Section 1c

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

The passage negates divine possession ('He doth not have these things') to describe God's nature.

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.

God's sense-and-thought is described as actively moving all things continuously.

The doctrine that God has no parts, divisions, or composite attributes; pure undivided being.

[auto] God is defined not as possessing things but as being them all Himself, indicating a non-composite identity.

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.

[auto] Existence flows from God who gives things out from Himself through various levels like body, soul, and spirit.

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

[auto] It equates understanding with believing, prioritizing direct intellectual grasp of truth over external faith.

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

[auto] Truth is presented as contingent on the listener's ability to understand, implying esoteric accessibility reserved for the initiated.

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

[auto] God is described as actively moving all things and giving existence from Himself rather than being static.

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

[auto] The text explicitly mentions the 'word (logos)' as leading the mind to truth and preceding the listener.

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

God is presented as the singular source from which all existence flows without external acquisition.

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

[auto] The statement that nothing exists without God and He is without nothing implies a total immanent union between the divine and creation.

The dissolution of binary oppositions (male/female, inner/outer, above/below) as a mark of spiritual completion.

[auto] The text negates the separation between God and existence by stating nothing is without Him nor He without anything.

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

[auto] The equation of understanding with belief challenges conventional distinctions between faith and reason to induce insight.

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

A distinction is drawn between those who understand the teachings (credible) and those who do not (incredible).

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

[auto] The mind is described as being led by the word up to a certain point, suggesting an upward cognitive journey toward truth.

Division of the human being into three principles: spirit (pneuma), soul (psyche), and body/matter (hyle or soma).

The text references bodies, soul-substance, and spirit as mediums through which divine action occurs.

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

[auto] The passage asserts that all things are in God and God is all things, establishing a monistic ontology where nothing exists outside the divine.