chapter excerpt

 

    Purusha is the concept of a cosmic being whose sacrifice to engage in the material world gives rise to life and knowing; it’s the universal spirit present in everything and everyone all the time as a form neither male or female, but a supernal blend of both, which creates all consciousness, connecting all forms of life. Ancient writings have various names for Purusha’s forms, but first is Vishnu, who came forth from words spoken by Purusha. Vishnu is like the first fractal, where the outline of his form is made of smaller exact replicas, and the outline of them made of even smaller replicas, so that there are manifestations from Purusha all the way down to the human form. As above, so below, as one writing  says.

    The reason Purusha chose to manifest first as male is because humans, as part of an animal kingdom, need protection, and in our form of existence, in any dangerous situation the male is sent first simply because the male possesses additional physical might. Over the centuries many have come to worship Purusha under many names, as male or female, or a being that is both. The ancient writings set down all at once over four thousand years ago, are the words which transmit our origin story and precepts of spiritual knowledge, as an instruction manual for human life on Earth. The ancient writings as words and verses embody the moment Purusha sacrificed pure bliss for knowledge and understanding in a undefined universe.

    The ancient writings are in Sanskrit, a word that means together, positive, perfected, pure, polished, sacred. Sanskrit, like Cuneiform, spawned the majority of modern language, and the body of texts composed in Sanskrit set down in word the cosmology about Purusha are known as the Vedas. The Sanskrit word for Veda itself, as a noun, means knowledge/wisdom—derived from the root, to know. The Vedas are two-fold—what is heard and what is remembered—and have since their appearance been considered not of humans, impersonal and authoress sacred sound and text identified by mountain forrest-dwellers in what is now known as India, orally transmitted since two thousand years before Jesus Christ. The mantras, the oldest part of the Vedas, are recited in the modern age for their phonology, and are considered to be primordial frequencies of creation. According to the Vedas, in reciting them the cosmos is regenerated, enlivening and nourishing late forms of creation at their base.