Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00057)

Feb 2 2005


Re: MESSIAH Coming ? 20012 ?

Dear Friends:

As a number of inquiries concerning the “return” of great Teachers or
Avatars have been sent, perhaps the following pages could be looked at in
the SECRET DOCTRINE and elsewhere among the original teachings of Theosophy.

In general: THEOSOPHY teaches that The Great Teachers, the Masters of
Wisdom, are with us all the time. Some incarnate and may pass unseen among
us daily, as ordinary persons, and yet, interiorly they are Mahatmas; and
others as Nirmanakayas (in their "mayavi rupas" or their invisible bodies).

How is this possible we may ask? The Teachings say that it is a gift of
compassion: “[The]…Buddhas of Compassion”…refuse to pass into the Nirvanic
state…and cross to the “other shore,” as it would then become beyond their
power to assist men even so little as Karma permits. They prefer to remain
invisibly (in Spirit so to speak) in the world, and contribute toward man’s
salvation, by influencing them to follow the Good Law, i.e., lead them on
the Path of Righteousness.” [Voice, p. 77fn]

There is indeed a Brotherhood Of The Elders of our race of man, and they
work silently and diligently for the improvement of affairs among us all.  

”Self-doomed to live through future Kalpas, unthanked and unperceived by
men; wedged as a stone with countless other stones which form a “Guardian
Wall,” such is thy future if the seventh Gate thou passest. Built by the
hands of many Masters of Compassion, raised by their tortures, by their
blood cemented, it shields mankind, since man is man, protecting him from
far further and far greater misery and sorrow.”  

“The “Guardian Wall” or the “Wall of Protection.” It is taught that the
accumulated efforts of long generations of Yogis, Saints and Adepts,
especially of the Nirmanakayas, have created, so to say, a wall of
protection around mankind, which wall shields mankind invisibly from still
worse evils.” [Voice, p. 74 & fn]

“The Masters are the great Guardian Wall….They have control over the minor
beings and the minor forces of nature and can hold back catastrophes that
would crush us, coming on unchecked from the kingdoms below us, visible and
invisible, where in our ignorance we have aroused many inimical forces….They
can control climatic conditions and other material interferences, which
might badly affect the right side, that They do.” [Q & A., p.
160-1]

So the "advent" of some noble and inspiring individual to a particular
region, or race, or tribe, of our Earth marks in the karma of that people
and area a crisis of opportunity, or the closing, or opening of a cycle. If
we are concerned with that, our karma will draw us there unerringly. In the
present we are all privileged to know something of their teachings of
THEOSOPHY. What are we doing with the opportunity? And, to benefit from
such? I would think that we ought to consider that we can draw closer to
Them through thoughts and actions that closely resemble Their purposes.

How does THEOSOPHY describe those purposes and that work? Acknowledgment and
appreciation of such great assistance are not required by the Nirmanakayas,
who work behind the veil and prepare the material for a definite end. At the
same time, too, one Nirmanakaya may have many different men -- or women --
whom he directs. As Patanjali puts it, "In all these bodies one mind is the
moving cause."

We find it written: “The PATH is one, Disciple, yet in the end two-fold.
…At the one end -- bliss immediate, and at the other -- bliss deferred….The
One becomes the two, the Open and the Secret. The first one leadeth to the
goal, the second to Self-Immolation….

But Path the second is--RENUNCIATION, and therefore called the “Path of
Woe.” The Secret Path leads the Arhan to mental woe unspeakable; woe for
the living Dead, and helpless pity for the men of karmic sorrow, the fruit
of Karma Sages dare not still….

The “Secret Way” leads also to Paranirvanic bliss--but at the close of
Kalpas without number; Nirvanas gained and lost from boundless pity and
compassion for the world of deluded mortals.” [Voice, pp. 44-46]

Let us daily, and always, recall the nature of our human constitution, and
the teaching that we are a "microcosm" of the Great MACROCOSM -- the
Universe. In each of us is concealed in miniature all the forces and powers
that are present in the immensity of Space (sometimes, called the Void,
Chaos, Abyss, etc...the Unknowable, and the ABSOLUTE). And, we REINCARNATE
-- and soon and on. We need to grasp firmly the idea we are immortals and
then try to behave as much as we can, as such.

