…is called a pious fraud. About the sixth century, there appeared a series of Christian Neoplatonic volumes under the name of Dionysius the Areopagite, who was the first disciple of St. Paul in Athens. And these volumes were taken to be almost of apostolic…

…fifth or at the beginning of the sixth century in Syria. And the author, the unknown author, merely signed the name of Dionysius the Areopagite to these books in order to give them a better hearing among his fellows. He was a Neoplatonist who had adopted…