The human soul is made for not existing alone. The world of man, as are all the lower spheres of created being, is essentially pluralist. The rational soul is by nature legion.
A more fully realized spirituality than our own is possible. Above the refinement and condensation of every material virtue in the substance that reflects and abstracts, there lies the anticipated concentration of all thoughts in a single Mind and a single Heart.
In their isolation, the monads began to hate one another, to fight for the leading place, to become intoxicated with independence and equality. Absorbed in their quarrels, they did not see that the whole swarm of them was falling headlong, and that, at the heart of each one, the fragmentation their jealousies were forcing on the world was inevitably being continued in the form of a deep-seated corruption.
What purity effects within the individual being, charity brings about within the collectivity of souls.