From the Greek word meaning "unit " Pythagoras used the word to denote the first number of a series, and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz used the word to denote the unextended, simple, soullike basic elements of the universe
{i} single-celled organism (Biology); flagellated protozoan (Biology); atom or radical with the value of one (Chemistry); inseparable metaphysical entity (Philosophy)
The elementary and indestructible units which were conceived of as endowed with the power to produce all the changes they undergo, and thus determine all physical and spiritual phenomena
a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive
An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen
A symbol in its aspect as a center of one's total literary experience; related to Hopkins's term "inscape" and to Joyce's term "epiphany "
The God in man and all living entities It can be considered as the first form of "individualization" assumed by the One manifesting as many in a planetary scale The Monad is the real incarnating agent and the source of Life of all forms For countless aeons during the long journey of life in the lower planes, the Monad pours its livening energy on the forms employed, but remains detached, as the onlooker or "witness" Its symbol is an eye inside a triangle From it emanates the energy of Divine Will, forcing those changes in the lower planes that the forms themselves are not capable of promoting, most of the time by means of the destroyer aspect of nature (death)