Seven Basic Elements

The universe is a unity, a unity in which all things are interconnected with laws that can be understood.

The world is understood as a "hierarchy" in which the more simple and intellectual at the top is prior to and explains the existence and characteristics of the more complex and physical towards the bottom.

The Divine, at the top of the hierarchy, explains all things.

The Soul is the principle, coming between the Divine and the corporeal world, which explains all life, including the life of the universe itself.

The happiness and salvation of man's soul is by re-establishing its lost place within this hierarchy.

Aesthetics and morality follows the hierarchy, meaning that the closer something participates in the higher simplicity of the divine, the more beautiful and good it is.

The soul possessed modes of cognition that reflect the world hierarchy, meaning that the soul possesses intuitive noesis to apprehend divine objects, sensation to apprehend physical objects, etc.