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
