Buluta Girmek: Tanrı'nın Yalnızca Arka Yanını Görmek

What has happened to me, O friends and initiates and fellow-lovers of the truth? I was running as if to apprehend God, and so I ascended the mountain and penetrated the cloud, coming inside, away from matter and material things, and gathered myself within as much as possible. But when I looked, I saw only the back parts of God, and that only while sheltered by the rock, to the God-Word who became flesh for our sake; and peering slightly through the aperture, not at the primary and unalloyed nature, which is known to itself alone, nor at that which remains within the first veil and is covered by the cherubim, but at that which is final and reaches even to us. This, as far as I can understand it, is the majesty seen in created things and in those things which are projected and governed by Him. For these are the back parts of God: all the tokens of Him that remain behind Him, much like the shadows and reflections of the sun upon the water to our feeble eyes.