Universal Cosmic Law The Seven Principles

The Ancient Wisdom of Hermes and the manifestation of "humans" and "matter."

13. For the Mind being God, [THE ALL], Male and Female [the Principle of Gender], Life and Light [SPIRIT], brought forth by his Word; another Mind [a Spirit; a ray of Light, a Life from the great Central Sun], the Workman [the Soul]; which being God of the Fire, and the Spirit, fashioned and formed seven other Governors, which in their Circles [the Chakras] contain the Sensible World [the manifestation of human consciousness and the five bodily senses into the Physical Plane], whose Government or Disposition is called Fate or Destiny [the freedom and responsibility of humanity's thinking and actions; the consequences that follow as governed by Mental LAW; "Cause and Effect" and the "Fate or Destiny" in the evolution of humans].

.14. Straightway leaped out, or exalted itself [man's distinct physical manifestation from the lower Planes of Being and Elements] from the downward-born Elements of God [the continuous downward manifestation of physical matter], the Word of God [active Universal Cosmic Law] into the clean and pure Workmanship of Nature, and was united to the Workman, Mind [humans and their surrounding environment of Nature], for it was Consubstantial; and so the downward born Elements of Nature were left without Reason [the lowering degrees of vibratory energy and the diminishing consciousness of atomic particles], that they might be the only Matter [The atomic composition of the Great Physical Plane as perceived and interpreted by the human Mind; the utilization of sensory perception of eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin, of the body (consciousness) to interact with the surrounding environment and other humans]. The loss of the body or disembodiment deprives a person, specifically, of "Conscious Life." It is not a loss of Life because LIFE is perpetual and without discontinuity; it can never be lost. It can only change the perception and experience of Conscious Life because it is subject to the Principle of RHYTHM.]

Divine Pymander (1650) Page 34

This should solve the question of which came first --"the chicken or the egg?"