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{{Style P-No indent|Sankarâchârya (''Viveka Chudâmani'') *, and the reader will realize what is now said.}} | {{Style P-No indent|Sankarâchârya (''Viveka Chudâmani'') *, and the reader will realize what is now said.}} | ||
While the Christian is taught that the human soul is a breath of God — being created by him for sempiternal existence, ''i.e.'', having a beginning, ''but no end ''(and therefore never to be called eternal) — the Occult teaching says, “ ''Nothing is created'', ''but is only transformed. ''Nothing can manifest itself in this universe — from a globe down to a vague, rapid thought — that was not in the universe already ; everything on the subjective plane is an eternal is ; as everything on the objective plane is an ''ever becoming'' — because transitory.” | While the Christian is taught that the human soul is a breath of God — being created by him for sempiternal existence, ''i.e.'', having a beginning, ''but no end ''(and therefore never to be called eternal) — the Occult teaching says, “ ''Nothing is created'', ''but is only transformed. ''Nothing can manifest itself in this universe — from a globe down to a vague, rapid thought — that was not in the universe already ; everything on the subjective plane is an eternal {{Style S-Small capitals|is}} ; as everything on the objective plane is an ''ever becoming'' — because transitory.” | ||
The monad — a truly “ indivisible thing,” as defined by Good, who did not give it the sense we now do — is here rendered as the ''Atma ''in conjunction with ''Buddhi ''and the higher Manas. This trinity is one and eternal, the latter being absorbed in the former at the termination of all conditioned and ''illusive ''life. The monad, then, can be traced through the course of its pilgrimage and its changes of transitory vehicles only from the incipient stage of the manifested Universe. In Pralaya, or the intermediate period between two manvantaras, it loses its name, as it loses it when the real one self of man merges ''into Brahm ''in cases of high Samadhi (the ''Turiya ''state) or final Nirvana ; “ when the disciple ” in the words of Sankara, “ having attained that primeval consciousness, absolute bliss, of which the nature is truth, which is without form and action, abandons this illusive body that has been assumed by the ''atma ''just as an actor (abandons) the dress (put on).” For Buddhi (the ''Anandamaya sheath'') is but a mirror which ''reflects ''absolute bliss ; and, moreover, ''that reflection ''itself is yet not free from ignorance, and is ''not ''the Supreme Spirit, being subject to conditions, being a spiritual modification of Prakriti, and an effect ; ''Atma ''alone is the one real and eternal substratum of all — the essence and absolute knowledge — the ''Kshetragna.'' † It is called in the Esoteric philosophy “ the One Witness,” | The monad — a truly “ indivisible thing,” as defined by Good, who did not give it the sense we now do — is here rendered as the ''Atma ''in conjunction with ''Buddhi ''and the higher Manas. This trinity is one and eternal, the latter being absorbed in the former at the termination of all conditioned and ''illusive ''life. The monad, then, can be traced through the course of its pilgrimage and its changes of transitory vehicles only from the incipient stage of the manifested Universe. In Pralaya, or the intermediate period between two manvantaras, it loses its name, as it loses it when the real one self of man merges ''into Brahm ''in cases of high Samadhi (the ''Turiya ''state) or final Nirvana ; “ when the disciple ” in the words of Sankara, “ having attained that primeval consciousness, absolute bliss, of which the nature is truth, which is without form and action, abandons this illusive body that has been assumed by the ''atma ''just as an actor (abandons) the dress (put on).” For Buddhi (the ''Anandamaya sheath'') is but a mirror which ''reflects ''absolute bliss ; and, moreover, ''that reflection ''itself is yet not free from ignorance, and is ''not ''the Supreme Spirit, being subject to conditions, being a spiritual modification of Prakriti, and an effect ; ''Atma ''alone is the one real and eternal substratum of all — the essence and absolute knowledge — the ''Kshetragna.'' † It is called in the Esoteric philosophy “ the One Witness,” | ||