“And such is the esoteric interpretation of the third (and inferior) member of the Prajniki Triad.  The Bodhisattwa or Sangha continues to be such until he has surmounted the very last grade of that vast and laborious ascent by which he is instructed that he can ’scale the heavens,’ and pluck immortal wisdom from its resplendent source:  which achievement performed, he becomes a Buddha, that is, an Omniscient Being, and a Tathagata—­a title implying the accomplishment of that gradual increase in wisdom by which man becomes immortal or ceases to be subject to transmigration.”—­The Phoenix, Vol.  I., pp. 194, 195.

3.  Is God all, or is all God?

“What that grand secret, that ultimate truth, that single reality, is, whether all is God, or God is all, seems to be the sole proposition of the oriental philosophic religionists, who have all alike sought to discover it by taking the high priori road.  That God is all, appears to be the prevalent dogmatic determination of the Brahmanists; that all is God, the preferential but sceptical solution of the Buddhists; and, in a large view, I believe it would be difficult to indicate any further essential difference between their theoretic systems, both, as I conceive, the unquestionable growth of the Indian soil, and both founded upon transcendental speculation, conducted in the very same style and manner.”—­The Phoenix, Vol.  II., p. 45.

4.  Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.

“In a philosophical light, the precedence of Buddha or of Dharma indicates the theistic or atheistic school.  With the former, Buddha is intellectual essence, the efficient cause of all, and underived.  Dharma is material essence, the plastic cause, and underived, a co-equal biunity with Buddha; or else the plastic cause, as before, but dependent and derived from Buddha.  Sangha is derived from, and compounded of, Buddha, and Dharma, is their collective energy in the state of action; the immediate operative cause of creation, its type or its agent.  With the latter or atheistic schools, Dharma is Diva natura, matter as the sole entity, invested with intrinsic activity and intelligence, the efficient and material cause of all.

“Buddha is derivative from Dharma, is the active and intelligent force of nature, first put off from it and then operating upon it.  Sangha is the result of that operation; is embryotic creation, the type and sum of all specific forms, which are spontaneously evolved from the union of Buddha with Dharma.”—­The Phoenix, Vol.  II., p. 12.

5.  The mantra or sacred sentence best known in the Buddhadom and abroad.