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.
7. This Good is described by the Sacred Writers as Beautiful and as Beauty, as Love or Beloved, and by all other Divine titles which befit Its beautifying and gracious fairness. Now there is a distinction between the titles “Beautiful” and “Beauty” applied to the all-embracing Cause. For we universally distinguish these two titles as meaning respectively the qualities shared and the objects which share therein. We give the name of “Beautiful” to that which shares in the quality of beauty, and we give the name of “Beauty” to that common quality by which all beautiful things are beautiful. But the Super-Essential Beautiful is called “Beauty” because of that quality which It imparts to all things severally according to their nature,2 and because It is the Cause of the harmony and splendour in all things, flashing forth upon them all, like light, the beautifying communications of Its originating ray; and because It summons all things to fare unto Itself (from whence It hath the name of “Fairness”), and because It
' All our spiritual and mental powers are due to the same Spiritual Light working in each one of us. Cf. Wordsworth: “Those mysteries of Being which have made and shall continue evermore to make of the whole human race one brotherhood.”
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7. The Sacred Writers describe this Good as Beautiful and as Beauty, as Love or Beloved, and by all the other Divine titles that befit Its beautifying and gracious fairness. Now there is a distinction between the titles “Beautiful” and “Beauty” as applied to the all-embracing Cause. For we universally distinguish these two titles as meaning, respectively, the qualities shared and the objects which share in them. We give the name “Beautiful” to that which shares in the quality of beauty, and the name “Beauty” to that common quality by which all beautiful things are beautiful.
But the Super-Essential Beautiful is called “Beauty” because of the quality It imparts to all things, to each according to its nature,2 and because It is the Cause of the harmony and splendour in all things, flashing upon them all, like light, the beautifying communications of Its originating ray; and because It summons all things to come to Itself (which is why It has the name of “Fairness”); and because It
1 All our spiritual and mental powers come from the same Spiritual Light working in each one of us. Cf. Wordsworth: “Those mysteries of Being which have made and shall continue evermore to make of the whole human race one brotherhood.”
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