Jagad Yoni

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Jagad Yoni (devanāgarī: जगद्योनि, from jagat, "world" and yoni, "womb") is a Sanskrit term usually translated as the "womb of the world." According to H. P. Blavatsky, however, the jagad-yoni "is scarcely so much 'the Mother of the World' or 'the Womb of the World' as the 'Material Cause of the Universe'."[1] She also related it to the Gnostic concept of Pleroma:

The Plêrôma or Plenum must be distinguished from Mûlaprakriti. The Plerôma is infinite manifestation in manifestation, the Jagad Yoni or Golden Egg: Mûlaprakriti is an abstraction, the Root of the Jagad Yoni, the Womb of the Universe, or the Egg of Brahmâ.[2]

Notes

  1. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 46.
  2. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. XI (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 491.