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And the divine things and what is in them are completely inexpressible, even if reason is somehow compelled by desire to speak about divine and human matters. But therefore, leaving aside the divine things and saying something of my own, I will show you the way with my word and I will cease. Know that you are twofold and you have two kinds of eyes, both perceptible and intellectual, just as there are two suns (185) and likewise two kinds of light, both perceptible and intelligible, which if you see, you will be a human being as you were created in the beginning. But if you see the perceptible sun, but in no way the intelligible sun, you are in any case half-dead, and the one who is half-dead is also dead, inactive in all things. For if the one who does not see perceptibly is inactive, how much more is the one who does not see the intelligible light of the world dead and more than dead? The dead man is at least without sensation, but the one who has died while having sensation, what great pain he will have, or rather he will be as one dying painfully for ages. But those who see the Creator, how do they not live outside of all things? Yes, they live outside of all things and they are in the midst of all things and are seen by all, but they are not seen by all in the perception of present things; they are in the midst of all things, but beyond the perception of these things they become outside of all things,

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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 καί εἰσί τῶν πάντων μέσον καί ὁρῶνται ὑπό πάντων, οὐχ ὁρῶνται δέ τοῖς πᾶσιν ἐν αἰσθήσει τῶν παρόντων˙ μέσον μέν εἰσι τῶν πάντων, ὑπέρ αἴσθησιν δέ τούτων ἔξω γίνονται τῶν πάντων,