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

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

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

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

Pythagoras held that the unit or monad is the principle and end of all.

From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by Cutten, George Barton