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Platonic recollection: knowledge as the soul's recovery of what it knew before birth, with learning as remembering rather than acquisition.

[auto] The text explicitly defines memory as a condition induced by past experience or vision in the higher realm.

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

[auto] The passage explicitly states that where bodily forms intervene there is hindrance, contrasting with the non-bodily access to the Good.

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

The use of 'vision' to describe the encounter with The Good suggests an illuminative experience.

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

The reference to The Good implies a unified source without internal division hindering access.

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 describes a flow from the Good through the Intellectual-Principle to the soul and mentions access from primal to tertiaries.

Salvation through direct experiential knowledge of the divine nature, not through faith, ritual, or moral works alone.

[auto] The text emphasizes direct vision of The Good through the Intellectual-Principle over memory or imagination.

The divine spark or luminous quality residing within the human person, potentially recognisable through introspection.

The Good reaches the soul, implying an internal capacity for divine connection.

The claim that the divine realm is present inside the individual, accessible without external mediation.

The text states the Good reaches the soul without bodily hindrance, suggesting divine presence within.

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 functions as a mediator between The Good and the soul, similar to the Logos role.

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

[auto] The 'Good' is referenced as the supreme source from which vision and access flow, consistent with the concept of the One.

The merging of the individual soul or self with the divine, transcending personal identity.

[auto] The passage centrally discusses the soul's approach to identity with the divine or lower principles, distinguishing between conscious possession and unconscious union.

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

[auto] The passage presents the paradoxical idea that unconscious possession is more powerful and closer to identity than full conscious knowledge.

The soul's journey back to its divine origin, reversing the fall into matter through stages of purification or illumination.

[auto] The discussion of abandoning the Supreme place and the deeper fall implies the necessity of returning to or maintaining connection with the origin.

The recognition of one's own true divine nature as the primary path to liberation; 'know thyself' as soteriology.

The text touches on identification with the self versus the lower, implying a dimension of knowing one's true state.

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.

The text mentions the soul abandoning its place in the Supreme and reviving memories of the lower.

A staged journey of the soul upward through heavenly realms or levels of being toward the divine source.

[auto] The text contrasts the soul's place in the Supreme with the fall into the inferior, implying a vertical journey of the soul.

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

The flow from primal to tertiaries suggests an underlying unity connecting all levels of existence.