[71] So Dionysius: “The Beginning and Cause beyond all beginning of every being, grasping all things superessentially in an irresistible embrace.” ❋ 1293-1381 (1916)
For all the beauty, elegance, sweetness, grace, perfection, and excellence that can here be found in all creatures, exist there most exuberantly and superessentially. ❋ 1506-1566 (1903)
“That Michael became leader of the (Jewish) people,” demonstrating distinctly that there is one Providence of the whole, superessentially established above all the powers, unseen and seen, and that all the Angels who preside over each nation, elevate, as far as possible, those who follow them with a willing mind, to It as their proper Head. ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
But see that none of the uninitiated listen to these things — those I mean who are entangled in things being, and fancy there is nothing superessentially above things being, but imagine that they know, by their own knowledge, Him, ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
Its having previously contained within Itself, superessentially, the whole perfections of all kinds of essential knowledge and power, and Its being firmly fixed by Its absolute power, above all, even the supercelestial minds. ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
He is none the less the Supreme God, and super-God, superessentially One God, — undivided in things divided, unified in ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
Indeed of all things existing, but Itself none of them, as being superessentially elevated above all. ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
But no Unit nor Triad, nor number nor unity, nor productiveness, nor any other existing thing, or thing known to any existing thing, brings forth the hiddenness, above every expression and every mind, of the Super-Deity Which is above all superessentially. ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
Itself in Its essential Nature is beyond the reach of all created things, as towering superessentially above all. ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
It has the supernatural, supernaturally, — the superessential, superessentially. ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
For all these, to those who think worthily of God, signify by every conception His being superessentially, and ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
Evil is not existing; and, if this be not the case, it is not altogether evil, nor non-existing, for the absolutely non-existing will be nothing, unless it should be spoken of as in the Good superessentially. ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
For then even it is beautiful and good, when in God it is celebrated superessentially to the exclusion of all. ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
For the latter, He is named from things existing, and specially from the first existing, as Cause of all existing things; and the former, as being above all, even the first existing of beings, being above superessentially. ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
And He is above all, as superessentially super-being before all. ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
Now we are persuaded that the most supremely Divine Jesus is superessentially of good savour, filling the contemplative part of ourselves by bequests of Divine sweetness for contemplation. ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
What other than that Almighty God remains Himself, in Himself, and is abidingly fixed in unmoved identity, and is firmly established on high; and that He acts according to the same conditions, and in reference to the same object, and in the same way; and that He exists altogether, as beseems the immutability from Himself; and as beseems the immovability Itself, entirely immovable, and that superessentially. ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
Thus each rank of the Hierarchical Order is led, in its own degree, to the Divine co-operation, by performing, through grace and God-given power, those things which are naturally and supernaturally in the Godhead, and accomplished by It superessentially, and manifested hierarchically, for the attainable imitation of the God-loving ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
Naturally, then, the divine copyists, who unflinchingly mould their own intellectual contemplation to the superessentially sweet and contemplated comeliness, do. none of their divinely imitated virtues “to be seen of men ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
