Section 5 (part 3)
Active Contemplationpraxis
A form of meditation that uses imagery, imagination, or symbolic thought rather than purely empty stillness.
The Deliverance of the Soul is accomplished by 'Dialecticks, which science is the intimate inspection of beings,' indicating an active intellectual contemplation.
All passages →Body As Obstacleanthropology
The material body viewed as a prison, tomb, or source of error that hinders spiritual knowledge and return.
The physical body requires purification through diet and management to achieve freedom, implying it is a hindrance in its natural state.
All passages →Detachment Gelassenheitpraxis
Eckhart's Abgeschiedenheit/Gelassenheit — radical letting-go of will, image, and grasping that opens the soul to God; distinct from inner_silence (quietness) and from material renunciation, and adjacent to Sufi tark and Buddhist non-grasping as a practice rather than a metaphysical claim.
The instruction to avoid strife by 'yielding to the will of God' parallels the practice of letting go of one's own will.
All passages →Divine Lighttheology
The uncreated luminous quality of the divine, sometimes experienced directly in mystical states; illumination as revelation.
The passage mentions a 'luminous body' as one of the two parts of Purifications, indicating a divine or spiritual luminosity within the human constitution.
All passages →Divine Providencetheology
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 advises avoiding strife by 'yielding to the will of God,' implying an active divine ordering of affairs.
All passages →Fasting And Prayerpraxis
Ascetic disciplines that prepare the body and mind for spiritual receptivity or purification.
Purification of the mortal body is achieved through 'diet and the whole management,' while 'Religious Ceremonies' are used for the luminous body.
All passages →Gnosis Direct Knowledgesoteriology
Salvation through direct experiential knowledge of the divine nature, not through faith, ritual, or moral works alone.
Salvation is linked to 'knowing the nature of all things' and the 'intimate inspection of beings' through Dialecticks.
All passages →Inner Lightanthropology
The divine spark or luminous quality residing within the human person, potentially recognisable through introspection.
The 'Dæmon' is identified as the 'own soul, or essence,' and a 'luminous body' is mentioned, suggesting an internal divine quality.
All passages →Kingdom Withinanthropology
The claim that the divine realm is present inside the individual, accessible without external mediation.
The text states the Dæmon is 'their own soul,' and knowing this leads to freedom, placing the divine reality within the individual.
All passages →Meditationpraxis
Disciplined inward attention — sitting, focused, or open-awareness practice — as a stand-alone term that umbrellas active_contemplation, inner_silence, and dhyana-style sitting.
'Meditation' is explicitly listed alongside Mathematical Sciences and Religious Ceremonies as a method for purifying the luminous body.
All passages →Mystical Unionsoteriology
The merging of the individual soul or self with the divine, transcending personal identity.
The aim is to become 'Godlike,' suggesting a union or identification with the divine nature.
All passages →Numerical Mysticismtheology
Numbers, proportions, and mathematical relationships as the underlying structure of divine reality.
[auto] The text explicitly identifies the knowledge of the Quaternion as one of the chief precepts among the Pythagoreans.
All passages →Return To Sourcesoteriology
The soul's journey back to its divine origin, reversing the fall into matter through stages of purification or illumination.
The goal of 'Deliverance of the Soul' to become 'Godlike' implies a return to a divine origin or state.
All passages →Ritual Puritypraxis
The maintenance of a state of cleanliness—physical, moral, or spiritual—required for encounter with the divine.
[auto] The passage states that all three Purifications concerning the body and luminous body must be accomplished for deliverance.
All passages →Self Knowledgesoteriology
The recognition of one's own true divine nature as the primary path to liberation; 'know thyself' as soteriology.
[auto] Liberation from evils is achieved by seeing and knowing one's own soul or essence as the Dæmon.
All passages →Spiritual Ascentpraxis
A staged journey of the soul upward through heavenly realms or levels of being toward the divine source.
The 'Deliverance of the Soul' is accomplished through specific sciences and purifications, implying a staged journey upward toward freedom.
All passages →Theosis Deificationsoteriology
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.
[auto] The ultimate goal described is that 'man would become free, and Godlike' through the accomplishment of all three Purifications.
All passages →Theurgypraxis
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.
'Religious Ceremonies' are listed as a means of purification alongside intellectual sciences, suggesting ritual engagement with the divine.
All passages →Tripartite Soulanthropology
Division of the human being into three principles: spirit (pneuma), soul (psyche), and body/matter (hyle or soma).
[auto] The text explicitly divides the human being into three parts for purification: '(1) the body, (2) the emotions and lower mind, and (3) the higher mind.'
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