Select Works, Section 662
Apophatic Theologytheology
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.
All passages →Correspondencecosmology
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.
All passages →Cosmic Sympathycosmology
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.
All passages →Divine Lighttheology
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.
All passages →Divine Simplicitytheology
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.
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.
The text implies a hierarchy by contrasting the Intellectual-Principle with Matter and lower principles like plant or animal.
All passages →Infinite Cosmoscosmology
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.
All passages →Living Godtheology
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.
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.
[auto] The passage identifies the specific type of unity possessed by the Intellectual-Principle as that of a Reason-Principle.
All passages →Monadcosmology
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.
All passages →Numerical Mysticismtheology
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.
All passages →Opposites Transcendedanthropology
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.
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 all patterns and powers are contained within the one Intellectual design as a multiple unity.
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