Section 1f

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

The soul without Mind is tied to the body and bound tight down by it.

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.

Energies flow from God through Cosmos to Man, reflecting a structural hierarchy across levels.

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.

God's energies act through the Cosmos and upon man, indicating interconnectedness.

Ecstatic, non-rational receptivity to the divine figured as drunkenness — Plato's symposium wine, Rumi's sukr, Eckhart's 'sober drunkenness'; the passive/receptive metaphor for divine encounter, distinct from divine_madness's active possessing rapture.

The term 'ecstasy' is used to describe the vast sweep of ascent.

Ecstatic irrational rapture — Plato's mania, Bruno's furore — by which the soul transcends ordinary reason and attains direct contact with divine reality; madness reframed as higher knowledge.

The text explicitly mentions 'ecstasy' as the means by which man ascends above.

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

Implies the soul can contain the divine Mind, akin to a fragment of spirit within.

Augustinian and Plotinian doctrine that evil has no positive being of its own but is a lack, distortion, or absence of the good — denying ontological dualism while preserving moral seriousness.

Wretchedness is defined as being empty of Mind, implying evil is a lack of divine presence.

The claim that the divine realm is present inside the individual, accessible without external mediation.

Man can ascend above without even quitting earth, suggesting the divine is accessible internally.

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

The text uses the paradox that man is god on earth and god is man in heaven.

The divine fullness or totality of the highest realm, populated by aeons and divine attributes, contrasted with the deficient material world.

Mentions God contains all things, hinting at divine fullness without explicit Gnostic terminology.

The soul's journey back to its divine origin, reversing the fall into matter through stages of purification or illumination.

The text speaks of at-oning men to gods and ascending above to the divine realm.

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

The text distinguishes between the soul, the mind, and the body which binds the soul.

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

God contains them all and the dispensation is brought about by the One.

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

[auto] Uses the metaphor of 'God's rays' to describe His energies acting through the Cosmos.

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] God is described as having charge of all and overseeing the dispensation of the universe.

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] The passage explicitly outlines a descending chain of governance from God to Cosmos to Man to Animals.

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

[auto] States blessedness depends on the soul being filled with the divine Mind rather than external works.

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

[auto] Suggests the divine Mind resides within the soul, determining its blessed or wretched state.

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

[auto] Portrays God as actively having charge of all and containing them all dynamically.

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

[auto] Identifies Mind (Nous) as the mediating principle that pervades all things and atones men to gods.

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.

[auto] Man is described as a divine thing-of-life who measures heaven and ascends without leaving earth, mirroring the cosmic structure.

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

[auto] References the 'nature of the One' as the singular source from which the universe's dispensation depends.

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

[auto] Describes the blessed state as the soul being 'filled with Him' [the Mind/God].

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

[auto] Distinguishes between souls filled with the Good Mind (blessed) and those empty of it (wretched).

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

[auto] The passage details how man mounts up to heaven and ascends above without quitting earth.

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 text states 'man on earth is god subject to death' and claims man can be equal in power to the gods.