Select Works, Section 662

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

The text defines the unity of the Intellectual-Principle by negation, stating it is not with the unity of a house.

The Hermetic axiom that the structure of the cosmos is reflected at every scale — 'as above, so below; as within, so without' — making each level a legible map of the others.

The analogy of the face and the living universe holding forms from greatest to least suggests structural reflection across scales.

The uncreated luminous quality of the divine, sometimes experienced directly in mystical states; illumination as revelation.

The passage states that we get light from the manifestations of the Intellectual-Principle.

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 text implies a hierarchy by contrasting the Intellectual-Principle with Matter and lower principles like plant or animal.

The doctrine of the universe as boundless and without center or circumference, populated by innumerable worlds — Bruno's rejection of the closed Aristotelian sphere; the divine and the cosmos as ontologically infinite.

The text states 'There is infinity in Intellectual-Principle,' touching on the ontological infinity of the divine realm.

Numbers, proportions, and mathematical relationships as the underlying structure of divine reality.

The concept of the 'monad' and 'one' is central to the description of the Intellectual-Principle's unity.

The Stoic and Plotinian doctrine that all parts of the cosmos are bound by hidden affinities, so that a movement in one part resonates through the whole; the metaphysical basis for astrology, magic, and divination.

[auto] The text directly defines 'Universal Sympathy' and 'authentic Sympathy' as the state where all is a unity and never discriminate.

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

[auto] The text debates the nature of pure unity versus specifically varied unity in relation to the principle's ability to permeate matter.

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

[auto] The Intellectual-Principle is described as holding forms like a living universe holds the natural forms of living creatures.

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

[auto] The passage identifies the specific type of unity possessed by the Intellectual-Principle as that of a Reason-Principle.

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

[auto] The passage explicitly discusses the Intellectual-Principle's nature as a monad that must accommodate diversity to function.

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

[auto] The passage describes division going inward without boundary, transcending spatial separation within the unity.

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

[auto] The text asserts that all patterns and powers are contained within the one Intellectual design as a multiple unity.