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Term
Monad
also known as the Monad
The primal One — the indivisible source from which all multiplicity unfolds and to which it returns. For the Pythagoreans the first principle of number; for the Hermetic and Gnostic mind, the unmanifest unity behind every emanation.
Greek monas — 'unit, the One,' from monos (alone, single).