' The Constant Pursuit '...

"Dionysius exhorted his pupil Timothy in this sense saying, 'Dear
son Timothy, do you with untroubled mind soar above yourself and
all your powers, above ratiocination and reasoning, above works,
above all modes and existence, into the secret still darkness, that you
may come to the knowledge of the unknown super-divine God.'

There
must be a withdrawal from all things.

God scorns to work through
mages.

Now you might say, 'What does God do without images in the
ground and essence ?'

That I cannot know, because my soul-powers receive only in images;
they have to know and lay hold of each thing in its appropriate image.

They cannot recognize a horse when presented with the image of a
man; and since all things enter from without, that knowledge is hidden
from my soul - which is to her great advantage.

This not-knowing
makes her wonder and leads her to eager pursuit, for she perceives
clearly that it is, but does not know how or what it is.

Whenever a
man knows the causes of things, then he at once tires of them and
seeks to know something different.

Always clamoring to know things,
is forever inconstant.

And so this unknown-knowing keeps the soul
constant and yet spurs her on to pursuit."




-Meister Eckhart Sermon 1