(Theosophical/Tibetan) A term used by H.P. Blavatsky to represent the active (male) potency of the Shakti (female sexual power) in nature, the essence of cosmic electricity, vital force. As explained in The Secret Doctrine, “He (Fohat) is, metaphysically, the objectivised thought of the gods; the “Word made flesh” on a lower scale, and the messenger of Cosmic and human ideations: the active force in Universal Life.… In India, Fohat is connected with Vishnu and Surya in the early character of the (first) God; for Vishnu is not a high god in the Rig Veda. The name Vishnu is from the root vish, “to pervade,” and Fohat is called the “Pervader” and the Manufacturer, because he shapes the atoms from crude material...” The term fohat has recently been linked with the Tibetan verb phro-wa and the noun spros-pa. These two terms are listed in Jäschke’s Tibetan-English Dictionary (1881) as, for phro-wa, “to proceed, issue, emanate from, to spread, in most cases from rays of light…” while for spros-pa he gives “business, employment, activity.”