Inside The Monad

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INSIDE THE MONAD

--ran into an old Pythagorean
(or: DNA Morphs TokenSpace, a little …. Creating tokentaulogies in texts.)

From the Doxographical writings.

Hippol. Phil.2; Dox. 555 …”And thus he (Pythagoras) asserted that god is a monad.”
(“god” here is a historical redaction, adding whatever later use of the predicate implied)

“Number is the first principle …and the first principle of numbers is in substance the first monad, which is a male monad, begetting as a father all other numbers….”


The common notion connecting the Monad and Father-ness is “principle of origin of sequence”, i.e., the sequence of next-number-next-number …, and of children’s children, children …, respectively. This would be the metaphysical connection Pythagoras extrapolated from “First, or originating principle” according to both text and token.” Unity is in “the beginning”, as the first number is in all the rest by their repetition of “it” each time to get the next. This is the unity of text – of unity, itself. Unity in “the beginning” of a son’s blood-line is in the Father’s seed. This is known now, only quite recently in the span of historical time, in fact, to be an anatomical form materialized in the genetic DNA code. Previously, the morphological regularities would be recognized by instinctive participation, to wit: “And he dealt with magic, as they say, and himself discovered the art of physiognomy.” (What you know is gonna show…?)

Projective, it is now said, from the experiential base of the fetal origins of experience. The Monad is both: a projection of the emerging “womb-surround” awareness, after the fetus has undergone development in there, then endured the trauma of birth to get out; and, of the unity of the total sensory environment that bursts in as if from the sky. These twin projections entwine one another, the way the Monad did with the Father (and ‘god’). Then, these, too. entwine.

For, both these Dyad-summarizers, the DNA code and the projected womb-surround from the fetal origins of experience, are quite recent intellectual arrivals, each of monumental importance in the history of civilization, together (with the pill) constituting a veritable revolution in understanding the context of sign-use.

“Sense-perception is deceptive” …. But …”Each of the sensations is pure, proceeding from each single element. With reference to vision, it was the nature of aether; hearing, of the nature of wind; smell, of the nature of fire; taste, of the nature of moisture; touch, of the nature of earth. iv.14;405

This congruence of senses to the four natures, earth, water, fire, air (as wind/aether) is not to my knowledge referred to by any later natural philosophers or epistemologists. Yet surely must have strongly reinforced his perception into perception, with the intellect, which is identified with the monad.

“The monad, however, is intelligence, for intelligence sees according to the monad. As for example, men are made up of many parts, and part by part they are devoid of sense and comprehension and experience, yet we perceive that man as one alone, whom no being resembles, possesses these qualities; and we perceive that a horse is one, but by part it is without experience….For the are all forms and classes according to monads. Wherefore, assigning this limit with reference to each one of these, they speak of a reasoning being and a neighing being. On this account the monad is intelligence by which we perceive these things.”