Aeterna Press
2014
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| Acts 17:34 |
The Divine Names
Caput I
Section I
Only it alone
gives an authoritative
account of itself.
It is the syntactical
measure of all things measured.
Section II
Trying to apply
The Divine Names and notions
to God is nonsense.
All that we can do is use
theological grammar.
Section III
What is beyond thought
and beyond being is the
Source of every source.
To those far away it calls
them back to begin again.
Section IV
The diversity
of what we are leads us to
divine unity.
This explains the energy
of our own fecundity.
Section V
It encompasses,
circumscribes, and embraces
each and everything.
It also so eludes the
grasp of each and everyone.
Section VI
We praise the nameless
by every name, knowing the
inner irony.
Since it is so wonderful,
why do we seek to speak it?
Section VII
The unnamed goodness
causes all and contains all
things within itself.
This is why it transcends all
and is named by all that is.
Section VIII
Hierarchical
law leads as we study the
conceptual names.
The uninitiated
remain in their lawlessness.
Caput II
Section I
Through perversity
one denies that the grammar
shows the Deity.
When it comes to scripture, it
is all and nothing at all.
Section II
When we watch over
the scriptures, we are also
watched over by them.
By guarding them, we will be
guarded and grounded in them.
Section III
The unified names
are trinitarian in
their formal essence.
All the transcendental terms
terminate in the Godhead.
terminate in the Godhead.
Section IV
Divine unity
and differentiation
must be understood.
The total union of lights
does not contain confusion.
Section V
Theology deals
with what is beyond being,
life, wisdom, and gifts.
Circles and seals are only
constructive comparisons.
Section VI
The prime example
of differentiation
is the human Word.
The Father and the Spirit
simply do not share in it.
Section VII
We are at a loss
concerning the flowering
of the transcendent.
We can neither represent,
let alone scent, its bouquet.
Section VIII
The divine Spirit
is located beyond all
is located beyond all
divinization.
Fire which warms and burns is
never warmed and never burnt.
never warmed and never burnt.
Section IX
The incarnation
cannot be grasped by the mind,
nor enclosed in words.
Those who are "sympathetic"
with such matters remain mute.
Section X
Our Lord's Deity
embraces both part and whole
inside of Itself.
It's the one and the many
(if any) of everything.
