Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Name: Dionysius the Areopagite, Works — Caput. 13
Author: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

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“Dionysius the Areopagite, Works — Caput. 13”, published in 1897, is a work by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. It explores elements such as multitude, Triad and Deity.

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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite, Works… (1897)

“ And there is no single thing which does not participate in some way in the one, which uniformly pre-held in the uniqueness throughout all, all and whole, all, even the things opposed. And indeed, without the one there will not be a multitude, but without the multitude there will be the one, even as the unit previous to every multiplied number; and, if any one should suppose, that all things are united to all, the All will be one in the whole. ”

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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite, Works… (1897)

“ Wherefore also, whilst celebrated as Unit and Triad, the Deity above all is neither Unit nor Triad, as understood by us or by any other sort of being, but, in order that we may celebrate truly. Its super-oneness, and Divine generation, by the threefold and single name of God, we name the Deity, Which is inexpressible to things that be, the Superessential. ”

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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite, Works… (1897)

“ By no means grow weary in doing good to a man thy friend, for thou perceivest, that we also have kept to ourselves none of the hierarchical communications transmitted to us, but have transmitted them without flaw, both to you and to other holy men, yea, and will continue to transmit them, as we may be sufficient to speak, and those to whom we speak, ta hear, doing injury in no respect to the tradition, if at least we do not fail in the conception and expression thereof. But, let these things be held and spoken in such way, as is well pleasing to Almighty God ”

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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite, Works… (1897)

“ Wherefore, even they have given the preference to the ascent through negations, as lifting the soul out of things kindred to itself, and conducting it through all the Divine conceptions, above which towers that which is above every name, and every expression and knowledge, and at the furthest extremity attaching it to Him, as far indeed as is possible for us to be attached to that Being. ”

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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite, Works… (1897)

“ But no Unit nor Triad, nor number nor unity, nor productiveness, nor any other existing thing, or thing known to any existing thing, brings forth the hiddenness, above every expression and every mind, of the Super-Deity Which is above all superessentially. ”

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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite, Works… (1897)

“ But, on the other hand, He is called perfect, both as without increase, and always perfect, and as undiminished, as pre-holding all things in Himself, and overflowing as beseems one, inexhaustible, and same, and super-full, and undiminished, abundance, in accordance with which He perfects all perfect things, and fills them with His own perfection. ”

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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite, Works… (1897)

“ And neither do we apply the very Name of Goodness, as making it adequate to It, but through a desire of understanding and saying something concerning that inexpressible nature, we consecrate the most august of Names to It, in the first degree, and although we should be in accord in this matter with the theologians, yet we shall fall short of the truth of the facts. ”

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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite, Works… (1897)

“ Yea, that which is many by parts, is one in the whole; and the many by the accidents, is one by the subject; and the many by the number or the powers, is one by the species, and the many by the species, is one by the genus; and the many by the progressions, is one by the source. ”

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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite, Works… (1897)

“ For this reason, then, the Word of God celebrates the whole Godhead, as Cause of all, by the epithet of the One, both one God the Father, and one Lord Jesus Christ, and one and the same Spirit, by reason of the surpassing indivisibility of the whole Divine Oneness, in which all things are uniquely collected, and are super-unified, and are with It SLiperessentially. ”

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