"_Brahma_ is the A, thither goes the ego" (2.3.8.

7).

"A is the whole of Speech, and Speech is Truth, and Truth is Spirit" (2.3.6.

5-14).[16] "The Spirit brooded over the water, and form (matter) was born" (2.4.3.1 ff.); so physically water is the origin of all things" (2.1.8.

1).[17] "Whatever belongs to the father belongs to the son, whatever belongs to the son belongs to the father" (_ib_.).