Size is not a factor since, to any one of the minutest Monads that
constitute our bodies (a "life-atom"), we are (physically, today) relatively
as huge as the Universe we live in seems to us now. Everything: thought,
desire or action, begins "within," and as all is in evolution, it then
manifests "outside," in various stages and limit, and through its various
principles and bodies.

THEOSOPHY teaches that our existence, (whether as a human, an atom, or a
star) is based on a "spiritual unity" of which we enshrine a "ray" or a
"spark." All are fundamentally MONADS and IMMORTAL. "Eternal Pilgrims."

In plain words: the Mahatma, the Avatar, the Teacher -- is the ATMA -- the
HIGHER SELF within each of us. This is not easy to realize, and it demands
deep concentration, meditation and self-knowledge. We are here and now,
close to our own HIGHER SELF. And that is: all the time, and,
unfortunately few of us are convinced of that. So they seek for exterior,
outside "Gurus."   

The great principle of WISDOM [BUDDHI] enshrines and closely guards this
wonderful "seed of Life and Wisdom." As a golden "vase" it guards and
covers and protects the wonderful "Light of the One Spirit within." 

In the dawn of first light, devotees of this ancient wisdom silently face
the East and renewing their determination to succeed, they mentally invoke: 

"Unveil, O Thou who givest sustenance to the Universe, from whom all
proceed, to whom all must return, that face of the True Sun now hidden by a
vase of golden light, that we may see the truth and do our whole duty on our
journey to thy sacred seat."	-- The Gayatri --

The man of mind, WE, the MANASA, does this in confidence of his unity with
the ONE, and with his renewed, daily avowal of the session of education and
discipline to which he puts his lower nature: those elements of life that
have been drawn by Karma around him to enable him to live in his present
condition in the world: that is our "mask" the "Personality" of our present
incarnation -- for we too, are "avatars" of a potential nature, and, as
learners, pupils, devotees, ourselves, we seek to live righteously in terms
of virtue and justice to all. Eventually we will have acquired the wisdom
and impartiality to become true assistants to the Universal program. But we
have to learn it and also to realize our part first. By this we transform
the nature of the Monads associated with us and our particular progress. 

Thus we the Thinker, the mind-being, living mid-way between the spiritual
and the material poles of the One Life (as focussed in our MONAD) are
singular, yet divided into two sets of capacities: We have the view of the
Universe as an ordered and cooperative whole on one side, and we have our
own isolated forms and selfish demands (kama) on the other.

In the words of the Great Avatar, Sri Krishna, who ushered in the present
Kali Yuga, [3,102 B. C.] we find this described:

“The discerning power [Thought - Buddhi-Manas] that knows how to begin and
to renounce, what should and what should not be done, what is to be feared
and what not, what holds fast and what sets the soul free, is of the sattva
[spiritual purity] quality. 

That discernment, 0 son of Pritha, which does not fully know what ought to
be done and what not, what should be feared and what not, is of the
passion-born rajas [desire and Kama-Manas activity] quality. 

That discriminating power which is enveloped in obscurity, mistaking wrong
for right and all things contrary to their true intent and meaning, is of
the dark quality of tamas [indifference, selfishness and isolated inertia].”

With the “discerning power” there must also be the “power of steadfastness,”
for unless we are constant in devotion to the higher life, and the ideal of
a conscious life in spirit, not matter, we will be recreant to the best we
know. 

Having reached the power of discernment and having been shown the path which
to us is peculiarly ours, we should set aside all other considerations that
tend to draw us from it; we should cultivate and practise “That power of
steadfastness holding the man together, which by devotion controls every
motion of the mind, the breath, the senses and the organs ;“ this, as the
chapter says, “partaketh of the sattva quality ;“ that is, the whole
instrument is used for the best and highest purpose only.

The “power of steadfastness” may exist without the highest power of
discernment, as in the one who looking for the fruits of action, cherishes
duty, pleasure and wealth from the point of view of desire or rajas; or in
the man of low capacity who stays fast in drowsiness, fear, grief, vanity
and rashness, bound by the tamasic quality." [G. Notes, pp. 230-1]

What is our heredity -- the heredity of a spiritual being? Are we not like
the "head" of a comet? Coursing through space eternally? Does not that also
include the duty of working for and serving the billions of "monads of
lesser experience" that form our "environment" and trail behind us? Are we
not becoming gradually conscious of this fact? 

