Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

MONAD, THE ONE

A symbol of the Spiritual Centre of all being. The One from which the illusory many radiate. The One Life which differentiates into the many lives, each a center of qualities or forms.

"Yet these three Seges of Tao-ism are but one First Cause, that is, the One Indivisible Monad, called Tae-keih (the Highest Point)." - Chinese Mythology.

The three centres of consciousness, i.e. the Self, the Individuality, and the Personality, are but aspects of the One Central Spirit, which is ultimately indivisible, without parts, vehicles, or any sense whatsoever of separateness, complete, entire, and all in All.

"If there is an infinito,' the Eleatics said, it is one, for if there were two, they could not be infinite, but would be finite one towards the other. But that which exists is infinite, and there cannot be more such. Therefore, that which exists is One' (Mellissus, Fragm. 3)." - MAX MÜLLER, Theosophy, etc., p. 93.

"I am he who came into being in the form of Khepara; I became the Creator of all that came into being. . . . I was alone, for I had not spit in the form of Shu, nor had I emitted Tefnut; there existed not another who worked with me." - BUDGE, Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. I. p. 308.

At the dawn of manifestation there existed the Divine Monad and none else. The Divine Will (Shu) was not projected, neither was the material form-nature (Tefnut) made apparent.

"All being is one, however multitudinous the forms in which it manifests itself. You yourself are the eternal subjected for awhile to the limitations of time and sense. You are part of that infinite whole of reality which is from everlasting to everlasting, and whose nature can only rightly be interpreted from the best that you know of yourself and of human nature in general." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., Our Solidarity with God.

See Also

ABSOLUTE
ÆON
BRAHMA
CHIP
FIRST-BORN
FRAVASHI
GODHEAD
HIRANYAGARBHA
KHEPERA
LAO
MITHRAS
SEED
SPHERE
SHU
TAE-KEIH
TEFNUT