On the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology — trans. C. E. Rolt
The translator’s English as printed (C. E. Rolt). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.
3. These titles, then, must be given in an absolute sense to the All-Transcendent Cause, and we must add that It is a Transcendent Holiness and Dominion, that It is a Supreme Royalty and an altogether simple: Deity.?’ For ‘out sof It there hath, in one single act, come forth collectively and been distributed throughout the world all the unmixed Perfection of all untainted Purity; all that Law and Order of the world, which expels all disharmony, inequality and disproportion, and breaks forth into a smiling aspect of ordered Consistency 2 and Rightness, bringing into their proper place all things which are held worthy to participate in It; all the perfect Possession of all fair qualities; and all that good Providence which contemplates and maintains in being the objects of Its own activity, bounteously bestowing Itself for the Deification of those creatures which are converted unto It.
4. And since the Creator of all things is brim-full with them all in one transcendent excess thereof, He is called “Holy of Holies,” etc., by virtue of Its overflowing Causality and excess of Transcendence.® Which meaneth that just as things that have no substantial Being 4 are transcended by things that have such Being, together with Sanctity, Divinity, Dominion, or Royalty; and just as the things that participate in these Qualities are transcended by the Very Qualities themselves—even so all things that have Being are surpassed by Him that is beyond them all, and all the Participants and all the Very Qualities are surpassed by the Unparticipated? Creator. And Holy Ones and Kings and Lords and Gods, in the language of Scripture, are the higher Ranks in each Kind? through which the secondary Ranks receiving of their gifts from God, show forth the abundance of that Unity thus distributed among them in their own manifold qualities—which various qualities the First Ranks in their providential, godlike activity draw together into the Unity of their own being.® i “‘ Transcendent,” ‘ Supreme,” ‘‘Simple,” all express“the same fact—that, being Super-Essential, it is above the multiplicity of the creatures. ? Cf. Shelley, ddonazs: ‘That Light whose smile kindles the universe.”
3 “Holiness” especially contains the notion of Transcendence.
4 i. e. The material things (cf. Myst. Theol. 1.). This is the ordinary meaning of the phrase in D.
3. These titles, then, must be given in an absolute sense to the All-Transcendent Cause, and we must add that It is a Transcendent Holiness and Dominion, a Supreme Royalty, and an altogether simple Deity. 1 For out of It there has come forth, in one single act, and been distributed collectively throughout the world: all the unmixed Perfection of all untainted Purity; all that Law and Order of the world which expels all disharmony, inequality, and disproportion, and breaks forth into a smiling aspect of ordered Consistency 2 and Rightness, bringing into their proper place all things that are held worthy to participate in It; all the perfect Possession of all fair qualities; and all that good Providence which contemplates and maintains in being the objects of Its own activity, bountifully bestowing Itself for the Deification of those creatures that are turned towards It.
4. And since the Creator of all things is brim-full of them all in one transcendent excess, He is called “Holy of Holies,” etc., by virtue of Its overflowing Causality and excess of Transcendence. 3 This means that just as things which have no substantial Being 4 are transcended by things which have such Being, together with Sanctity, Divinity, Dominion, or Royalty, and just as the things that participate in these Qualities are transcended by the Very Qualities themselves, so all things that have Being are surpassed by Him Who is beyond them all, and all the Participants and all the Very Qualities are surpassed by the Unparticipated 1 Creator.
And in the language of Scripture, Holy Ones and Kings and Lords and Gods are the higher Ranks in each Kind, 2 through which the secondary Ranks receive their gifts from God and show forth, in their own manifold qualities, the abundance of that Unity thus distributed among them; and these various qualities the First Ranks, in their providential, godlike activity, draw together into the Unity of their own being. 3 1 “Transcendent,” “Supreme,” and “Simple” all express the same fact: that, being Super-Essential, it is above the multiplicity of the creatures. 2 Cf. Shelley, Adonais: “That Light whose smile kindles the universe.”
3 “Holiness” especially contains the notion of Transcendence.
4 That is, the material things (cf. Myst. Theol. 1.). This is the ordinary meaning of the phrase in D.