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(Ādi-Nidāna Svabhāvat) This Sanskrit term occurs in Helena P. BLAVATSKY’S ''The Secret Doctrine'' which connotes “that which comprises the basic material from which the manifested physical world is built.” ''Adi'' means first or primal; ''Nidana'' refers to a binding or rope and in this context means “a primary or first cause or original essence.”  ''Svabhavat'' is “the mystic Essence, the plastic root of physical Nature” (''SD'' I:98).




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