“Mr. Old: Who was Hermes?
Mme. Blavatsky: If you mix up the Greek gods with the philosophy, then we are lost.
Mr. Old: I will bear it.
Mr. Kingsland: But our brains won’t.
Mme. Blavatsky: Let us leave in quietude all these analogies.
Mr. Old: But this is our only key.
Mr. B. Keightley: Your argument is open to this reply. If abstract ideas can only be received in virtue of experience, how do you ever get your chain started?
Mr. Kingsland: By the first emanation. When you first emanate from the Absolute, it is when you begin your cycles of experiences.
Mme. Blavatsky: There is potentiality of everything: past, present, and future.
Mr. Old: That is better. This is not experience.
Mme. Blavatsky: If you take the present Manvantara for the only one, then, of course, granted you are right.
Mr. Old: This is making two square walls meet, that the past, present, and future are comprehended in the now. It is a matter of experience. There are the future Manvantaras.
Mme. Blavatsky: What do you make of the past Manvantaras? If you were in the first, you would be right.
Mr. Old: You have no individual consciousness, in Parabrahm, in which you enter at the Maha-Pralaya. I mean in Nirvana.
Mme. Blavatsky: You don’t understand what Nirvana is. It is absolute consciousness.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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