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

Divine beings are described with human characteristics such as hands, feet, and the ability to speak.

Describing the divine only by negation—God transcends all positive categories and concepts; the via negativa.

The text refers to the 'Ineffable' mysteries which transcend ordinary description.

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

The passage describes souls being bound in by elements and hindered from passing through places due to their condition.

The Stoic and Plotinian doctrine that all parts of the cosmos are bound by hidden affinities, so that a movement in one part resonates through the whole; the metaphysical basis for astrology, magic, and divination.

Sins committed by one affect the soul's ability to pass through cosmic levels.

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

The 'Ineffable' and 'First Mystery' suggest a divine realm concealed from ordinary knowledge.

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

Light is the central metaphor for the divine realm, souls, and salvation throughout the passage.

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 final judgment where souls are purified or punished based on their actions.

Texts and rituals guiding the soul through death.

The passage details the soul's movement through specific afterlife realms and arrays after death.

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

Salvation is contingent upon receiving the 'mysteries' and the 'Ineffable,' implying direct experiential knowledge of the divine.

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

The text emphasizes the 'mysteries of the Ineffable' and 'First Mystery' reserved for those ready to receive them.

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

Souls are described as being in arrays of the Light and possessing beams of light with effluence.

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

The Saviour actively speaks to disciples and responds to Maria's questions about mysteries.

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

Numbers such as 'cycles' and 'seven Virgins' are central to the passage's structure of divine order.

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

The text explicitly mentions the necessity of praying a specific prayer to cleanse souls from wickedness.

Guided passage of the soul through afterlife realms.

The passage describes the movement of souls through arrays and realms under the guidance of Virgins and Ministers.

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

The goal is for souls to be delivered to the Virgin of the Light and placed in arrays until they reach their inheritance.

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

Souls must be purified and cleansed before they can pass through places or inherit the kingdom.

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

The text references 'mysteries' and 'Ineffable' names that carry ontological power for purification.

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.

Souls are described as being bound in by elements and hindered from passing through places due to their condition.

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

The text describes souls moving from one array to another toward the Place of inheritance.

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.

Souls are described as being delivered to the Virgin of the Light and placed in arrays of the first Saviour.