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A form of meditation that uses imagery, imagination, or symbolic thought rather than purely empty stillness.

The Soul's consciousness is defined as its 'intellection' of what is eternally present to it, distinguishing it from Nature's unconscious production.

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.

Nature is described as an 'image' of Wisdom with an imprint that penetrates to the uttermost film, reflecting the higher principle in the lower.

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 principles communicating to what lies in next contact, making that also warm in some less degree.

A secondary creator deity—often ignorant or malevolent—responsible for fashioning the material world, distinct from the supreme transcendent God.

Nature is described as producing the material world automatically without knowledge, functionally resembling an ignorant creator principle though not termed a deity.

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.

The text describes Wisdom as 'conducting the universe' and the Soul receiving from the Intellectual-Principle to order existence.

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.

Matter and Nature are described as the 'ultimates' and 'imitative,' suggesting a deficiency or lack compared to the Intellectual order.

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

The text implies a 'still higher phase' beyond the Soul and Intellectual-Principle from which all being flows.

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 centrally describes a descending order of principles from Wisdom to Nature to corporeal matter, illustrating the flow of the Reason-Principle.

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 explicitly mentions the 'Reason-Principle' as the mediating force transmitted from the Soul through Nature to the material world.