Select Works, Section 613

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

[auto] The text employs negation to describe the principle, stating that spatial categories like 'Here and There' do not attach to it.

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

[auto] The passage centrally argues that the divine principle has no extension or parts, defining it as an undivided reality distinct from the composite material world.

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.

The discussion of participation implies a hierarchical relationship where the extended cosmos derives from a higher, unextended principle.

The divine reason, word, or ordering principle through which the universe was created; mediates between the transcendent God and the material world.

Reason is invoked to certify truths about the principle that sense-perception cannot grasp.

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

[auto] The passage describes a singular, unextended principle that serves as the source for the extended cosmos and living beings.

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

The passage resolves the apparent contradiction of how an unextended principle can be present throughout extended matter.

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

It asserts that a single soul is present entire at every point of the universe, emphasizing ontological unity over multiplicity.