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.
1 This is profound. Spatial metaphors are always dangerous, though nigh both everywhere and nowhere, but that, by these remembrances and invocations of God, we may commend and unite ourselves Thereunto.
unavoidable, in Theology. In space if A is touching B then B must be touching A. In the spiritual world this is not so. God is near me (or rather in me), and yet I may be far from God because I may be far from my own true self. I must seek my true self where it is, in God. It is the paradox of Personality that my true self is outside my self and I can only gain it by casting aside this counterfeit “self.” Cf. p. 77, n. 1, and Intr., p. 15. ? Even the word ‘‘omnipresent’’ suggests that God is in space, whereas really His existence is non-spatial,
1 This is profound. Spatial metaphors are always dangerous, though near both everywhere and nowhere, but so that, by these remembrances and invocations of God, we may commend and unite ourselves to It.
unavoidable, in Theology. In space, if A is touching B, then B must be touching A. In the spiritual world this is not so. God is near me (or rather in me), and yet I may be far from God because I may be far from my own true self. I must seek my true self where it is, in God. It is the paradox of Personality that my true self is outside my self, and I can gain it only by casting aside this counterfeit “self.” Cf. p. 77, n. 1, and Intr., p. 15. 2 Even the word “omnipresent” suggests that God is in space, whereas in reality His existence is non-spatial,