I am an atheist and consider The Law of One plausible

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I'm replying to your post in the wikipedia thread here Adonai because it's on the same topic as this thread.

There is only one part. What is seen as greater is what is seen as one with the self's desires: This is the illusion. The reality is that all is equally whole and all is desired, all is inherently one with the self.

I'm reductionist in that I've reduced it to one part that can produce the illusion of many, not many becoming one, but many being inherently one that pretends to be many. The whole is only greater than the sum of its parts if it is believed the parts are not inherently the whole. In examples involving manyness, this is the case. When manyness is seen as an illusion, there is only one, one part, one whole, The Law of One.

So if I understand you correctly, you are positing that there is light and this light is all that exists and from this light our illusion of creation is formed. OK, I can follow that, but where do these photons come from? Where does consciousness come from? What shapes these photons into our physical illusion? While I fully agree that all existence is one unified whole, I cannot discount the fact that we are here in third density in order to experience the illusion of separation. That separation is illusion, but it is also real because we can experience it quite directly, it's a paradox. We are a unified whole experiencing ourselves as separate, this can only be possible if there is an intelligence guiding all creation which transcends our own but includes and is an emergent function of all our individual intelligences.

And no, I'm not saying that this is something we work towards, I'm saying this is how it is. We experience this paradox and will continue to until we have learned the Law of One fully at the end of 6th density, and while you can say "ah but this has already happened because creation is simultaneous" that doesn't discount the fact that from our perspective this is the result of catalytic reactions that must play out over the fullness of time.