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| Hymn to the Transcendence of God | |
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| Preface: Apophasis as a Genre of Discourse | |
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| Introduction: Historical Lineaments of Apophasis | |
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| The Ineffable One | |
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| Plato, Parmenides 137b-144e | |
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| Plotinus, The Enneads V.v.6; VI.ix.3-5,7,10; V.iii.13,14 | |
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| Porphyry?, Commentary on Plato's Parmenides, Fragments I-VI | |
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| Proclus, Commentary on the Parmenides, Book VII, 53K-76K | |
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| Damascius, Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles, Part I, chaps. 2-8 | |
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| The Nameless God | |
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| Bible: 1 Kings 19:9-12 (Elijah on Mount Horeb); 2 Corinthians 12:2-6 (Paul rapt to the third heaven) | |
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| Philo, On Cain's Posterity 15-21; On Change of Names 11-15; On the Law of Allegory III, 206-208; On Dreams I, 64-67, 229-230 | |
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| Corpus Hermeticum V.1, 9-11; Asclepius 20 | |
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| Tripartite Tractate I,51-57 (Gnostic text from the Nag Hammadi Library) | |
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| Clement of Alexandria, Stromate V, chap. XII, 78.1-82.4 | |
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| Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses, Book II, 162-166 | |
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| On Virginity 46.360C-364A | |
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| Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Sermon 7, 44.724D-732D | |
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| Augustine, Confessions, Book IX.x.xxiii-xxv (The Vision at Ostia) | |
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| Dionysius the Aeropagite, Divine Names, chaps. I and VII, 3; Mystical Theology | |
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| Johannes Scotus Eriugena, The Division of Nature I, 457d-462d | |
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| Moses Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed I, chaps. 50,54, 56-61 | |
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| Kabbalah: Azriel of Gerona, "Ein Sof," "The Annihilation of Thought," and "Being and Nothingness" | |
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| Zohar III, 26b | |
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| "Beyond Knowing" | |
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| from Embellishments on the Zohar | |
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| "The Name of Nothingness" | |
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| "Ayin" | |
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| "The Wisdom of Nothingness" and "Ripples" | |
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| Ibn al-'Arabi, from "The Wisdom of Exaltation in the Word of Noah" and "The Exaltation of Light in the Word of Joseph" in The Bezels of Wisdom | |
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| Rumi, "The Reed Flute's Song"; "The World Which Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness"; "Quietness" | |
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| Albert the Great, Commentary on Dionysius' Mystical Theology, chap. 5 | |
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| Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae Ia, q. 13, arts. 1-6, 8-10 ("De nominibus Dei") | |
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| In-finite, In-fant Spirit | |
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| Marguerite Porete, from The Mirror of Simple Souls, chaps. 7,122 | |
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| Meister Eckhart, German Sermons 53 and 83; Commentary on Exodus, sections 146-184; Granum sinapis, stanzas VII and VIII | |
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| Dante, Paradiso, Canto XXXIII, 46-145 | |
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| Gregory Palamas, Triads in Defence of the Holy Hesychasts, I.iii, chaps. 4,5,17-23 | |
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| The Cloud of Unknowing, chaps. 3,5,6 | |
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| Nicholas of Cusa, Dialogue on the Hiddenness of God; On Learned Ignorance, Book I, chaps. 24-26 | |
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| Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle, Sixth Mansions, from chaps. 5 and 6 | |
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| John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle, Prologue, sections 1 and 2; The Dark Night, Book II, chap. XVII, 1-8; Ascent of Mount Carmel, Book I, chap. XIII, 11; "The Dark Night" (poem); "Stanzas Concerning an Ecstasy Experienced in High Contemplation" | |
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| Jakob Bohme, On the Election of Divine Grace, chap. 1 | |
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| Silesius Angelus, selections from The Wandering Cherub | |
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| Permissions and Acknowledgments | |