Select Works, Section 211 (part 2)

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

[auto] Matter is associated with degradation and the loss of the soul's nature, implying it hinders the higher state.

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

It states that the greater and prior principle suffers no diminution of its own nature despite the fall of the lesser.

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 describes a hierarchy of Firsts, Secondaries, and Tertiaries where lower levels are inferior to their priors.

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 frequently references the 'Reason-Principle' as a distinct entity that transforms in connection with matter.

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

The text acknowledges 'Firsts' as the source from which Secondaries and Tertiaries derive.

The transmigration of the soul across lives.

[auto] The passage explicitly discusses transmigration where a human soul becomes an ox-soul through degradation.

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

[auto] The text distinguishes between the Soul, the Reason-Principle, and Matter as distinct components of a being.