Among the Pythagoreans (followers of Pythagoras) the monad was the first thing that came into existence.
The monad begat the dyad, which begat the numbers, the numbers begat points, which begat lines, which begat two-dimensional entities, which begat three-dimensional entities, which begat bodies, which begat the four elements earth, water, fire and air, from which the rest of our world is built up.
The monad was thus a central concept in the cosmology of the Pythagoreans, who held the belief that the world was – literally – built up by numbers.
(The source of this claim is Diogenes Laertius’ book Lives of Eminent Philosophers.)
This from wikipedia of course…
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