MYSTIC KNOWLEDGE OF SAINT DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE AND PLOTINUS
MYSTIC KNOWLEDGE OF SAINT DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE AND PLOTINUS

Summary/Abstract: The intention of this essay is to highlight the existence of a thrill that calls man to its existential fulfillment, which is to meet and to stay with God. Although the directions are different, depending on the way how Divinity is perceived - Christianity being based on Personal Trinity, the creation out of nothing, and the insurmountability between the created and the uncreated, and Plotinian philosophy being centred on the apophatic but impersonal One, and on the idea of man's kinship with the divine, because it originates from it - mysticism remains the path through which man expresses his apophatism, the mystery of the being that was not created only for a fleeting life. If for Plotin, the mystical experience was perhaps only an ecstasy of the intellect, seeing the light of your own mind that was extending through Eros toward the One - having to wait until the true meeting - in the Areopagite mystical theory takes place a personal meeting manifesting itself through love and by being out of yourself in a biunique way, giving man the chance of deification.

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