Select Works, Section 649
◆Divine Simplicitytheology
The doctrine that God has no parts, divisions, or composite attributes; pure undivided being.
The divine stage is described as lacking nothing and containing causes inherently, suggesting an undivided nature.
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.
References to things being 'foreconceived' and existing for a 'purpose' imply a divine ordering principle or reason.
All passages →◆Monadcosmology
The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.
The description of the source containing 'the cause of all as inherent to itself' aligns with the concept of a simple first principle.
All passages →◆Pleromacosmology
The divine fullness or totality of the highest realm, populated by aeons and divine attributes, contrasted with the deficient material world.
It describes a divine stage that lacks nothing and contains all causes, matching the definition of divine fullness.
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.
[auto] The passage explicitly describes the future as foreconceived and existing for a purpose ordered by the divine cause.
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 passage describes a 'divine stage' unfolding into a 'later stage' with succession, reflecting the downward flow of reality from eternity to time.
All passages →◇Opposites Transcendedanthropology
The dissolution of binary oppositions (male/female, inner/outer, above/below) as a mark of spiritual completion.
[auto] The passage explicitly states that the All presents 'succession while yet it is simultaneous,' dissolving the binary opposition between time and eternity.
All passages →◇Paradox As Teachingethics
Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight.
[auto] The claim that succession exists within simultaneity uses apparent contradiction to describe the ineffable nature of the divine.
All passages →◇Unity Of Beingtheology
The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.
[auto] The text asserts that 'The All... contains the cause of all as inherent to itself,' suggesting a fundamental non-dual reality at the divine source.
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