Testimony of St. Dionysius the Areopagite (35)

¹ 35. So also the great Dionysius: When, says he, we have become incorruptible and immortal, and have attained the Christ-like and most blessed lot, we shall be forever with the Lord according to the saying—being filled, in all-pure contemplations, with his visible theophany, which shines round about us with most radiant beams, as it did the disciples in that most divine transfiguration; participating in his noetic gift of light with a passionless and immaterial intellect, and in the union that is beyond intellect, in the unknown and blessed encounters of the supra-radiant rays, in a more divine imitation of the supercelestial intellects.