"The rays of primordial Light that illumine purified souls with spiritual knowledge not only fill them with benediction and luminosity; they also, by means of the contemplation of the inner essences of created things, lead them up to the noetic heavens. The effects of the divine energy, however, do not stop here; they continue until through wisdom and through knowledge of indescribable things they unite purified souls with the One, bringing them out of a state of multiplicity into a state of oneness in Him."
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On Spiritual Knowledge, Love and the Perfection of Living, #21
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Niketas Stethatos
1005 – 1090
Niketas Stethatos (Greek: Νικήτας Στηθᾶτος; 1005–1090) was a Byzantine Christian monk, mystic, and theologian.
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