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.
2 This clause can only have been written by one for whom Unknowing was a personal experience. The previous clause shows how there is a negative element even in the Method of Affirmation. Sense-perception must first give way to spiritual intuition, just as this must finally give way to Unknowing. (Cf. St. John of the Cross’s Dark Night, on three kinds of night.) All progress is a transcendence and so, in a sense, a Via Negativa. Cf. St. Aug., Transcende mundum et sape animum, transcende animum et sape Deum.
3 This shows that the Via Negativa starts from something positive. It is a transcendence, not a mere negation. * Proy. tv. 6,8:
2 This clause can only have been written by someone for whom Unknowing was a personal experience. The previous clause shows that there is a negative element even in the Method of Affirmation: sense-perception must first give way to spiritual intuition, just as this must finally give way to Unknowing. (Cf. St. John of the Cross’s Dark Night, on three kinds of night.) All progress is a transcendence and so, in a sense, a Negative Way (Via Negativa). Cf. St. Aug., Go beyond the world and know the mind; go beyond the mind and know God.
3 This shows that the Via Negativa starts from something positive. It is a transcendence, not a mere negation. 4 Prov. iv. 6, 8.