Studies in the Epics and Puranas c8.66

c8.66

"In the beginning the Ātman alone existed, and that there was no other blinking thing whatsoever. The Ātman thought to himself, let me create the worlds; whereupon he created the four worlds..... After these worlds were created the Ātman proceeded to create first a World-Person....whom he fashioned out of waters, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The Ātman then brooded upon this World- Person, and as a result of his brooding created first his various organs of sense, then the functions corresponding to them, and lastly the deities or the world-governors corresponding to such functions in the cosmos."