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

The text references 'the twenty-four Invisibles' and the 'Height of the Aeons' as realms of existence.

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

God is described with human attributes such as heart, hands, and feet.

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 'in a mind thou gavest mind to us of the Light'.

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

The passage describes those bound in poverty with iron and humiliated by their unlawfulness.

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

The text contrasts the Light with darkness, death, and iron.

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

The Lord is described as hidden from those who do not know the power of the words.

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

The passage repeatedly addresses 'the Light' and describes being delivered from darkness by it.

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 delivers the distressed and breaks gates of brass to save them.

Texts and rituals guiding the soul through death.

The passage describes being delivered from the gates of death and darkness.

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

Salvation is linked to knowing the power of words rather than external rituals.

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

The text emphasizes seeking mysteries and answers reserved for those who know the power of words.

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

The Lord is referred to as 'Light' residing within the mind.

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

The divine mysteries are said to be given to the mind rather than externally.

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

God is portrayed as an active redeemer who delivers and heals the distressed.

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

The speaker seeks to manifest the Light and be delivered by it.

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

The passage explicitly mentions crying up unto the Lord and manifesting to Him in mercy.

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

The narrative arc involves being delivered from darkness and poverty back to the Light.

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

The text mentions being humiliated because of their unlawfulness and seeking in exactness with certainty.

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

The power of words is central to the text, stating that only those who know the power of the words can find the answer.

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 describes those sitting in darkness and bound in poverty, separated from the Light.

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

The movement from darkness to light implies a journey upward toward divine knowledge.

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 seeks to be redeemed and delivered by the Light as a Saviour and Redeemer.

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 describes breaking gates of brass and bars of iron through divine power to save the bound.