that which is beyond and above knowledge

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"Unknowing, or agnosia, is not ignorance or nescience as ordinarily understood, but rather the realization that no finite knowledge can fully know the Infinite One, and that therefore He is only truly to be approached by agnosia, or by that which is beyond and above knowledge.  There are two main kinds of darkness:  the sub-darkness and the super-darkness, between which lies, as it were, an octave of light.  But the nether-darkness and the Divine Darkness are not the same darkness, for the former is absence of light, while the latter is excess of light.  The one symbolizes mere ignorance, and the other a transcendent unknowing--a super-knowledge not obtained by means of the discursive reason."

--Dionysius the Aereopagite, The Mystical Theology

The mystery of the flowers is solved--she sent Justin a sweatshirt for the Superbowl and didn't want me to feel left out.