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The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation Journal - Marilynn Hughes
The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation Journal: ‘Dionysius - Forgotten Christian Mystic of the Early Church' Issue Nineteen
Compiled by Marilynn Hughes
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Dionysius
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Having worked primarily in radio broadcasting, Marilynn Hughes spent several years as a news reporter, producer and anchor before deciding to stay at home with her three children. She's experienced, researched, written, and taught about out-of-body travel since 1987.
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CONTENTS:
The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation Journal:
‘Dionysius - Forgotten Christian Mystic of the Early Church'
Issue Nineteen
Compiled by Marilynn Hughes
'Dionysius – Forgotten Christian Mystic of the Early
Church’
Marilynn Hughes
Question and Answer Forum!
Different Voices!
Dionysius
'On the Heavenly Hierarchies'
INTRODUCTION
The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation Journal:
‘Dionysius - Forgotten Christian Mystic of the Early Church'
Issue Nineteen
By Marilynn Hughes
We begin this issue’s investigation into the forgotten mystic, Dionysius, with an examination of his life and conversion as written by Reverend John Parker, M.A. But let it not be left unheeded, to enter the mind of Dionysius, is to enter a firestorm of mystical thought! Let us journey . . .
DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE
AND
THE ALEXANDRINE SCHOOL
Rev. John Parker, M.A.
ALEXANDRIA became the home of Christian Philosophy, but Athens was its birthplace. Pantaenus and Ammonius-Saccus were chief founders of the Alexandrine School. They were both Christian. They both drew their teaching from the Word of God, the Fountain of Wisdom,
and from the writings of Hierotheus, and Dionysius the Areopagite--Bishops of Athens. For several centuries there had been a Greek preparation for the Alexandrine School. As the Old Testament was a Schoolmaster, leading to Christ, so the Septuagint, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristobulus, Philo, and Apollos were heralds who prepared the minds of men for that fullness of light and truth in Jesus Christ, which, in Alexandria, clothed itself in the bright robes of Divine Philosophy.
Pantaenus was born in Athens, a.d. 120, and died in Alexandria, a.d. 213. He was Greek by nationality, and Presbyter of the Church in, Alexandria by vocation. First, Stoic, then Pythagorean, he became Christian some time before a.d. 186, at which date he was appointed chief instructor in the Didaskeleion, by Demetrius, Bishop of Alexandria. Pantaenus recognized the preparation for the Christian Faith in the