Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

MONAD OF LIFE

A symbol of Spirit, or the atma-buddhic energy of Truth, Love, and Wisdom, which ensouls the form, and under archetypal concepts directs its course in evolution and enables it to beget and bring forth its kind. The monad of life must be linked to the monad of Form so that the lower planes may become fruitful, and the forms multiply. The monad of Life becomes differentiated in human souls on the higher mental plane, and these separated monads of life constitute the Individualities.

"The Barbarian philosophy knows the world of thought and the world of sense ;--the former archetypal, and the latter the image of that which is called the model (or pattern); and assigns the former to the Monad, as being perceived by the mind, and the world of sense to the number six. For six is called by the Pythagoreans marriage, as being the genetic number; and he places in the Monad the invisible heaven and the holy earth, and intellectual light. Does not Plato hence appear to have left the Ideas of living creatures in the intellectual world, and to make intellectual Objects into sensible species according to their genera?" - CLEM. ALEX., Miscellanies, Bk. V.

The "six " as “marriage” refers to the alliance of the Monad of Life (atma-buddhi-manas, or heaven, holy earth, and intellect), with the Monad of Form (manas-kama-sthula, or mental, astral, and physical), the union being productive of innumerable forms and qualities.

"Now when the Creator had framed the Soul according to his will, he formed within her the corporeal universe, and brought them together, and united them centre to centre. The Soul, interfused everywhere from the centre to the circumference of heaven, of which she is the external envelopment, herself turning in herself began a divine beginning of never-ceasing and rational life enduring throughout all time" (PLATO, Timous). - JOWETT, Dialog., etc., Vol. III. p. 619.

The Monad of Life (Soul) is one in Involution, and for its growth in Evolution it is necessary that it should first descend to the lower planes, or rather, take unto itself the Monad of Form (nature or universe) and become involved or interfused in matter, and thus become prepared to manifest in diversity and multiplicity its forms and qualities in the many monads or souls of humanity.

"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead "(ROм. i. 20). “ In these words we have a clear statement of a principle which occupies a large place in what is called mystical theology. It is the statement of a certain definite correspondence between the visible and the invisible worlds, between heavenly and earthly things, between the divine and the human. The lower are in a sense the images of the higher, the temporal of the eternal. All the attributes of the being of God, all that is real and abiding as contrasted with what is ephemeral and fleeting, may be inferred from what we know of the phenomenal universe, including human nature itself. The things that are seen are the symbols, the partial and impermanent presentments of that which is from everlasting to everlasting and constitutes divine perfection. Plato has a great deal about it and develops it very suggestively, holding that the material world stands to the transcendental as the blurred and shifting reflection in the surface of a lake does to the landscape which produces it." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., Spiritual Correspondences.

See Also

AGNISHVATTAS
AIR-ÆTHER
ARCHETYPAL MAN
ARHATS
ATMAN
BA
BODHISATVAS
EGG
EVOLUTION
FRAVASHI
GERMS
GUARDIAN SPIRITS
HIGHER AND LOWER WORLDS
IMAGE
IMPERIAL
INCARNATION OF SOULS
INDIVIDUALITY
INVOLUTION
MAN BORN
MAN CRAWLED
MANASA-PUTRAS
MANES
MARUTS
MAZENDARANS
MULTIPLY
MUSPELL (sons)
PACCEKA-BUDDHAS
PITRIS (solar)
PROSPERITY
PROTOTYPES
RISHIS
SAGES
SIX
SON OF GOD
SOUL
SPARK
SPERMATIC WORDS
SPIRIT
WHEAT