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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1856. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Note To Chapter II. 'The Divine Dark.' The writer, who goes by the name of Dionysius Areopagita, teaches that the highest spiritual truth is revealed only to those who have transcended every ascent of every holy height, and have left behind all divine lights and sounds and heavenly discoursings, and have passed into that Darkness where He really is (as saith the Scripture) who is above all things.'--lie Myslied Theologid, cap. i. 3. Notes To Chapter III. investigating its etymology and successive meanings; and I readily acknowledge my debt to his suggestions on this point. 4 Dkmysius thus describes the mystical adept who has reached the summit of union: --'Then is he delivered from all seeing and being seen, and passes into the truly mystical darkness of ignorance, where he excludes all intellectual apprehensions (rd? yvwo-ruta dVuAiet?), and abides in the utterly Impalpable and Invisible; being wholly his who is above all, with no other dependence, either on himself or any other; and is made one, as to his nobler part, with the utterly Unknown, by the cessation of all knowing; and at the same time, in that very knowing nothing, he knows what transcends the mind of man.'--(De Mystkd Theologid, cap. i. p, 710. S. Dion. Areop. Opp. Paris, 1644.) So again he exhorts Timothy 'by assiduous practice in mystical contemplations to abandon the senses and all operations of the intellect; all objects of sense and all objects of thought, all things non-existent and existent (ur0qrd=ov- owa, vorjTa--orm), and ignorantly to strive upwards towards Union as close as possible with him who is above all essence and knowledge: --inasmuch as by a pure, free, and absolute separation (iKordoi-t) of himself from all things, he will be exalted (stripped and freed from everyth...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235374289
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 114
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235374289
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 218 gr


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