Chapter 2, Section 1p

Describing the divine only by negation—God transcends all positive categories and concepts; the via negativa.

The text emphasizes describing God by negation ('Beyond things', 'Undifferenced'), transcending positive categories.

The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.

The phrase 'Beyond things' suggests the divine's radical concealment from ordinary perception.

The doctrine that God has no parts, divisions, or composite attributes; pure undivided being.

The passage repeatedly emphasizes God's 'Undifferenced' nature and Unity that transcends differentiation.

A chain of divine beings or principles flowing downward from a single transcendent source (the One or the Father), each level less perfect than the one above.

References to God pouring Himself into souls imply a downward flow from the divine source.

Augustinian and Plotinian doctrine that evil has no positive being of its own but is a lack, distortion, or absence of the good — denying ontological dualism while preserving moral seriousness.

The material world is contrasted with the divine fullness, implying deficiency rather than positive evil.

The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.

The text centers on 'Unity' as an absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which existence flows.

The merging of the individual soul or self with the divine, transcending personal identity.

The concept of God pouring Himself into souls implies a merging or union between the divine and the individual.

The divine fullness or totality of the highest realm, populated by aeons and divine attributes, contrasted with the deficient material world.

The text describes the 'fullness of God’s Unity' manifested in the material world and deified souls.

The doctrine — central to Eastern Orthodox and Maximian theology — that the human person is progressively transformed into a partaker of the divine nature by grace, not merely justified or united in passing ecstasy.

The text explicitly states that God pours Himself into deified souls of men and angels, transforming them.

The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.

The passage repeatedly asserts the 'fullness of God’s Unity' and its manifestation across all levels of existence.