From the Greek word, meaning "one", "single" or "unique". It has ample descriptions according to different contexts: According to Pythagoras it was the first thing in existence. "A Valentinian Exposition" declares Father the "Monad". (See Sethian Monadology.) mo•nad; (mnd) n. 1. Philosophy; An indivisible, impenetrable unit of substance viewed as the basic constituent element of physical reality in the metaphysics of Leibnitz. 2. Biology; A single-celled microorganism, especially a flagellate protozoan of the genus "Monas". 3. Chemistry ; An atom or a radical with valence 1. (Online Webster"s Dic. See also; Wikipedia.) The Monadic sequence to the Triad is expressed is by the "Oracles of Zoroaster", which illuminates the sequence..... 25. The Monad first existed, and the Paternal Monad still subsists. 26. When the Monad is extended, the Dyad is generated. 27. And beside Him is seated the Dyad which glitters with intellectual sections,to govern all things and to order everything not ordered. 28. The Mind of the Father said that all things should be cut into Three, whose Will assented, and immediately all things were so divided. 29. The Mind of the Eternal Father said into Three, governing all things by Mind. 30. The Father mingled every Spirit from this Triad. 31. All things are supplied from the bosom of this Triad. 32. All things are governed and subsist in this Triad 33. For thou must know that all things bow before the Three Supernals. 34. From thence floweth forth the Form of the Triad, being preexistent; not the first Essence, but that whereby all things are measured. 35. And there appeared in it Virtue and Wisdom, and multiscient Truth. 36. For in each World shineth the Triad, over which the Monad ruleth". The "Three Supernals" is perhaps a reference to the Kabbalah, but probably refers to the state of Tripartite.