Mystic Theology
Pseudo-Dionysius's influential treatise on apophatic theology, teaching that true knowledge of God transcends intellectual understanding and is achieved through unknowing and non-seeing. A foundational text of Christian mystical tradition.
6 Chapters
Table of Contents
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CAPUT I. What is the Divine Gloom?
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CAPUT II. How we ought both to be united and render praise to the Cause of all and above all.
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CAPUT III. What are the affirmative expressions respecting God, and what the negative.
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CAPUT IV. That the pre-eminent Cause of every object of sensible perception is none of the objects of sensible perception.
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CAPUT V. That the pre-eminent Cause of every object of intelligible perception is none of the objects of intelligible perception.
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PREFACE TO THE LETTERS OF DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE.