On the other hand, some of the older Upanishads show traces of an atheistic and materialistic (_asad_) philosophy, which is swallowed up in the growing inclination to personify the creative principle, and ultimately is lost in the erection of a personal Lord, as in the latest Upanishads.

This tendency to personify, with the increase of special sectarian gods, will lead again, after centuries, to the rehabilitation of a triad of gods, the _trim[=u]rti_, where unite Vishnu, Civa, and, with these, who are more powerful, Brahm[=a], the Praj[=a]pati of the Veda, as the All-god of purely pantheistic systems.

In the purer, older form recorded above, the _purusha_ (Person) is sprung from the _[=a]tm[=a]_.

There is no distinction between matter and spirit.

Conscious being (_sat_) wills, and so produces all.