What to read after Occult metaphysics unriddled from materialistic misconceptions and ignorance?

Lord Buddha reconciles the metaphysical beliefs of the Buddhists of the Northern and Southern Churches. For the Occultist, the terms Space and Universe are one and the same. The Universe is a combination of a thousand elements, and yet the expression of One Element — a chaos to the sense, a Cosmos to the reason.

The anima mundi, or world-soul, is not Deity but a manifestation. The visible effects of matter are but the effects of force. That which is now called matter is nothing but the aggregation of atomic forces, to express which the word matter is used; outside of that, for science, matter is a word void of sense. However, beyond the illusion of duality there is neither matter nor spirit. Instead, there is Will and Manifestation.

The matter of Science may be for all objective purposes a “dead and utterly passive matter,” but to the Occultist not an atom of it can be dead — Life is ever present in it.

The capital error of the Orientalists that Nirvana, as well as the Moksha of the Vedantins, is a synonym of annihilation is now exposed, making it incontestable that Buddhism does not teach annihilation. The meaning of the term nihil, having been misconceived from the first, it is continually used as a sledge hammer in the matter of Esoteric Philosophy. Nihil in the minds of the Ancient Philosophers meant “no-thing.” Nihil is a synonym for the impersonal divine Principle, the Infinite All, which is neither “being” nor “thing.” It is the Parabrahman of the Vedantist, The One Life of the Buddhist, “That” of the Chhandogya Upanishad, the Ain-Soph of the Kabbalah, The Absolute of Hegel.

Buddhism is founded upon secret doctrines, not dogmas. We are to believe only when the writing, doctrine, or saying is corroborated by our own reason and consciousness. But then we have to act accordingly and abundantly. Lord Buddha taught that the primitive Substance is eternal and unchangeable. Its vehicle is the pure, luminous Æther, boundless infinite Space, the creation of Maya.

Mastery of Buddhist doctrines can be attained only according to the Platonic deductive method — from universals to particulars. Thus annihilation means a dispersion of matter, in whatever form or semblance of form it may be. Even our astral bodies, pure ether, are but illusions of matter, so long as they retain their terrestrial outline.

Æther is incorruptible. The spirits of creatures, who are emanations of the most sublimated portions of Æther, are Breaths not forms.