Yet someone may ask: how is it that all things which are, are lights?

Sed fortasse quis dixerit: Quomodo omnia, quae sunt, lumina sunt?

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Expositiones super Ierarchiam Caelestem S. Dionysii, vol. 122, col. 128 in Jacques Paul Migne Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Latina ; translation from Walter Baumann "In Principio Verbum" : Seminar on Canto 74, Lines 76-145, p. 250

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No one enters heaven except through philosophy.

Nemo intrat in caelum nisi per philosophiam.

When we are told that God is the maker of all things, we are simply to understand that God is in all things – that He is the substantial essence of all things.

For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason is seen to be weak, whereas true reason is kept firm and immutable by her own powers and does not require to be confirmed by the assent of any authority.

What, then, is it to treat of philosophy, unless to lay down the rules of the true religion by which we seek rationally and adore humbly God, who is the first and sovereign cause of all things? Hence it follows that the true philosophy is the true religion, and reciprocally that the true religion is the true philosophy.

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Yet someone may ask: how is it that all things which are, are lights?

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