Select Works, Section 475

The Hermetic axiom that the structure of the cosmos is reflected at every scale — 'as above, so below; as within, so without' — making each level a legible map of the others.

The text uses the structure of the Soul to understand the higher Intellect, reflecting a correspondence between levels.

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

The Soul is described as a 'double light' with an 'intellective phase' representing purer light.

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

The passage defines 'true intellection' as possessing the object integrally as itself, a form of direct knowledge.

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

The passage describes an 'intellective light' within the Soul that corresponds to its object.

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

The author instructs to 'proceed upwards from the Soul' to understand the higher intellective principle.

A form of meditation that uses imagery, imagination, or symbolic thought rather than purely empty stillness.

[auto] The passage describes intellection as an active state of self-conversing and internal possession.

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

[auto] It describes the primally intellective principle as essentially a unity without distinction of being or parts.

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 distinguishes between principles based on their removal from duality and proximity to pure unity.

The claim that the divine realm is present inside the individual, accessible without external mediation.

[auto] It emphasizes the internal possession of the object within the intellective principle rather than external perception.

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

[auto] It identifies a primally intellective principle that is essentially a simple unity from which intellection flows.

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

[auto] The passage describes the merging of subject and object within the intellect as a profound internal possession.

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

[auto] It posits a unity in duality where the distinction between subject and object is resolved into one essence.

Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight.

[auto] It presents the concept of a double form remaining essentially a unity as a profound metaphysical truth.

The recognition of one's own true divine nature as the primary path to liberation; 'know thyself' as soteriology.

[auto] The passage centrally defines self-intellection where the subject is its own object and takes the double form while remaining essentially a unity.

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

[auto] The text argues that true intellection requires the perceiving principle and perceived object to be one substance.