entity_id,canonical_name,greek_name,tradition,entity_type,category,primary_domains,tags,cult_scope,primary_period,evidence_confidence,review_status,inclusion_basis,earth_association_score,chthonic_flag,serpent_flag,short_note,entity_class ENT_DIO_DIVINE_DARKNESS,The Divine Darkness (Gnophos),ὁ θεῖος γνόφος,Christian/Theurgic,Apophatic mystery,Negative theology,the super-luminous darkness; unknowing; union beyond knowledge,,pan-Christian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Pseudo-Dionysian corpus,0,0,0,"The apophatic summit of the Mystical Theology: the ""ray of divine darkness"" into which the soul ascends by unknowing, leaving all sense and intellect to be united to the unknowable God.",abstraction ENT_DIO_PROCESSION_RETURN,Procession and Return (Proodos and Epistrophe),πρόοδος καὶ ἐπιστροφή,Christian/Theurgic,Cosmological process,Emanative dynamic,the outflow of all from the Good and its return; the rhythm of hierarchy,,pan-Christian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Pseudo-Dionysian corpus,0,0,0,The Neoplatonic rhythm by which all things flow out from the Good (proodos) and are drawn back to it (epistrophe); the dynamic structuring every Dionysian hierarchy. Received from Proclus.,abstraction ENT_DIO_THEARCHY,The Thearchy (Godhead),ἡ θεαρχία,Christian/Theurgic,Supreme principle,Superessential Godhead,the triune source of all divinity; the superessential One; origin of every hierarchy,,pan-Christian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Pseudo-Dionysian corpus,0,0,0,"Dionysius's term for the divine source — the superessential, triune Godhead (thearchia) beyond being, from which all hierarchy proceeds and to which it returns.",abstraction ENT_DIO_THE_GOOD,The Good (Agathon),τὸ ἀγαθόν,Christian/Theurgic,Divine name/principle,Chief divine name,the supreme Good; source of all procession; the chief name of God,,pan-Christian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Pseudo-Dionysian corpus,0,0,0,"The first and most fitting of the Divine Names: the Good (after Plato and Plotinus), prior even to Being — the overflowing source from which all things proceed and to which all return.",abstraction