Meaning nine in reference to the Sethian Monadology. The term is also used in ancient Egyptian. "It is said that the Ennead, which was the 'seed and hand of Atum", becomes the "teeth and lips of Ptah" and gives a name to each thing bringing it into existence. Divcine principles and qualities (the Ennead) can now " enter into all the species of things - mineral, plant or animal - and become manifest through them". (Memphis) The term is used in Sethian works, to connote nine in the Sethian Monadology, and is used in the Untitled text in the "Bruce Codex". "....stretching out of the cross is the ennead on the right side and on the left. The sprouting and rest and love and resurrection and faith and rebirth and the seal. This is the ennead the ennead was manifested, whose names are these: Prôtia, Pandia, Pangenia, Doxophania (akatagnostos/not blamable), Doxogenia, Doxokratia, Arsenogenia (begetter of males), Lôia (God with us), Iouêl (God forever)), the mother of the ennead, which completes a decad from the monad of the ennead makes twelve enneads.."..