I was one with one alone, and with Me there was nothing not only of the visible, but even of the invisible. Verily, I was before I happened.

I alone am uncreated with the Father and My Spirit, I alone am without beginning from My Father. None of the Angels, nor of the Archangels, nor of the other ranks, has ever seen either My nature, or Me Myself, the Creator in its entirety, as I am, but they see only a ray of glory and a certain outpouring of My light, and they adore it. Like a mirror perceiving the sun's rays, or like crystal pierced by light at noon, so they all perceive the rays of My Divinity. In all, none of the Angels, nor of men, nor of the holy Powers has yet been vouchsafed to see Me. For I am outside of all things, and invisible to all.

However, it is not out of envy, of course, that I do not allow them to see Myself, and I do not hide and do not appear because I am ugly, but because there is as yet no one worthy of My Divinity, and because it is impossible for a creature to be equal to the Creator. And it's not good for them.

But those who see the little reflection of My light mysteriously learn that I truly am, and know that I am the God who produced them, and in amazement and fear they glorify Me and serve Me. For it is impossible for God to produce another nature, equal to the Creator and of the same kind with Him, because it is absolutely impossible for a creature to be of one essence with the Creator. For how can a creature ever be equal to the Uncreated? Thou shalt admit this, and thou shalt not deny that creatures are inferior to Him who always exists, without beginning and uncreated, and are as different from Him as a chariot and a saw are from the craftsman who made them. How, then, can a chariot understand him who made it, or as a saw, tell me, know him who moves it, unless he who made them gives them knowledge and gives them sight, which is impossible for all created beings? Thus, absolutely none of the men or angels received the power to give breath to others or to give them life. But the Lord of all, who alone has power and power, as the source of life, produces animate beings, such as He wills, and, as Artist and Master, grants to each what He wills and wills. To Him be glory and dominion now and forever. Amen.

Hymn 17. The union of the All-Holy Spirit with purified souls takes place with clear feeling, that is, consciousness; and the souls in which these things take place, He makes them like Himself, luminous and light.

The Invisible One is far removed from the visible and from the creatures, Who originally produced them from the perishable, the Incorruptible, and from darkness, the Light.

The confusion of these natures occurred when God descended to earth.

For then my Saviour united the divided natures.

But the blind do not see this unity, and the dead say that they do not feel it at all, but think that they live and see, oh, utter madness!

Not believing, they say that no one has experienced or felt this, that is, has not seen it in a sensual way;

We only hear about this and learn in words.

But, O my Christ, teach me what to say to them, that I may pluck them out of great ignorance and unbelief, and let them see Thee, the Light of the world.

Listen, fathers, to the divine words and understand, and you will know that unity which is with consciousness, and feeling, of course, and experience, and sight.