Refutation of the Sects

...clear away the cloudiness of the eyes, the dirt and the stain, so that the darkness that obscures the rays does not prevent the eye from looking into the clarity of the light.

And now, since the divine essence eut'iwn essence/being is unsearchable and incomprehensible by nature, to Its unsearchability should be offered a confession of ignorance, and to Its essence, a confession of knowledge, not of investigation. For the One who is must be eternal and without beginning: He who has not taken a beginning from anyone, and has no one above Himself whom one might consider or imagine to be the cause from which He might have taken the beginning of His existence. For there is no one before Him, no one after Him, no companion equal to Him, no essence contrary to Him, no opposing existence, no material nature hiwt'aber matter-bearing for His needs, and no matter from which He might make what is to be made. Rather, He is...