The alchemist sought to dissolve and then fuse his own physical matter and spirit with the prime matter of the universe.
These efforts at the reduction into prime matter were thought to make possible the re-creation of individual and cosmos as a single, pure element.
Ibn al-ʿArabī gave this principle numerous names, including prime "matter" (ʿunṣur), and characterized it as the principle "whose existence makes manifest the essences of the potential worlds".
Matter emanates directly from the deity as a prime matter that supports all substances and even the "intelligent" substances, the sphere-moving powers and angels.
Fitzgerald and Hemingway, coming out of the orgy of another war, had the same problem, but it didn't prevent them from writing about sex and family, or from taking their prewar experiences as prime matter.
Bernard tells the story of Natura asking Noys to bring some order to prime matter.
Homer is prime matter, in the Aristotelian sense of a substratum always aligned with form.
Prime matter has substantially different parts, sharing an essence that is one by analogy.
Grosseteste treats bodies as composites of a first or prime matter and a corresponding first form.
In order to signal this, we can call the matter prime matter, first matter.
Naked prime matter receives first the form of the most general genus, substance, and through this form prime matter is divided into numerically distinct things (only form distinguishes; QLIIS 16, 60).
