PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS, THE COMPLETE WORKS
John Farina, Editor-in-Chief
Complete works of Dionysius the Aeropagite
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“Contemplate all things, even the things that are opposites, in a simple unity within the universal Cause.”
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"We owe to God's goodness our being and our life…using the everlasting model of beauty, God has made us in his image and he has given us a share of the divine condition and uplifting."
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"To praise this divinely benificent Providence you must turn to all of creation. It is there at the center of everything and everything has it for a destiny. It is there 'before all things and in it all things hold together (Col. 1:17)."
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“The One may be called the underlying element of all things.”
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"We must make the holy journey to the heart of the sacred symbols."
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“Everything, and every part of everything, participates in the One.”
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“God penetrates without hindrance through everything.”
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“There is nothing in the world without a share of the Beautiful and the Good.”
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"He is the Source and the measure of the ages. He is the reality beneath time and the eternity behind being. He is the time within which things happen. He is being for whatever is. He is coming-to-be amid whatever happens. From Him who Is come eternity, essence and being, come time, genesis, and becoming. He is the being immanent in and underlying the things which are, however they are."
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“Providence has neither a beginning nor an end, and is open to all and encompasses all.”
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"There is a simple self-moving power directing all things to mingle as one; it starts out from the Good, reaches down to the lowliest creation, returns then in due order through all the stages back to the Good, and thus turns from itself and through itself and upon itself and toward itself in an everlasting circle."
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“The Transcendent One predefined and brought into being everything that is.”
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“God is providentially available to all.”
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"Providence occurs everywhere."
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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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“God precontains all opposites in one single, universal cause.”
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"He is all in all, as scripture affirms, and certainly He is to be praised as being for all things the creator and originator, the One who brings them to completion, their preserver, their protector, and their home, the power which returns them to itself, and all this in the one single, irrepressible, and supreme act."
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“There is only one Providence over all the world, a supra-being transcending all power visible and invisible.”
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"He makes our life, disposition, and activity something one and divine….Formed of light, initiates in God's work, we shall be perfected and bring about perfection."
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“You will find nothing in the world which is not in the One….Everything owes to the One its individual existence and the process whereby it is perfected and preserved.”
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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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“The power of the Godhead spreads out everywhere, penetrates all things irresistibly.”
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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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“Nothing possessed of being lies outside the workings of Providence.”
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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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