SECTION IV.
We then, having collected these intelligible Divine Names, have unfolded them to the best of our ability, falling short not only of the precision which belongs to them, (for this truly, even Angels might say) nor only of their praises as sung by Angels (and the chief of our Theologians come behind the lowest of them), nor indeed of the Theologians themselves, nor of their followers or companions, but even of those who are of the same rank as ourselves, last and subordinate to them; so that, if the things spoken should be correct, and, if we, as far as in us lies, have really reached the perception of the unfolding of the Divine Names, let the fact be ascribed to the Author of all good things, Who, Himself, bestows first the power to speak, then to speak well. And if any one of the Names of the same force has been passed over, that also you must understand according to the same methods. But, if these things are either incorrect or imperfect, and we have wandered from the truth, either wholly or partially, may it be of thy brotherly kindness to correct him, who unwillingly is ignorant, and to impart a word to him, who wishes to learn, |127 and to vouchsafe assistance to him, who has not power in himself; and to heal him, who, not willingly, is sick; and having found out some things from thyself, and others from others, and receiving all from the good to transfer them also to us. By no means grow weary in doing good to a man thy friend, for thou perceivest, that we also have kept to ourselves none of the hierarchical communications transmitted to us, but have transmitted them without flaw, both to you and to other holy men, yea, and will continue to transmit them, as we may be sufficient to speak, and those to whom we speak, ta hear, doing injury in no respect to the tradition, if at least we do not fail in the conception and expression thereof. But, let these things be held and spoken in such way, as is well pleasing to Almighty God; and let this indeed be our conclusion to the intelligible Divine Names. But I will now pass to the Symbolic Theology , with God for my Guide.
27 October, 1896.
[Selected footnotes renumbered and moved to the end]
1. Cap. 3. Mystic Theology.
2. Ib. c. I. s. 3.
3. alogia.
4. a0nohsi/a .
5. Letter to Titus.
6. Matt. xx. 15.
7. Neh. ix. 20.
8. Ex. iii. 14.
9. Rev. i. 8.
10. Heb. i. 12.
11. John xv. 26.
12. John v. 21.
13. Ib. vi. 63.
14. i Cor. i. 30.
15. 2 Cor. iii. 17.
16. The radii.
17. Letter IV.
18. . Letter IV.
19. I Cor. viii. 5, 6.
20. euroi/aj .
21. See Dulac, Theology anticipates Science.
22. The Greek word is nohto_n , which in connection with fw~j is rendered here "spiritual light."
23. See Book of Hierotheus, c. 2.
24. Angels.
25. Creation through Goodness not necessity.
26. See note, p. 128.
27. i.e. in ascending order.
28. Plato, Theaet.
29. Theaet., 1763.
30. Jahn, p. 66.
31. Jahn, p, 67.
32. Out of evil forth producing good.
33. Angels.
34. i.e. the radii.
35. Maximus, Scholia, cap. 4, sec. i.
36. Rom. xi. 29, "For the gifts of God are without repentance."
37. See Caput XI., Section VI.
38. True theory of evolution.
39. First persecution of Nero.
40. ou)si/aj
41. Atomic theory.
42. Letter 2,
43. Dulac, p. 226.
44. ta_ o!nta ---- actual.
45. The rendering of which may be, the lordly, and the lordlier, and the lordliest.
46. Letter 2.
47. [Greek] . It should be noted that where He, Him and His are used in this Section, the Neuter is used in the Greek.
48. See letter to Titus.
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