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← On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy↑ Caput II — I. Concerning things done in Illumination.

Section 2

On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy · Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

He, who has felt a religious longing to participate in these truly supermundane gifts, comes to some one of the initiated, and persuades him to act as his conductor to the Hierarch. He then professes wholly to follow the teaching that shall be given to him, and prays him to undertake the superintendence of his introduction, and of all his after life. Now he, though religiously longing for his salvation, when he measures human infirmity against the loftiness of the undertaking, is suddenly seized with a shivering and sense of incapacity, nevertheless, at last, he agrees, with a good grace, to do what is requested, and takes and leads him to the chief Hierarch.

PdEH 2.2.1