(Sanskrit पुरुष) A term with many potential meanings, depending upon context. Ultimately, “supreme self or being.” It can also mean “soul, spirit, person, people.”
“Behind this world show, behind this physical phenomena, behind these names and forms, behind the feelings, thoughts, emotions, sentiments, there dwells the silent witness, thy immortal Friend and real Well-wisher, the Purusha or the World-teacher, the invisible Power or Consciousness.” – Swami Sivananda, God Exists
“That secondless Supreme Being, who resides in the chambers of your heart as the Inner Ruler or Controller, who has no beginning, middle or end, is God or Atman, or Brahman or Purusha or Chaitanya or Bhagavan or Purushottama.” – Swami Sivananda
(Aztec; literally “Feathered Serpent”) “Quetzalcoatl is the Verb, the Great Word, the Platonic Logos, the Demiurge Architect of the Universe, the Creator.
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They were watchful in the things of God;
They had only one God;
They had him as one only God;
They invoked him,
They pleaded to him.
His name was Quetzalcoatl.
And so respectful were they
In the things of God,
That everything that he said to them,
Their priest Quetzalcoatl,
They fulfilled it, they did not deform it.
He said to them, he instructed them:
“That unique God,
Quetzalcoatl is his name.
He demands nothing
But serpents, but butterflies,
That you must offer to him,
That you must sacrifice to him.”
—Códice Matritense
The White race created by Ometecuhtli-Omecihuatl.
