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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 17 ) - numbers, for no number can be taken from it, or separated from its unity. '.'. '; c Proclus observed: the first monad is the world itself, the second is the inerratic sphere, then thirdly succeed the spheres of the planets, each a unity, then lastly are the spheres of the elements which are also Monads; and these as they have a perpetual subsistence are called wholenesses? holotetes in Greek. The Monad, Unity, or the number One received very numerous meanings. Photius tells us that the Pythagoreans gave it the following names: ? 1. God, the First of all things, the maker of all things. 2. Intellect, the source of all ideas. 3. Male and Female?both together produce all things; from the odd proceed both odd and even. 4. Matter, the last development of universality. 5. Chaos, which resembles the infinite, differentiation. 6. Confusion. 7. Commixion. 8. Obscurity, because in the Ineffable principle of things, of which it is the image, all is confused, vague and in darkness. 9. A Chasm, as a void. 10. Tartarus, from its being at the lowest extremity, is dissimilarly similar to God, at the highest end of the series. n. The Styx, from its immutable nature. 12. Horror, the ineffable is perfectly unknown and is therefore terrible. 13. Void of Mixture, from the simplicity of the nature of the ineffable. 14. Lethe, oblivion, ignorance. 15. A Virgin, from the purity of its nature. 16. Atlas, it connects, supports, and separates all things. 17. The Sun. 18. Apollo. 19. Pyralios, dweller in fire. 20. Morpho. 21. The Axis. 22. Vesta, or the fire in the centre of the earth. 23. Spermatic Reason. 24. The point within a circle, the Central Fire Deity. 25. The Lingam, upright pillar, figure I. The Monad being estee...

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