Per @grok The Theologia Germanica (late 14th century, anonymous, from the “Friends of God” circle) speaks of God in the language of the via negativa and non-dual unity. God is not one good thing among others but Goodness itself — “neither this good nor that, which we can name, or perceive or show; but it is all and above all good things.” Blessedness lies not in multiplicity or creatures but in the One and oneness. God is the unchangeable Substance and Ground in whom all things subsist; everything else only has being by participation in that Ground. The text repeatedly insists that this reality is met inwardly, when the soul lets go of all “I-hood, selfhood, Me and Mine,” all self-will and creaturely images, until “where the creature ends, there God begins.” The model for this self-emptying is the humanity of Christ. What remains is pure openness — a habitation for the divine Good that is already present, though usually unperceived. Any image can only gesture toward what the book itself calls unspeakable. The piece above tries to hold together the key notes: boundless unity without center or edge, light and darkness not opposed but interpenetrating, form dissolving into formless presence, the “all and above all” sensed as a single, living Abyss of Goodness.