Re: Theos-World More on the word "Nirmanakaya"
Nov 25, 2001 12:15 PM
by Eldon B Tucker
At 09:32 AM 11/24/01 -0800, you wrote:
In an 1887 letter to W.Q. Judge, Madame Blavatsky
wrote:
". . . Do you understand what it means? It means that
unless you consent, you force me to a miserable life &
a miserable death with the idea preying on my mind
that there is an end of theosophy. That for several
years I will not be able to help it on & stir its
course, because I will have to act in a body which
will have to be assimilated to the Nirmanakaya,
because even in Occultism there are such things as a
failure, & a retardment, and a misfit. But you don't
understand me, I see. . . ." Quoted from:
http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbwqj91587.htm
In OCCULT GLOSSARY, under Nirmanakaya (page 114),
G. de Purucker describes it in part as:
A Nirmanakaya is a complete man possessing all the
principles of his constitution except the Linga-Sharira,
and its accompanying physical body. He is one who lives
on the plane of being next superior to the physical
plane, and his purpose in so doing is to save men from
themselves by being with them, and by continuously
instilling thoughts of self-sacrifice, of self-forgetfulness,
of spiritual and moral beauty, of mutual help, of compassion,
and of pity.
Under this definition, to have "a body which will have to
be assimilated to the Nirmanakaya," would mean the
death of the vital-astral-physical aspect of one's
constitution, while yet remaining conscious, active,
and otherwise embodied in one's higher principles.
This would be similar to the astral or semi-astral
state of humanity in the first three Root Races
(similar in type of bodies although not similar in
degree of awakened self-consciousness).
Purucker goes on to mention the three bodies (trikaya),
which include the Sambhogakaya and the Dharmakaya. And
he says,
The Nirmanakaya-vesture or condition enables one
entering it to live in touch and sympathy with the
world of men ... therefore, in the Nirmanakaya-
vesture if not in physical form that live and
work the Buddhas of Compassion, the greatest Sages
and Seers, and all the super-holy men who through
striving through ages of evolution bring forth
into manifestation and power and function the
divinity within.
-- Eldon
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