Apophatic Prayer

The Divine Darkness

Dionysius the Areopagite · c. 5th–6th century

Dionysius taught the oldest and boldest way of unknowing: to let go of every sense, image, and concept, and rise in pure surrender toward the 'brilliant darkness' where God dwells, beyond all that the mind can hold.

How long?

Sound

Screen-off mode — let the screen rest. The sound keeps playing and a soft tone calls you back at the end.

Tradition calls the author Dionysius the Areopagite; scholars date the works to the late 5th–6th century (“Pseudo-Dionysius”).

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, The Mystical Theology, ch. 1 (trans. John Parker).