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God is indeterminate; an uninterrupted sequence of causes and effects; the relation between sign and signified. He perceives
neither sin nor evil, knows no misery or imperfection:
Divina bonitas consummabit malitiam, beatitudo miseriam.
We contemplate visible forms because they are images of an invisible beauty, of that intelligible truth toward which all moves,
whether knowingly or unknowingly. So that when the ocean of immensity begins to heave, the pattern on its surface loses its
form. Thus, Dionysius talks about "the flight from creatures to union with the uncreated," and Meister Eckhart of
how the soul "loses its identity, it absorbs God and is reduced to nothing, as the dawn at the rising of the sun."
... and so the old dervish replied: "then a fish will draw you to him, such a fish that when he breathes he draws
into his breast the first and the last. This marvelous fish has neither head nor tail; he holds himself in the middle of the
ocean, quiet and detached; he sweeps away the two worlds, and he draws to himself all creatures without exception." (Attar:
ibid.)
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