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178 quite clean, you can say the experiences are wiped out. A monad is only a centre of energy.

Nirvana means the absorption into the Logos, but for the purpose of differentiating, three conditions are intended by the one name. A period of rest not only from objective but also from subjective activity arrives after the completion of each round, but the real Nirvanic condition is only reached when the monad is transferred into the Logos and the man's life becomes part of the life of the Logos.

Many have asked whether after the close of one solar manvantara when a particular monad is absorbed into the Logos if by the activity of the same Logos that monad is again ejected; if so it would be said that even after the absorption birth is possible, but from the stand-point of the Logos there is no birth. Just as I may send my aura to your brain, the Logos emits a ray from itself into matter, the Logos does not suffer, but the ray does. From the stand-point of the Logos there is no rebirth.

The Logos has an objective existence. Beyond Logos there is the unmanifested Parabrahm.

Vishnu is the Logos. Brahma is the universal mind, the Demiurgos.

Each Logos has a consciousness of its own. Consciousness which is non-consciousness, means a state of consciousness unlike the state of consciousness with which we are acquainted.

THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE.

The only explanation we can give of the phenomena of thought-transference depends upon the existence of the astral fluid,—a fluid which exists throughout the manifested solar system, but which does not extend beyond it.

It must be borne in mind that there is a difference between âkâsh and the astral light, though the two terms have often been used as being synonymous. Âkâsh is a much higher kind of cosmic ether which exists as a link between one solar