Select Works, Section 703

Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.

The text uses personal pronouns like 'He' and attributes will, while simultaneously acknowledging these terms are not strictly applicable.

The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.

The admission that terms are not strictly applicable implies the Supreme is beyond ordinary conceptual grasp.

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.

The Principle is described as the means of determination to everything else, ordering others to be self-belonging.

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 mention of a 'fragment' of the Good being desirable to the 'extern' implies a hierarchy or flow from source to recipient.

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

The description of every being pursuing its good and partaking of it implies a movement back toward the Principle.

A staged journey of the soul upward through heavenly realms or levels of being toward the divine source.

The pursuit of the good and drawing on it suggests an upward movement or ascent toward the divine Principle.

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

[auto] The passage explicitly states that terms used for the Supreme are 'not strictly applicable' and warns against forming concepts that imply duality.

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

[auto] The text argues that will and essence in the Supreme must be identical and insists against making the Supreme a duality.

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

[auto] The Supreme is described as having will, being master of Himself, and acting according to His own nature.

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

[auto] The passage describes 'The Supreme', 'The Principle', and 'The Good' as the singular source from which fragments derive desirability.

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

[auto] The passage describes beings drawing on their good such that their being becomes their choice, implying a union with the Principle.

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

[auto] The author insists that the Supreme cannot be a duality and that will and essence are one, transcending binary distinctions.

Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight.

[auto] The text admits to using inaccurate terms and apparent dualities merely for the sake of conveying conviction about a non-dual reality.

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

[auto] It asserts that in the Supreme, will, essence, and being are identical rather than distinct components.