“Esoteric philosophy…teaches that one third of the Dhyanis [the
Wise]…endowed with intelligence... a formless breath composed of
intellectual not elementary substances -- was simply doomed by the law of
Karma and evolution to be reborn (or incarnated) on Earth. Some of these
were Nirmanakayas from other Manvantaras…The supposed “rebels,” then,were
simply those who, compelled by Karmic law to drink the cup of gall to its
last bitter drop, had to incarnate anew, and thus make responsible thinking
entities of the astral statues projected by their inferior brothers. Some
refused…But, later on, as Nirmanakayas, they sacrificed themselves for the
good and salvation of the Monads which were waiting for their turn…" [seeS
D II 167] S D II 93-4

Do we have to wander the earth seeking our Gurus, the Mahatmas?  

Are they not all around us and ready to respond when needed? [Not
physically of course.] "That High Spirits work on Earth in bodies of men,
while those spirits are still in the highest spheres [see SD I 233-4 & fn,
235fn]...it is clearly explained that the author [HPB] does not mean that
which is called among the spiritualists "control" of mediums by a spirit,
but the actual continuance of the status and functions of the incarnated
spirit in the supersensuous regions, while actually using as its own and
working in a mortal envelope on earth. So that, according to her, there are
certain persons on this earth, living and working as ordinary human beings
and members of society. whose informing divine part is so immeasurably high
in development that they as such high beings have a definite status and
function in the "supersensuous regions."  
WQJ ARTICLES, II 615-6

THEOSOPHY teaches “…a Nirmanakaya is ever a protecting, compassionate,
verily a guardian angel, to him, who becomes worthy of his help. …this idea
of helping suffering mankind at the price of one’s own almost interminable
self-sacrifice, is one of the grandest and noblest that was ever evolved
from human brain.” [T. Glos p. 231]

In the "Voice" we are told of the "robes" of Spiritual excellence that are
within our eventual grasp. Looking at those carefully we realize the
"robes" are level of very specialized "matter." 

>From "Voice" p. 34:

"Step out from sunlight into shade, to make more room for others. The tears
that water the parched soil of pain and sorrow, bring forth the blossoms and
the fruits of Karmic retribution. Out of the furnace of man's life and its
black smoke, winged flames arise, flames purified, that soaring onward,
'neath the Karmic eye, weave in the end the fabric glorified of the three
vestures of the Path. (1) 

These vestures are: Nirmanakaya, Sambhogakaya, and Dharmakaya, robe Sublime.
(2) 

The Shangna robe, (3) 'tis true, can purchase light eternal. The Shangna
robe alone gives the Nirvana of destruction; it stops rebirth, but, O Lanoo,
it also kills—compassion. No longer can the perfect Buddhas, who don the
Dharmakaya glory, help man's salvation.  

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Footnote

(3) The Shangna robe, from Shangnavesu of Rajagriha the third great Arhat or
"Patriarch" as the Orientalists call the hierarchy of the 33 Arhats who
spread Buddhism. "Shangna robe" means metaphorically, the acquirement of
Wisdom with which the Nirvana of destruction (OF PERSONALITY) is entered.
Literally, the "initiation robe" of the Neophytes.... 
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>From Voice p 77-8

"(2) This same popular reverence calls "Buddhas of Compassion" those
Bodhisattvas who, having reached the rank of an Arhat (i.e., having
completed the fourth or seventh Path), refuse to pass into the Nirvanic
state or "don the Dharmakaya robe and cross to the other shore," as it would
then become beyond their power to assist men even so little as Karma
permits. 

They prefer to remain invisibly (in Spirit, so to speak) in the world, and
contribute toward man's salvation by influencing them to follow the Good
Law, i.e., lead them on the Path of Righteousness. 

... on the other hand, the esoteric teachings countenance ... is a great
difference between the two teachings. The exoteric layman hardly knows the
real meaning of the word Nirmanakaya— hence the confusion and inadequate
explanations of the Orientalists. ... The real teaching is, however, this:

1. NIRMANAKAYA.

2. SAMBHOGAKAYA.

3. DHARMAKAYA.

The first [NIRMANAKAYA] is that ethereal form which one would assume when
leaving his physical he would appear in his astral body—having in addition
all the knowledge of an Adept. The Bodhisattva develops it in himself as he
proceeds on the Path. Having reached the goal and refused its fruition, he
remains on Earth, as an Adept; and when he dies, instead of going into
Nirvana, he remains in that glorious body he has woven for himself,
invisible to uninitiated mankind, to watch over and protect it.

