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Therefore, of the highest and apophatic theology of the Logos, according to which He is neither spoken, nor conceived, nor is He altogether anything of the things known with another, as being supra-essential, nor is He participated in by anything in any way whatsoever, the one Logos is many logoi, and the many are one; the one is many according to the goodly creative and sustaining procession of the one into beings, and the many are one according to the reverting and guiding reference and providence toward the one, as toward an all-ruling principle or a center that has pre-contained the beginnings of the straight lines from it, and as the unifier of all. Therefore we are and are called a portion of God, because the logoi of our being pre-exist in God; but having flowed from above, we are again so called because we have not moved according to the logos by which we came into being, the one pre-existing in God. And in another way, it is easy for one who has been taught to piously attend to the logoi of beings to go through the argument concerning this.

For if it is not doubted that the one Logos of God is the essence of the virtue in each person—for the essence of all the virtues is Himself, our Lord Jesus Christ, as it is written: Who was made for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, that is, having these things said of Him absolutely, as being wisdom-itself and righteousness-itself and holiness-itself, and not, as with us, in a qualified manner, such as a wise man, or a just man—evidently, every person who partakes of virtue by a stable (14∆_084> disposition unquestionably partakes of God who is the essence of the virtues, as one who has genuinely cultivated by choice the natural 1084 seed of the good and has shown the end to be the same as the beginning, and the beginning as the end, or rather, the same thing being beginning and end, being an unadulterated advocate for God, since the purpose for any thing is believed to be its beginning and end, having received the former from there for its being and its natural good by participation, and having with diligence completed the latter, that is, the praiseworthy course that leads unerringly to it, by judgment and choice, by which he becomes God, receiving from God his being God, having added by choice the likeness through virtues to the natural good of the image, through the innate ascent and affinity toward his own beginning. And so the apostolic saying is also fulfilled in him, which states: *For in Him we live and move and have our being*. For he comes to be in God *through attentiveness, not corrupting the pre-existing logos of his being in God, and he is moved in God* according to the pre-existing logos of his well-being in God, being actualized through the virtues, and he lives in God according to the pre-existing logos of his ever-being in God.

Henceforth, being already the same with himself and unmoved according to the most dispassionate state, and in the age to come, according to the deification that will be given, lovingly cherishing and embracing the aforementioned logoi that pre-exist in God—or rather God, in whom the logoi of good things are fixed; and he is a portion of God, as being, through the logos of his being in God, and as good, through the logos of his ever-being in God, and as God, through the logos of his ever-being in God, as one who has honored these (14∆_086> and acted according to them, and through them has wholly placed himself in God alone, and has wholly impressed and formed God alone in himself, so that he both is by grace and is called God, and God by condescension is and is called man on his account, and the power of the disposition given in return for this is shown, which both deifies man for God on account of his love for God, and makes God human for man on account of His love for humanity, and brings about, according to the beautiful reversal, God as man, through the deification of man, and man as God, through the incarnation of God. For the Logos of God and God wills always and in all things for the mystery of His incarnation to be actualized.

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οὖν τῆς ἄκρας καί ἀποφατικῆς τοῦ Λόγου θεολογίας, καθ᾿ ἥν οὔτε λέγεται, οὔτε νοεῖται, οὔτε ἔστι τό σύνολόν τι τῶν ἄλλῳ συνεγνωσμένων, ὡς ὑπερούσιος, οὐδέ ὑπό τινος οὐδαμῶς καθ᾿ ὁτιοῦν μετέχεται, πολλοί λόγοι ὁ εἷς λόγος ἐστί, καί εἷς οἱ πολλοί· κατά μέν τήν ἀγαθοπρεπῆ εἰς τά ὄντα τοῦ ἑνός ποιητικήν τε καί συνεκτικήν πρόοδον πολλοί ὁ εἷς, κατά δέ τήν εἰς τόν ἕνα τῶν πολλῶν ἐπιστρεπτικήν τε καί χειραγωγικήν ἀναφοράν τε καί πρόνοιαν, ὥσπερ εἰς ἀρχήν παντοκρατορικήν ἤ κέντρον τῶν ἐξ αὐτοῦ εὐθειῶν τάς ἀρχάς προειληφός καί ὡς πάντων συναγωγός, εἷς οἱ πολλοί. Μοῖρα οὖν ἐσμεν καί λεγόμεθα Θεοῦ διά τό τούς τοῦ εἶναι ἡμῶν λόγους ἐν τῷ Θεῷ προϋφεστάναι· ρεύσαντες δέ ἄνωθεν πάλιν λεγόμεθα διότι μή καθ᾿ ὅν γεγενήμεθα λόγον τόν ἐν τῷ Θεῷ προόντα κεκινήμεθα. Καί καθ᾿ ἕτερον δέ τρόπον ἐστίν εὐμαρές τῷ εὐσεβῶς ἐπιβάλλειν τοῖς τῶν ὄντων λόγοις δεδιδαγμένῳ τόν περί τούτου λόγον διεξελθεῖν.

