They teach as a fundamental tenet that a triad shines throughout the whole world, over which a Monad rules.
They were supposed by him to be percipient, self-acting beings, not under arbitrary control of the deity, and yet God himself was the original monad from which all the rest are generated.
In short, each monad is a kind of deity in itself--a microcosm representing all the great features of the macrocosm.
There are intimations that the Pythagoreans regarded the Monad as God, the Duad as matter, the Triad as the complex phenomena of the world, the Tetrad as the completeness of all its relations, the Decad as the cosmos, or harmonious whole.
It is the nature of the monad to represent the many in one, and this is perception, by which external events are mirrored internally (p.
This monad is called the entelechy or soul of the aggregate or body, and as such mirrors the aggregate in the first place and the universe through it (p.
As in every monad each succeeding state is the consequence of the preceding, and as it is of the nature of every monad to mirror or represent the universe, it follows (p.
The monad is never without a perception; but, when it has a number of little perceptions with no means of distinction, a state similar to that of being stunned ensues, the monade nue being perpetually in this state (p.
Yet it would seem that to assume a purely active and therefore perfect monad as the source of all things is in accordance with the principle of continuity and with Leibnitz's conception of the gradation of existences.
In the human soul perception is developed into thought, and there is thus an infinite though gradual difference between it and the mere monad (p.
Every monad is thus a microcosm, the universe in little,[14] and according to the degree of its activity is the distinctness of its representation of the universe (p.
By the proportion of activity to passivity in it one monad is differentiated from another.
Body, corporeal mass, or, as Leibnitz calls it, to distinguish it from the materia prima of which every monad partakes (p.
As the perception of the monad when clarified becomes thought, so the appetite of which all monads partake is raised to will, their spontaneity to freedom, in man (p.
Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid.
The individual is thus a monad which is inwardly aware of its actuality--a genius which beholds itself.
If then the Monad or Uniqueness be neither of the two unities which constitute the pair, it must be superior to them, and though abiding within itself, does not do so.
He has founded upon him a theory of the universe, which the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentleman.
According to Leibnitz, as nearly as he seems willing to be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation--Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of considering.
Small as he is, the monad contains all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher of the first class --altogether a very capable little fellow.
The summary is as follows: "That the monad was the beginning of everything.
That from the monad and the indefinite duad proceed numbers.
From the monad proceeds an indefinite duad, which is subordinate to the monad as to its cause.
Goethe, a Spinozist who did not believe in Spinoza, said that he could bring his mind to the conception that in the centre of space we might meet with a monad of pure intelligence.
Somewhere or other, on this planet, or before my Monad was whisked away to it, I have heard that voice," muttered Kenelm.
And yet, perhaps, in another planet my monad would have frisked and jumped and danced and seesawed with congenial monads, as contentedly and as sillily as do the monads of men and gnats in this alien Vale of Tears.
Not now, but somewhat later, ask yourself whether any life can be permitted to wander in space, a monad detached from the lives of others.
Start from either, and such an insensible series of gradations leads to the monad that it is impossible to say at any stage of the progress where the line between the animal and the plant must be drawn.
Nevertheless, this complex animal multiplies by division, as the monad does, and, like the monad, undergoes conjugation.
For example, in phosphorus pentachloride the five units of affinity possessed by the phosphorus atom are satisfied by the five monad atoms of chlorine, but in the trichloride two are disengaged, and, it may be supposed, satisfy each other.
Thus, the atom of hydrogen is a monad simple radical, the atom of oxygen a dyad simple radical, whilst the group OH is a monad compound radical.
Thus in the springing Monad, described by Drysdale and Dallinger, a form produced by the fission of a monad in an amoeboid condition fuses with an ordinary monad to produce an individual, which then breaks up into spores.
It is perhaps unnecessary to add that this monad trinity is the Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer with their great parent, the Mother of the Gods, which in process of time came to be regarded as male.
Among the Hindoos is observed the triad Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva springing from the monad Brahm or Brahme.
Within the records of the earliest religions of Ethiopia or Arabia, Chaldea, Assyria, and Babylonia, is revealed the same monad principle in the Deity.
Without doubt this triad represents a monad Deity similar in character to the one observed in Egypt and other countries.
The vegetable becomes animal, and the animal becomes man, but one Monad runs through all these transformations.
The Monad had passed through elemental and mineral stages.
Monad is Jivatma or Jiva Atma or Atma as limited by every Jiva.
Each combination for the time being has its ruler, who is the viceroy of Ishvara, and who is called the Monad of that combination.
But Her mission was to act on the Monad itself, to cause the material tendency in it by means of Tamas.
By rulership over higher and higher combinations theMonad or Jivatma, ultimately approaches the state of Ishvara Himself and that is the goal of evolution in this universe.
The combination transforms, but the Monad remains constant.
The word Purusha here has something like the sense of a Monad in Theosophical literature.
The lowest monad has a mouth and means for propagating its kind, which do not belong to the primitive ovum of any higher animal.
There can be no monad without matter, that is, without society, and no soul without a body.
The Monad is unformed and imperishable; it has no natural end or beginning.
Wherever we behold an organic whole, (unum per se,) there monads are grouped around a centralmonad to which they are subordinate, and which they are constrained to serve so long as that connection lasts.
Every monadis subject to a multitude of affections and relations, although without parts.
The whole system of action in each monad, which fits with such infinite complexity the system of action in each other monad, is precisely the existence of that monad, and apart from it the monad is not.
According to the truth of things, each monad is simply its own mental life, its own world-view, its own thoughts and desires.
Defn: Having the form of a monad; resembling a monad in having one or more filaments of vibratile protoplasm; as, monadiform young.
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.
The Monad remains ever beyond the fivefold universe, and in that sense is a spectator.
The Monad takes to himself from the universe of matter atoms which show out the qualities corresponding to his three qualities, and in these he thinks, and wills and acts.
The Monad of Theosophy is the Jivatma of Indian philosophy, the Purusha of the Samkhya, the particularised Self of the Vedanta.
That triad is the reflection in the fivefold universe of the Monad beyond the fivefold universe.
We would not be able to comprehend how the soul, considered as a monad or simple element, should have by this fact the faculty of thinking, and yet two or several monads united and forming a body would not possess the same power.
