Select Works, Section 707 (part 2)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.