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[[File:35 Buddha.jpg|thumb|A Mahayana illustration of 35 Confession Buddhas known from the Sutra of the Three Heaps (Sanskrit: Triskandhadharmasutra), popular in Tibetan Buddhism]] | |||
[From Sanskrit ''budh'' “awake,” “know,” “perceive”] '''Buddha''' means “the enlightened one.” It denotes an office in the spiritual [[hierarchy]] of worlds that is attained by passing certain initiations of the sacred fire, including those of the [[seven rays]] of the [[Holy Spirit]] and of the [[five secret rays]], the raising of the Feminine Ray (sacred fire of the [[Kundalini]]), and the “mastery of the seven in the seven multiplied by the power of the ten.”<ref>See “The Seven in the Seven and the Test of the Ten,” {{THA}}, bk. 2, chap. 10.</ref> | [From Sanskrit ''budh'' “awake,” “know,” “perceive”] '''Buddha''' means “the enlightened one.” It denotes an office in the spiritual [[hierarchy]] of worlds that is attained by passing certain initiations of the sacred fire, including those of the [[seven rays]] of the [[Holy Spirit]] and of the [[five secret rays]], the raising of the Feminine Ray (sacred fire of the [[Kundalini]]), and the “mastery of the seven in the seven multiplied by the power of the ten.”<ref>See “The Seven in the Seven and the Test of the Ten,” {{THA}}, bk. 2, chap. 10.</ref> | ||