Theosis, The making of gods

[isidorus]

then, Nirvana is an intermediate "state"?
i cannot see it...

[bupanishad2012]

I agree with isidorus. How can Nirvana be an intermediate state? I always thought that Nirvana was the summum bonum. Buddha certainly taught as much.

[Nick the Pilot]

"How can Nirvana be an intermediate state?"

--> Go outside at night and look up at the billions of stars in the night sky. According to Theosophy, each of the august beings which has intelligence at the center of each star is at a level much, much higher than human nirvanic consciousness. Nirvana is only one step on a long, long series of steps back to the One Reality.

"Buddha certainly taught as much."

--> I think that Buddha taught that Nirvana is the ultimate form of consciousness for us in this Round. Things should be quite different for us next Round.