Duties of a Dhyani-Chohan

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 6 pages

Six pages answering a good question well put. H.C. Niblett of Allahabad wrote to The Theosophist in May 1884 to say that he had read a great deal about the number seven and the chain of worlds to which the earth belongs — but did not understand why we should consider ourselves confined to that one chain, which is only one of several belonging to our sun, nor why Nirvana should be regarded as the final goal.

He presses the point with the astronomy he has: the number seven does not end with our own chain, since there are seven such chains attached to the sun; one planet is larger than another and at greater or less distance; Mercury and Venus are nearer than the earth, Mars and Jupiter and Saturn and Uranus further. Are these not our homes also — and if we pass in time through all the planetary systems of our sun, do we stop there and remain satisfied? The reply, published under the title Nirvana in the Collected Writings, is what gives the document its own heading, turning the question from where the journey ends to what the being who has arrived is then for.

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