The Good, beyond being

What the sun is in the visible world, the Good is in the intelligible: the cause of things being knowable and of their being at all — and therefore not one of the things that are. It exceeds being "in dignity and power."

The four words this whole annex hangs from. Plotinus builds the One on them. Pseudo-Dionysius turns them into a method of unsaying. And in Hebrew hands they become the rule that of Ein Sof nothing may be said — not from timidity, but because saying is the wrong instrument.