- This article is about The Supreme Being, divinity, or the totality of all things from Platonism and Neo-Platonism.. For The most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism, see Bythos.
Monad (from Ancient Greek μονάς (monas) 'unity' and μόνος (monos) 'alone') is the supreme and Most High being in the platonic cosmology, besides be the main influence for other being like the gnostic Bythos, the Monad was orginally conceived by the Pythagoreans, but with Plato in where its iconic features appeared.
Philosophical evolution[]
Pythagorean concept[]
Was used by the Pythagoreans as the origin of numbers, geometry and origins of cosmology, from the Monda appears the Dyad for the representation fo "twoness" or "otherness".
Platonism[]
In the Platonic cosmology the Monad is the origins of all things, meanwhile the demiurge is just the creator of the materia, Monad is the representation of the Absolute origin.
Neo-Platonism[]
For the Neoplatonic ideas, the Monad is know as the One the first principle of reality is "the One", an utterly simple, ineffable, beyond being and non-being, unknowable subsistence which is both the creative source of the Universe.
Abrahmic Religions[]
Judaism[]
- Main article: Hellenistic Judaism
The first to identify the Monad with the bibical god was Philo of Alexandria, who use the Platonic Monad for find out the God´s omnipotence.
Christiny[]
The early christians used the Monad and other platonic elements for the check God's omnipotence.
Islam[]
During medieval times, the Monad was the main evidence of Arab philosophers for show truthfulness of Allah as the One True God and Islam.
Gnosticism[]
In the Gnosticism adopted the concept of Monad for them Bythos, being the primordial aspect of god in the gnosticism and God of New Testament, but not from the Old Testament.
Hayyi Rabbi also called First life or Truth from the Mandeism is primordial source of cosmology, curiously don´t exist evidence of a platonic influence in the Mandeism.