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

Humans are tasked with 'observation of the marvels of Heaven', a form of active spiritual attention.

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

The 'Cyclic Gods' visible as stars function similarly to aeonic powers governing cosmic cycles.

The transformation of base substance — outer matter or the inner soul — into a purified, perfected, or 'gold' state; the magnum opus as both laboratory practice and spiritual allegory.

The text focuses on 'Making-new-again' and the 'renovation of the Gods', mirroring alchemical themes of transformation and purification.

Malevolent planetary rulers or demiurgic powers that govern the material world and obstruct the soul's ascent.

Planetary rulers govern the 'revolution' and fate of souls, though not explicitly malevolent in this text.

The Hermetic axiom that the structure of the cosmos is reflected at every scale — 'as above, so below; as within, so without' — making each level a legible map of the others.

The text states 'Nature had her members made articulate together with the Gods in her', reflecting the structural link between divine and natural realms.

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

Creation begins with the separation of opposing elements like 'Darkness' and 'Light', 'Dry Space' and 'Moist Essence'.

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 universe is held together by 'Breath' and governed by the 'revolution of the Cyclic Gods', indicating interconnected cosmic forces.

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

'Holy Light arose' from the chaos and is a primary agent in the separation of elements.

Fragments of divine light or spirit trapped inside material bodies, awaiting liberation and return to their source.

Souls are 'infleshed by revolution of the Cyclic Gods', suggesting a divine origin trapped in matter.

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 clear flow is described from God (Source/Mind) to Light/Elements, then to Gods separating things, and finally to beasts and men.

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.

Humans are to 'know the fates that follow good and evil deeds', implying a moral order with consequences.

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

God is described as active 'Mind', 'Nature', 'Energy', and 'Making-new-again', not an abstract static principle.

The divine reason, word, or ordering principle through which the universe was created; mediates between the transcendent God and the material world.

God is identified as 'Mind' and 'Wisdom', with 'Holy Light' and 'intelligent Breath' acting as ordering principles in creation.

The human being as a small-scale image of the entire cosmos; the body, soul, and intellect mirroring the structure of the heavens and the divine — distinct from correspondence in that it makes the human the privileged mirror.

Humans are selected for 'observation of the marvels of Heaven' to gain gnosis, implying the human mind reflects or maps the cosmic order.

The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.

God is presented as the singular 'Source of the things that are' and 'Glory of all things', from which multiplicity flows.

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

The Heaven is described as having 'seven circles' with Gods visible in forms of stars, emphasizing the number seven.

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

God is described as both 'Mind' and 'Matter', presenting a paradoxical unity of spirit and substance.

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

A distinction is made between 'births of men for gnosis' and the 'multitude of men for lordship', suggesting a spiritual elite.

The transmigration of the soul across lives.

All things have 'seed of again-becoming' and souls are 'infleshed by revolution', implying a cycle of rebirth or renewal.

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.

[auto] The passage emphasizes that every God brought forth what was 'appointed him' and human life follows the 'fate appointed by the revolution of the Cyclic Gods'.

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

[auto] The text repeatedly identifies 'gnosis of the works of God' and 'gnosis of its blessings' as the primary purpose for which humanity was selected.

The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.

[auto] The passage explicitly states 'The Glory of all things is God' and identifies God as the Source of all things, emphasizing a monistic divine reality.