The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite (Divine Names, Celestial Hierarchy, Mystical Theology)

simplification; of those being unified, unity; of every origin, a super-original origin above all essence; and of the Hidden, as far as is right, a beneficent communication; and, in one word, the life of the living, and the essence of all things that exist; of all life and essence, the origin and cause; because Its goodness produces and sustains the things that exist in their being original: "διὰ τὴν αὐτῆς εἰς τὸ εἶναι τὰ ὄντα παρακτικὴν καὶ συνοχικὴν ἀγαθότητα." (Because of Its goodness, which is productive of and holds together the things that are.).

SECTION IV.

These things we have learned from the Divine Oracles Sacred scriptures or revealed truth., and you will find all the sacred hymnology, so to speak, of the Theologians Divine scholars or those who speak about God. arranging the Names of God with a view to make known and praise the beneficent progressions of the Godhead. Hence, we see in almost every theological treatise the Godhead religiously celebrated, both as Monad and unity, on account of the simplicity and oneness of Its supernatural indivisibility—from which, as a unifying power, we are unified; and when our divided diversities have been folded together, in a manner beyond this world, we are collected into a godlike unit and divinely-imitated union.

But, also as Triad, on account of the three-personed manifestation of the super-essential productiveness, from which all fatherhood in heaven and on earth originates and is named. It is also celebrated as the cause of existing things, since all things were brought into being on account of Its creative goodness; and as wise and good, because all things, while preserving the properties of their own nature unim-