When the adepts discovered how to access this shakti and the domain of matter and energy animated by it they were able to pinpoint the precise nature and characteristics of the forces governing our anatomy and physiology as well as all other aspects of nature. And to communicate this knowledge to those who had not had the direct experience, tantrics referred to these forces as “deities,” explaining that any deity (force) that dwells within us also dwells outside us. The deity that governs the formation of the human fetus, for example, also governs the germination of a seed.
