Ādi-Nidāna Svabhāvat
From Theosopedia
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.” Ādi means first or primal; Nidāna refers to a binding or rope and in this context means “a primary or first cause or original essence.” Svabhāvat is “the mystic Essence, the plastic root of physical Nature” (SD I:98).
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