#pseudo-dionysius

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Hierophany

On Auras and the Ideal

I wrote about Auras!! Give it a read!!

[arcane-offerings]

L. Michael Harrington, Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). https://www.ebay.com/itm/254449632267

[ave-caele-pater]

Trinity!! Higher than any being, any divinity, any goodness! Guide of Christians in the wisdom of heaven! Lead us up beyond unknowing and light, up to the farthest, highest peak of mystic scripture, where the mysteries of God's Word lie simple, absolute and unchangeable in the brilliant darkness of a hidden silence. Amid the deepest shadow they pour overwhelming light on what is most manifest. Amid the wholly unsensed and unseen they completely fill our sightless minds with treasures beyond all beauty.

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, "Mystical Theology"

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Francesca Dell'Acqua and Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi, eds., Pseudo-Dionysius and Christian Visual Culture, c.500-900 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

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Pseudo-Dionysius - On The Heavenly Hierarchy [Audiobook]

www.themodernhermeticist.com Pseudo-Dionysius - The Complete Works (Greek and English) (https://amzn.to/2Z54WXv) Translation by: John Parker Read by: Dan Att...

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Pseudo-Dionysius - Mystical Theology [Audiobook]

www.themodernhermeticist.com Pseudo-Dionysius - The Complete Works (Greek and English) (https://amzn.to/2Z54WXv) Translation by: John Parker Read by: Dan Att...

[thelowlystylite]

Pseudo-Dionysius and Theurgy

... scholars see Dionysian theurgy as straightforwardly similar to Iamblichian theurgy only translated into a Christian liturgical context.  

For example, Pseudo-Dionysius describes how the divine light of God descends to earth with the goal of raising us up. Here are the opening lines of The Celestial Hierarchy:

Inspired by the Father, each procession of Light spreads itself generously toward us, and, in its power to unify, it stirs us up by lifting us up. It returns us back to the oneness and deifying simplicity of the Father who gathers us in...However, this divine ray can enlighten us only by being upliftingly concealed in a variety of sacred veils which the providence of the Father adapts to our nature as human beings.

These "sacred veils" are Christian symbols and liturgical practices. As Pseudo-Dionysius writes, human beings need "perceptible things to lift us up" toward God:

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You will find, moreover, that the Word of God not only calls these Celestial Beings above us Gods, but also gives this name to saintly men amongst us, and to those men who, in the highest degree, are lovers of God; although the First and Unmanifest God superessentially transcends all things, being enthroned above all, and therefore none of the beings or things which are can truly be said to be wholly like Him, save in so far as those intellectual and rational beings who are wholly turned towards union with Him, as far as is in their power, and who, uplifting themselves perpetually, as far as possible, to the Divine Radiance, in the imitation of God (if it be lawful so to speak) with all their powers, are thought worthy of the same divine name.

The Celestial Hierarchy, by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite