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The Mystical Theology

St. Dionysius the Areopagite · 1st century AD

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Apostolic

Dionysius's profound meditation on mystical union with God through unknowing and apophatic theology.

Table of Contents

1What is the Divine Gloom?2How we ought both to be united and render praise to the Cause of all and above all.3What are the affirmative expressions respecting God, and what the negative.4That the pre-eminent Cause of every object of sensible perception is none of the objects of sensible perception.5That the pre-eminent Cause of every object of intelligible perception is none of the objects of intelligible perception.