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

The text explicitly mentions 'Rulers of the Aeons' and their ministers as central agents in the cosmic ordering process.

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

Divine beings are described with human characteristics such as rulership, speech, and the ability to order ministers.

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

The 'World' is contrasted with the 'anti-type,' implying a realm of entrapment or deficiency for the soul.

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

The text establishes a fundamental opposition between the 'World' and the 'anti-type,' as well as the 'soul' and the 'counterfeit spirit'.

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.

The passage describes a binding of the soul with power and spirit that allows them to stand up together.

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 Rulers actively order the Ministers and distribute souls to bodies according to a predetermined cosmic plan.

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.

A hierarchy of Rulers, Ministers, and the World is described as transmitting power downward from higher levels.

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

The text presents esoteric knowledge about cosmic types and soul distribution reserved for those who receive them.

The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence.

The number 365 is cited as a structural constant in the distribution of ministers and souls.

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

Divine Rulers are depicted as active agents who speak commands and order events rather than abstract principles.

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

The passage repeatedly emphasizes specific numbers like 365 Ministers and the distribution of parts in bodies.

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

The text distinguishes between souls that are deposited in the 'World' versus those in the 'anti-type'.

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

The Fate is identified by its specific name 'Moira,' which carries ontological power to conduct the man to death.

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 counterfeit spirit is described as being outside of the soul, indicating a state of disconnection from the divine origin.

Form-mutability as a constitutional property of divine and preternatural beings — gods, heroes, spirits, and their human practitioners possessing inherent capacity to alter form across human, animal, plant, or elemental states. Loki and Odin's transformations in Norse, Math's pigs and Blodeuwedd's owl-shape and Pwyll's exchange with Arawn in the Mabinogion, the Greek Proteus, the Indian dasavatara, Vainamoinen's bird-flight in the Kalevala, Ovid's metamorphoses, the shamanic and witch's capacity for ritual form-change. Distinct from anthropomorphism (divine taking specific human form, single embodiment) in that anthropomorphism establishes a stable form whereas this concept establishes form's plurality and instability.

Souls are described as going into bodies of various forms including man, bird, beast, or creeping thing.

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

The soul is bound to stand up and be able to stand up within the mixture of power.