The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and PhilosophyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Religion
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
The greatest, as the most puzzling mystery of the first type lies in the
fact, that such re‐birth in a human body of the personal Ego of some
particular Adept—when it has been dwelling in the Mâyâvi or the Kâma Rûpa,
and remaining in the Kâma Loka—may happen even when his “Higher
Principles” are in the state of Nirvâna.(651) Let it be understood that
the above expressions are used for popular purposes, and therefore that
what is written does not deal with this deep and mysterious question from
the _highest_ plane, that of absolute spirituality, nor again from the
highest philosophical point of view, comprehensible but to the very few.
It must not be supposed that anything can go into Nirvâna which is not
eternally there; but human intellect in conceiving the Absolute must put
It as the highest term in an indefinite series. If this be borne in mind a
great deal of misconception will be avoided. The content of this spiritual
evolution is the material on various planes with which the Nirvânî was in
contact prior to his attainment of Nirvâna. The plane on which this is
true, being in the series of illusive planes, is undoubtedly not the
highest. Those who search for that must go to the right source of study,
the teachings of the _Upanishads_, and must go in the right spirit. Here
we attempt only to indicate the direction in which the search is to be
made, and in showing a few of the mysterious Occult possibilities we do
not bring our readers actually to the goal. The ultimate truth can be
communicated only from Guru to initiated pupil.
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