But side by side with this idea soon sprang up a conflicting one, the "Communion of Saints."

"God dwells in the bones of the martyrs," said St. Ephrem, "and by his power and presence miracles are wrought." ("Wiseman's Lectures," xi. 105.) Soon the Buddhist saint worship and the Buddhist purgatory were taken over by the Church, Alexandrian Buddhism fighting with the dualism of Persian Buddhism.

But if there has been no judgment, how can we tell who is in purgatory, and who are the saints? This question seems to have stirred Cardinal Newman, and he attempted an answer in his "Dream of St. Gerontius." Christ has a "rehearsal of judgment." This is, of course, preposterous.

[CHAPTER X.]

Johannine Buddhism.

The Indians of old observed that one portion of the sky was dark at night and one portion lit with stars. They judged that the dark portion was spirit—primary substance, and that the light portion was the same substance made tangible to the senses under the form of matter. The Buddhists took over these ideas and called the dark portion Nirvritti and the light portion Pravritti. In Nirvritti dwelt the formless, passionless, inconceivable God—Swayambhu the Self-Existent. Pravritti contained numerous world-systems (Buddha-Kshetras), the Ogdoads of the Gnostics. These christened Nirvritti "Buthos," and Pravritti, the luminous worlds, the "Pleroma." In Buddhism, Pravritti was presided over by five beings, emanations from Swayambhu. These are announced in the Buddhist books to be simply the attributes of Swayambhu personified. They were probably invented to provide the vulgar with a substitute for the old Brahmin hierarchy. Each has a Sakti (wife, female energy). I give a list of them with their Saktis, and the divine attributes that they personify.

ATTRIBUTES.DHYANI BUDDHAS.SAKTIS.
Su-vis'uddha Dharma Dhâtu. (Purifying eternal law.)Vairochana. (Sun-born.)Vajra Dhateswatî. (Goddess of eternal elements.)
Adarsana. (Invisibility).Akshobhya. (Immovable.)Lochanâ.(Eye goddess.)
Prativekshana. (Eyes that sleep not.)Ratna-Sambhava. (Born of the jewel.)Mamukhî.
Sânta. (Calmness.)Amitabha. (Diffusing infinite light.)Pândarâ. (Pale goddess.)
Krityânushtana.(One who performs rites.)Amogha-Siddha. (Unfailing aim.)Târâ. (Star.)