The Triple Mystery of Buddha's Embodiment

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 8 pages

A short piece that begins from a biographical moment. Just before leaving Würzburg, Blavatsky had sent a manuscript of The Secret Doctrine to Adyar for the opinions of H.S. Olcott and T. Subba Row, and in a letter to Countess Constance Wachtmeister expressing grave doubts that her failing health would let her finish the book she gave the first hint of a triple mystery: that she was cold as ice, that four doses of digitalis in a day could not quiet the heart, and that the night before, instead of going to bed, she had been made to write until one o'clock — the triple mystery given out, one she had thought would never be given out. The sentence breaks off there.

The rest of the file is an attempt to say what that mystery was, working from the Commentary she cites: that having reached the Path of Deliverance from transmigration one cannot perform Tulpa any longer, for to become a Parinirvani is to close the circle of the septenary Ku-Sum, having merged the borrowed Dorjesempa or Vajrasattva into the Universal and become one with it. The seven ku-sum, the triple form of the nirvanic state and their respective duration, belong to doctrines she says orientalists know nothing of; and the witness she offers is the Nirmanakaya, the doctrine no orientalist understood in her day but which she directs Dr Hübbe-Schleiden to find in the second and third treatises of The Voice of the Silence.

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