SAMBHOGAKAYA is the same, but with the additional lustre of "three
perfections," one of which is ENTIRE OBLITERATION OF ALL EARTHLY CONCERNS.

The DHARMAKAYA body is that of a complete Buddha, i.e., no body at all, but
an ideal breath: Consciousness merged in the Universal Consciousness, or
Soul devoid of every attribute. Once a Dharmakaya, an Adept or Buddha LEAVES
BEHIND EVERY POSSIBLE RELATION WITH, OR THOUGHT FOR THIS EARTH. 

Thus, to be enabled to help humanity, an Adept who has won the right to
Nirvana, "renounces the Dharmakaya body" in mystic parlance; keeps, of the
Sambhogakaya, only the great and complete knowledge, and REMAINS IN HIS
NIRMANAKAYA BODY. 

The Esoteric School teaches that Gautama Buddha with several of his Arhats
is such a NIRMANAKAYA, higher than whom, on account of the great
renunciation and sacrifice to mankind there is none known." Voice pp. 77-9
-----------------------------------

We may wonder about their work and readiness to help, and then, we come
across: ”In the Hindu books and teachings there is a reference to this when
the speak of high Gnanees--that is, persons full of knowledge and spiritual
power--being attracted to this earth by certain acts and at certain times in
the history of nation, race or city." ("Hidden Hints in the S. D.") WQJ
Articles, I, p. 615-6)

A Master of Wisdom wrote: "If, for generations we have "shut out the world
from the knowledge of our Knowledge," it is on account of its absolute
unfitness; and if, notwithstanding proofs given, it still refuses yielding
to evidence, then will we at the End of this cycle retire into solitude and
our kingdom of silence once more...We have offered to exhume the primeval
strata of man's being, his basic nature, and lay bare the wonderful
complications or his inner Self...and demonstrate it scientifically... It is
our mission to plunge and bring the pearls of Truth to the surface...For
countless generations hath the adept builded a fane of imperishable rocks, a
giant's Tower of Infinite Thought, wherein the Titan dwelt, and will yet, if
need be, dwell alone, emerging from it but at the end of every cycle, to
invite the elect of mankind to cooperate with him and help in his turn
enlighten superstitious man. And we will go on in that periodical work of
ours; we will not allow ourselves to be baffled in our philanthropic
attempts until that day when the foundations of a new continent of thought
are so firmly built that no amount of opposition and ignorant malice guided
by the Brethren of the Shadow will be found to prevail."	M L p.
50-1

Relations between Master and Chela have been described as: “Passing then,
from this consideration, one might ask about the state of harmony of the
Adept and of the disciples, called the Chelas. and answer is provided in:
"...an adept may be compared to that one key which contains all the keys in
the great harmony of nature. He has the synthesis of all keys in his
thoughts, whereas the ordinary man has the same key as a basis, but only
acts and thinks on one or a few changes of this great key, producing in his
brain only a few chords out of the whole great possible harmony...the brain
of the chela is attuned by training to the brain of the Master. His
vibrations synchronize with those of the Adept...so the chela's brain is
abnormal...the adept sees all the colors in every color and yet does not
confuse them together...the highest adepts [ have raised their vibrations so
as to have them the same as those of nature as a whole...]"
[WQJ ARTICLES, Vol. I, p. 423-426.]

And: "The action of the entire universe is but a detailed manifestation and
example of the action of mind on matter, governed at the highest point by
the action of the universal mind. Between the finite human mind of the
ordinary uninitiated individual and this universal mind lie an infinite
number of
gradually ascending degrees, and the higher the plane of consciousness the
nearer is the approach to the universal mind which is, as it were, the
mainspring of the whole." --"Alpha"	--	THEOS ART & NOTES, p. 60-1

