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of your bridal chamber of glory, beholding you, my God, unto ages of ages, amen.

IH'.

Teaching with theology concerning the energies of holy love, that is, of the light itself of the Holy Spirit. (124)

Who will have the strength, O Master, to tell of you? Those who are ignorant are mistaken, knowing nothing at all, but those who have recognized your divinity in faith are held by great fear and are beside themselves with trembling and have nothing to say; for you exist beyond mind; all things are incomprehensible, incomprehensible are all the works and your glory and the knowledge of you. That you are, we know, and your light we see; but of what kind and what sort, we are all ignorant. Nevertheless, we have hope and hold to faith and we know the love, which you have given to us, infinite, ineffable, contained nowhere, being light, unapproachable light, light that energizes all things. This is also called your hand and is called your eye and your all-holy mouth and power and glory and is known as a face beautiful beyond all. This is a sun that does not set for those who are exalted in divine things, this is an ever-shining star for those who cannot contain more; this is opposed to grief, this drives away envy and satanic jealousy it completely makes disappear. This melts in the beginning and thins, purifying, (125) it drives away thoughts and restrains impulses. This, when it is hidden, teaches one to be humble and does not allow one to be dissipated, nor to wander at all. This, when it appears again, separates from the world and produces forgetfulness of all the painful things of life. This also nourishes greatly and heals thirst and grants power to those who labor well. This extinguishes anger and the boiling of the heart and does not allow one to be angered or to be troubled at all. This, when it flees, is pursued by those who have been wounded

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τοῦ νυμφῶνος σου τῆς δόξης, καθορῶντά σε, Θεέ μου, εἰς αἰῶνας αἰωνίους, ἀμήν.

ΙΗ'.

∆ιδασκαλία σύν θεολογίᾳ περί τῶν ἐνεργειῶν τῆς ἁγίας ἀγάπης, ἤγουν αὐτοῦ τοῦ φωτός τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος. (124)

Τίς ἐξισχύσει, ∆έσποτα, περί σοῦ διηγεῖσθαι; Οἱ ἀγνοοῦντες σφάλλονται μηδέν ὅλως εἰδότες, οἱ δέ τήν σήν θεότητα ἐπιγνόντες ἐν πίστει φόβῳ πολλῷ συνέχονται καί ἐξίστανται τρόμῳ καί τί λέγειν οὐκ ἔχουσιν˙ὑπέρ νοῦν γάρ ὑπάρχεις˙ πάντα ἀκατανόητα, ἀκατάληπτα πάντα τά ἔργα καί ἡ δόξα σου καί ἡ ἐπίγνωσίς σου. Ὅτι μέν εἶς, γινώσκομεν καί τό φῶς σου ὁρῶμεν˙ ὁποῖος δέ καί ποταπός, ἅπαντες ἀγνοοῦμεν. Πλήν τήν ἐλπίδα ἔχομεν καί τήν πίστιν κρατοῦμεν καί τήν ἀγάπην οἴδαμεν, ἥν ἡμῖν ἐδωρήσω, ἄπειρον, ἀνεκλάλητον, μηδαμοῦ χωρουμένην, φῶς οὖσαν, φῶς ἀπρόσιτον, φῶς ἐνεργοῦν τά πάντα. Τοῦτο καί χείρ σου λέγεται καί ὀφθαλμός καλεῖται καί στόμα τό πανάγιον καί δύναμις καί δόξα καί πρόσωπον γνωρίζεται ὡραῖον ὑπέρ πάντα. Τοῦτο ἥλιος ἄδυτος τοῖς ὑψηλοῖς τά θεῖα, τοῦτο ἀστήρ ἀειλαμπής τοῖς μή πλέον χωροῦσι˙ τοῦτο λύπῃ ἀντίκειται, τοῦτο φθόνον διώκει καί ζῆλον τόν σατανικόν παντελῶς ἀφανίζει. Τοῦτο ἐκτήκει ἐν ἀρχῇ καί λεπτύνει καθαῖρον, (125) ἀποδιώκει λογισμούς καί κινήσεις συστέλλει. Τοῦτο ἀποκρυπτόμενον παιδεύει ταπεινοῦσθαι καί διαχεῖσθαι οὐκ ἐᾷ, οὐδέ ῥέμβεσθαι ὅλως. Τοῦτο πάλιν φαινόμενον κόσμον ἀποχωρίζει καί λήθην πάντων ἐμποιεῖ ἀνιαρῶν τοῦ βίου. Τοῦτο καί τρέφει τά πολλά καί τήν δίψαν ἰᾶται καί δύναμιν χαρίζεται τοῖς καλῶς κοπιῶσι. Τοῦτο σβέννυσι τόν θυμόν καί ζέσιν τῆς καρδίας καί οὐκ ἐᾷ ὀργίζεσθαι ἤ ταράσσεσθαι ὅλως. Τοῦτο φεῦγον διώκεται παρά τῶν τετρωμένων