[W]e say that he is neither soul nor angel, nor does he have imagination or opinion or reason or understanding; nor is he reason or understanding; nor is he spoken or understood…
[H]e is not number, or order, or greatness, or littleness, or equality, or likeness, or unlikeness; nor does he stand or move or keep silence or speak…
[H]e has no power, nor is he power, or light, nor does he live, nor is he life or substance or age or time, nor is there any intelligible contact with him, nor is he knowledge or truth or kingship or wisdom or one or unity or Godhead or goodness; nor is he spirit according to our understanding of spirit; nor sonship nor fatherhood nor anything else known to us or to any who exist; nor is he any of the things that do not exist or any of the things that do exist; nor does any of the things that are known know him as he is; nor does he know the things that exist as they are in themselves, but as they are in him; nor is there any means of approaching him by reason or understanding…
[H]e has no name; there is no knowledge of him; he is neither darkness nor light, neither error nor truth; nor, all told, can he be affirmed or denied, but when we attribute by affirmation or remove by denial any or all of the things that are not himself, we can neither posit nor negate him, nor in any intelligible way affirm or deny him.
For the perfect and unique Cause of all things must necessarily lack the possibility of comparison with the highest height, and be above all positing and negation. And his incomprehensible transcendence is incomprehensibly above all affirmation and denial.
— The Mystical Theology of St Denis
May we settle for no name for the Nameless,
Simeon
Quote of the Week
“The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.”
— Lao Tzu
God is Waking Up
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Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill
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