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Chaldean Oracles

Monad. Dyad. Triad.
Neoplatonic trans. William Wynn Westcott • c. c. 2nd century CE
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The Monad first existed, and the Paternal Monad still subsists.
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When the Monad is extended, the Dyad is generated.
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And beside Him is seated the Dyad which glitters with intellectual sections, to govern all things and to order everything not ordered.
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The Mind of the Father said that all things should be cut into Three, whose Will assented, and immediately all things were so divided.
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The Mind of the Eternal Father said into Three, governing all things by Mind.
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The Father mingled every Spirit from this Triad.
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All things are supplied from the bosom of this Triad.
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All things are governed and subsist in this Triad.
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For thou must know that all things bow before the Three Supernals.
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From thence floweth forth the Form of the Triad, being preexistent; not the first Essence, but that whereby all things are measured.
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And there appeared in it Virtue and Wisdom, and multiscient Truth.
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For in each World shineth the Triad, over which the Monad ruleth.
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The First Course is Sacred, in the middle lace courses the Sun, [1] in the third the Earth is heated by the internal fire.
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Exalted upon High and animating Light, Fire Ether and Worlds.