'Then that Being having said, Let me make each of these three tripartite (so that fire, water, and earth should each have itself for its principal ingredient, besides an admixture of the other two) entered into those three beings (devatâ) with this living self only, and revealed names and forms.

In plain words: The Being mixed fire, water and earth so each one also holds a little of the other two. Then it entered them as the living Self and gave things their names and forms.