The Oneself

Given the name Anra by the Seonians, the Oneself is variously understood to be the ultimate power of the universe, the primary creator god, the sum of all things, and the source of selfhood, or being.

The central text of Seonian history and religion, the First Book, begins as follows:"There was the Oneself. The Oneself did not exist outside Itself. No time passed for It. It had no beginning nor end. And as all that was was It, all that would ever be would be It. But before, all that comprised It was Potential. From this Potential, infinite possibilities emerged."The Seonian concept of Anra is essentially an all-encompassing panentheistic "god" in that it includes yet transcends the sum total of all times, places, beings, and things, as well as all possibilities therein. In Understandings, the scholar Bodeldres attributes to Anra "not only what is but also what isn't; not only all that can be but also that which cannot be; not only who we are but also who we are not; encompasses everyplace and every time but also nowhere and never."

Selfhood
One central aspect of Seonian theology is the concept of the self, both in its relation to that which is outside it, and in the endeavor to understand a more complete ideation of selfhood. Anra is said to have the paradoxical property of being both personal and impersonal; or personal only insomuch as it includes a non-dualistic personhood, or selfness, that is absolute and all-encompassing, such that one can consider one's personal conception of oneself to be a fraction, or facet, of a greater, unbound mode of being and conceiving. As such, one's understanding of it can be thought of as "that... complete understanding of one's own self altogether, of which one might conceive were one able to shed the illusory boundaries of the subject-object dichotomy entirely," as Bodeldres puts it.

The First
The First are described in the First Book as having been the first "possibilities chosen" by the Oneself, but as our understanding of the creation of the universe must be seen as outside of, or prior to, time itself, this suggestion of an initiating act can instead be read as a temporally-grounded interpretation of the First's metaphysical or philosophical proximity, or relation to Anra, and a way of understanding their role in the creation of the universe and its structure.