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◆Divine Hiddennesstheology
The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.
The Supreme is described as holding an august repose and transcending intellection, placing it beyond ordinary knowledge.
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.
Providence is explicitly mentioned as being sufficiently saved by the fact that the Supreme is the source of all.
All passages →◆Gnosis Direct Knowledgesoteriology
Salvation through direct experiential knowledge of the divine nature, not through faith, ritual, or moral works alone.
The text mentions an intuitional approach to the Supreme that differs from standard intellection.
All passages →◆Mystical Unionsoteriology
The merging of the individual soul or self with the divine, transcending personal identity.
It implies that only the Supreme itself can approach the Supreme, suggesting a state of identity or union.
All passages →◆Unity Of Beingtheology
The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.
The passage emphasizes the Supreme's lack of interval and self-differentiation as a singular, unified principle.
All passages →◇Apophatic Theologytheology
Describing the divine only by negation—God transcends all positive categories and concepts; the via negativa.
[auto] The nature of the Supreme is defined through negations such as lacking interval or self-differentiation.
All passages →◇Divine Simplicitytheology
The doctrine that God has no parts, divisions, or composite attributes; pure undivided being.
[auto] The passage explicitly describes the Supreme as simplex, having no interval or self-differentiation.
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] It outlines the metaphysical distinction where difference emerges from the Supreme into Intellectual-Principle and Being.
All passages →◇Monadcosmology
The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.
[auto] The text identifies the Supreme as the undivided first principle from which differentiation arises at the level of Intellect.
All passages →◇Opposites Transcendedanthropology
The dissolution of binary oppositions (male/female, inner/outer, above/below) as a mark of spiritual completion.
[auto] The Supreme is characterized by the absence of duality and difference, which only exist at lower levels.
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