The Gnostic Monad

Prominent Christian Gnostics taught that the Monad is the high source of the Pleroma. Through a process of emanation various divine entities and realms emerged from the One. The various emanations of the One, are called Aeons. They became progressively degraded due to their remoteness from the Father. In some versions of Christian Gnosticism a lesser deity known as the Demiurge who had a role in the creation of the material world separate from the Monad.