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

The text states that blending with an inferior principle hampers the relation to the highest.

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

The text describes the soul recovering its earliest state by turning its tendency back to its own principle.

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 passage describes the primal Being being hampered when it blends with an inferior principle.

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

The passage outlines the process of turning tendency back to the primal state as a recovery.

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

[auto] The text defines the principle by what it is not, stating it neither enters into being nor passes away and rejects change.

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

[auto] The principle is described as possessing primal being and life in its own essence while rejecting all change or composition.

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] It outlines a structure where a primal nature provides life and order to the kosmos and other living forms in a dependent relationship.

The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.

[auto] The passage explicitly states the principle lives in a life that is essentially innate and can never fail, acting as a provider of motion.

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

[auto] The passage describes a self-caused, indestructible first principle that serves as the source of life and motion for all else.

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

[auto] It presents a single sustaining principle responsible for the maintenance and ordered system of the entire kosmos and individual things.