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

The divine is addressed directly as 'O Light' and 'My Lord Jesus,' attributing human-like characteristics to the divine.

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 passage explicitly states that the spirit of perception was exalted within David and that Martha is called to utter the explanation from her own inner state.

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

The text contrasts the 'outward part' with the 'inward part,' implying a distinction between material and spiritual realms.

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

A clear opposition is drawn between Light and Darkness, Chaos and the Kingdom of Heaven.

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

The text describes the Pistis Sophia's repentance as being hidden until revealed to the disciples.

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

Light is a central motif used repeatedly to describe the divine nature and the state of the faithful.

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 text describes God actively revealing mysteries and ordering the acceptance or rejection of those mysteries.

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.

The passage outlines a final decision where those accepted on earth are exalted in the Light of the Height and those rejected are rejected in the Kingdom of Heaven.

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

Salvation is conditioned upon receiving the mysteries and being completed with every Pleroma through direct divine revelation.

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

The text refers to 'mysteries' that are revealed to a select few and must be understood by those who can accept them.

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

The Pistis Sophia speaks of her own diminished light and power being taken away from her.

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

The divine is portrayed as active and responsive, intervening to deliver the Pistis Sophia from Chaos.

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

The goal of being filled with the spirit and called 'spiritual ones' implies a union with the divine nature.

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

The text presents contradictions such as those who afflict the Pistis Sophia are to be glad over her.

A spiritual elite who possess the divine spark and are predestined for salvation, contrasted with psychic (faithful) and hylic (material) persons.

The disciples are designated as 'spiritual ones' completed with every Pleroma and blessed beyond every man upon the earth.

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

Martha explicitly petitions Jesus for mercy and help in her own words.

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

The text describes the completion of disciples with every Pleroma from inward to outward mysteries, implying a return to divine fullness.

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

The Pistis Sophia's repentance implies a state of spiritual cleanliness required for divine encounter.

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 Pistis Sophia laments being diminished in her light and power by those who seek to take it away.

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

The text describes the filling of disciples with spirit to complete them with every Pleroma from inward to outward mysteries.

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.

Disciples are promised to be completed with every Pleroma and called spiritual ones by divine grace.