"Thus annihilation means, in the Buddhist philosophy, only a dispersion of matter, in whatever form or semblance of form it may be; for everything that bears a shape was created, and thus must sooner or later perish i.e. change that shape. Therefore, as something temporary, though seeming to be permanent, it is but an illusion, Maya; for eternity has neither beginning nor end, the more or less prolonged duration of some particular form passes, as it were, like an instantaneous flash of lighting."
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, in Isis Unveiled: Secrets of the Ancient Wisdom Tradition, Madame Blavatsky's ..., p. 62.
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