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PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS, THE COMPLETE WORKS
John Farina, Editor-in-Chief
Complete works of Dionysius the Aeropagite
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"Providence occurs everywhere."
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“There is a concerned and authoritative Providence and Lordship over all things.”
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"If we are enlightened by the contemplation of and knowledge of the One we are enabled to be unified, to achieve a truly divine oneness and it will never happen that we succumb to that fragmentation…which is the source of hostility between equals."
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“Every number preexists uniquely in the monad and the monad holds every number in itself singularly. Every number is united in the monad; it is differentiated and pluralized only insofar as it goes forth from this one.”
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"The soul has movement – First it moves in a circle, that is, it turns within itself and away from what is outside and there is an inner concentration of its intellectual powers. A sort of fixed revolution causes it to return from the multiplicity of externals, to gather in upon itself and then, in this undispersed condition, to join those who are themselves in a powerful union. From there the revolution brings the soul to the Beautiful and the Good, which is beyond all things, is one and the same, and has neither beginning nor end."
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"No duality can be an originating source; the source of every duality is a monad."
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"Now this is unified and one and common to the whole divinity, that the entire wholeness is participated in by each of those who participate in it; none participates in only a part. It is rather like the case of a circle. The center point of the circle is shared by the surrounding radii. Or take the example of a seal. There are numerous impressions of the seal and these all have a share in the original prototype; it is the same whole seal in each of the impressions and none participates in only a part."
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"Everything in some way partakes of the providence flowing out of this transcendent Deity which is the originator of all that is. Indeed nothing could exist without some share in the being and source of everything. Even the things which have no life participate in this, for it is the transcendent Deity which is the existence of every being."
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“Nothing possessed of being lies outside the workings of Providence.”
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“The reality is that all things are contained beforehand in and are embraced by the One in its capacity as an inherent unity.”
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“This transcendently real Godhead is the source of everything. It is the cause which gives being. It is the power holding all things together and the goal embracing all things.”
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“The One may be called the underlying element of all things.”
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"His transcendent power is inexpressible, unknowable, inconceivably great, and, as it flows over, it empowers whatever is weak and it preserves and directs the humblest of its echoes….God's infinite power is distributed among all things and there is nothing in the world entirely bereft of power….The benefits of this inexhaustible Power reach out to humans, to animals, to plants, and indeed to all of nature."
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“Providence has neither a beginning nor an end, and is open to all and encompasses all.”
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“God is providentially available to all.”
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“As St. Paul said and as true reason has said, the ordered arrangement of the whole visible realm makes known the invisible things of God.”
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“The Transcendent One predefined and brought into being everything that is.”
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“The power of the Godhead spreads out everywhere, penetrates all things irresistibly.”
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“God is one and he dispenses his oneness to every part of the universe as well as to its totality, to the single as well as to the multiple. He is one in an unchanging and transcendent way.”
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"Each bestirs itself and all are stirred to do and to will whatever it is they do and will because of the yearning for the Beautiful and the Good…..The divine longing is Good seeking good for the sake of the Good."
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"Indeed the inscrutable One is out of the reach of every rational process. Nor can any words come up to the inexpressible Good, this One, this Source of all unity, this supra-existent Being."
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“Everything, and every part of everything, participates in the One.”
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"We must make the holy journey to the heart of the sacred symbols."
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“All the radii of a circle are brought together in the unity of the center which contains all the straight lines brought together within itself. These are linked one to another because of this single point of origin and they are completely unified at this center.”
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“Whatever is, is from the Good, is good and desires the beautiful and the Good.”
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