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

Were God a bare monad, He could not impart Himself and remain Himself.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

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

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

And he declared that the "monad," to be rightly understood, must be regarded as analogous to our own souls.

From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by Hardwick, John Charlton