The concept of proto-consciousness, Roger Penrose's quantum mechanical unification of the ancient mysteries with science, is found in Greek as Protennoia (Forethought), the first thought within the divine light, in the Apocryphon [Secret Book] of John, and in Helena Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine as the divine, maternal root of all material, manifested reality:
"An illustration of proto-consciousness evolving into consciousness through increasingly complex thought forms that eventually manifest the body of the supreme female, [edit: a Nordic goddess], the perfectly manifested thought of the divine mind"