Select Works, Section 250 (part 2)

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

The Supreme is described negatively as 'not some definite Mass' and Matter is defined by what it lacks ('non-existent').

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 passage states that 'All that is Real Being gives forth a reflection of itself upon all else,' indicating a structural mirroring between levels.

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

The text uses metaphors of irradiation and reflection ('irradiated by that Absolute', 'reflection in the mirror') to describe how Ideas manifest in Matter.

Ontological opposition between two primal principles (light/darkness, truth/lie, spirit/matter) as the fundamental structure of reality.

[auto] It contrasts Real Being and Ideal-Principle with the spurious, content-less nature of Matter.

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

[auto] The Ideal-Principle is described as standing apart to itself, distinct from definite Mass or composite reality.

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 describes the flow from the Intellectual Principle and All-Soul down to the Universe and Matter through expansion and imitation.

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.

[auto] The text defines Matter as 'non-existent' and states that all manifestation upon it is 'falsity' due to the lack of actual content.

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

[auto] The Intellectual Principle acts as the ordering reason that engenders secondaries and mediates magnitude into the Universe.

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

[auto] The mention of the 'Supreme' and the prior extension implies the undivided first principle from which reality flows.

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

[auto] The text refers to the self-gathered content of the Intellectual Principle and the Supreme as a unified source of extension.