Henad

The henads (Greek henades, “unities”) are, in the theology of Proclus, the first offspring of the One — a rank of supreme unities, each a god, through which the absolutely simple First is multiplied without losing its simplicity.

Standing above being, the henads mediate between the unspeakable One and the ordered ranks of reality that follow; every level of the world depends upon its own henad as upon a presiding unity. In them the Neoplatonic instinct — that all multiplicity must be gathered from and into a prior unity — receives its most refined expression.