Section 13 (part 3)

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

The gods are described with human attributes, relationships, and forms such as 'daughter of Zeus' or 'veiled'.

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

The text lists numerous divine names (Zeus, Hera, Athena, etc.) used in the invocation.

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.

In the context of the Pythagorean Golden Verses, this ritual invocation functions as a theurgical engagement with divine powers.

A form of meditation that uses imagery, imagination, or symbolic thought rather than purely empty stillness.

[auto] The passage urges the reader to 'consider and survey' divine matters through 'disciplines,' representing an active intellectual engagement.

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

[auto] Disciplines are described as giving eyes and producing 'light about all things,' suggesting illumination derived from divine or philosophical truth.

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

[auto] The passage emphasizes acquiring a 'science concerning the gods' and 'knowledge of the gods' through discipline to avoid deficiency, aligning with salvation through knowledge.

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

[auto] The text states that disciplines 'produce light about all things in him who intends to consider,' indicating an internal illumination of the mind.

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

[auto] The passage explicitly describes the act of hymning and singing to the gods as a central activity.