St. Denis or Pseudo-Dionysius
By Steve Beckow, April 30, 2021
(Golden Age of Gaia)
Pseudo-Dionysius was a Syrian-Christian transcendental philosopher of the late 5th to early 6th century.
I’ve always found him one of the most profoundly inspiring of sages who appear to know what the ascended state is.
His predicament, I believe, was how do I communicate what is ultimately incommunicable to people who won’t know what I’m talking about?
Here are several passages from him, that probably describe his ascent from Brahmajnana to Sahaja, but I’m not absolutely certain. Meanwhile, enjoy Pseudo-Dionysius!
(I know. I know. I take you to all the best places!)
Pseudo-Dionysius in Cohn Luibheid, trans., Pseudo-Dionysus, His Complete Works. New York and Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1989, 52-3 and 138-9.
And there we shall be, our minds away from passion and from earth, and we shall have a conceptual gift of light from him and, somehow, in a way we cannot know, we shall be united with him and, our understanding carried away, blessedly happy…. Marvellously, our minds will be like those in the heavens above. We shall be “equal to angels and sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.” (1) …
I pray we could come to this darkness, so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to know, unseeing and unknowing, that which lies beyond all vision and knowledge. For this would be really to see and to know: to praise the Transcendent One in a transcending way, namely through the denial of all beings. [Neti, neti – leading to Brahmajnana.] …
Now as we climb from the last things up to the most primary we deny all things so that we may unhiddenly know that unknowing which itself is hidden from all those possessed of knowing amid all beings, so that we may see above being that darkness concealed from all the light among beings. … As we plunge into that darkness which is beyond intellect, we shall find ourselves not simply running short of words but actually speechless and unknowing. …
The fact is that the more we take flight upward, the more our words are confined to the ideas we are capable of forming; so that now as we plunge into that darkness which is beyond intellect, we shall find ourselves not simply running short of words but actually speechless and unknowing. …
The more [the mind] climbs, the more language falters, and when it has passed up and beyond the ascent, it will turn silent completely, since it will finally be at one with him who is indescribable. [Probably Ascension, but not absolutely certain.]
Footnotes
(1) The Resurrection being Ascension.