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In this state, which the writer often described a Psuedo-Dionysius called darkness, this state without thought or imagination, the nous, the eye of the soul, does indeed perceive itself. This is one of the great keys to spirituality, for he who knows himself in this way knows himself as different from all that changes or can be changed. Then he has little to fear from life … as long as he remembers what he knows. Such knowledge gives us a modified version of the above diagram. We have found the other end of the piece-of-string of attention, and a third and normally invisible component to our model of the human interior life: the nous.
But how does this link with Saint Paul’s model of Man, which consists of body, psyche and spirit? When the inner eye of the nous is not filled with impressions that reach it from the world: when it is not eating of the fruit of the ‘tree of life’- of the psyche – then it becomes transparent to the Spirit. As Palamas put it: “This is the
most excellent and appropriate activity by which the nous comes to
transcend itself and become united to God. “For the nous,” says St.
Basil, “which is not dispersed abroad returns to itself, and
then through itself mounts towards God as if by an infallible road.
“Dionysius, that infallible observer of things noetic, also says that this movement of the nous is not subject to any error.” This leaves us with the following simplified diagram:
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