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Anthropomorphismtheology
Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.
The passage uses the metaphor of a Poet and Actors to describe the divine Reason-Principle's relationship with souls.
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.
[auto] The text describes how the Reason-Principle foreknows and binds all sequences, including wickedness, into a single coherent story.
All passages →Emanation Hierarchycosmology
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] It outlines souls standing to the Reason-Principle as parts with varying worth and grades due to separation from the source.
All passages →Logoscosmology
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 references the 'Reason-Principle' as the ordering force to which souls stand as parts and through which sequences become right reason.
All passages →Opposites Transcendedanthropology
The dissolution of binary oppositions (male/female, inner/outer, above/below) as a mark of spiritual completion.
[auto] The text asserts that wickedness and violation become Reason-Principles in right reason, integrating evil into the cosmic good.
All passages →Paradox As Teachingethics
Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight.
[auto] The example of adultery producing fine children serves as a paradoxical illustration of providential order overcoming apparent evil.
All passages →Separation From Sourcesoteriology
The felt condition of exile from one's divine origin — Rumi's reed flute torn from its bed, Plotinus's 'we have forgotten,' the Gnostic forgetfulness; the affective wound that complements return_to_source and gives the return its motive.
It states that souls vary in worth due to an initial inequality caused by becoming separate from the Reason-Principle.
All passages →Tripartite Soulanthropology
Division of the human being into three principles: spirit (pneuma), soul (psyche), and body/matter (hyle or soma).
The author notes that every Soul has a second grade and a third, indicating a stratified structure of the soul.
All passages →Unity Of Beingtheology
The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.
[auto] The passage describes how all sequences, including wickedness, are bound into one story within 'the All' under the Reason-Principle.
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