Select Works, Section 707 (part 2)
◆Apophatic Theologytheology
Describing the divine only by negation—God transcends all positive categories and concepts; the via negativa.
The Supreme is defined by what it is not, such as being 'without part' and not subject to chance or reasonless arrangement.
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 text states the secondary must be 'correspondent' to the prior and participate in it, reflecting the higher structure in the lower.
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.
The universe is described as a 'concordance' where particulars are gathered into union, implying hidden affinities binding the whole.
All passages →◆Divine Hiddennesstheology
The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.
The Intellectual-Principle exists 'not expressed in the outer' before the universe, indicating a concealed divine source.
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.
The Intellectual-Principle is presented as the reason-principle and archetype mediating between the Source and the expressed universe.
All passages →◆Monadcosmology
The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.
The text refers to the Supreme as a 'One greater than its product' and 'one number,' aligning with the concept of an undivided first principle.
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 that the multiple particulars are ordered into oneness and consist of Reason-Principles gathered into closest union.
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.
[auto] The passage explicitly discusses 'Providence' as the design of the maker reasoning with purpose and prevision to order the universe.
All passages →◇Divine Simplicitytheology
The doctrine that God has no parts, divisions, or composite attributes; pure undivided being.
[auto] The Supreme is described as 'without part or interval' and 'self-related,' indicating a lack of composition or division.
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] The text describes a descending order from the Source to the Intellectual-Principle to the universe, where the secondary participates in the prior.
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