Chapter 15
349 | Text and Translation For how great is that light from which shines every truth that illuminates the rational mind!
How vast is that truth in which is all that is true, And outside of which is only nothingness and falsehood!
How immense is that which beholds in one single intuition all of creation, And by whom and through whom and how all creatures were made from nothing!
What purity, what simplicity, what certainty and splendor, are there!
Surely it is more than can be understood by any creature.
Chapter 15 That he is greater than can be thought Therefore, lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought, but you are something greater than can be thought. For since something can be thought to be of this kind, if you are not yourself this, something greater than you can be thought, which cannot be.
| PROSLOGION
CAPITULUM XVI
Quod haec sit lux inaccessibilis, quam inhabitat 2 Tm 6:16 Vere, Domine, haec est lux inaccessibilis, in qua habitas. Vere enim non est aliud quod hanc penetret, ut ibi te pervideat. Vere ideo hanc non video, quia nimia mihi est; et tamen quidquid video, per illam video, sicut infirmus oculus quod videt, per lucem solis videt, quam in ipso sole nequit aspicere. Non potest intellectus meus ad illam. Nimis fulget, non capit illam, nec suffert oculus animae meae diu intendere in illam;
Reverberatur fulgore, vincitur amplitudine, obruitur immensitate, confunditur capacitate.
O summa et inaccessibilis lux, 0 tota et beata veritas, quam longe es a me, qui tam prope tibi sum!
Quam remota es a conspectu meo, qui sic praesens sum conspectui tuo!
Ubique es tota praesens — et non te video.
In te moveor et in te sum — et ad te non possum accedere.
Acts 17:28
Intra me et circa me es — et non te sentio.