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For of super-essential natures, each is primarily a god; of intellectual natures, each is a god according to union; and of divine souls, each is a god according to contact with the gods; and the souls of men are allotted this appellation through similitude."
"There is," he writes, "something in the soul which is above the soul. . . . It is absolute and free from all names and forms, as God is free and absolute in himself. It is higher than knowledge, higher than love, for in these there is distinction. . . . I have called it a power, sometimes a light. . . . This light is satisfied only with the super-essential essence."
The Third Deep is the Universal Mystery, from whom all mysteries have gone forth. The Fourth Deep is the Universal Gnôsis, from whom all Gnôses have gone forth. The Fifth Deep is the Universal Purity, from whom all purity has gone forth. The Sixth Deep is the Silence that contains all silences. The Seventh Deep is the Universal Super-essential Essence, from whom all essences have gone forth.
He could prostrate himself on the earth, and cover his eyes, whilst he adorned that which cannot be numbered, or gauged, or known, or named: that of which everything can be affirmed and denied: that "which is entity and nonentity." He called it super-essential. He even stood ready, as in the Parmenides, to demonstrate that it was so, that this Being exceeded the limits of intellect.
From which testimonies the antiquity of this sublime doctrine is sufficiently apparent. They likewise said that there is a multitude of super-essential unities, who are not self-perfect subsistences, but illuminated unions with deity, imparted to essences by the highest Gods.
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