The creations mentioned in the Hindu Puranas. These creations are preceded by an undifferentiated state or principle. They are listed by Helena P. BLAVATSKY as follows (from the Visnu Purana):

(1) Mahatattwa, the Universal Soul, Infinite Intellect, or Divine Mind; (2) Bhuta or Bhutasarga, elemental creation, the first differentiation of Universal indiscrete Substance; (3) Indriya or Aindriyaka, organic evolution. “These three were the Prakrita creations, the developments of indiscrete nature preceded by indiscrete principle”; (4) Mukhya, the fundamental creation of perceptible things, was that of inanimate bodies; (5) Tairyagyonya, or Tiryaksrotas, was that of animals; (6) Urdhwasrotas, or that of divinities(?); (7) Arvaksrotas, was that of man. (SD I:446)

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