This is the clue to the puzzling distinction made by Ruysbroeck between the contemplation which is 'without conditions,' and that which is 'beyond and above conditions' and belongs to the Superessential Life alone.
Man cannot, he says, "perpetually contemplate with attention the superessential Being of God in the Light of God.
In Superessential Contemplation, it dies into that 'world which is in no wise.
Being, in fact, is a defect, "since it separates from the superessential Good.
It is satisfied only with the superessential essence.
Footnote 720: In defining the superessential nature of the One, Origen did not go so far as the Basilidians (Philosoph.
Thus every superessential nature is primarily a god; but every intellectual nature is so according to union.
As light therefore, immediately proceeds from the sun, and wholly subsists according to a solar idiom or property, so truth or the immediate progeny of the good, must subsist according to a superessential idiom.
And, hence we necessarily infer that according to Plato, the immediate offspring of the ineffable principle of things are superessential unities.
They differ however from their immense principle in this, that he is superessential and ineffable, without any addition; but this divine multitude is participated by the several orders of being, which are suspended from and produced by it.
He describes the fruits which flow from a worthy Communion, and treats again of the three ways of the contemplative life, and describes the elements of superessential contemplation.
Above the interior life there is the superessential contemplative life; above the faithful friends there are the Intimate Sons of God.
If I also say, God is a Being, it is not true; He is transcendent Being and superessential Nothingness.
There the spirit, enveloped by the Holy Trinity, is eternally immanent in the superessential unity, in repose and in joy.
I wish to analyse and explain these words, in their relation to superessential contemplation, which is the basis of all holiness and of the perfect life.
The spiritual superessential begetting of the Divine Word is the cause of the creation of all spirits and all things.
Thirdly, we shall explain them by applying them to the superessential and contemplative life, to which few attain and which few can taste, because of the supreme sublimity of this life.
This infinite and superessential goodness constrains Him not to keep it all within Himself, but to communicate it freely both within and without Himself.
As a consequence, both Plato and Pythagoras conclude that the immediate issue of this ineffable Cause must be gods, and each must partake of the same nature and have a superessential existence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superessential" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
