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

The divine is addressed directly as 'Lord' and described with human attributes like mercy, anger, and the ability to save.

The doctrine of the periodic restoration or recurrence of all things to their original state after vast cycles.

The promise of restoration implies a final return to divine order after suffering.

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

The speaker describes physical suffering ('poverty', 'bones', 'groanings') that hinders spiritual strength.

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

The text establishes a stark opposition between Light and Darkness, Power and Chaos as fundamental forces.

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

Light is invoked repeatedly as the source of power and salvation against the oppressive Darkness.

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 actively intervenes to save the soul from necessity and darkness despite human suffering.

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 text outlines a future restoration where the wicked will be silenced and sent to Amente.

The Gnostic myth of Wisdom's prolapse from the Pleroma — her unilateral desire or error producing the Demiurge and the entrapment of divine sparks in matter.

The passage explicitly describes Pistis Sophia's oppression by the Self-willed emanations and her cry for deliverance from the Chaos.

The final restoration/renovation of the cosmos.

The promise of restoring arrays to their inheritance suggests a final renovation of cosmic order.

Texts and rituals guiding the soul through death.

References to Amente and the soul's state after death suggest guidance through the afterlife realms.

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

Salvation is linked to trusting in God and understanding the words spoken by Jesus rather than external ritual.

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

Jesus speaks a parable that reveals a future restoration to those who are patient with him.

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

The speaker identifies their own power as being derived from the divine Light.

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

God is portrayed as an active, responsive reality who saves the soul and manifests His face.

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

The speaker declares trust in God as their lot being in His hands, indicating a merging of will with divine providence.

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

Specific numbers like 'twelve' and the 'perfect number' are used to structure the eschatological promise.

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

The passage is structured around petitions and declarations of trust addressed directly to the Lord.

Guided passage of the soul through afterlife realms.

The mention of being delivered from darkness and sent to Amente implies a passage through afterlife realms.

The spiritual danger of attachment to material possessions; wealth as a spiritual obstacle.

The speaker describes poverty as a state that weakens power but does not hinder trust in God.

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

The promise of sitting in the Treasury of the Light implies a reversal of exile back to divine origin.

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

The invocation of specific divine names like 'Ieou' carries ontological power to smite and deliver.

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 passage vividly describes the soul's current state of affliction, poverty, and being taken away from power.

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

The promise of sitting in the Treasury of the Light implies a movement upward toward divine authority.

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 sit upon thrones and judge tribes, indicating a transformation into divine agents.

Iamblichean ritual practice that engages the gods directly through consecrated material symbols and actions, on the premise that divine power descends into properly prepared matter — distinct from philosophical contemplation alone.

The text includes ritual invocation of angels and names to effect divine intervention against oppression.