Argument:—Siva is the Representation of the Pure Intellect; but Bhairava & Káli are not so. Explanation of the causes of such representations and Personifications. Vasishtha added:—I have already related to you, that Siva is the representation of the vacuous intellect; but not so is Rudra, whom I have described as dancing all about. 2. The form that is attributed to him (or to the goddess kálí); is not their real figure; but a representation of the grosser aspect of intellectual vacuity (which is of a dark complexion). 3. I saw with my intellectual and clear vision (clair-voyance), that sphere of the intellect in its clear, bright and clear light (as that of Siva’s body); but it did not appear so to others, who beheld it in their ignorance, to be as dark as the black complexion of the associate goddess. (There is shadow under the lamp). 4. I saw at the end of the kalpa cycle, the two spectres of delusion, appearing before me; the one was the furious Rudra, and the other—the ferocious Bhairava; and knew them both to be but delusion, and creatures of my mistaken fancy. 5. The great chasm which is seen to exist in the vacuous sphere of the Intellect, the same is supposed to be conceived under the idea of a vast void, represented as the dreadful Bhairava. 6. We can have no conception of anything, without knowing the relation, the significant term and its signification; it is for that reason that I related this to you, as I found it to be. 7. Whatever idea is conveyed to the mind by the significant term, know Ráma, the very same to be presently presented before the outward sight by the power of delusion and as a magical appearance. 8. In reality there is no destruction, nor the destructive power of Bhairava or Bhairaví (in the masculine or feminine gender); all these are but erroneous conceptions fleeting in the empty space of the intellect. (It is the bias of the mind, which presents these hobgoblins to sight). 9. These appearances are as those of the cities seen in our dream, or as a warfare shewn in our fancy; they are as the utopian realms of one’s imagination, or as the fits of our feelings on some pathetic and heart stirring description. 10. As the fairy castle is seen in the field of fancy, and strings of pearls hanging in the empty air; and as mists and vapours darken the clear atmosphere, so are there the troops of fallacies flying all about the firmament of the intellect. 11. But the clear sky of the pure intellect, shines of itself in itself; and when it shines in that state, it shows the world in itself. 12. The soul exhibits itself in its intellectual sphere, in the same manner as a figure is seen in picture; and the soul manifests also in the raging fire of final destruction. (The same soul is equally manifest in the subjective, as well as in the objective, _i.e._ both in itself as in all other things whatsoever).