German Theology

to a person in time. Also know that a master says regarding the words of Dionysius original: Dionysy — likely Dionysius the Areopagite, a Christian theologian and philosopher whose "Mystical Theology" heavily influenced medieval thought. that it is possible, and that it also happens to a person so often that they might become accustomed to it, so that they look or see there as often as they wish. And there is no gaze more noble, nor dearer to God or worthier, than this—more so than everything that all creatures can achieve as creatures original: creatur — anything created by God, as opposed to the Creator Himself..

The Ninth Chapter.

One should mark and know in all truth that all virtue and goodness, and even the goodness that is God Himself, never make a person or the soul virtuous, good, or blessed as long as it remains outside of the soul. In the same way, it is also so regarding sin or wickedness. Therefore, although it is good that one asks or learns, and that it also becomes known what good and holy people have done and suffered, or how they have lived, and also what God has worked and willed in them and through them. Yet it would be a hundred times better if a person experienced and came to know what and how their own life was, and also what God was in them, and what He willed and worked, and for what purpose God wanted to use them or not.

For this reason, it is still true what is said: "Never was going out so good that staying within would not be better." It is also to be known that eternal blessedness lies in the One alone original: an im allein — likely referring to the Divine "One," a central concept in Neoplatonic and mystical thought., and in nothing else. If the person or soul is to be or become blessed, then this "One" alone must and shall be in the soul.

¶ Now one might ask: "What then is this One?" I say: it is goodness, or having become good, and yet it is neither this good nor that good which one can name, recognize, or point to; rather, it is all and above all. Furthermore, this does not need to enter the soul, for it is already within it. It is, however, unrecognized; when one says one should "come to it" or it "should come into the soul," that means one should seek, perceive, and taste taste: schmecken, used here to mean an experiential or intuitive knowing, rather than a mere intellectual understanding. it.

And since it is now "one," unity and simplicity original: ainigkeit vnd ainfaltigkeit are better than multiplicity. For blessedness does not lie in the many, or in "many-ness," but in the one and in unity. Also, blessedness lies, in short,