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.
how these things are so we cannot say, nor yet conceive. 8. Just so far can the powers of our minds attain as to see that all spiritual paternity and sonship is a gift bestowed from the all-transcendent Archetypal Fatherhood and Sonship both upon us and also upon the celestial Powers: whereby Godlike Minds receive-
1 Even the Differentiations finally lead us up into the Undifferenced Godhead Where they transcend themselves. (Cf. p. 70, n. 3 and the passage in ii. 4 about the torches.) Into that region we cannot track them. But on the other side they flow out into creative activity, and thus are, in some degree, revealed. 2 These terms may be thus classified :— Sphere of Activity. Nature of Gift. Form under which Giver is manifested. (i) Grace . . . Godhead . “God” (ii) Nature (1) Material existence . . . Being . “Being” (2) Vegetable and animal existence . Life . “Life” (3) Human existence . . . Wisdom . “Light” } “Word.”
3 The doctrine of “Deification” is not a mere speculation. It embodies an experienced fact. See Intr., p. 43.
how these things are so we cannot say, nor even conceive. 8. Our minds can reach just far enough to see that all spiritual paternity and sonship is a gift bestowed from the all-transcendent Archetypal Fatherhood and Sonship, both upon us and upon the celestial Powers: by which Godlike Minds receive-
1 Even the Differentiations finally lead us up into the Undifferenced Godhead, Where they transcend themselves. (Cf. p. 70, n. 3, and the passage in ii. 4 about the torches.) Into that region we cannot track them. But on the other side they flow out into creative activity, and so are, in some degree, revealed. 2 These terms may be classified as follows (Sphere of Activity — Nature of Gift — Form under which the Giver is manifested): (i) Grace — Godhead — “God”; (ii) Nature: (1) Material existence — Being — “Being”; (2) Vegetable and animal existence — Life — “Life”; (3) Human existence — Wisdom — “Light”; the last three together — “Word.”
3 The doctrine of “Deification” is not a mere speculation. It embodies an experienced fact. See Intr., p. 43.