This discussion brings us back to one of the main points we spoke of at the
outset: Man's Inner Self the Real Ego, or the Monad (Atma-Buddhi) is a ray
of the Universal Mind. "This is precisely what occult philosophy claims:
our Ego is a ray of the Universal Mind, individualized for the space of a
cosmic 
life-cycle, during which space of time it gets experience in almost
numberless reincarnations or rebirths, after which it returns to its
Parent-Source. "The Occultist would call the "Higher Ego" the immortal
Entity, whose shadow and reflection is the human Manas, the mind, limited by
its physical senses. The
two may be well compared to the Master-artist and the pupil-musician. "In
the course of natural evolution our "brain-mind" will be replaced by a finer
organism, and helped by the 6th and the 7th senses. "The "sensing
principle" in us is an entity capable of acting outside as inside its
material body; and it is certainly independent of any organ in particular,
in its actions, although during its incarnation it manifests itself through
its physical organs." [T A & N 208-9]

Let Science laugh as it may, the Adepts are the only true scientists, for
they take into account every factor in the question, whereas Science is
limited by brain-power, by circumstance, by imperfection of instruments, and
by a total inability to perceive anything deeper than the mere phenomena
presented by matter. The records of the visions and experiences of the
greater and lesser seers, through the ages, are extant today. Of their mass,
nothing has been accepted except that which as been checked and verified by
millions of independent observations; and therefore the Adepts stand in the
position of those who possess actual experimental knowledge of what precedes
the birth of the Ego in a human form, and what succeeds when the "mortal
coil" is cast away. [see SD I 272-3]

This recording of experiences still goes on; for the infinity of The changes
of Nature in its evolution permits of no stoppage, no "last word," no final
declaration.

As to the present and leading to the future: one of the Masters of this
noble science has written: "We never pretended to be able to draw nations
in the mass to this or that crisis in spite of the general drift of the
world's cosmic relations. The cycles must run their rounds. Periods of
mental and moral light and darkness succeed each other as day does night.
The major and minor yugas must be accomplished according to the established
order of things. And we, borne along on the mighty tide, can only modify and
direct some of its minor currents. If we had the powers of the imaginary
personal God, and the immutable laws were
but toys to play with, then, indeed, might we have created conditions that
would have turned this earth into an Arcadia for lofty souls."

And so in individual cases -- even among those who are in direct relations
with some Adept -- the law cannot be infringed. Karma demands that such and
such a thing should happen to the individual, and the greatest God or the
smallest Adept cannot lift a finger to prevent it. A nation may have heaped
up against its account as a nation a vast amount of bad Karma. Its fate is
sure, and although it may have noble units in it, great souls even who are
Adepts themselves, nothing can save it, and it will "go out like a torch
dipped in water."

In another place the master wrote: "You have had other correspondents but
are not perfectly satisfied. To gratify, I write you therefore with some
effort to bid you keep a cheerful frame of mind. 

Your strivings, perplexities and forebodings are equally noticed, good and
faithful friend. In the imperishable RECORD of the Masters you have written
them all. There are registered your every deed and thought; for, though not
a chela, as you say to my Brother Morya, nor even a "protégé" -- as you
understand the term -- still, you have stepped within the circle of our
work, you have crossed the mystic line which separates your world from ours,
and now whether you persevere or not; whether we become later on, in your
sight, still more living real entities or vanish out of your mind like so
many dream fictions -- perchance an ugly night-mare -- you are virtually
OURS. 

Your hidden Self has mirrored itself in our Akasa; your nature is -- yours,
your essence is -- ours. The flame is distinct from the log of wood which
serves it temporarily as fuel; at the end of your apparitional birth -- and
whether we two, meet face to face in our grosser rupas -- you cannot avoid
meeting us in Real Existence. 

Yea, verily good friend your Karma is ours, for you imprinted it daily and
hourly upon the pages of that book where the minutest particulars of the
individuals stepping inside our circle -- are preserved; and that your Karma
is your only personality to be when you step beyond. In thought and deed, by
day, in soul-struggles by nights, you have been writing the story of your
desires and your spiritual development. 

This, every one does who approaches us with any earnestness of desire to
become our co-worker, he himself "precipitates" the written entries by the
identical process used by us when we write inside your closed letters and
uncut pages of books and pamphlets in transit.... During the past few
months, especially, when your weary brain was plunged in the torpor of
sleep, your eager soul has often been searching after me, and the current of
your thought been beating against my protecting barriers of Akas as the
lapping wavelets against a rocky shore. What that "inner Self," impatient,
anxious -- has longed to bind itself to, the carnal man, the worldlings'
master has not ratified: the ties of life are still as strong as chains of
steel. Sacred, indeed, some of them are, and no one would ask you to rupture
them. There below, lies your long-cherished field of enterprise and
usefulness. 

