essentiating

Framer of Wisdom, and essentiating Cause and connecting Force, and encompassing Term of all created things together.

Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

And even self-existent being is from the Pre-existent, and of Him is being, and He is not of being; — and in Him is being, and He is not in being; and being possesses Him, and not He possesses being; and He is both age and beginning, and measure of being; being essentiating Source, and

Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

We must attribute, then, all existing things to It, as beseems One Union pre-eminent above all, since by starting from Being, the essentiating

Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

Beings; — further also, that It is source and essentiating Cause, and unalterable Fixity of the undissolved continuance of all things, from, Which is both the being and the well-being of the most exalted Powers themselves.

Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897