Εἰ γάρ οὐσία τῆς ἐν ἑκάστῳ ἀρετῆς ὁ εἷς ὑπάρχειν Λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ μή ἀμφιβέβληταιοὐσία γάρ πάντων τῶν ἀρετῶν αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, ὡς γέγραπται· Ὅς ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν ἀπό Θεοῦ σοφία, δικαιοσύνη τε καί ἁγιασμός καί ἀπολύτρωσις, ἀπολύτως ταῦτα δηλαδή ἐπ' αὐτοῦ λεγόμενα ἔχων, ὡς αὐτοσοφία καί δικαιοσύνη καί ἁγιότης ὤν, καί οὐχ ὡς ἐφ᾿ ἡμῶν προσδιωρισμένως, οἷον ὡς σοφός ἄνθρωπος, ἤ δίκαιος ἄνθρωπος, πᾶς δηλονότι ἄνθρωπος ἀρετῆς καθ᾿ ἕξιν (14∆_084> παγίαν μετέχων ἀναμφηρίστως Θεοῦ μετέχει τῆς οὐσίας τῶν ἀρετῶν, ὡς τήν κατά 1084 φύσιν σποράν τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ γνησίως κατά προαίρεσιν γεωργήσας καί ταυτόν δείξας τῇ ἀρχῇ τό τέλος, και τήν ἀρχήν τῷ τέλει, μᾶλλον δέ ταυτόν ἀρχήν οὖσαν καί τέλος, ὡς ἀνόθευτος Θεοῦ τυγχάνων συνήγορος, εἴπερ παντός πράγματος ἀρχή καί τέλος ὁ ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ σκοπός ὑπάρχειν πεπίστευται, τήν μέν ὡς ἐκεῖθεν εἰληφώς πρός τῷ εἶναι καί τό κατά μέθεξιν φύσει ἀγαθόν, τό δέ ὡς κατ᾿ αὐτήν γνώμῃ τε καί προαιρέσει τόν ἐπαινετόν καί πρός αὐτήν ἀπλανῶς ἄγοντα ἐξανύσας δρόμον διά σπουδῆς, καθ᾿ ὅν γίνεται Θεός, ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ τό Θεός εἶναι λαμβάνων, ὡς τῷ κατ᾿ εἰκόνα φύσει καλῷ καί προαιρέσει τήν δι᾿ ἀρετῶν προσθείς ἐξομοίωσιν, διά τῆς ἐμφύτου πρός τήν ἰδίαν ἀρχήν ἀναβάσεώς τε καί οἰκειότητος. Καί πληροῦται λοιπόν καί ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ τό ἀποστολικόν ῥητόν τό φάσκον· Ἐν αὐτῷ γάρ ζῶμεν καί κινούμεθα καί ἐσμέν. Γίνεται γάρ ἐν τῷ Θεῷ διά προσοχῆς, τόν ἐν τῷ Θεῷ προόντα τοῦ εἶναι λόγον μή παραφθείρας, καί κινεῖται ἐν τῷ Θεῷ κατά τόν προόντα ἐν τῷ Θεῷ τοῦ εὖ εἶναι λόγον, διά τῶν ἀρετῶν ἐνεργούμενος, καί ζῇ ἐν τῷ Θεῷ κατά τόν προόντα ἐν τῷ Θεῷ τοῦ ἀεί εἶναι λόγον.

Ἐντεῦθεν μέν ἤδη κατά τήν ἀπαθεστάτην ἕξιν ταυτόν ἑαυτῷ καί ἀκίνητος ὤν, ἐν δέ τῷ μέλλοντι αἰῶνι κατά τήν δοθησομένην θέωσιν τούς εἰρημένους καί ἐν τῷ Θεῷ προόντας λόγους, μᾶλλον δέ τόν Θεόν, ἐν ᾧ οἱ λόγοι τῶν καλῶν πεπήγασιν, ἀγαπητικῶς στέργων καί ἀσπαζόμενος· καί ἔστι μοῖρα Θεοῦ, ὡς ὤν, διά τόν ἐν τῷ Θεῷ τοῦ εἶναι αὐτοῦ λόγον, καί ὡς ἀγαθός, διά τόν ἐν τῷ Θεῷ τοῦ ἀεί εἶναι αὐτοῦ λόγον, καί ὡς Θεός, διά τόν ἐν τῷ Θεῷ τοῦ ἀεί εἶναι αὐτοῦ λόγον, ὡς τούτους (14∆_086> τιμήσας καί κατ᾿ αὐτούς ἐνεργήσας, καί δι᾿ αὐτῶν ἑαυτόν μέν τῷ Θεῷ μόνῳ δι᾿ ὅλου ἐνθέμενος, τόν δέ Θεόν μόνον ἑαυτῷ δι᾿ ὅλου ἐντυπώσας τε καί μορφώσας, ὥστε καί αὐτόν εἶναί τε χάριτι καί καλεῖσθαι Θεόν, καί τόν Θεόν εἶναι συγκαταβάσει καί καλεῖσθαι δι᾿ αὐτόν ἄνθρωπον, καί τῆς ἀντιδιδομένης ἐπί τούτῳ διαθέσεως δειχθῆναι τήν δύναμιν, τήν καί τόν ἄνθρωπον τῷ Θεῷ θεοῦσαν διά τό φιλόθεον, καί τόν Θεόν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ διά τό φιλάνθρωπον ἀνθρωπίζουσαν καί ποιοῦσαν κατά τήν καλήν ἀντιστροφήν, τόν μέν Θεόν ἄνθρωπον, διά τήν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου θέωσιν, τόν δέ ἄνθρωπον Θεόν, διά τήν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἀνθρώπησιν. Βούλεται γάρ ἀεί καί ἐν πᾶσιν ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγος καί Θεός τῆς αὐτοῦ ἐνσωματώσεως ἐνεργεῖσθαι τό μυστήριον.