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His Tre libri d'amore, with its insistence upon the superessentiality and unknowability of God and its comprehensive ontological scale ranging from supra-being to non - being, denotes a stronger influence of Plotinus than in
PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE JOHN CHARLES NELSON 1968
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Agnosia, (supra-knowledge) of its superessentiality above reason and mind and essence — to, it must we attribute the superessential science, so far aspiring to the Highest, as the ray of the supremely Divine Oracles imparts itself, whilst we restrain ourselves in our approach to the higher glories by prudence and piety as regards things Divine.
Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897
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Sometimes, instead of invoking the Dionysian formula superesse divinitatis, Eriugena speaks of the ˜divine superessentiality™ (divina superessentialitas,
John Scottus Eriugena Moran, Dermot 2004
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