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

[auto] The passage states the First debars telling and knowing, describing it only by what it transcends rather than positive attributes.

The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.

[auto] The text emphasizes that the First is beyond telling and knowing, indicating a radical concealment from ordinary cognition.

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.

Rejects chance as the source of existence, asserting there 'must be an order' derived from the Principle of All.

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

[auto] It describes the First as self-gathered, not inter-blended with forms, and untouched by multiplicity.

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 order of secondaries and tertiaries arising from The First, establishing a downward chain of existence.

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

[auto] The text defines the First as a Simplex and authentically a unity, stating there can be only one such being from which all else flows.

The dissolution of binary oppositions (male/female, inner/outer, above/below) as a mark of spiritual completion.

[auto] The First is described as transcending Being and untouched by multiplicity, standing beyond standard categorical oppositions.

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

Argues that if another such being existed, they would 'resolve into one,' affirming the ultimate unity of the Source.