IIa

Platonic recollection: knowledge as the soul's recovery of what it knew before birth, with learning as remembering rather than acquisition.

Quotes Jacob saying 'God is in this place, and I knew it not,' implying forgotten knowledge.

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

The speaker notes being compelled to be silent when thinking on God's Kingdom due to its immensity.

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

States God's Kingdom is none other than God Himself with all His riches.

The divine spark or luminous quality residing within the human person, potentially recognisable through introspection.

States that a soul knowing God's Kingdom is taught from within and assured of eternal life.

The practice of stilling the mind and speech to open receptivity to divine knowledge or presence.

Mentions the compulsion to be silent when contemplating the immensity of God's Kingdom.

Diotima's staged ascent from love of beautiful bodies → beautiful souls → beautiful pursuits → beautiful knowledge → Beauty itself; the canonical scala amoris that grounds Plotinus's On the Beautiful and Bruno's Eroici Furori — distinct from generic spiritual_ascent in that eros is the specific motive force.

Outlines a hierarchy of spiritual service from fear to love to the combination of both.

Disciplined inward attention — sitting, focused, or open-awareness practice — as a stand-alone term that umbrellas active_contemplation, inner_silence, and dhyana-style sitting.

Instructs the listener to pay diligent attention and think on God's Kingdom.

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

The text describes God as nearer to the self than the self is to itself and mentions the soul's capacity to take in God entirely.

The dissolution of binary oppositions (male/female, inner/outer, above/below) as a mark of spiritual completion.

Describes having peace in the midst of pain as the best state of life.

Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight.

Uses the paradoxical statement that God is nearer to man than man is to himself.

The recognition of one's own true divine nature as the primary path to liberation; 'know thyself' as soteriology.

Uses the analogy that one must know they are a king to truly be one, applying this to recognizing God within oneself.

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.

Suggests the soul has a capacity for taking in God entirely and possessing Him.

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

Asserts that God's Kingdom is none other than God Himself and that God is equally near in all creatures.

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

[auto] The passage explicitly states that salvation and happiness depend on knowing and recognizing God's nearness rather than just His presence.

The claim that the divine realm is present inside the individual, accessible without external mediation.

[auto] The central theme asserts that the Kingdom of God is within us and near us, accessible through interior recognition.