The majority of his work is lost. But that doesn’t mean that it is permanently lost, necessarily. In 1941, with Rommel approaching, workmen at the ancient quarries of Toura near Cairo were clearing galleries for use to store ammunition when they came on a pile of 6th century papyrus books. This included works by Didymus the Blind, and also Origen; a portion of Contra Celsum, and a quite unknown dialogue with a confused Arabian bishop whom Origen first patiently listened to and then corrected and brought back to orthodoxy. This work in particular gives us a real view of how Origen spent his days. Sadly it too is not online. But the moral is that under the sands of Egypt, more works of Origen may well be present. The (clearly invalid) condemnation by Justinian in 550, at the end of the Origenist disputes, of a man dead for 3 centuries who died in the peace of the church, will not have weighed much with the monophysites, after all. Who knows what may be out there?

Good on ya, Benedict.