prima materia
Noun
Meaning
prima materia (uncountable)
(alchemy) The primitive formless base of all matter, which is the starting material required for the magnum opus and the creation of the philosopher's stone.
Examples
On this view it could be said that fields are prima materia and the energy is a property of the field.
This enables the ontological view that energy is prima materia and matter is one of its forms.