The Hidden Darkness

In principio: this means when translated a beginning of all being, as I said in the schools, but I said further: it is an end of all being, for the first beginning is for the sake of the final end. Indeed, God Himself does not rest there, where He is the first beginning: He is at rest where He is an end and a repose of all being, not that this being is then brought to naught, rather it is there brought to completion in its final end, as total perfection.

What is the final end ? It is the hidden darkness of the eternal Godhead, which is unknown and never has been known and never shall be known. God abides there unknown in Himself, and the light of the eternal Father has ever shone in there, and the darkness does not comprehend the light.

 Excerpt taken from the complete mystical works, page 283.