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or Atma-Buddhi, and they have become the "Diamond-Souled"(Vajrasattvas*).
or full Mahatmas. The "Concealed Lord" (Sangbai Dag-po),
"the one merged with the Absolute," can have no parents since he
is Self-Existent, and one with the Universal Spirit (Svayambhu),t
the Svabhavat in its highest aspect. The mystery of the Hierarchy
of the Anupadaka is great, its apex being the universal Spirit-Soul,
and the lower rung the Manushi-Buddha : and even every soulendowed
man also is an Anupadaka in a latent state. Hence—when
speaking of the Universe in its
formless, eternal, or absolute condition,
before it was fashioned by the Builders—the expression, "the great
Wheel [Universe] was Anupadaka."
STANZA II.
I. . . . Where were the Builders, the IvUminous Sons of
Manvantaric Dawn (a) ... In the Unknown Darkness in
their Ah-hi I Paranishpanna. The Producers of Form § from
No-Form
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the Root of the World — the Devamatri ^ and
Svabhavat, rested in the Bliss of Non-Being (d).
(a)
The "Builders," the "Sons of Manvantaric Dawn," are the real
creators of the Universe ; and in this doctrine, which deals only with
our Planetary System, they, as the architects of the latter, are also
called
the "Watchers" of the Seven Spheres, which exoterically are
the seven planets, and esoterically the seven earths or spheres (Globes)
of our Chain also. The opening sentence of Stanza I, when mentioning
"Seven Eternities," applies both to the Mahakalpa or "the (Great)
• Vajrapani or Vajradhara means the diamond-holder; in Tibetan Dorjesempa, sempa meaning the
soul ; its adamantine quality referring to its indestructibility in the hereafter. The explanation with
regard to the Anupadaka given in the Kdla Chakra, the first in the Gyut division of the Kanjiir,
is half esoteric. It has misled the Orientalists into erroneous speculations with respect to the
Uhyani-Buddhas and their earthly correspondencies, the Manushi-Buddhas. The real tenet is
hinted at in a subsequent volume, and will be more fully explained in its proper place.
" To quote Hegel again, who with Schelling practically accepted the Pantheistic conception of
periodical Avataras (special incarnations of the World-Spirit in Man, as seen in the case of all the
great religious reformers) : "The essence of man is spirit .... only by stripping hitnself of his finiteness
and surrendering himself to pure self-consciousness does he attain the truth. Christ-man, as
man in whom the Unity of God-man [identity of the individual with the universal Consciousness as
taught by the Vedantins and some Advaitees] appeared, has, in his death and history generally,
himself presented the eternal history of Spirit—a history which every man has to accomplish in
himself, in order to exist as Spirit."
X Chohanic, Dhyani-Buddhic.
} Rupa.
II Arfipa.
Philosophy of History, Sibree's English Translation, p. 340.
IT " Mother of the Gods," Aditi, or Cosmic Space. In the Zohar, she is called Sephira, the Mother
of the Sephiroth, and Shekinah in her primordial form, in abscondiio.