Select Works, Section 285 (part 2)

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

The Intellectual-Principle is described as 'repugnant to distinction and to partition,' defining it by what it is not.

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

The passage suggests that while part of the soul enters the body, 'something of it holds its ground,' resembling a fragment remaining connected to the source.

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

The 'Intellectual-Principle [Divine Mind]' is identified as the noblest content of the Intellectual Kosmos, functioning as a divine ordering principle.

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

The description of the Intellectual-Principle as 'concentrated all' and 'undivided' reflects the concept of a simple first principle.

The transmigration of the soul across lives.

The text states that every soul in the lower sphere has 'come thence' from the Intellectual Kosmos, indicating movement or descent.

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

[auto] The text associates the body with 'bodily division' and 'secession,' implying that embodiment is a departure from the soul's undivided nature.

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

[auto] A clear ontological distinction is drawn between the unembodied 'Intellectual Kosmos' and the world of embodied souls subject to division.

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

[auto] The passage explicitly describes the Intellectual-Principle as a 'concentrated all' with 'nothing of it distinguished or divided,' directly aligning with the doctrine of undivided being.

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 text distinguishes between the 'Intellectual Kosmos' and the 'lower sphere,' noting that souls in the lower world have come from the higher realm.

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

[auto] The author poses the question of how the soul can be described as indivisible despite undergoing divisional existence through secession.

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

[auto] The passage emphasizes a 'kosmos of unity' where souls are concentrated without spatial discrimination or partition.