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Monad (Gnosticism)
The Monad in early Christian gnostic writings is an adaptation of concepts of the Monad in Greek philosophy to Christian gnostic belief systems.
==Overview==
The term ''monad'' comes from the Greek feminine noun ''monas'' (nominative singular, μονάς), "one unit," where the ending ''-s'' in the nominative form resolves to the ending ''-d'' in declension.〔Francis E. Peters Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon 1970 p. 42.〕
In some gnostic systems the Supreme Being is known as the Monad, the One, The Absolute Aiōn teleos (The Perfect Aeon, ), Bythos (Depth or Profundity, ), Proarchē (Before the Beginning, προαρχή), and Hē Archē (The Beginning, ) and The ineffable parent. The One is the high source of the pleroma, the region of light. The various emanations of The One are called Aeons.
According to Theodoret's book on heresies (''Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium'' i.18) the Arab Christian Monoimus (150-210) used the term Monad to mean the highest god which created lesser gods, or elements (similar to Aeons). In some versions of Christian gnosticism, especially those deriving from Valentinius, a lesser deity known as the Demiurge had a role in the creation of the material world in addition to the role of the Monad. In these forms of gnosticism, the God of the Old Testament is often considered to have been the Demiurge, not the Monad, or sometimes different passages are interpreted as referring to each.
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