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Select Works, Section 679 (part 2)

But this would make the power something outside itself; there would be, I mean, the power it grasped and the power by which it grasped: if there is but the one power, what is there to grasp at?
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Themes
Divine Sparkscosmology

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

[auto] The soul is described as having 'in itself something of that principle,' indicating a fragment of the divine within.

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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 explicitly describes a downward flow from the Supreme to the Intellectual-Principle and then to the Soul.

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Microcosm Macrocosmcosmology

The human being as a small-scale image of the entire cosmos; the body, soul, and intellect mirroring the structure of the heavens and the divine — distinct from correspondence in that it makes the human the privileged mirror.

The soul's internal capacity for knowledge and vision mirrors the Supreme Good it seeks.

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Monadcosmology

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

[auto] The 'Supreme' is presented as the singular source from which beauty and light in all things flow.

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Mystical Unionsoteriology

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

[auto] It depicts the Intellectual-Principle remaining with the Supreme and the soul clinging to what it saw in a state of rapture.

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Return To Sourcesoteriology

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

[auto] The text focuses on the soul's longing and movement back toward the Supreme Good from which it originated.

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Shared concept: Divine Sparks — Fragments of divine light or spirit trapped inside material bodies, awaiting liberation and return to their source. (derived)