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The Church Fathers · c. 390

The Life of Moses

Gregory of Nyssa · c. 335–c. 395

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What it is

Moses read twice — once as history, once as the soul's ascent — climbing from the burning bush into the dark cloud where God is known precisely as unknowable.

Why it lasted

The founding text of apophatic mysticism, and the source of the idea that the soul's progress into God is endless because God is infinite.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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