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:6 {{Style S-Small capitals|The seven sublime Lords and the seven Truths had ceased to be}} (''a''), {{Style S-Small capitals|and the Universe, the son of necessity, was immersed in Paranishpanna}} (''b'') (absolute perfection, Paranirvana, which is Yong-Grüb) {{Style S-Small capitals|to be out-breathed by that which is and yet is not. Naught was}} (''c'').

:6 {{Style S-Small capitals|The seven sublime Lords and the seven Truths had ceased to be}} (''a''), {{Style S-Small capitals|and the Universe, the son of necessity, was immersed in Paranishpanna}} (''b'') (absolute perfection, Paranirvana, which is Yong-Grüb) {{Style S-Small capitals|to be out-breathed by that which is and yet is not. Naught was}} (''c'').

(''a'') The seven sublime lords are the Seven Creative Spirits, the DhyanChohans, who correspond to the Hebrew Elohim. It is the same hierarchy of Archangels to which St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and others belong, in the Christian theogony. Only while St. Michael, for instance, is allowed in dogmatic Latin theology to watch over all the promontories and gulfs, in the Esoteric System, the Dhyanis watch successively over one of the Rounds and the great Root-races of our planetary chain. They are, moreover, said to send their Bhodisatvas, the human correspondents of the Dhyani-Buddhas (of whom ''vide infra'') during every Round and Race. Out of the Seven Truths and Revelations, or rather revealed secrets, four only have been handed to us, as we are still in the Fourth Round, and the world also has only had four Buddhas, so far. This is a very complicated question, and will receive more ample treatment later on.

(''a'') The seven sublime lords are the Seven Creative Spirits, the DhyanChohans, who correspond to the Hebrew Elohim. It is the same hierarchy of Archangels to which St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and others belong, in the Christian theogony. Only while St. Michael, for instance, is allowed in dogmatic Latin theology to watch over all the promontories and gulfs, in the Esoteric System, the Dhyanis watch successively over one of the Rounds and the great Root-races of our planetary chain. They are, moreover, said to send their Bhodisatvas, the human correspondents of the Dhyani-Buddhas (of whom ''vide infra'') during every Round and Race. Out of the Seven Truths and Revelations, or rather revealed secrets, four only have been handed to us, as we are still in the Fourth Round, and the world also has only had four Buddhas, so far. This is a very complicated question, and will receive more ample treatment later on.

So far “ There are only Four Truths, and Four Vedas ” — say the Hindus and Buddhists. For a similar reason Irenæus insisted on the necessity of Four Gospels. But as every new Root-race at the head of a Round must have its revelation and revealers, the next Round will bring the Fifth, the following the Sixth, and so on.

So far “ There are only Four Truths, and Four Vedas ” — say the Hindus and Buddhists. For a similar reason Irenæus insisted on the necessity of Four Gospels. But as every new Root-race at the head of a Round must have its revelation and revealers, the next Round will bring the Fifth, the following the Sixth, and so on.

(''b'') ''“ Paranishpanna ”'' is the absolute perfection to which all existences attain at the close of a great period of activity, or Maha-Manvantara, and in which they rest during the succeeding period of repose. In Tibetan it is called Yong-Grüb. Up to the day of the Yogâchârya school the true nature of Paranirvana was taught publicly, but since then it has become entirely esoteric ; hence so many contradictory interpretations of it. It is only a true Idealist who can understand it. Everything has to be viewed as ideal, with the exception of Paranirvana, by him who would comprehend that state, and acquire a knowledge of how Non Ego, Voidness, and Darkness are Three in One and alone Self-existent and perfect. It is absolute, however, only in a relative

(''b'') ''“ Paranishpanna ”'' is the absolute perfection to which all existences attain at the close of a great period of activity, or Maha-Manvantara, and in which they rest during the succeeding period of repose. In Tibetan it is called Yong-Grüb. Up to the day of the Yogâchârya school the true nature of Paranirvana was taught publicly, but since then it has become entirely esoteric ; hence so many contradictory interpretations of it. It is only a true Idealist who can understand it. Everything has to be viewed as ideal, with the exception of Paranirvana, by him who would comprehend that state, and acquire a knowledge of how Non Ego, Voidness, and Darkness are Three in One and alone Self-existent and perfect. It is absolute, however, only in a relative

The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of “ the Great Breath,” which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute — Abstract Space and Duration being the other two. When the “ Great Breath ” is projected, it is called the Divine Breath, and is regarded as the breathing of the Unknowable Deity — the One Existence — which breathes out a thought, as it were, which becomes the Kosmos. (See “ Isis Unveiled.”) So also is it when the Divine Breath is inspired again the Universe disappears into the bosom of “ the Great Mother,” who then sleeps “ wrapped in her invisible robes.”

The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of “ the Great Breath,” which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute — Abstract Space and Duration being the other two. When the “ Great Breath ” is projected, it is called the Divine Breath, and is regarded as the breathing of the Unknowable Deity — the One Existence — which breathes out a thought, as it were, which becomes the Kosmos. (See “ Isis Unveiled.”) So also is it when the Divine Breath is inspired again the Universe disappears into the bosom of “ the Great Mother,” who then sleeps “ wrapped in her invisible robes.”

(''с'') By “ that which is and yet is not ” is meant the Great Breath itself, which we can only speak of as absolute existence, but cannot picture to our imagination as any form of existence that we can distinguish from Non-existence. The three periods — the Present, the Past, and the Future — are in the esoteric philosophy a compound time ; for the three are a composite number only in relation to the phenomenal plane, but in the realm of noumena have no abstract validity. As said in the Scriptures : “ The Past time is the Present time, as also the Future, which, though it has not come into existence, still is ” ; according to a precept in the Prasanga Madhyamika teaching, whose dogmas have been known ever since it broke away from the purely esoteric schools. * Our ideas, in short, on duration and time are all derived from our

(''с'') By “ that which is and yet is not ” is meant the Great Breath itself, which we can only speak of as absolute existence, but cannot picture to our imagination as any form of existence that we can distinguish from Non-existence. The three periods — the Present, the Past, and the Future — are in the esoteric philosophy a compound time ; for the three are a composite number only in relation to the phenomenal plane, but in the realm of noumena have no abstract validity. As said in the Scriptures : “ The Past time is the Present time, as also the Future, which, though it has not come into existence, still is ” ; according to a precept in the Prasanga Madhyamika teaching, whose dogmas have been known ever since it broke away from the purely esoteric schools. * Our ideas, in short, on duration and time are all derived from our