AD 1 to 500

St Justin Martyr (100 AD-165 AD) is one of the earliest witnesses and defenders of the belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

Dialogue with Trypho

Crescens was a Cynic philosopher who attacked the Christians, and was in turn attacked by Justin Martyr. Eusebius, writing 150 years later, accused him of causing Justin's death.

De Principiis (Origen)

"In Your light we shall see light"; i.e., in Your word and wisdom which is Your Son, in Himself we shall see You the Father. Because He is called light, shall He be supposed to have any resemblance to the light of the sun? Or how should there be the slightest ground for imagining, that from that corporeal light any one could derive the cause of knowledge, and come to the understanding of the truth?

The Body of God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQcRnHxCFDM

What is Neoplatonism?

From https://thomaslmcdonald.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/unwilling-witnesses-st-...

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/pistis.html
https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/2395

Originally printed in the Fall 2011 issue of Quest magazine.
Citation: Branco, Raul. "The Pistis Sophia: An Introduction." Quest 99.4 (FALL 2011):144-151

by Raul Branco

Apollonius of Tyana https://www.livius.org/articles/person/apollonius-of-tyana/

17.42 Throw away your books

11. -22.47 You can leave life right no let that determine what you do and say and think. If the Gods exist then to abandon human beings is not frighting? the gods would never subject you to harm, and if they dont exist and dont care what happens to you what would be the point f living in a world without gods or providence 20.04 neither good nor bad

542 MORALS AND DOGMA.