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.
things, and also their final Purpose, and is Itself before them all, and they all subsist in It; and through the fact of Its existence the world is brought
2 ἀγγελομιμητῶς. “In a manner which imitates the angels.” Cf. Wordsworth, Prelude, xiv. 108, 102: “Like angels stopped upon the wing by sound of harmony from heaven’s remotest spheres.”
3 This shows that the Via Negativa is based on an experience and not on a mere speculation.
5 “Union” (ἕνωσις). This word has more than one meaning in D., and hence occasional ambiguity. It may = (1) Unity (i. e. that which makes an individual thing to be one thing); (2) Mental or Spiritual intercourse; (3) Physical intercourse; (4) Sense perception. Here it = either (1) or (2), probably (1).
5 ἀγαθότητος Urapkis—i. e. the ultimate Essence in which goodness consists.
things, and also their final Purpose. It is Itself before them all, and they all subsist in It; and through the fact of Its existence the world is brought
2 ἀγγελομιμητῶς: “in a manner which imitates the angels.” Cf. Wordsworth, Prelude, xiv. 108, 102: “Like angels stopped upon the wing by sound of harmony from heaven’s remotest spheres.”
3 This shows that the Via Negativa is based on experience, not on mere speculation.
5 “Union” (ἕνωσις). This word has more than one meaning in D., which causes occasional ambiguity. It may mean (1) Unity (i. e. that which makes an individual thing one thing); (2) Mental or Spiritual intercourse; (3) Physical intercourse; (4) Sense perception. Here it means either (1) or (2), probably (1).
5 ἀγαθότητος Urapkis, i. e. the ultimate Essence in which goodness consists.