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"...understand without understanding and remain in a holy unknowing, overshadowed by Divine Wisdom..." ~Paul of the Cross to Colomba Gandolfi - 34th letter on August 3, 1756 in Vol. 2 on Page 518 for Paul's Letter 1036)

& "...The communications received from the ineffable Divine Goodness in prayer would not be from God if you could explain or understand them. I will speak in paradoxes, for you also speak this way; you cannot do less. One knows without knowing; one understands without understanding; and the soul in these stupendous marvels that God brings about remains in a holy unknowing, since it is entirely absorbed in the divine darkness of purest faith and holy love..." ~Paul of the Cross to Colomba Gandolfi - 11th letter on July 16, 1754 in Vol. 2 on Page 402 for Paul's Letter 911)

"...Only those who set aside their own knowledge and walk in God's service like unlearned children receive wisdom from God. This is the wisdom about which St. Paul taught the Corinthians: If anyone among you thinks he is wise, let him become ignorant so as to be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Cor. 3:18-19] Accordingly, a person must advance to union with God's wisdom by unknowing rather than by knowing..." ~John of the Cross "The Ascent of Mount Carmel"

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