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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 having a 'Ruler,' being 'wont to go in unto the men,' and possessing 'Places.'

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

The text emphasizes the hidden nature of the divine realm ('Were hidden the Places') beyond ordinary knowledge.

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

The disciples are instructed to remain upon air of light rather than on earth, implying the material world is a hindrance to divine presence.

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 the 'good' and 'evil,' light and darkness, truth and ignorance as fundamental structures of reality.

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 text mentions that souls are destroyed by punishments and thrown back to the Sphere, implying a resonant connection between cosmic levels.

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

The divine realm is described as hidden from ordinary perception ('Were hidden the Places') and requires special revelation to see.

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

The text repeatedly references 'air of light,' 'smoke of darkness,' and the disciples remaining upon this light as a state of divine presence.

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 text describes a structured cosmic order where spheres turn, aeons come, and punishments are prepared for sinners by divine rulers.

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 passage details specific punishments for sinners and the destruction of souls by fire after crucifixion.

Texts and rituals guiding the soul through death.

The text outlines the fate of souls after death, including punishment and return to the Sphere.

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

Salvation is promised through direct revelation ('Look up, see what ye see') rather than through faith or ritual alone.

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

The text begins with Jesus revealing esoteric teachings about the 'fifth array' and 'Ruler' to his disciples.

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

Jesus is depicted as an active, responsive reality who speaks directly to the disciples and intervenes in cosmic affairs.

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 instruction 'Look up' implies a disciplined inward attention toward the divine realm.

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

Jesus promises to make disciples lord over all and subject them to them, indicating a merging of human authority with divine power.

Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight.

The text uses the paradoxical statement that crucified Jesus will give keys to the disciples as a central teaching.

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

Disciples explicitly pray for help and mercy from their Lord amidst great blindness.

Fire as medium of divine presence.

Fire is described as an afflictive medium ('evil fire,' 'smoke of darkness') used in punishments and purification.

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

The passage emphasizes the power of the 'great name' and Jesus hymning over their heads to reveal hidden places.

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 disciples are described as being in 'great blindness' and 'bewilderment,' reflecting a felt condition of exile from divine knowledge.

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

The instruction to 'Look up' suggests an upward movement toward the divine realm.

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.

Jesus promises to make disciples lord over all and subject them to them, indicating a transformation into divine authority.

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 practice of hymning the great name is presented as an action that reveals hidden cosmic structures.