening’ and ‘morning’ are named, without a sun, without a moon, and without stars, and even in the case of the first day without a heaven (Gen. 1:5-13)? …. Surely, I think no one doubts that these statements are made by Scripture in the form of a type by which they point toward certain mysteries.”

“What man of sense will think that there was a first and second and third day, evening and morning, without any sun, moon, or stars? And who would be so stupid as to imagine that god, after the fashion of a human gardener, had planted a garden in Eden towards the East, and set in it a tree of life that should be seen and felt, so that one who ate of its fruit with his bodily teeth should acquire life? Why need I say more when anyone who is not blind can quote multitudes of such examples, written down as though they had occurred, and yet never having occurred in the literal sense?”

— Origen (c.230), Publication; quoted by J. Armitage-Robinson (1904); cited by George St. Clair (1907) in The Secret of Genesis (pg. 5)

Italian artist Lorenzo Ghiberti’s 1452 depiction of Noah’s ark (as a pyramid) based Greek theologian Origen’s c.230 earlier ideas about a pyramid ark.

“l think that the ark, as much as is clear from the things that are described, had four angles rising from the bottom that gradually narrowed as they came to the peak and came together in the space of one cubit. Thus the cubit is the length and width of the peak.”

— Origen (c.230) (Ѻ)

“l think that the ark, as much as is clear from the things that are described, had four angles rising from the bottom that gradually narrowed as they came to the peak and came together in the space of one cubit. Thus the cubit is the length and width of the peak.”

— Origen (c.230) (Ѻ)

“If anyone does not confess that our Lord Jesus Christ who was crucified in the flesh is true god and the Lord of Glory and one of the Holy Trinity: let him be anathema. If anyone does not anathematize Arius, Eunomius, Macedonius, Apollinaris, Nestorius, Eutyches and Origen, as well as their impious writings, as also all other heretics already condemned and anathematized by the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, and by the aforesaid four Holy Synods and [if anyone does not equally anathematize] all those who have held and hold or who in their impiety persist in holding to the end the same opinion as those heretics just mentioned: let him be anathema.”

— Anon (553), 5th Ecumenical Council: Constantinople II, The Capitula of the Council (§:10-11) (Ѻ)

“Origenes wished to interpret the waters above the heavens, as described in the first chapter of Genesis, as being angels who enjoy the sight of god, and the lower waters as the devils who have been banished from the heavens for their wrongdoing.”

— Otto Guericke (1672), New Magdeburg Experiments on the Vacuum of Space (pg. 73)