Brahma

• Vedic deity-father principle

94:1.4Def­i­nite henothe­is­tic de­vel­op­ments were pav­ing the way for an evolved mono­the­ism. Agni, the most an­cient de­ity, was of­ten ex­alted as the fa­ther-head of the en­tire pan­theon. The de­ity-fa­ther prin­ci­ple, some­times called Pra­jap­ati, some­times termed Brahma, was sub­merged in the the­o­logic bat­tle which the Brah­man priests later fought with the Salem teach­ers. The Brah­man was con­ceived as the en­ergy-di­vin­ity prin­ci­ple ac­ti­vat­ing the en­tire Vedic pan­theon.

• member of Hindu trinity; identified with fate

94:4.42. The Trimurti, the su­preme trin­ity of Hin­duism. In this as­so­ci­a­tion Brahma, the first mem­ber, is con­ceived as be­ing self-cre­ated out of the Brah­man—in­fin­ity. Were it not for close iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with the pan­the­is­tic In­fi­nite One, Brahma could con­sti­tute the foun­da­tion for a con­cept of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Brahma is also iden­ti­fied with fate.

• member of Hindu trinity; identified with fate

104:1.5Among the Hin­dus the trini­tar­ian con­cept took root as Be­ing, In­tel­li­gence, and Joy. (A later In­dian con­cep­tion was Brahma, Siva, and Vishnu.) While the ear­lier Trin­ity por­tray­als were brought to In­dia by the Sethite priests, the later ideas of the Trin­ity were im­ported by the Salem mis­sion­ar­ies and were de­vel­oped by the na­tive in­tel­lects of In­dia through a com­pound­ing of these doc­trines with the evo­lu­tion­ary triad con­cep­tions.