Select Works, Section 437 (part 2)
Divine Simplicitytheology
The doctrine that God has no parts, divisions, or composite attributes; pure undivided being.
Principles retain their own seat without division while offshoots take lower ranks, implying undivided source.
All passages →Emanation Hierarchycosmology
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 explicitly describes an outgoing from the first principle where offshoots take a lower rank while retaining contact with the prior.
All passages →Kingdom Withinanthropology
The claim that the divine realm is present inside the individual, accessible without external mediation.
It states the soul never knew spatial separation and is always within the source, possessing the principle immanently.
All passages →Logoscosmology
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 the mediating divine reason between the First Principle and lower souls.
All passages →Monadcosmology
The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.
[auto] The text references the 'first principle' as the origin from which all existence flows.
All passages →Mystical Unionsoteriology
The merging of the individual soul or self with the divine, transcending personal identity.
[auto] It describes beings being in identity with their prior principle as long as contact is held.
All passages →Return To Sourcesoteriology
The soul's journey back to its divine origin, reversing the fall into matter through stages of purification or illumination.
[auto] The passage states that when physical forms are destroyed, the soul returns to whence it came and remains within the source.
All passages →Separation From Sourcesoteriology
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 describes an outgoing movement where offshoots take a lower rank, creating a distinction from the source.
All passages →Spiritual Ascentpraxis
A staged journey of the soul upward through heavenly realms or levels of being toward the divine source.
[auto] The passage focuses on the upward path of the soul reascending to higher phases of being.
All passages →Unity Of Beingtheology
The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.
[auto] It asserts that every being is in identity with its prior and the soul never knows spatial separation from the source.
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