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

From angels and demons, the Rosacrusian would approach even to the Divinity; calculating the infinity by his geometry, he reveals the nature of the Divine Being, as “a pure monad, including in itself all numbers.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

If the divine form or the divine monad be other than the stages that lead up to it, these latter cannot be essential to it, for God is by definition absolutely self-sufficient.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

At a very high level it is known as the monad.

From Elementary Theosophy by Rogers, L. W. (Louis William)