Lucifer. A Theosophical Magazine. May 15th 1893

It is the luminous but bodiless shadow of the ' atter that was the realm of negativeness—wherein lie 1Stent'during their period of est the active forces of the universe.' And ag in H. P. B. speaks of:.NirvAna he vanishing point of differentiated Matter.2 And fu ther explains this as: The ulti ate quiescent state: the Nirvana condition of the seventh principle." In these passages the microcos [...] And though The Secret Doctrine tells us little of Nirvana from the individual point of view according to the key of Yoga we can nevertheless work out the problem by analogy by converting the phenomena of the external universe into terms of the internal nottmena of the Self. [...] The standpoint is not from the physical plane nor from the astral nor from the intellect of any particular thinker." Philosophy in order that it may be at all reliable and authoritative must be the result of the observations and experiences of the wisest man of him who knows the most that is of a Jivanmukta. [...] Advaita is "non-duality " the state of the negtion of all individual isolation of the identity of totality with indivduality of the nakedness of the soul Nirvana. [...] 'Twas I healed King Ravan's arm By amulet thviz and charm By mantra and tantra and drug Essence of bloodsucker attar of bug By the honey-bag of the Brahmar bee The leathern wing of the vampire bat The pounded ears of mummied cat The tail of grey-haired bandicoot Dug out of the homestead under the root Of aged Banian tree; By the claw of lizard the scorpion's sting The flying fox's hooke