XLVI. Arcana Dei homini inscrulabilia

XLVI. Arcana Dei homini inscrulabilia

Thus, God has established all things rightly. However, this is said about the mysteries of God, which shine in His presence and are countless in human knowledge; namely, in angels, in spirits, in ministers, in those who cry out, and in those who rejoice boldly; and those things that are unknown to His knowledge, both what they are and how they are. For although a person may be like a mountain in their knowledge, since in knowledge they ascend to a higher excellence after God, no one has seen the higher part of that mountain, which is the knowledge of God; no one has ascended there, nor can anyone know its mysteries, not even those who are always in His presence. But some of those who are always in the presence of God are named through the prophets and through other certain saints who have seen in the Holy Spirit; however, some are not named, who spoke even a little about them when divine inspiration touched them, as it is written through the Apostle Paul. Paul spoke of the hidden mysteries. 60. I heard secret words that it's not permitted for a person to speak. The sense of this is such. He commanded that the heart be infused with many great miracles to be strengthened, and that it might provide others with the building up of virtues from this: secret words and knowledge that are hidden from men, through which, or from which, or why they have come to be, or what kind they have been, or what kind of measure they have had. Just as the divine nature cannot be perceived by humans, so too is it not permitted for a person to express how these words were spoken in the outcry of the voice, or how they were proclaimed in the sounds of the praises of God's mysteries, because they are entirely in the secrets of the secret spirits, and because man is utterly alien to them.