A Note from the Society Translators Foreword to the English Translation, by Rowan Williams Foreword to the First Edition, by Maurice de Gandillac Preface to the First Edition, by Étienne Gilson 1 Nomen Innominabile The Search for the Ineffable The Source of the 'Nomen Innominabile' Namelessness and Polynymy Esse Innominable Eckhart and St Thomas The Intimate Presences The Wine of Cana Mystic or Dialectician? Ignorance of God and of Self 2 Nomen Omninominabile Nomen Super Omne Nomen Collatio Esse Upper and Lower Waters The Word without Words Semel Locotus Est Deus, Duo haec Audivi The One - 'The Name above All Names' The First Determination of Being Puritas et Plenitudo Essendi Unum et Omnia Oppositio Nihil Mediationne Entis The Unity of the Universe The Way of Unified Eminence 3.Ego Sum Qui Sum Revelation of the Unique Being Quidditas et Anitas Divine Sufficiency and created Indigence Reduplicatio 'I Live Because I Live' The Object of Metaphysics The Knowledge of Quiddities Quiddity and 'Esse Secundum' The Level of Substantiality Essentia et Esse Two Levels of Essentiality Intelligere et Esse 4.Regio Dissimilitudinis Infinitae Created Dissimilitude, the Intellect and Grace Grace, Glory and Divine Dissimilitude Ascensio Intellectus The Apophasis of Opposition The Opposition between 'Intelligere' and 'Esse' 'Cognitivum Ens' and 'Ens Reale' Intelligible Species and Exemplary Causes Seminal Reasons and the Divine Word Intellectual 'Nihilism' and the 'Uncreatability' of Intellection 5.Splendor in Medio From Assimilation to Unity Opposition and Non-opposition Indistinctio-Distinctio Dissimiltude-Similtudo Rota in Medio Rotae Analogical Causality God Esse Omnium and the Principle of Analogy Analogical Predication and the Doctrine of Being The Analogy of Attribution 'Qui Edunt Me Adhuc Esuriant' A Deo et in Deo 6.Imago in Speculo The Divinity-Form and Divine 'Quo Est' Formal Causality and Divine Exemplarity Being, Life, Intelligence The Theology of the Image and Deifying Transformation Analogy in the 'Transformation into the Same Image' Index