Arhat (adept) – high initiates who are beyond the need of compulsory rebirth. in Buddhism, is a “perfected one” who has attained Nirvāṇa. In the writings of Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, it is used to denominate the Adept who has attained the fourth Initiation and is able to consciously enter the Nirvanic plane.

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