Goodness

jake (2)(T)he very cause of the universe…is, as it were,    

beguiled by goodness, by love and by yearning

and is enticed away from his dwelling place and

comes to abide with all things.

 

(The Divine Names,  by the 6th century mystic Dionysius;

See  “Dionysius the Areopagite” by Brendan Comerford SJ,

‘ Sacred Heart Messenger’, Dec 2013, p. 37)