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The creations mentioned in the Hindu Puranas. These creations are preceded by an undifferentiated state or principle. They are listed by Helena P. BLAVATSKY as follows (from the ''Visnu Purana''): | The creations mentioned in the Hindu Puranas. These creations are preceded by an undifferentiated state or principle. They are listed by Helena P. BLAVATSKY as follows (from the ''Visnu Purana''): | ||
| − | + | (1) ''Mahatattwa'', the Universal Soul, Infinite Intellect, or Divine Mind; (2) ''Bhuta or Bhutasarga'', elemental creation, the first differentiation of Universal indiscrete Substance; (3) Indriya or Aindriyaka, organic evolution. “These three were the Prakrita creations, the ''developments of indiscrete nature'' preceded by indiscrete principle”; (4) ''Mukhya'', the fundamental creation of perceptible things, was that of inanimate bodies; (5) ''Tairyagyonya'', or ''Tiryaksrotas'', was that of animals; (6) ''Urdhwasrotas'', or that of divinities(?); (7) ''Arvaksrotas'', was that of man. (''SD'' I:446) | |
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The creations mentioned in the Hindu Puranas. These creations are preceded by an undifferentiated state or principle. They are listed by Helena P. BLAVATSKY as follows (from the Visnu Purana):
(1) Mahatattwa, the Universal Soul, Infinite Intellect, or Divine Mind; (2) Bhuta or Bhutasarga, elemental creation, the first differentiation of Universal indiscrete Substance; (3) Indriya or Aindriyaka, organic evolution. “These three were the Prakrita creations, the developments of indiscrete nature preceded by indiscrete principle”; (4) Mukhya, the fundamental creation of perceptible things, was that of inanimate bodies; (5) Tairyagyonya, or Tiryaksrotas, was that of animals; (6) Urdhwasrotas, or that of divinities(?); (7) Arvaksrotas, was that of man. (SD I:446)
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