Dionysius the Areopagite On the Divine Names And the Mystical Theology

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In so far as they continue to exist they are good with respect to themselves.
2 Evil is the contrary of the Good. Hence since the Good is by Its very nature productive, evil must be destructive. Hence the devils, if essentially evil, must be essentially destructive. Now they are not essentially self-destructive, for, were they such, they could not exist, j Therefore, if essentially evil, they must under all circumstances be destructive of other things.
' The essence o^ {e. G. ) an apple-tree is
... self-identity ; its faculty is its latent power of producing leaves, apples, etc. ; its activity is the actual production of the leaves, apples, etc.
^ ( I ) The devils do not destroy all things {e. G. They do not annihilate the human soul). Therefore they are not essentially evil. Evil passions are good things misdirected. (2) Often the destruction of a thing is beneficial [e. G. The falling of the faded leaf). In fact, nothing could be THE DIVINE NAMES i^i the weakness is not complete ; for, were it complete, it would have annihilated both the process of destruc- tion and the object which suffers it : and such a destruction as this must be self-destructive.


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