“Every effect remains in its cause, proceeds from it, and returns to it”
—Proclus, The Elements of Theology, ed. E.R. Dodds (Oxford: Clarendon, 1963), no. 35, 38
“And there we shall be, our minds away from passion and from earth, and we shall have a conceptual gift of light from him and, somehow, in a way we cannot know, we shall be united with him and, our understanding carried away, blessedly happy, we shall be struck by his blazing light.”
--Ps.-Dionysius, The Divine Names, 592C.