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Platonic recollection: knowledge as the soul's recovery of what it knew before birth, with learning as remembering rather than acquisition.

The text states that before becoming here, we existed there as pure souls and gods, implying recollection of a prior state.

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

The text describes an 'other' that has wound itself about the primal Man, foisting itself upon the original nature.

Fragments of divine light or spirit trapped inside material bodies, awaiting liberation and return to their source.

Individual souls are described as contained within the one soul, suggesting fragments of the whole residing in individuals.

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

The passage refers to 'pure souls' and 'Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality' residing within.

The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.

The soul is described as one-life entire, emphasizing dynamic existence rather than static abstraction.

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

The description of the soul as a simple unity containing all content without separation aligns with the concept of an undivided principle.

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

[auto] The passage describes the soul as a unity not built from an aggregate, maintaining oneness despite containing multiplicity.

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 the eternal realm of intelligences and the realm of process, implying a structured descent.

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

[auto] The text states that the one soul reaches to the individual, implying the divine presence within the particular.

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

[auto] The passage speaks of an apparent merging between the thing of process and the ancient primal realm.

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

[auto] It resolves the distinction between good and bad souls into a unified whole where individualities are not fenced off.

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

[auto] The passage utilizes paradoxical language such as being at once a unity and an infinity to describe the soul's nature.

The soul's journey back to its divine origin, reversing the fall into matter through stages of purification or illumination.

[auto] The text defines the relation of process to the eternal realm as one of approach and apparent merging with dependence.

The felt condition of exile from one's divine origin — Rumi's reed flute torn from its bed, Plotinus's 'we have forgotten,' the Gnostic forgetfulness; the affective wound that complements return_to_source and gives the return its motive.

[auto] The passage centrally describes the loss of primal simplicity and the intrusion of a secondary nature upon the original divine self.

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

[auto] It outlines the dynamic of the lower realm approaching and merging with the higher eternal order.

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

[auto] It asserts that all souls and intelligences are held as one life and one thing without separation.