Select Works, Section 447 (part 2)
◆Apophatic Theologytheology
Describing the divine only by negation—God transcends all positive categories and concepts; the via negativa.
It characterizes the utterly undifferentiated principle by what it does not do (makes no enquiry), aligning with negative description.
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.
The phrase 'before it is [effectively] Intellect' suggests a prior ontological stage in the hierarchy of being.
All passages →◇Divine Simplicitytheology
The doctrine that God has no parts, divisions, or composite attributes; pure undivided being.
[auto] It explicitly debates whether the knowing principle can remain simplex or must become dual during cognition.
All passages →◇Inner Silencepraxis
The practice of stilling the mind and speech to open receptivity to divine knowledge or presence.
[auto] It describes the self-perception of the intellect as occurring in silence despite its internal duality.
All passages →◇Monadcosmology
The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.
[auto] The text references the 'utterly undifferentiated' principle that remains self-centred, describing the simple first cause.
All passages →◇Self Knowledgesoteriology
The recognition of one's own true divine nature as the primary path to liberation; 'know thyself' as soteriology.
[auto] The passage centrally analyzes the conditions and nature of the intellect's act of self-knowing and self-perception.
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