materia prima (materia prima)

(Language: Latin)

Short Description: “first or prime matter”; in Platonic cosmology, the undifferentiated and primordial substance

Long Description: “first or prime matter”; in Platonic cosmology, the undifferentiated and primordial substance serving as a “receptacle” for the shaping force of divine forms or ideas; universal potentiality.

Sources: The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, by Frithjof Schuon, edited by Dr. James S. Cutsinger