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'''''Mystical Theology''''' (Περὶ μυστικῆς θεολογίας) by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Negative (apophatic) theology, as translated by Jones (1999: 219-222)

==Chapter 4==
;In preeminence, the cause of all that is sensible is not anything sensible

:We say this of the cause of '''all be-ing beyond all''':
:It is
:not '''being-less''',
:not '''lifeless''',
:not '''without reason''', not '''without intellect'''.
:Not '''body''',
:not '''figure''', not '''form''',
:not what has '''quality''', '''quantity''', or '''mass''',
:not '''in space''',
:not '''visible''',
:not what has '''sensible contact''',
:not what has '''sensation''' or '''what is sensed''',
:not what has '''disorder''' and '''confusion''',
:not what is troubled by '''material passions''',
:not '''powerless''',
:not subjected to what happens to '''sensibles''',
:not '''light in what lacks''',
:not, and has not, '''alteration''', '''destruction''',
:'''privation''', '''diminution''',
:or anything else which pertains to what is sensed.

==Chapter 5==
;In preeminence, the cause of all that is intelligible is not anything intelligible

:Ascending higher we say:
:It is
:not '''soul''', not '''intellect''',
:not '''imagination''', '''opinion''', '''reason''' and not '''understanding''',
:not '''logos''', not '''intellection''',
:not '''spoken''', not '''thought''',
:not '''number''', not '''order''',
:not '''greatness''', not '''smallness
:not '''equality''', not '''inequality''',
:not '''likeness''', not '''unlikeness''',
:not '''having stood''', not '''moved''', not '''at rest''',
:not '''powerful''', not '''power''',
:not '''light''',
:not '''living''', not '''life''',
:not '''being''',
:not '''eternity''', not '''time'''.
:not '''intellectual contact with it''',
:not '''knowledge''', not '''truth''',
:not '''king''', not '''wisdom''',
:not '''one''', not '''unity''',
:not '''divinity''',
:not '''goodness''',
:not '''spirit''' (as we know spirit),
:not '''sonhood''', not '''fatherhood''',
:not '''something other [than that] which is known''' by us or some other beings,
:not '''something among what is not''',
:not '''something among what is''',
:not '''known as it is by beings''',
:not '''a knower of beings as they are''':
:There is neither '''logos''', '''name''', or '''knowledge of it'''.
:It is not '''dark''' nor '''light''',
:not '''error''', and not '''truth'''.
:There is universally neither '''position''' nor '''denial of it'''.
:While there are produced positions and denials of those after it,
:we '''neither position nor deny it'''.
:Since,
:beyond all position is
:the '''all-complete''' and '''single cause of all''';
:'''beyond all negation''':
:the preeminence of that
:absolutely '''absolved from all'''
:and '''beyond the whole'''.

==See also==
*''[[Divine Names]]''
*''[[Allogenes]]''

==References==
<references/>
*Jones, John D. (trans.) (1999). ''The Divine Names and the Mystical Theology''. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press. ISBN 0-87462-221-2.

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