t also consider the poverty of the English language when used to
describe supra-conscious experiences, or what modern thought terms
Metaphysics. Only within very recent times, approximating twenty-five
years, there have been coined innumerable words in the English language.

The advances made in mechanical, scientific, ethical and philosophical
thought, have made this a necessity, while, when it comes to an attempt at
clarifying the meaning of mystical terms, a very wide range of
interpretation is imperative.

Buddha, addressing his servant, says:

"Kandaka, take this gem and going back to where my father is, lay it
reverently before him, to signify my heart's relation to him."

It is related that the gem mentioned was a beryl, which in the language of
gems signifies purity and peace. It must be remembered that all Oriental
languages give power to gems, perfumes and talismanic symbols. This fact
makes direct translation of Oriental writings a difficult task for the
Occidental scholar, who, until recently at least, gave no power to
so-called "inanimate" things.

"And then for me request the king to stifle every fickle feeling of
affection, and say that I, to escape from birth and age and death, have
entered the forest of painful discipline.

"Not that I may get a heavenly birth, much less because I have no
tenderness of heart, or that I cherish any cause of bitterness, but Only
that I may escape this weight of sorrow; the accumulated long-night weight
of covetous desire. I now desire to ease the load, so that it may be
overthrown forever; therefore I seek the way of ultimate escape.

"If I should gain the way of emancipation, then shall I never need to put
away my kindred, to leave my home, to sever ties of love. O grieve not for
your son. The five desires of sense beget the sorrow; those held by lust
themselves induce sorrow; my very ancestors, victorious kings, have handed
down to me their kingly wealth; I, thinking only on eternal bliss, put it
all away."

The meaning here conveyed is simple enough to understand. From a long line
of ancestors who had ruled with the unquestioned authority of Oriental
monarchs, the young prince felt that he had inherited much that would
retard his soul's freedom. The examples of kings and emperors who have
abandoned their possessions have been too few to cause us to believe that
they have held these possessions as naught.

Through rivers of blood; through ages of despotism, and