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Divine archetypal beings or eternal attributes dwelling within the Pleroma, often arranged in male-female syzygies.

The passage explicitly references 'Lord of all Aeons' and the 'Pistis Sophia' as a divine entity dwelling within the realm.

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

The divine is addressed with human attributes such as having a 'power of Light', being 'wakeful', and possessing a 'spirit'.

Eckhart's signature doctrine that the Father eternally begets the Son in the ground of the soul; the human interior as the actual site of the divine generative act, distinct from inner_light's static indwelling.

The text states that the Pistis Sophia prophesied through David the prophet in the sixty-eighth psalm, indicating a divine generative act within the human or cosmic sphere.

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

The text describes sinking in the mire of the abyss and being drowned by waters, implying the material body is a hindrance to spiritual life.

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

The text establishes a clear opposition between the Light and Matter, stating that Light heard of matter but would not leave any unpurged.

The uncreated luminous quality of the divine, sometimes experienced directly in mystical states; illumination as revelation.

Light is repeatedly invoked as a central theme for life, purification, and the destination of souls in the Pistis Sophia.

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.

God is described as actively delivering souls from matter and preparing a city in the Light according to His will.

Texts and rituals guiding the soul through death.

The text describes the soul's descent into the abyss and waters, implying a journey through death that requires divine intervention.

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

Salvation is linked to hearing the hymn and possessing the power of light rather than external rituals.

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

The text warns that those who have ear to hear must hear, implying esoteric knowledge reserved for the initiated.

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

The passage emphasizes that the power of the soul is within the individual and that seeking the Light allows them to live this internal power.

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

The text states that the power of the soul is in the individual, suggesting the divine realm is accessible internally without external mediation.

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

God is depicted as an active agent who hears, delivers souls, and saves from drowning waters.

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

The speaker mentions being wakeful in the spirit which is with them during prayer.

Direct address to the divine, whether petitionary, contemplative, or liturgical; speech and silence offered upward.

The passage includes a detailed prayer addressed directly to God for salvation from drowning and shame.

The soul's journey back to its divine origin, reversing the fall into matter through stages of purification or illumination.

The text describes the soul being delivered from matter and preparing a city in the Light, indicating a reversal of entrapment.

The maintenance of a state of cleanliness—physical, moral, or spiritual—required for encounter with the divine.

The Light is described as purging matter, implying a requirement for spiritual cleanliness to access divine life.

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

The text mentions that those who receive mystery in God's name will become in the Place.

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 speaker describes sinking in the mire of the abyss and being alien unto brothers due to the zeal of God's house.

A staged journey of the soul upward through heavenly realms or levels of being toward the divine source.

The movement from sinking in matter toward living in the Light implies an upward journey of purification.

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.

Salvation involves becoming in the Place and receiving mystery in God's name, suggesting a transformation into divine status.