#pseudodionysius

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If someone sees God and has understood what has been seen, he has not seen God but something of God among what is and what is known. The more-than-founded beyond intellect and being is beyond every way of being and is known beyond intellect by its total not-knowing and not-being! The greatest all-complete unknowing is a knowledge of that beyond all that is known.

Pseudo-Dionysius, Letter I (to Gaius, a servant of God) in The Divine Names and The Mystical Theology

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Quote/s of the Day - 28 February - Transfiguration

Quote/s of the Day – 28 February – Transfiguration

Quote/s of the Day – 28 February – The Second Sunday of Lent, Readings: Genesis 22:1-2, 9, 10-13, 15-18, Psalms 116:10, 15, 16-17, 18-19, Romans 8:31-34, Mark 9:2-10 Transfiguration “And a cloud overshadowed themand a voice came out of the cloud,“This is my beloved Son; listen to him.” Mark 9:7 “… He was also providing a firm foundationfor the hope of holy Church.The whole body of Christ was…

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[T]he divine eros is ecstatic; it does not permit lovers to be among themselves but bids them to be among their lovers. […] Thus, the great Paul who came to be inspired by the divine eros and participated in its ecstatic power, straightaway declared: "I live no longer but Christ lives in me." He says this to God as a true and ecstatic lover; he does not lead a life for himself but he lives the life of a lover, a life which is exceedingly beloved.

Pseudo-Dionysius, The Divine Names IV.13

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The divine darkness is the inaccessible light in which God is said to dwell invisibly to beings—through a preeminent light—and inaccessibly to beings—through the throwing beyond of the flood of light which is beyond being. Into this darkness come all those who are worthy to see and know God. By not seeing and not knowing, they are truly come into that beyond vision and knowledge. They know this itself: it is beyond all the sensibles and intelligibles. Thus they say prophetically: "The knowledge of you is too wonderful for me; I am not empowered to attain it." Similarly, the divine Paul is said to have known God in knowing that God is beyond all intellection and knowledge. Hence he says that God's paths are trackless, his judgments are inscrutable, his gifts are indescribable, and his peace exceeds all understanding. Thus he has discovered that beyond all and has known that beyond intellection: it is beyond all, be-ing cause of all.

Pseudo-Dionysius, Letter V (to Dorotheus, a minister) in The Divine Names and The Mystical Theology

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The sudden is what is brought forward, against hope; it is brought forward from what is to this time unmanifested into what is now manifested. I believe the theology has declared this in reference to the love of man in Christ: the beyond being had proceeded from hiddenness into a manifest taking on of being in a human way. It is hidden after the manifestation; or, to speak more divinely, it is hidden in the manifestation. For this remains hidden about Jesus: the mystery in him is not brought forward by any logos or intellect. Rather it remains ineffable in being spoken, and unknown in being thought.

Pseudo-Dionysius, Letter III (to the same Gaius) in The Divine Names and The Mystical Theology

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“He is truly revealed without coverings only to those who pass above all things impure and pure, who go beyond all climbing of sacred heights, and leave behind all heavenly lights and sounds, and supernal discourses,’ and are taken up into that darkness where, as the Scripture says, He truly is who is beyond all things. For not- unmeaningly was the blessed Moses himself first bidden to be purified, and then to be set aside from the unpurified; and after entire purification he heard the many-voiced trumpets, and beheld a multitude of lights, giving forth pure and manifold beams. After he was set aside from the manyfolk, he went before the elect priests to the uttermost peak of sacred heights.’ But thus far he had not yet conversed with God Himself, nor beheld Him, for He is without aspect, but saw only the place where He dwells”