Identifying a source for this C.S. Lewis quote "This also is Thou: neither is this Thou"

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If Williams had erred with his previous belief that the formula comes from St Augustine, its source may be a "Dogmatic Poem" of St Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. 329-390):

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Thou art the purpose of every creature.

Thou art unique.

Thou art each one and art not any.

Thou art not a single creature nor art thou the sum of creatures.

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(Gregory Nazianzen Dogmatic Poems [No. 29 Hymnus ad Deum], PG 37,507-8).

Source: The Roots of Christian Mysticism, 2nd Ed. by Olivier Clément (see Google preview of the page containing the poem)

Complete Latin version of the poem from Patrologiae Cursus Completus - Series Graeca - Volume 37 - Gregory of Nazianzus 3:

O tu qui es supra omnia ; quo enim alio te fas sit sermone celebrare?
Quomodo oratio te laudabit? tu enim nullis verbis efferri potes,
Quomodo mens te aspiciet? tu enim nulla mente percipi potes.
Solus es ineffabilis ; utpote qui creasti quæcunque voce enuntiantur.
5 Solus es qui nosci non possis; quippe creasti quidquid mente percipitur.
Omnia te prædicant, et quæ loquuntur, et quæ non loquuntur.
Omnia te mente prædita et non prædita honorant.
Commune enim desiderium, communia omnium consilia
Circa te ; te omnes deprecantur : tibi cuncta
10 Quæ compositionem tuam intelligunt, tacitum concinunt hymnum.
Tibi uni omnia permanent : ad te cuncta simul festinant.
Et omnium finis es, et unus, et omnia, et nihil horum,
Non unum es, non omnia; qui omnia habes nomina, qui te appellabo,
Qui solus appellari nequis? altiora nubibus cœlorum tegmina
15 Quæ mens cœlestis penetrabit? propitius sis,
Qui es supra omnia, quo enim alio te nomine fas est celebrare?

English translation by Olivier Clément in his book (I added line break adjustment to match the Latin):

O thou who art beyond all, How canst thou be called by another name?
What hymn can sing of thee? No name describes thee.
What mind can grasp thee? No intellect conceives thee.
Thou only art inexpressible; All that is spoken comes forth from thee.
5 Thou only art unknowable; All that is thought comes forth from thee.
All creatures praise thee, Those that speak and those that are dumb.
All creatures bow down before thee, Those that can think and those that have no power of thought.
The universal longing, the groaning of creation tends towards thee.
Everything that exists prays to thee
10 And to thee every creature that can read thy universe Sends up a hymn of silence.
In thee alone all things dwell.  With a single impulse all things find their goal in thee.
Thou art the purpose of every creature. Thou art unique.  Thou art each one and art not any.
Thou art not a single creature nor art thou the sum of creatures; All names are thine; how shall I address thee,
Who alone cannot be named? ...
15 ...
Have mercy, O thou, the Beyond All; How canst thou be called by any other name?

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I cannot say where in St. Augustine the phrase may be found, but there's a reference in Spenser's Images of Life to an essay by Victor de Waal, "The History of Doctrine", Life of the Spirit, xviii (1964), 533. This may give the answer.

I do not have the essay (for I have no access to the JSTOR materials), but here's a link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43706718?seq=1

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