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Apophatic Theologytheology
Describing the divine only by negation—God transcends all positive categories and concepts; the via negativa.
[auto] The passage defines the transcendent principle primarily by negation, stating it has no intellection and is neither agent nor object.
All passages →Divine Hiddennesstheology
The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.
[auto] The supreme principle is described as transcending intellection and thus remaining beyond ordinary cognitive grasp.
All passages →Divine Providencetheology
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.
The passage argues for distinct divine archetypes determining each individual, showing the divine actively orders the unfolding of human affairs toward intelligible, differentiated ends.
All passages →Divine Simplicitytheology
The doctrine that God has no parts, divisions, or composite attributes; pure undivided being.
[auto] The text argues that the primal essence cannot be dual or composite but must be purely intellectual and undivided.
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 text distinguishes between the primally intellective and that which transcends it, indicating a structured order of being.
All passages →Evil As Privationtheology
Augustinian and Plotinian doctrine that evil has no positive being of its own but is a lack, distortion, or absence of the good — denying ontological dualism while preserving moral seriousness.
The passage explicitly states that 'only to evil could be attribute any power in Matter to thwart nature by overmastering the perfect Reason-Principles,' denying evil positive ontological standing.
All passages →Gendercosmology
The Hermetic doctrine that a masculine-feminine generative principle operates on every plane of being, not only the biological — present at all times as a structural feature of creation itself. Distinct from divine_marriage (a specific reunification event or symbol) and aeons (paired divine beings arranged in syzygies, not a universal structural claim).
The male and female Reason-Principles and their varying dominance in determining offspring is a central structural feature of the argument, operating at the level of rational principles rather than merely biology.
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 entire passage revolves around Reason-Principles (Logoi) as the mediating, ordering principles through which individual human beings are determined and brought into being.
All passages →Monadcosmology
The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.
[auto] It describes a primal principle that is simple, undivided, and the source beyond the Intellectual-Principle.
All passages →Opposites Transcendedanthropology
The dissolution of binary oppositions (male/female, inner/outer, above/below) as a mark of spiritual completion.
[auto] The text posits a reality that stands as neither agent nor object, transcending the duality of subject and object.
All passages →Unity Of Beingtheology
The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.
The passage emphasizes the necessity of a singular, unified source that transcends the duality of subject and object.
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