Written around the turn of the 6th century, The Mystical Theology is a short but explosive treatise. Despite its brevity (often fewer than 20 pages in translation), it is considered the apex of apophatic theology—the attempt to describe God by what He is not rather than by what He is.

Pseudo-Dionysius presents a spiritual journey that inverts conventional logic. Instead of gaining knowledge, the soul must "unknow" to reach the Divine. :

The soul moves from the lowest forms of creation to the highest celestial concepts, ultimately discarding them all to reach the source. www.academia.edu III. Entering the Divine Darkness Moses as the Archetype: