Occult Metaphysics Unriddled from Misconceptions

Gautama Buddha, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 14 pages

Presented as a hitherto unpublished discourse of Gautama Buddha reconciling the metaphysical beliefs of the Buddhists of the Northern and Southern churches. The metaphysical ground is laid first: for the occultist the terms Space and Universe are one and the same, the universe being a combination of a thousand elements and yet the expression of one element — a chaos to the sense, a cosmos to the reason — and the anima mundi or world-soul is not Deity but a manifestation.

On matter the position is that its visible effects are the effects of force, and that what is now called matter is only the aggregation of atomic forces; outside that, for science, the word is void of sense. Beyond the illusion of duality there is neither matter nor spirit but Will and Manifestation, and while the matter of science may be dead and utterly passive for all objective purposes, to the occultist not an atom of it can be dead. The last section takes up what the file calls the capital error of the orientalists — that Nirvana, and the Moksha of the Vedantins, is a synonym for annihilation — arguing that the term nihil meant no-thing to the ancient philosophers, and that Buddhism, founded on secret doctrines rather than dogmas, does not teach annihilation.

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