#pseudodionysius

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.

Quote/s of the Day - 28 February - Transfiguration

[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.

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.

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.