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

Unity is described as beyond categorization, unable to stand as a genus to anything whatever.

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.

References to higher order, species, and particular beings imply a hierarchical structure of reality.

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

The argument posits that the Principle transcends the opposition of unity and plurality found in genera.

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

[auto] The argument that Unity cannot be a genus or affirmed like other things employs negative categorization.

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

[auto] The assertion that true unity forfeits its nature if it becomes a composite thing reflects divine simplicity.

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

[auto] The text describes the absolute Unity that transcends genus and plurality, aligning with the concept of the Monad.

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

[auto] The statement that unity must forfeit its unity to become a genus uses paradox to convey metaphysical truth.

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

[auto] The passage centrally interrogates the nature of unity within Being and particular manifestations.