All Avataras Are Identical: Saviours from a Single Seed

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 26 pages

Avataras are described as sons of a Father who is secret, in a direct descent and line, their illusive form having neither past nor future. The historical part of the argument concerns the Buddha's two doctrines — one for the masses and his lay disciples, another for his Arhats — and the policy he and they followed: to refuse no one admission to the ranks of candidates for Arhatship, but never to divulge the final mysteries except to those who had proved themselves worthy through long years of probation.

The doctrine that gives the file its title is the mysterious principle in nature called Maha-Vishnu — not the god of that name but a principle containing Bija, the seed of Avatarism, the potency and cause of divine incarnations. All the world-saviours, the Bodhisattvas and the Avataras, are trees of salvation grown from that one seed, whether it is called Adi-Buddha or Maha-Vishnu; and in that esoteric sense Lord Buddha is an incarnation of Maha-Vishnu. Between the dogma of a newly created soul for each birth and the physiological assumption of a temporary animal soul lies the region of the occult teachings and their twin doctrine of Karma and reincarnation, which the file divides into three classes: divine incarnations or Avataras; adepts who give up Nirvana to help humanity, the Nirmanakayas; and the natural succession of rebirths for the common man.

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