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Dionysios Areopagita:
SvaraRadera"If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to know, unseeing and unknowing, that which lies beyond all vision and knowledge. For this would be really to see and to know: to praise the Transcendent One in a transcending way, namely through the denial of all beings.
We would then be like sculptors who set out to carve a statue. They remove every obstacles to the pure view of the hidden image, and simply by this act of clearing aside they show up the beauty which is hidden."
The Mystical Theology, kap. 2
Tror det var Plotinos som fick mig att skriva; samma ord, annan man.
SvaraRaderaJust det! Jag hade kunnat bygga ut min uppsats ordentligt...
SvaraRadera"Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine."
Enneaderna, I.6.9
Just den, ja. Tur att jag har dig till att bringa ordning i källförteckningen!
SvaraRaderaMäster Eckehart:
SvaraRadera"When an artist makes a sculpture out of wood or stone, he does not put his idea into the wood but, rather, he chips away the material that has been hiding it. He does not impart something to the wood but cuts the covering away and removes the tarnish so that what was hidden there may shine. This is 'the treasure hidden in a field' of which our Lord speaks in the Gospel."