But if there has been no judgment, how can we tell who is in purgatory, and who are the saints? This question seems to have stirred Cardinal Newman, and he attempted an answer in his "Dream of St. Gerontius." Christ has a "rehearsal of judgment." This is, of course, preposterous. CHAPTER X. _Johannine Buddhism._ The Indians of old observed that one portion of the sky was dark at night and one portion lit with stars. They judged that the dark portion was spirit--primary substance, and that the light portion was the same substance made tangible to the senses under the form of matter. The Buddhists took over these ideas and called the dark portion Nirvritti and the light portion Pravritti. In Nirvritti dwelt the formless, passionless, inconceivable God--Swayambhu the Self-Existent. Pravritti contained numerous world-systems (Buddha-Kshetras), the Ogdoads of the Gnostics. These christened Nirvritti "Buthos," and Pravritti, the luminous worlds, the "Pleroma." In Buddhism, Pravritti was presided over by five beings, emanations from Swayambhu. These are announced in the Buddhist books to be simply the attributes of Swayambhu personified. They were probably invented to provide the vulgar with a substitute for the old Brahmin hierarchy. Each has a Sakti (wife, female energy). I give a list of them with their Saktis, and the divine attributes that they personify. ATTRIBUTES. | DHYANI BUDDHAS. | SAKTIS. | | Su-vis'uddha Dharma | Vairochana. | Vajra Dhateswatî. Dhâtu. (Purifying | (Sun-born.) | (Goddess of eternal law.) | | eternal elements.) | | Adarsana. | Akshobhya. | Lochanâ. (Invisibility). | (Immovable.) | (Eye goddess.) | | Prativekshana. (Eyes | Ratna-Sambhava. | Mamukhî. that sleep not.) | (Born of the jewel.) | | | Sânta. (Calmness.) | Amitabha. (Diffusing | Pândarâ. | infinite light.) | (Pale goddess.) | | Krityânushtana. | Amogha-Siddha. | Târâ. (Star.) (One who performs | (Unfailing aim.) | rites.) | | Turning to Basilides we find that he placed in Buthos the "Unnameable," a being similar to Swayambhu. From the Unnameable emanated also five beings, whom he called Æons (Eternals), a substitute for the Dhyani Buddhas. Their names were Nous (Mind), Logos (Speech), Phronesis (Prudence), Sophia (Wisdom), Dunamis (Power). Plainly these also are simply divine attributes personified, the five Dhyani Buddhas.