ABSTRACT
The contemplative knowledge of ‘God’s essence’ replaces the contemplation of beings and banishes from the mind all preoccupation with creation. It is the ‘direct’1 knowledge/vision of the Creator Himself. At the same time, Evagrius speaks of the vision in this life of ‘the light of the blessed Trinity’2 also as of a peak spiritual experience. What is this light-theology and how does it relate to the ‘knowledge of God’s essence’?
