What Is the Divine Darkness?

TRINITY!! Higher than any being, any divinity, any goodness!

   Guide of Christians in the wisdom of heaven!  

Lead us up beyond unknowing and light,

   up to the farthest, highest peak of mystic scripture,

   where the mysteries of God’s Word

      lie simple, absolute and unchangeable

      in the brilliant darkness of a hidden silence.

   Amid the deepest shadow

      they pour overwhelming light on what is most manifest.

   Amid the wholly unsensed and unseen

      they completely fill our sightless minds

      with treasures beyond all beauty.

For this I pray; and, Timothy, my friend, my advice to you as you look for a sight of the mysterious things, is to leave behind you everything perceived and understood, everything perceptible and understandable, all that is not and all that is, and, with your understanding laid aside, to strive upward as much as you can toward union with Him who is beyond all being and knowledge. By an undivided and absolute abandonment of yourself and everything, shedding all and freed from all, you will be uplifted to the ray of the divine shadow which is above everything that is.