On the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology — trans. C. E. Rolt

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The translator’s English as printed (C. E. Rolt). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.

1 At the last stage but one the mind beholds an Object to Which all terms of thought are inadequate. Then, at the last stage, even the distinction between Subject and Object disappears, and the mind itself is That Which it contemplates. Thought itself is transcended, and the whole Object-realm vanishes. One Subject now knows itself as the part and knows itself as the Whole.

2 In the Divine Names the order of procedure was: Goodness, Existence, Life, etc. Now it passes from sense-perception to thought.

page 198

1 At the last stage but one, the mind beholds an Object to Which all terms of thought are inadequate. Then, at the last stage, even the distinction between Subject and Object disappears, and the mind itself is That Which it contemplates. Thought itself is transcended, and the whole Object-realm vanishes. One Subject now knows itself as the part and knows itself as the Whole.

2 In the Divine Names the order of procedure was Goodness, Existence, Life, and so on. Here it passes from sense-perception to thought.

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