Esoteric versus Tantric Tattvas (Table)

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Joseph-Louis de Boussac · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 1 page

A single landscape sheet setting the esoteric tattvas side by side with the Tantric ones, so that the two schemes can be compared at a glance rather than reconstructed from scattered passages. The left half of the table lists the seven esoteric tattvas as principles or forces in nature and man — Adi, Anupapadaka, Akasha or Alaya, and the rest — each with its corresponding principle, its state of matter, the part of the body it governs, and its colour.

The right half gives the Tantric tattvas against the same four columns. The comparison is the point of the sheet: the first two esoteric tattvas have no Tantric counterpart at all and are marked "Ignored" across every column, and the correspondences that do exist often differ in colour, as with Akasha, indigo in the esoteric column and black or colourless in the Tantric. Compiled from Blavatsky with material from Joseph-Louis de Boussac. It is a reference sheet rather than a text, intended to be printed and kept beside the longer studies in this series.

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