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subject to it: therefore that should be called mortal which has been made subject to the emotions of anger. But yet we know that the gods should be never-dying, and should possess an immortal nature; and if this is clear and certain, anger has been separated far from them and from their state. On no ground, then, is it fitting to wish to appease that in the gods above which you see cannot suit their blessed state."-Ibid. p. 811.
The significancy of Origen's observation that God never made anything mortal lies in the fact that the creation of Wisdom Divine is to enjoy the immortality of Nirvana. In plain language, Wisdom Divine (the Word) only brings into manifestation the real natural attributes of the soul-substance, which, on the soul's liberation, know not deterioration, destruction or decay. The Word is not the creator of anything else certainly not of anything that perishes, e.g., the physical body!
