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"Dionysian hierarchy is none other than the communion of saints, which, as a communion of intelligences, is itself the fullness of being. The hierarchical structure of reality is the articulated manifestation of the divine love that constitutes all things."

"All things, in performing the proper activities which are their being, are participating in the making of the world, taking part in the constitutive divine ordering of the whole. But, as in the case of the being’s role in its own being produced, this neither adds to nor detracts from God’s immediate production of all things."

"At bottom, then, evil as deficiency of being is a failure to revert to, to love, to desire God, who as the Good is the sole cause and end of all desire."

"As Dionysius says, 'Since, as subsistence of goodness, by its very being it is cause of all beings, the good-founding providence of the Godhead is to be hymned from all the effects... And by its being it is the production and origin of all things.'”

“God is the ‘illumination of the illumined and principal of perfection of the perfected and principle of deification of the deified and simplicity of the simplified and unity of the unified… and, to speak simply, the life of living things and being of beings.’”

This was my second work of Plato I read and I thought it was much easier to understand than The Republic. A lot of good things were said about the nature of Love, and Socrates’ view especially seems relevant to developing a classical conception of God.