Ours can never be more than a bright phantom-world to the man of thorough
"practical sense"; and if your case be in some degree exceptional, it is
because your nature has deeper inspirations than those of others, who are
still more "business-like" and the fountain-head of whose eloquence is in
the brain not in the heart, which never was in contact with the mysteriously
effulgent, and pure heart of Tathagata. 

If you hear seldom from me, never feel disappointed, my Brother, but say --
"It is my fault." 

Nature has linked all parts of her Empire together by subtle threads of
magnetic sympathy, and, there is a mutual correlation even between a star
and a man; thought runs swifter than the electric fluid, and your thought
will find me if projected by a pure impulse, as mine will find, has found,
and often impressed your mind. We may move in cycles of activity divided --
not entirely separated from each other. 

Like the light in the sombre valley seen by the mountaineer from his peaks,
every bright thought in your mind, my Brother, will sparkle and attract the
attention of your distant friend and correspondent. 

If thus we discover our natural Allies in the Shadow-world -- your world and
ours outside the precincts -- and it is our law to approach every such an
one if even there be but the feeblest glimmer of the true "Tathagata" light
within him -- then how far easier for you to attract us. Understand this and
the admission into the Society of persons often distasteful to you will no
longer amaze you. "They that be whole need not the physician, but they that
be sick" -- is an axiom, whoever may have spoken it. 

And now, let me bid you farewell for the present until the next. Indulge not
in apprehensions of what evil might happen if things should not go as your
worldly wisdom thinks they ought; doubt not, for this complexion of doubt
unnerves and pushes back one's progress. To have cheerful confidence and
hope is quite another thing from giving way to the fool's blind optimism:
the wise man never fights misfortune in advance." M L pp.
266-8

I hope these expressions from these Great Personages may prove useful, I
find them inspiring.

Best wishes,


Dallas

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MESSENGER(S). 

angels, angelos II 48, 243, 514n 
of Anu II 62 
descend to eat w men I 441-2n 
of Jewish God II 61 
of Life (Nazarean) I 196 
Maluk, Muluk, Maloch, etc II 514n 
metatron or II 111 
theoi, of manvantaric law I 346
Messiah
born in lunar year 4320 I 654, 656 
Brahman's, Vishnu as a fish I 653 
connected w water, baptism I 385 
"Good and Perfect Serpent" II 356 
Jupiter, of the Sun II 541 
Kalki avatara as last I 384 
Kenealy saw Narada as II 48 
perfect, enters Eden II 292 
Pisces constellation of I 653, 654 
Sun is, esoterically II 23

Avatara(s) (Skt). See also Avalokitesvara, Kalki, Maitreya, Sankaracharya
Boar or Varaha I 368-9 &n; II 53, 321 
Buddha, of Vishnu II 578 
coming, or tenth II 420 
divine-human, of India I 349 
divine impersonality of II 478 
every, a fallen god II 483-4 
Hegel accepted periodical I 52n 
Hindu, & unseen principle II 555-6 
immaculate conception & I 399 
Kalki I 87, 268, 378; II 416n, 420 
Krishna as II 48, 225n, 359, 550 
Kurma, of Vishnu II 549 
Kwan-shi-yin last of I 470 
Matsya first, of Vishnu I 263-4, 369, 385; II 69n, 139, 307, 578 
minor, & Buddhas of Confession II 423 &n 
Nara-Simha an II 225n 
spiritual Sun sends forth I 638 
successive, of first triad I 668 
Tsong Kha-pa, of Amitabha I 108n 
of Vishnu I 18, 653; II 33, 408n


Kalki [white horse] Avatara (Skt)
expected fr Arghya Varsha II 416n 
Io symbolizes race of II 416n 
last messiah of great cycle I 384 
Maitreya or fifth buddha & I 384 
paranirvana, second Advent & I 268 
Sosiosh or II 420 
Vishnu will return as I 87; II 483 
will close kali-yuga I 378; II 483



Maitreya (Skt) II 155
body of Brahma II 58 
elemental dissolution I 372-3 
Hindu Asclepios I 286 
kali-yuga described to I 377 
last of buddhas in seventh race I 470 
Parasara described seven creations I 445, 456 &n 
in Vishnu Purana II 155, 322
Maitreya Buddha
last messiah of great cycle I 384 
secret name of fifth buddha I 384



Dallas