Solitude and Silence: Pseudo-Dionysius on the Divine Darkness
Teaching on Solitude and Silence from Pseudo-Dionysius: Pseudo-Dionysius on the Divine Darkness
This is a spiritual discipline on apophatic theology and divine darkness, drawing on Exodus 20:21, 1 Timothy 6:16 and Psalm 97:2.
The anonymous 5th-century writer known as Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite introduced the concept of apophatic theology -- knowing God by recognizing what God is not. In "The Mystical Theology," he wrote: "Into this darkness which is beyond light we pray that we may come. Through not seeing and not knowing, we may see and know that which is above seeing and knowing."…
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