The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX falls upon them shines from thyself, O thou who wast Dis- ciple, but art Teacher now. The five impediments are usually taken to be the five senses. In this case the term “Master of the sixth” becomes of profound significance. The ‘sixth sense’ is the race- instinct, whose common manifestation is in sex; this sense is then the birth of the Individual or Conscious Self with the ‘Dwarf-Self,’ the Silent Babe, Harpocrates. The “four modes of Truth” (noble Truths) are adequately described in “Science and Buddhism.” [See Crowley, Collected Works.] 84. And of these modes of Truth: Hast thou not passed through knowledge of all mis- ery—truth the first? 85. Hast thou not conquered the Maras’ King at Tsi, the portal of assembling—truth the second? 86. Hast thou not sin at the third gate destroyed, and truth the third attained? 87. Hast thou not entered Tau, the “Path” that leads to knowledge—the fourth truth? The reference to the “Maras’ King” confuses the second truth with the third. [See “Science and Buddhism.”] The third Truth is a mere corollary of the Second, and the Fourth a Grammar of the Third. 88. And now rest ’neath the Bodhi tree, which is perfec- tion of all knowledge, for, know, thou art the Master of SAMADHI—the state of faultless vision. 38