
Of Him there is conception, reason, understanding, touch, perception, opinion, imagination, name, and many other things. On the other hand He cannot be understood, words cannot contain Him, and no name can lay hold of Him. He is not one of the things that are and He is no thing among things. He is known to all from all things and He is known to no one from anything… the most divine knowledge of God, that which comes through unknowing, is achieved in a union far beyond mind, when mind turns away from all things, even from itself, and when it is made one with the dazzling rays, being then and there enlightened by the inscrutable depth of Wisdom.
St. Dionysius
(The Divine Names, Chapter Seven sect. 3, Pseudo-Dionysius:
The Complete Works; Paulist Press pgs. 108-109).
(The Divine Names, Chapter Seven sect. 3, Pseudo-Dionysius:
The Complete Works; Paulist Press pgs. 108-109).