Select Works, Section 713 (part 2)

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

The One is defined largely by negation, stating what it is not (not Being, not Intellect, not manifold) to preserve its transcendence.

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

The Unity is portrayed as 'Transcendent' and 'Prior', an object of looking towards that remains beyond the full grasp of Intellect.

Salvation through direct experiential knowledge of the divine nature, not through faith, ritual, or moral works alone.

Attainment is linked to grasping Being, which implies direct intellectual knowledge rather than ritual or faith alone.

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

Collective Being is described as containing life and intelligence, explicitly stated as 'no dead thing'.

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

Holding unity upon grasping Being suggests a state of union between the knower and the divine principle.

The recognition of one's own true divine nature as the primary path to liberation; 'know thyself' as soteriology.

The Intellectual-Principle is described as 'self-knowing and Knowing itself as All-Being' through its introversion.

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

The text mentions the Intellect's 'introversion' and looking to a 'better, to a prior', implying an upward movement of thought.

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

[auto] It states that in collective existence, essence and unity are not distinct but identical, reflecting a lack of composite attributes.

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 describes the Intellectual-Principle purveying something of Being and unity to the rest of things, implying a downward flow.

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

[auto] The text refers to the Unity Absolute and Primal Being as the source from which other things derive their being.

Numbers, proportions, and mathematical relationships as the underlying structure of divine reality.

[auto] The passage discusses Unity in relation to Number, suggesting it corresponds to a number ruling the realm of the particular.

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

[auto] The passage explicitly argues that in Real Being, essence and unity are identical, coinciding as Primal Being and Pure Unity.