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materia prima  Term Image (materia prima) Script Image
(Language:  Latin)
Alternate Spellings:
Short Description: "first or prime matter"; in Platonic cosmology, the undifferentiated and primordial substance
Long Description: "first or prime matter"; in Platonic cosmology, the undifferentiated and primordial substance serving as a "receptacle" for the shaping force of divine forms or ideas; universal potentiality.
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Source(s): The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, by Frithjof Schuon, edited by Dr. James S. Cutsinger
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Provided By: Dictionary of Spiritual Terms