Tattva (Sanskrit, (that-ness")
In Buddhism tattva does not carry the same technical philosophical connotation as in other Eastern religions. The proto-Mahayanist Prajnaptivadins defined tattva as the real phenomenon that underlies concept (prajnapti).
These Pañcatattva, Kuladravya or Kulatattva as they are called, have more esoteric names. Thus the last is known as "the fifth". Woman is called Shakti or Prakriti. A Tantrik commonly calls his wife his Shakti or Bhairavi.
tattva, as they are sometimes called- adopts a certain standpoint on one day, and if he examines himself critically is astonished to find himself thinking quite differently on the following day.
It was from Samkhya that the "tattwa" or "tattva" system - so important to most modern schools of occultism - developed.
From the Indian tattvas to the trigrams of the Chinese , from the Jewish to the medieval , from the to the complex emblems of Ceremonial Magic, every area of spiritual knowledge has its own symbology.
From the Indian tattvas to the trigrams of the I Ching, from the Jewish Kabbalah to the medieval Tarot cards, from the astrological glyphs to the complex emblems of Ceremonial Magic, every area of spiritual knowledge has its own symbology.
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18 Quoted in Woodroffe, ed., Principles of Tantra: The Tantratattva of Sriyukta Siva Candra Vidyarnava Bhattacarya Mahodaya (Madras: Ganesh & Co, 1960), pp.3-5.
 See also: World, Spirit, Ritual, Tantra, Spiritual
  
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