St Maximos the Confessor | When the intellect is in direct union with God...

When the intellect is in direct union with God, that quality in it by virtue of which it apprehends and is apprehended is completely in abeyance.

As soon as it activates this quality by apprehending something sequent to God, it experiences doubt and severs the union which is beyond intellection.

So long as the intellect is joined to God in this union, and has passed beyond nature and become god by participation, it will have transposed the law of its nature as though shifting an immovable mountain.


St Maximos the Confessor 
Various Texts on Theology, the Divine Economy, and Virtue and Vice: Second Century