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Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.

The text explicitly attributes human physical characteristics to the divine, describing God creating with 'plastic hands'.

The material body viewed as a prison, tomb, or source of error that hinders spiritual knowledge and return.

The text notes Adam remained 'Without a soul' for five hundred years after his form was made, implying a distinction between body and spirit.

Ontological opposition between two primal principles (light/darkness, truth/lie, spirit/matter) as the fundamental structure of reality.

The text presents a conflict between the Almighty and Satan, who brings strife and wiles from hell.

Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. The Kojiki's deities born alone on the Plain of High Heaven, Voluspo's Ginnungagap, Genesis's tohu wa-bohu, the Timaeus's Demiurge fashioning the Receptacle, the Hesiodic Theogony, the Kalevala's egg-cosmogony, Egyptian Nun-and-Atum. Distinct from emanation_hierarchy (structural-ontological cascade), letters_of_creation (mechanism of creation), and apocatastasis/frashokereti (end-state restoration); cosmogony is temporally-narrative beginning.

The passage centrally features a narrative of cosmic and human origin, detailing the creation of Adam and Eve by the Almighty.

A binding agreement or relationship between the divine and a people or individual, establishing mutual obligations.

The text establishes a requisite obligation for all men to pay tithe unto God following Eve's transgression.

Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.

The passage asserts that angelic words and prophecies regarding history and nations will be fulfilled by divine order.

Final, collective cosmic judgment as an event in which the wicked are sentenced and the cosmos restored; distinct from psychopomp_journey (individual passage at death) and emphasising verdict where Zoroastrian frashokereti emphasises restoration.

Taliesin prophesies misery and woe upon Troia's race and the eventual fulfillment of angelic words regarding Britain's fate.

Ascetic disciplines that prepare the body and mind for spiritual receptivity or purification.

The passage mentions Moses obtaining aid in Jordan's water while 'Keeping a fast'.

Salvation through direct experiential knowledge of the divine nature, not through faith, ritual, or moral works alone.

Taliesin claims to possess all sciences and knowledge of fate through his bardic books, suggesting special insight.

Esoteric teachings reserved for those ready to receive them; outer meaning conceals an inner liberating truth.

The passage references 'concealed books' brought by Raphael as a gift to Adam, implying esoteric knowledge.

The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.

The Almighty is depicted as an active agent who creates, sanctifies, and fulfills prophecies through the Trinity.

The divine reason, word, or ordering principle through which the universe was created; mediates between the transcendent God and the material world.

The text references the 'Trinity's words' and Christ as 'Son of Alpha', implying the divine Word concept.

Numbers, proportions, and mathematical relationships as the underlying structure of divine reality.

Specific numbers like 'Twice five, ten and eight' are used to describe genealogical or temporal structures.

Divine names or formulas that carry ontological power, used in prayer, liturgy, or magical practice.

Divine and angelic names such as Emmanuel, Raphael, and Alpha are invoked with significance.

The felt condition of exile from one's divine origin — Rumi's reed flute torn from its bed, Plotinus's 'we have forgotten,' the Gnostic forgetfulness; the affective wound that complements return_to_source and gives the return its motive.

The narrative describes Adam and Eve being driven from paradise into the world, representing an exile from their divine origin.

The doctrine and practice that spoken or sung word carries causal-magical force — that uttering names, formulas, songs, or incantations alters reality directly rather than merely communicating about it. Vainamoinen's runo-songs that move mountains and command iron, Norse galdr, Vedic mantra, Shinto kotodama, the magician's barbarous names in the Greek Magical Papyri, Iamblichean arcane signatures and inexplicable symbols, biblical creation-by-word. Distinct from sacred_names (the ontological power of names themselves) and prayer (address to the divine); word_power_incantation is the magical-causal efficacy of the spoken word as such.

The text states that the Trinity's words sanctify the wafer and wine, attributing ontological power to divine speech.