Cosmic Matter

Cosmic Matter is the first differentiation of space or pre-cosmic substance. Mahatma K.H. defined it as "the imaginary materia prima itself one of the manifestations (6th principle) of the one element." This one element "not only fills space and is space, but interpenetrates every atom of cosmic matter."

In its highest aspect, this cosmic matter is equated with Akasha. According to H. P. Blavatsky, on the physical plane this cosmic matter is the origin of the “Milky Way”, the matter we know:

This “matter,” which, according to the revelation received from the primeval Dhyani-Buddhas, is, during the periodical sleep of the Universe, of the ultimate tenuity conceivable to the eye of the perfect Bodhisatva — this matter, radical and cool, becomes, at the first reawakening of cosmic motion, scattered through Space; appearing, when seen from the Earth, in clusters and lumps, like curds in thin milk. These are the seeds of the future worlds, the “Star-stuff.”

In the Theosophical view, the cosmic matter is eternal and during the maha-pralaya it reverts to the state of pre-cosmic substance.