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Chapter
VI.—Monoïmus’ “Iota;” His Notion of the
“Son of Man.”
The monad, (that is,) the one tittle, is932
| 932 The
iota with a little mark placed above, signifies ten; thus, ι = 10. | therefore, he says, also a decade.
For by the actual power of this one tittle, are produced duad, and
triad, and tetrad, and pentad, and hexad, and heptad, and ogdoad, and
ennead, up to ten. For these numbers, he says, are capable of
many divisions, and they reside in that simple and uncompounded single
tittle of the iota. And this is what has been declared:
“It pleased (God) that all fulness should dwell in the Son of man
bodily.”933
For such
compositions of numbers out of the simple and uncompounded one tittle
of the iota become, he says, corporeal realities. The Son of man,
therefore, he says, has been generated from the perfect man, whom no
one knew; every creature who is ignorant of the Son, however, forms an
idea of Him as the offspring of a woman. And certain very obscure
rays of this Son which approach this world, check and control
alteration (and) generation. And the beauty of that Son of man is
up to the present incomprehensible to all men, as many as are deceived
in reference to the offspring of the woman. Therefore nothing, he
says, of the things that are in our quarter of creation has been
produced by that man, nor will aught (of these) ever be (generated from
him). All things, however, have been produced, not from the
entirety, but from some part of that Son of man. For he says the
Son of man is a jot in one tittle, which proceeds from above, is full,
and completely replenishes all (rays flowing down from above).
And it comprises in itself whatever things the man also possesses (who
is) the Father of the Son of man.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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