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

The text describes divine beings as 'transformers' who actively shape animals and worlds.

The material body viewed as a prison, tomb, or source of error that hinders spiritual knowledge and return.

The passage notes that the most foolish animals lack feet and are punished by being made to crawl or live in water.

A secondary creator deity—often ignorant or malevolent—responsible for fashioning the material world, distinct from the supreme transcendent God.

The passage explicitly describes 'the transformers' who actively fashion animals and assign them elements based on their souls' purity or impurity.

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 universe is described as having received animals and becoming fulfilled by them under divine ordering.

Augustinian and Plotinian doctrine that evil has no positive being of its own but is a lack, distortion, or absence of the good — denying ontological dualism while preserving moral seriousness.

The text attributes impurity to a lack of wisdom rather than positive evil substance.

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

The 'sensible God' is described as an active image of the intellectual realm that fills the universe.

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

The text refers to 'the greatest, best, fairest, most perfect' one only begotten heaven as a singular source.

The transmigration of the soul across lives.

Animals are described as changing between classes based on their loss or gain of wisdom and folly over time.

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

The universe is described as a 'visible animal' containing the sensible God who is the image of the intellectual.