"and it does not know them as they are"

"Existing beings do not know [the supreme Cause] as it actually is and it does not know them as they are."

οὐδὲ τὰ ὄντα αὐτὴν γινώσκει ᾗ αὐτή ἐστιν· οὐδὲ αὐτὴ γινώσκει τὰ ὄντα ᾗ ὄντα ἐστίν·

     Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Mystical theology 5, trans. Colm Luibheid (Classics of Western spirituality, 141) =PG 3, col. 1048A.