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Active Contemplationpraxis
A form of meditation that uses imagery, imagination, or symbolic thought rather than purely empty stillness.
[auto] The text describes the 'industrious intellect' procuring, following, and seeking the beautiful and good.
All passages →Anthropomorphismtheology
Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.
Divine love is described as weeping with indescribable groans, attributing human emotion to the divine.
All passages →Divine Hiddennesstheology
The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.
Deity is described as an 'arcane' and 'unseen Presence' witnessed only by Light, Heat, and Moisture.
All passages →Divine Intoxicationpraxis
Ecstatic, non-rational receptivity to the divine figured as drunkenness — Plato's symposium wine, Rumi's sukr, Eckhart's 'sober drunkenness'; the passive/receptive metaphor for divine encounter, distinct from divine_madness's active possessing rapture.
The delight of the gods is ascribed to drinking and continual enjoyment rather than satiation.
All passages →Divine Lighttheology
The uncreated luminous quality of the divine, sometimes experienced directly in mystical states; illumination as revelation.
Light is listed as one of the eternal witnesses to the unseen Presence of Deity.
All passages →Divine Madnesssoteriology
Ecstatic irrational rapture — Plato's mania, Bruno's furore — by which the soul transcends ordinary reason and attains direct contact with divine reality; madness reframed as higher knowledge.
[auto] The description of perturbed eyes and divine love weeping with groans aligns with the concept of ecstatic rapture transcending ordinary reason.
All passages →Gnosis Direct Knowledgesoteriology
Salvation through direct experiential knowledge of the divine nature, not through faith, ritual, or moral works alone.
The beautiful and good is first seen by the speculating intellect before being desired.
All passages →Heroic Furorpraxis
Bruno's eroici furori — a passionate, ennobling spiritual ardor that drives the soul toward divine wisdom; distinguished from base or animal passions by its orientation to infinite truth.
[auto] The passage is from Bruno's work defining this concept, describing perturbed eyes, infinite longing, and divine love's groans as ennobling spiritual ardor.
All passages →Hidden Sayingssoteriology
Esoteric teachings reserved for those ready to receive them; outer meaning conceals an inner liberating truth.
Deity is described as 'arcane', implying esoteric knowledge reserved for the initiated.
All passages →Ladder Of Lovesoteriology
Diotima's staged ascent from love of beautiful bodies → beautiful souls → beautiful pursuits → beautiful knowledge → Beauty itself; the canonical scala amoris that grounds Plotinus's On the Beautiful and Bruno's Eroici Furori — distinct from generic spiritual_ascent in that eros is the specific motive force.
[auto] The text outlines the progression from seeing the beautiful/good to desiring it and then procuring it, mirroring the scala amoris.
All passages →Living Godtheology
The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.
[auto] The text explicitly defines Deity as an 'arcane, living (or moving) FIRE' rather than an abstract principle.
All passages →Mystical Unionsoteriology
The merging of the individual soul or self with the divine, transcending personal identity.
[auto] The passage discusses the difficulty of separating the thing wished for from the wisher, implying a state of unity.
All passages →Opposites Transcendedanthropology
The dissolution of binary oppositions (male/female, inner/outer, above/below) as a mark of spiritual completion.
The passage resolves the opposition between satiety and hunger through the paradox of 'satiated hunger'.
All passages →Paradox As Teachingethics
Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight.
[auto] The text centers on the paradoxical Latin phrase 'Esuries satiata, satietas esuriens' and the coexistence of satiety and desire.
All passages →Return To Sourcesoteriology
The soul's journey back to its divine origin, reversing the fall into matter through stages of purification or illumination.
The passage describes 'things which aspires to the divinity' rather than just divinity diffusing into things.
All passages →Ritual Firepraxis
Fire as medium of divine presence.
Deity is characterized as a living FIRE, serving as a medium of divine presence.
All passages →Separation From Sourcesoteriology
The felt condition of exile from one's divine origin — Rumi's reed flute torn from its bed, Plotinus's 'we have forgotten,' the Gnostic forgetfulness; the affective wound that complements return_to_source and gives the return its motive.
Tearful eyes signify the difficulty of separating the thing wished for from the wisher.
All passages →Spiritual Ascentpraxis
A staged journey of the soul upward through heavenly realms or levels of being toward the divine source.
The movement from seeing to desiring to procuring represents a journey upward toward the divine.
All passages →Theosis Deificationsoteriology
The doctrine — central to Eastern Orthodox and Maximian theology — that the human person is progressively transformed into a partaker of the divine nature by grace, not merely justified or united in passing ecstasy.
The aspiration of things to divinity implies a transformation or participation in the divine nature.
All passages →Tripartite Soulanthropology
Division of the human being into three principles: spirit (pneuma), soul (psyche), and body/matter (hyle or soma).
The text distinguishes between the speculating intellect, will, and industrious intellect.
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 text states 'Divine love which is deity itself', suggesting an identity between the attribute and the essence.
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