Abstract:
Dionysius the Areopagite is one of the prominent figures in the Bible, and it is believed that he was one of the companions of the Apostles and one of the saints in early 2nd century. However, his fame is not only due to his scriptural personality but also due to the treatises and writings attributed to him in the Constantinople Council in 533 C.E. The False Areopagite had many writings most of which have been lost, and only four treatises have remained. One of them is the treatise of Mystical Theology which represents the mystical theology in Christianity. The main theme of this treatise is negative theology which stresses God's transcendence, exposing it in terms of conceptions such as "unknowing" and "darkness", while stressing the possibility of man's unity with God and joining Him as well as mystical experiences. In other word, he considers divine position as absolute mystery to which no man's thought can reach, and man's reason gets into wonder there. However, the experienced wayfarer can reach the same position by purifying his soul and can, as the Areopagite suggests, submerge in it, unifying himself with the One who is completely unrecognizable and is in "the position of absolute darkness".