. . . God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all … - Pope Dionysius

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Pope Dionysius

. . . God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all the creatures in common. The universal Cause, by knowing Itself, can hardly be ignorant of the things which proceed from It and of which It is the source. This, then, is how God knows all things, not by understanding things, but by understanding Himself.

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The title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due proportion, beauty, rank, arrangement, their proper and fitting place and order.

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Those who do not know must be taught, not punished. We do not hit the blind. We lead them by the hand.

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God is a fountain flowing into itself.

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The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing. . . formless intelligences but. . . it does not do so for the sake of art, but as a concession to the nature of our own mind. It uses scriptural passages in an uplifting fashion as a way, provided for us from the first, to uplift our mind in a manner suitable to our nature.

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The word of God has provided nine explanatory designations of the heavenly beings. . . the first group is forever around God and is said to be permanently united with Him ahead of any of the others and with no intermediary. Here there are the most holy 'thrones' and the orders said to possess many eyes and many wings, called in Hebrew the 'cherubim' and 'seraphim'. . . The second group. . . is made up of 'authorities,' 'dominions,' and 'powers. ' And the third, at the end of the heavenly hierarchies, is the group of 'angels,' 'archangels,' and 'principalities. '

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