KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

But all the multiform divinities with which the Pagan world abounded. . .at the bottom they recognized only Adad , the One God. . .each of these figures was only an emanation of the Same Great Being or Only One.37

Hamack's History ofDogma cites the title 'One and Only' in a strictly non-Christian context. The third century Arians adopted the title for God to affirm their denial of the deity of Jesus Christ. Scholars contest that Arianism's "language was borrowed from Origen," the progenitor of the few Greek manuscripts which sometimes use the title 'the One'. Hamack cites one of the eight tenets of Arianism as: The title has grown and spread down through history, seeded in American soil by Johnny Appleseed. His tracts promoted 18th century mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg whose "communication with spirits" revealed, "The universe is an image of God. . .the one only."39 Today the title finds itself planted in the mystical and esoteric section of the library, in books like Rice's Eastern Definitions , where "the One and Only Reality" matches "the Nameless Sat" [Satan].4o Now 'the One and Only' is shooting up in Detroit—as the name of its diabolical street gang leader. In this hot house, missionary Joseph K. Hicks sees the fruit of the seeds of the "one" and "only" and they are neither "modem" nor "elegant." The characteristic of the One and Only God is solitude.38

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'The One' has crossed the tracks, so to speak, from street gangs and Satanists to society as a whole. The semantic rail system of the New Age has carried the term as its chief cargo. One author agrees saying:

The root idea of the New Age is oneness, unity, and wholeness—the One for all.4i

The Los Angeles Times religious editor observes: