The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite

simplified, simplification; of those being unified, unity; of every origin, a super-essentially super-original origin; 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 things that be; of all life and essence, origin and cause; because Its goodness produces and sustains things that exist in their being original: "διὰ τὴν αὐτῆς εἰς τὸ εἶναι τὰ ὄντα παρακτικὴν καὶ συνοχικὴν ἀγαθότητα." — for the sake of its goodness, which is the producer and sustainer of existing things into being..

SECTION IV.

These things we have learned from the Divine Oracles, and you will find all the sacred hymnology, so to speak, of the Theologians Those who study or speak about the nature of God. arranging the names of God in order 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 this indivisibility, as an unifying power, we are unified; and when our divided diversities have been folded together in a supermundane manner, we are collected into a godlike unit and a divinely-imitated union. But we also celebrate the Godhead as Triad, on account of the three-personal manifestation of the superessential productiveness, from which all paternity in heaven and on earth exists 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, being both wise and good, because all things, while preserving the properties of their own nature unim-