Quotes:Svabhavika

H. P. Blavatsky

Svâbhâvika. The oldest existing school of Buddhism. They assigned the manifestation of the universe and physical phenomena to Svabhâva or respective nature of things. According to Wilson the Svabhâvas of things are “the inherent properties of the qualities by which they act, as soothing, terrific or stupefying, and the forms Swarûpas are the distinction of biped, quadruped, brute, fish, animal and the like ”.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Svabhavika