From the state of perfect quiescence and tranquillity of the supremely Holy spirit, the universe rose to being in the manner, which you must hear with your best understanding and attention. 2. As sound sleep displays itself in visionary dreams, so does Brahma manifest himself in the works of creation, of which he is the soul and receptacle: (_i.e._ who contains and forms and enlivens the whole). 3. The world, which of its nature is continually progressive in its course, is identic with the essence of that Being, whose form is selfsame with the ineffable glory of his eternally gemming Intellect (_chin-mani_). 4. This _chit_ or Intellect, then (_i.e._ after its inert quiescence), gets of itself an intellection (_chetyá_) in itself, before assuming to itself consciousness or the knowledge of egoism. (This is the first stage of the percipient soul). 5. Then this thinking Intellect (_chetya-chit_), gets the notions (_bodhas_) of some faint images (_úhita-rúpas_), which are purer and lighter than air, and which have received their names and forms afterwards. (The innate ideas are born in it before the embryonic mind or soul). 6. Afterwards this transcendent essence (Intellect), becomes an intelligent principle (_sacheta_), and eager for intelligence (_chetana_). It is now worthy of its name as Intellect or _chit_, on account of its attaining to what is called intelligence. 7. Lastly it takes the form of gross consciousness (_ghana-samvedana_), and receives the name of the living soul—_jíva_. It now loses its divine nature by reflecting on itself: (_i.e._ its own personality). 8. This living principle, is then involved in thoughts relating to the world only; but depends by its nature on the divine essence: (as the fallacy of the snake, depends on the substance of the rope).[11] 9. Afterwards there rises a void space into being, called _Kham—vacuum_ (Arabic _Kháviyetun_), which is the seed or source of the property of sound, and which became expressive of meaning afterwards. (It is called _ákása_ or sky-light from _kása_ to shine, as light was the first work of God). 10. Next in order are produced the elements of egoism and duration in the living soul (_i.e._ the simultaneousness of the ideas of self-entity and duration in the living principle). And these two terms, are the roots of the subsistence of future worlds. (_i.e._ The individuality and durability of things). 11. This ideal knowledge, of the unreal forms of the net-work of world, in divine Spirit, was made to appear as a reality by the Omnipotent power. (_i.e._ The ideal world appeared afterwards as real). 12. Thus the ideal self-consciousness became the seed (or root) of the tree of desires, which were vacillated by egoism in the form of air. 13. The intellect in the form of the airy ego, thinks on the element of sounds (_sabda tanmátram_); it becomes by degrees denser than the rarefied air, and produces the element of mind.