Monoimus

<p ><b>Monoimus</b>&nbsp;(lived somewhere between 150 - 210&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era" >CE</a>) was an Arab&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism" >gnostic</a>&nbsp;(Arabic name probably&nbsp;<i>Mun'im</i>&nbsp;منعم), who was known only from one account in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoret" title="Theodoret" >Theodoret</a>&nbsp;(<i>Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium</i>&nbsp;i. 18) until a lost work of anti-heretical writings (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refutation_of_All_Heresies" title="Refutation of All Heresies" >Refutation of All Heresies</a></i>, book 8, chapter V) by&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolytus(writer)" title="Hippolytus (writer)" class="mw-redirect" >Hippolytus</a>&nbsp;was found. He is known for coining the usage of the word&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad(Gnosticism)" title="Monad (Gnosticism)" >Monad</a>&nbsp;in a Gnostic context. Hippolytus claims that Monoimus was a follower of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatian" title="Tatian" >Tatian</a>, and that his cosmological system was derived from that of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras" title="Pythagoras" >Pythagoreans</a>, which indeed seems probable. But it was also clearly inspired by&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity" >Christianity</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism" title="Monism" >monism</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis" title="Gnosis" >Gnosticism</a>.

According to Monoimus, the world is created from the Monad (or iota, or Yod meaning "one horn"), a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tittle" title="Tittle" >tittle</a>&nbsp;that brings forth the duad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, heptad, ogdoad, ennead, up to ten, producing a decad. He thus possibly identifies the gnostic&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon" title="Aeon" >aeons</a>&nbsp;with the first elements of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism#Pythagorean_cosmology" title="Pythagoreanism" >Pythagorean cosmology</a>. He identifies these divisions of different entities with the description of creation in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Genesis" title="Book of Genesis" >Genesis</a>. This description from Hippolytus also corresponds to two versions of a text called&nbsp;<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_of_Eugnostos" title="Epistle of Eugnostos" >Epistle of Eugnostos</a></i>&nbsp;found in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi" title="Nag Hammadi" >Nag Hammadi</a>, where the same monad to decad relationship is described. (<i>Eugnostos</i>&nbsp;in turn, has apparent resemblances to the gnostic text&nbsp;<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sophia_of_Jesus_Christ" title="The Sophia of Jesus Christ" >The Sophia of Jesus Christ</a></i>, where the word&nbsp;<i>monad</i>&nbsp;appears again.)</p>

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