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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.

The soul makes its memories the starting point of a new vision, implying Platonic recollection of prior knowledge.

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

The descent into the lower sphere is associated with becoming partial, isolated, and full of care.

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

The concept of 'soul-entire' and being in 'one place' suggests an undivided state of being.

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

The text mentions souls having power apt to administration and governing with the supreme ruler.

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

References to the 'source' and the 'All' imply the undivided first principle from which souls flow.

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

[auto] Souls are compared to light attached upwards to the sun, illustrating the luminous quality of the divine connection.

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

[auto] Souls are depicted as fragments of light that descend and become isolated partial things in the lower sphere.

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 structured descent from the divine Intellect and source to the lower sphere and partial individuation.

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

[auto] The passage links the soul's state to its vision being set in the Intellectual, implying knowledge defines existence.

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

[auto] The soul is characterized by a light attached upwards to the sun, suggesting an internal divine luminosity.

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

[auto] The ideal state is described as remaining with the soul-entire and being in one place with their overlord.

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

[auto] The passage explicitly states that the appetite for the divine Intellect urges souls to return to their source.

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.

[auto] The text details the soul becoming a deserter from the All, severed from the whole, and isolated in a partial state.

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

[auto] The passage describes the upward urge to return to the source and the state of being attached upwards.

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

[auto] The text contrasts the unified 'All' and 'soul-entire' with the isolated, severed state of the partial soul.