The One is the mysterious source of all that is.

It beyond time, space and duality. It is infinite fullness, beyond being, changeless and eternal. The One can have no attributes, its absoluteness naturally making limitation or conditioning impossible.

"Ascending yet higher, we maintain that it is neither soul nor intellect; nor has it imagination, opinion reason or understanding; nor can it be expressed or conceived, since it is neither number nor order; nor greatness nor smallness; nor equality nor inequality; nor similarity nor dissimilarity; neither is it standing, nor moving, nor at rest; neither has it power nor is power, nor is light; neither does it live nor is it life; neither is it essence, nor eternity nor time; nor is it subject to intelligible contact; nor is it science nor truth, nor kingship nor wisdom; neither one nor oneness, nor godhead nor goodness; nor is it spirit according to our understanding, nor filiation, nor paternity; nor anything else known to us or to any other beings of the things that are or the things that are not; neither does anything that is know it as it is; nor does it know existing things according to existing knowledge; neither can the reason attain to it, nor name it, nor know it; neither is it darkness nor light, nor the false nor the true; nor can any affirmation or negation be applied to it, for although we may affirm or deny the things below it, we can neither affirm nor deny it, inasmuch as the all-perfect and unique Cause of all things transcends all affirmation, and the simple pre-eminence of Its absolute nature is outside of every negation- free from every limitation and beyond them all."

- The Mystical Theology of St Denis

The One is beyond consciousness, because even consciousness is a form of limitation, immediately implying a subject and an object of consciousness: that which is conscious, and that which the consciousness is conscious of.


The One radiates. Its emanations are the lower levels of reality. These lower levels are the One in different forms, they are illusory but they are not illusory. They are real, but their reality is dependent upon another.

The One is fully perfect. It has no need of creation. Creation is the inevitable result of its divine super-abundance.

The One remains unmoved. Within the One itself there can be no changes. It is infinity that contains all.

Within this All lies concealed the Divine Mind which eventually manifests the visible Universe.

The One is the Absolute after which duality intervenes as spirit and matter, subject and object, good and evil.

We can only contemplate the Divine Mind, the first emanation of the One. The One itself is impossible to contemplate, we perceive only the veil of manifestation it has thrown over itself.

"The substance of the soul, and therein of all things, and the substance of Deity are one and the same, since there is but one Substance.

The Divine Substance is in its original condition homogenous. Every monad of it, therefore, possesses the potentialities of the whole.

Of such a monad every individual soul consists."

- The Perfect Way

"But what is the basis of matter but energy, and underneath energy but consciousness, and consciousness created matter to exist as the multi-faceted experience of soul."

- The Zeta