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

The passage details the intellectual act and the handling of intellectual objects as a form of authentic cognitive engagement.

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

The passage negates the idea that God comes to be through thinking, limiting human conceptual power over the divine.

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

The Intellectual-Principle is described as self-present and entering the soul, functioning as an internal illumination.

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

The distinction between the intellectual act and the intellectual object is dissolved in the Intellectual-Principle where they are one.

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

The distinction between sense opinion and intellectual knowledge implies a movement upward from lower to higher cognition.

The material body viewed as a prison, tomb, or source of error that hinders spiritual knowledge and return.

[auto] Knowledge concerning objects of sense is dismissed as opinion or surface-knowing compared to authentic intellectual knowledge.

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

[auto] The Intellectual-Principle is characterized as self-gathered, an Act without want or acquisition, implying undivided nature.

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 describes knowledge flowing from the Intellectual-Principle into the reasoning soul, indicating a hierarchical structure of being.

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

[auto] It distinguishes authentic intellectual knowledge from sense opinion, emphasizing direct cognition of the Intellectual-Principle.

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

[auto] Authentic knowledge enters the reasoning soul from the Intellectual-Principle, making the divine accessible internally.

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

[auto] True knowledge is described as being identical to its object, carrying the Intellectual-Principle within itself.

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

[auto] The text refers to the Intellectual-Principle as the 'very Being of the collective total'.