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AND KNOWN...
And go on dropping that which can be known and sensed so that you can fall into AGNOSIA.
... AND ALL THAT IS NOT AND IS.
And don't become attached to the positive or the negative, to the theist or the atheist.
A rare man Dionysius is. He is saying these things behind the cover of Christianity, hiding this great mystic approach -- as great as Lao Tzu's or Buddha's. behind the covers of the Bible. Hence he has survived -- he managed well. Christians have never condemned him, otherwise he might have been burnt alive; at least his letters would have been destroyed.
Thousands of great treatises have been burnt and destroyed, and if they are not burnt and destroyed they are Lying in the basement of the Vatican. Thousands of manuscripts never read, never allowed the light of the day! Nobody can approach them.
In fact, it should be one of the duties of the UNO to free all the manuscripts which are imprisoned in the Vatican. And there are millions, not few. This is a great crime! Centuries of understanding of enlightenment are hidden, not allowed. Catholics have a special category for such books. Once they are put on the black list, no Christian is allowed to read them; to read them is to commit a sin.
Dionysius must have been a very intelligent man; he managed well. He deceived the Vatican, he deceived the popes. After all, he himself was a bishop -- he knew all the inside tricks! His treatise is thought to be Christian; it is not Christian at all. It has nothing to do with Christianity. Jesus would have agreed with it, but not the Christian organization.
FOR BY THIS YOU MAY UNKNOWINGLY ATTAIN...
You see his words? -- UNKNOWINGLY ATTAIN. God is never attained knowingly, because before God is attained the knower disappears, so how can you attain him knowingly? God always comes unawares. When you are not he comes. When you are not he suddenly fills you. When you are absent he is present.
... IN AS FAR AS IT IS POSSIBLE, TO THE ONENESS OF HIM WHO IS BEYOND ALL BEING AND KNOWLEDGE. THUS THROUGH INDOMITABLE, ABSOLUTE AND PURE DETACHMENT OF YOURSELF FROM ALL THINGS, YOU WILL BE LIFTED UP TO THAT
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