And whence are these?
Educed or evolved from the divine substance of Brahm.

Hence it is that the universe is so constantly spoken of, even by mythologists, as a manifested form of Brahm himself, the supreme, invisible spirit.

Hence, too, under the notion that it is the manifestation of a being who may assume every variety of corporeal form, is the universe often personified, or described as if its different parts were only the different members of a person, of prodigious magnitude, in human form.

It is declared that the hairs of his body are the trees of the forest; of his head, the clouds; of his beard, the lightning.

His breath is the circling atmosphere; his voice, the thunder; his eyes, the sun and moon; his veins, the rivers; his nails, the rocks; his bones, the lofty mountains![25] "The substantial fabrics of all worlds having now been framed and fitted up as the destined abodes of different orders of being, celestial, terrestrial, and infernal, the question next arises, How or by whom were produced the various organized forms which these orders of being were designed to animate?
Though hosts of subtle essences or souls flowed forth from Brahm, all of these remain inactive till united to some form of materialism.