Continuing On with the Introduction:
" In
etymology Adi, and Adhi Budha, the one (or the First) and
“Supreme Wisdom” is a term used by Aryâsanga in his Secret
treatises, and now by all the mystic Northern Buddhists. It
is a Sanskrit term, and an appellation given by the earliest
Aryans to the Unknown deity; the word “Brahmâ” not being
found in the Vedas and the early works. It means the
absolute Wisdom, and “Adi-bhûta” is translated “the primeval
uncreated cause of all” by Fitzedward Hall. Æons of untold
duration must have elapsed, before the epithet of Buddha was
so humanized, so to speak, as to allow of the term being
applied to mortals and finally appropriated to one whose
unparalleled virtues and knowledge caused him to receive the
title of the “Buddha of Wisdom unmoved” Bodha means the
innate possession of divine intellect or “understanding”;
“Buddha,” the acquirement of it by personal efforts and
merit; while Buddhi is the faculty of cognizing the channel
through which divine knowledge reaches the “Ego,” the
discernment of good and evil, “divine conscience” also; and
“Spiritual Soul,” which is the vehicle of Atma. “When Buddhi
absorbs our EGO-tism (destroys it) with all its Vikaras,
Avalôkitêshvara becomes manifested to us, and Nirvana, or
Mukti, is reached,” “Mukti” being the same as Nirvana, i.e.,
freedom from the trammels of “Maya” or illusion. “Bodhi” is
likewise the name of a particular state of trance condition,
called Samadhi, during which the subject reaches the
culmination of spiritual knowledge.
Unwise are those who, in their blind and, in our age,
untimely hatred of Buddhism, and, by reaction, of “Budhism,”
deny its esoteric teachings (which are those also of the
Brahmins), simply because the namesuggests what to them, as
Monotheists, are noxious doctrines. Unwise is the correct
term to use in their case. For the Esoteric philosophy is
alone calculated to withstand, in this age of crass and
illogical materialism, the repeated attacks on all and
everything man holds most dear and sacred, in his inner
spiritual life. The true philosopher, the student of the
Esoteric Wisdom, entirely loses sight of personalities,
dogmatic beliefs and special religions. Moreover, Esoteric
philosophy reconciles all religions, strips every one of its
outward, human garments, and shows the root of each to be
identical with that of every other great religion. It proves
the necessity of an absolute Divine Principle in nature. It
denies Deity no more than it does the Sun. Esoteric
philosophy has never rejected God in Nature, nor Deity as
the absolute and abstract Ens. It only refuses to accept any
of the gods of the so-called monotheistic religions, gods
created by man in his own image and likeness, a blasphemous
and sorry caricature of the Ever Unknowable. Furthermore,
the records we mean to place before the reader embrace the
esoteric tenets of the whole world since the beginning of
our humanity, and Buddhistic occultism occupies therein only
its legitimate place, and no more. Indeed, the secret
portions of the “Dan” or “Jan-na” * (“Dhyan”)
of Gautama’s metaphysics—grand as they appear to one
unacquainted with the tenets of the Wisdom Religion of
antiquity—are but a very small portion of the whole. The
Hindu Reformer limited his public teachings to the purely
moral and physiological aspect of the Wisdom-Religion, to
Ethics and MAN alone. Things “unseen and incorporeal,” the
mystery of Being outside our terrestrial sphere, the great
Teacher left entirely untouched in his public lectures,
reserving the hidden Truths for a select circle of his
Arhats. The latter received their Initiation at the famous
Saptaparna cave (the Sattapanni of Mahavansa) near Mount
Baibhâr (the Webhâra of the Pali MSS.). This cave was in
Rajagriha, the ancient capital of Mogadha, and was the Cheta
cave of Fa-hian, as rightly suspected by some archæologists."
Your thoughts and comments please.
It is said that ‘the nursery’ for our human adepts was established in the third root race of this round by the divine instructor(s) (see SD I 207). One can only wonder at the immensity of the Wisdom Religion given that it embraces all the occult knowledge that can be known in every root race from the Lemurian, Atlantean, Aryan through to the future sixth and seventh races of this round - an overall period covering many millions of years if we accept the chronology given in the SD. Yet, this current round is only the fourth round humanity on this planet. There are two more rounds each with their own seven races and 'knowledge' that will unfold over that time. Maybe this gives us a small insight into why it is said that “buddhistic occultism” and “Gautama’s metaphysics” as grand as they are, are but “a very small portion of the whole.”
Would it be the case that all cosmic cycles, manvantaras and rounds, no matter how advanced compared to us, each have their own divine instructors and Wisdom Religion, so to speak?