Select Works, Section 213

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 medical analogy implies a structural reflection where the patient's actions mirror the higher laws of the doctor's art.

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 passage describes all interaction as 'like that of brothers, resemblant as drawing life from the same parents,' with inflow and outgo at the root binding all parts through hidden affinity.

Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. The Kojiki's deities born alone on the Plain of High Heaven, Voluspo's Ginnungagap, Genesis's tohu wa-bohu, the Timaeus's Demiurge fashioning the Receptacle, the Hesiodic Theogony, the Kalevala's egg-cosmogony, Egyptian Nun-and-Atum. Distinct from emanation_hierarchy (structural-ontological cascade), letters_of_creation (mechanism of creation), and apocatastasis/frashokereti (end-state restoration); cosmogony is temporally-narrative beginning.

The passage narrates the staged production of the world from the root, 'phase by phase, there in finally the production into this world,' describing how the cosmos comes into being.

The doctrine that the divine is present within all things and the universe itself, pervading creation rather than remaining solely transcendent above it. Distinct from unity_of_being (the general claim that all existence is one substance, agnostic about whether that substance indwells its parts) and from kingdom_within (the divine present specifically IN THE INDIVIDUAL human, accessible without mediation) — divine_immanence is the general pervading-presence claim applied to all of creation, not a human-specific indwelling.

The root's force pervades all branchings: things 'derive initially from the one source' and 'carry ever within themselves the Reason-Principles of the Upper Sphere,' showing the divine present within all levels of creation.

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 explicitly invokes the 'Providence of medicine' as an analogy for how divine order governs human agency and action.

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

The root is described as 'internally unmoved' and as a 'single root which never itself emerges,' emphasizing its undivided, non-composite nature as the source of all multiplicity.

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.

The entire passage is structured around a single root/principle from which all things push forth in a branching cascade, phase by phase, from close to the root to widely separate into the material world.

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.

Acts against the laws of health are defined as conflicts with Providence rather than positive forces, aligning with the doctrine that evil is a lack or distortion of order.

The doctrine that the cosmos unfolds as a structured descent of spirit into matter — a directional process traced stage by stage from an unconditioned principle down through successive planes to full materialization — complemented by its own eventual return ('evolution'). Distinct from emanation_hierarchy (the static structure of the resulting levels of the cascade) and cosmogony (a single originating event rather than an ongoing staged process) in naming the directional cosmic PROCESS of descent itself, paired with its own complementary ascent.

The directional process is explicitly staged: 'phase by phase' from the unmoved root through successive branchings to 'bough and crest, foliage and fruit,' describing a structured descent from spirit to matter.

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

The passage states that things of process carry 'ever within themselves the Reason-Principles of the Upper Sphere,' identifying the ordering rational principle that mediates between the transcendent root and the material world.

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

The 'single root which never itself emerges,' the 'one point of unbroken rest,' and the 'Principle in which all things exist together and the single thing is All' are direct descriptions of the absolutely simple, undivided first principle.

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

[auto] The passage explicitly addresses the philosophical tension between individual agency and alignment with a higher providential method.

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

The 'Principle in which all things exist together and the single thing is All' and the claim that all things derive from 'the one source' assert the ultimate oneness of all existence.