>>11701284>>11701284>>11701284You fools that claim to ascend to the heavens without embracing the nature of the true apophatic God will be stripped of your Intellect in the next life. God is One and One is God, the Unmoved Mover, the Henad, the first Hypostasis, the Unmultiplied, transcendent, the supreme Good, the principle of Beauty encompassing Noetic Intellect and the World Soul, the Unparticipated in which the wholeness of the cosmos participates.
O Thou Who art beyond all,
What else may we rightly call Thee?
How shall I extol Thee,
Who art preeminent over all?
How can any word praise Thee,
When words cannot name Thee?
Alone unutterable,
Thou art the cause of all that can be spoken.
How can the mind consider Thee,
When no mind can grasp Thee?
Alone unknowable,
Thou art the cause of all that can be known.
All things, both the speaking
And the speechless, proclaim Thee.
All things, both the knowing
And the unknowing, revere Thee.
All keen longings, all deep pains,
Are but yearnings for Thee.
To Thee is the prayer of all.
To Thee all, perceiving Thy sign,
Utter a silent hymn.
All things come forth from Thee
And Thou from nothing.
Thus art Thou alone.
In Thee all things abide.
And all ceaselessly hasten toward Thee,
For Thou art the Goal of all.
Thou art One, and All,
Yet neither one, nor all.
O Most-Named, how then shall I address Thee,
Who alone art unnamable?
What Heaven-born Mind could ever penetrate
Thy veil above?
I pray Thee, be gracious.
O Thou Who art beyond all,
What else may we rightly call Thee?
