The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX with the joy thereof, and have no need of words. It would moreover be impertinent and tedious to call again thine attention to all those passages that thou knowest so well. Note, pray thee, that in the matter of direct instruction there isenough. Consider the passage “Choose yeanisland! For- tify it! Dung it about with enginery of war! I will give you a war-engine. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! This is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house.” The last phrase sug- gests that the island may be Great Britain, with its Mines and Tanks; and it is notable that a certain brother obligated to A... A... is in the most secret of England’s War Councils at this hour. But it is possible that all this instruction refers to some later time when our Law, administered by some such Order as the O.T.O. which concerns itself with tem- poral affairs, is of weight in the councils of the world, and is challenged by the heathen, and by the followers of the fallen gods and demigods. Note, pray thee, the practical method of overcoming oppo- sition given in CCXX. III 23-26. But this is not to Our immediate purpose in this epistle. Note, pray thee, the in- struction in the 38th and 39th verses of the Third Chapter of the Book of the Law. It must be quoted in full. “So that thy light is in me; and its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order.” That is, the God himself is aflame with the Light of The Beast, and will himself push the order, through the fire (per- haps meaning the genius) of The Beast. 176