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prakriti (prakṛti)

(Language: Sanskrit)

Alternate Spellings: prakrti

Short Description: Literally, “making first”

Long Description: Literally, “making first” (see materia prima); the fundamental, “feminine” substance or material cause of all things; see “purusha (puruṣa).

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