monad
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Each monad has its own destiny, and it acts and moves entirely of its own accord.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 29, 2016
There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad.
From Time Magazine Archive
At a very high level it is known as the monad.
From Elementary Theosophy by L. W. (Louis William) Rogers
It is possible to think of the soul as a reincarnating entity, whether it be a monad, duad, triad, or septenary being.
From Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect by William Walker Atkinson
Then what aid do these similarities of structure afford to the theory, that all the higher organisms have been evolved by successive steps out of the lowest monad?
From A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' by Francis Bowen
