”Thus the whole created order is unable to get out of itself through a comprehensive vision[...]"

”Thus the whole created order is unable to get out of itself through a comprehensive vision, but remains continually enclosed within itself, and whatever it beholds, it is looking at itself. And even if it somehow thinks it is looking at something beyond itself, that which it sees outside itself has no being. One may struggle to surpass or transcend diastemic conception (διάστηματικην εννοιαν) by the understanding of the created universe, but he does not transcend. For in every object it conceptually discovers, it always comprehends the diastema in the being of the apprehended object, and diastema is nothing other than creation itself.” (In Eccl. GNO V, 412, 6-14)

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