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He who sees Him is alone with the Alone outside of all things, and sees nothing of all things, either visible or intelligible; he sees only the Trinity. But let the things in this be kept silent, for they are seen dimly, and are in some measure understood. Were you then astonished hearing the things within the visible things? But if you are astonished at these things, how shall I not seem a myth-maker making clear to you the things outside? For the divine things are altogether ineffable and inexpressible and the things in them are completely so, even if discourse is somehow compelled by a desire to speak about divine and human things. But leaving aside, therefore, the divine things and saying something of my own, I will show you the way by my discourse and I will cease. Know that you are twofold and you have two kinds of eyes, both sensible and intellectual, as there are two suns (185) and likewise two kinds of light, both sensible and intelligible, which if you see, you will be a man as you were created from the beginning. But if you see the sensible sun, but in no way the intelligible one, you are certainly half-dead; and the half-dead is also dead, inoperative in all things. For if he who does not see sensibly is inoperative, how much more is he who does not see the intelligible light of the world dead, and more than dead? For the dead man is without sensation, but he who has died while in a state of sensation, what great pain he will have, or rather, he will be as one dying in agony for ages. But those who see the Creator, how do they not live outside all things? Yes, they live outside of all things

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Ὅν ὁ βλέπων ἔξω πάντων μετά μόνου μόνος ἔστι καί οὐδέν τῶν πάντων βλέπει ὁρατῶν ἤ νοουμένων˙ μόνην τήν Τριάδα βλέπει. Τά δ᾿ ἐν ταύτῃ σιωπάσθω, ἀμυδρῶς καί γάρ ὁρῶνται, καί ποσῶς κατανοοῦνται. Κατεπλάγης οὖν ἀκούσας τά ἐντός τῶν ὁρωμένων; Εἰ δέ καταπλάγης ταῦτα, πῶς οὐ μυθολόγος δόξω τά ἐκτός διατρανῶν σοι; Ἀνεκλάλητα γάρ πάντῃ καί ἀνέκφραστα τά θεῖα καί τά ἐν αὐτοῖς εἰς ἅπαν, κἄν ὁ λόγος πως ἐκ πόθου ἐκβιάζεται τοῦ λέγειν περί πραγμάτων θείων καί ἀνθρωπίνων. Ἀλλ᾿ ἐάσας οὖν τά θεῖα καί εἰπών τι τῶν ἰδίων ὑποδείξω σοι τῷ λόγῳ τήν ὁδόν καί καταπαύσω. Γνῶθί σε διττόν ὑπάρχειν καί διττούς ἔχεις τούς ὦπας, αἰσθητούς καί νεορούς τε, ὡς διττῶν ἡλίων ὄντων (185) καί διττοῦ φωτός ὡσαύτως, αἰσθητοῦ καί νοητοῦ τε, οὕς εἰ βλέπεις, ὡς ἐκτίσθης κατ᾿ ἀρχάς ἄνθρωπος ἔσῃ. Εἰ δέ αἰσθητόν μέν βλέπεις, νοητόν δέ οὐδαμῶς ἥλιον, ἠμιθνής τυγχάνεις πάντως, ὁ ἠμιθνής δέ καί νεκρός, ἀνενέργητος εἰς πάντα. Εἰ γάρ ὁ αἰθητῶς μή βλέπων ἀνενέργητός τις ἔστι, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὁ μή βλέπων τό νοητόν φῶς τοῦ κόσμου νεκρός ἐστι καί νεκροῦ πλέον; Ὁ νεκρός ἀναισθητεῖ γε, ὁ δέ θνήξας ἐν αἰσθήσει, ὅσην ἕξει τήν ὀδύνην, μᾶλλον δ᾿ ἔσεται ὡς θνῄσκων ἐνωδύνως εἰς αἰῶνας. Οἱ δέ βλέποντες τόν κτίστην πῶς οὐ ζῶσιν ἔξω πάντων; Ναί, τῶν πάντων ἔξω ζῶσι