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

The text references 'Invisibles' who become in the speaker's Aeon and partners, indicating divine archetypal beings dwelling within the Pleroma.

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

The divine is addressed directly as 'Light' with human-like pronouns and actions such as 'Deliver me' and 'Hasten'.

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

The passage explicitly petitions for judgment and avenging, indicating a final restoration or recurrence of things to their original state.

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

The speaker describes being made 'lightless' and sitting in 'darkness,' suggesting the material state hinders spiritual light.

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, Good and Evil, as fundamental forces in the narrative conflict.

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

The Light is described as being 'in the Height' and 'unknown' to the oppressors who compel the speaker to reveal it.

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

Light is the central motif throughout the text, used as a symbol of divine truth and the source of liberation from oppression.

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 speaker asserts they were doing the divine wish since becoming in their Aeon, indicating active divine ordering.

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 'emanations of the Self-willed' and 'Height' imply a structured flow of divine power descending from higher realms.

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 speaker explicitly petitions for judgment and avenging to be done with their deliverer.

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

Salvation is framed as knowing the mystery of the Light in the Height rather than through faith or ritual works alone.

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

The text emphasizes the 'mystery of the Light' which is known by the speaker but not by others who compel them to reveal it.

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

The speaker identifies their own power as having a light that was taken away and must be restored.

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

The divine Light is located within the speaker's own power ('my power itself will be cheerful in the light').

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

The deity is portrayed as active and responsive, capable of hearing prayer, delivering power, and hastening to help.

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 describes sitting in darkness and lamenting while gazing and seeking after the Light.

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

The speaker seeks to be in the midst of those who collected unto them and cries up at the Light as a form of union.

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

The passage is structured as a direct petitionary address to the Light ('Deliver me', 'Hasten, O Light') seeking divine intervention.

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

The speaker prays to be delivered from the power of face of lion and return to the Light which was taken away.

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

The text mentions 'purgations' of the light that must be taken away before restoration occurs.

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 being humbled in a lamentation and sitting in darkness after the light was taken away from the power.

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 speaker identifies themselves as becoming in their Aeon and partner with the Invisibles, suggesting a transformation into a divine state.