Is this annihilation, as some think? Or _atheism_, as other critics—the worshippers of a _personal_ deity, and believers in an unphilosophical paradise—are inclined to suppose? Neither. It is worse than useless to return to the question of implied atheism, in that which is _spirituality_ of a most refined character. To see in Nirvâna annihilation, amounts to saying of a man plunged in a sound _dreamless_ sleep—_one that leaves no impression on the physical memory and brain, because the sleeper’s Higher Self is then in its original state of Absolute Consciousness_—that he, too, is annihilated. The latter simile answers to one side of the question only—the most material; since _reäbsorption_ is by no means such a “dreamless sleep,” but, on the contrary, _Absolute_ Existence, an unconditioned unity, or a state, to describe which human language is absolutely and hopelessly inadequate. The only approach to anything like a comprehensive conception of it can be attempted solely in the panoramic visions of the Soul, through spiritual ideations of the divine Monad. Nor is the Individuality—_nor even the essence of the Personality_, if any be left behind—lost, because reäbsorbed. For, however limitless from a human standpoint, the paranirvânic state, yet it has a limit in Eternity. Once reached, the same Monad will _reëmerge_ therefrom, as a still higher being, on a far higher plane, to recommence its cycle of perfected activity. The human mind, in its present stage of development, cannot transcend, scarcely can it reach this plane of thought. It totters here, on the brink of incomprehensible Absoluteness and Eternity.