The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX ness, out of the pure dew and on the frozen bed of snow- capped heights, heights that are trodden by no sinful foot. We find the talented Author again in difficulties, this time with Botany. By the “boundless Vision” is not meant the stupid Siddhi, but one of the forms of Samadhi, perhaps that upon the snake Ananta, the great green snake that bounds the Universe. 70. No Arhan, O Lanoo, becomes one in that birth when for the first time the Soul begins to long for final liberation. Vet, O thou anxious one, no warrior volunteering fight in the fierce strife between the living and the dead, not one recruit can ever be refused the right to enter on the Path that leads toward the field of Battle. For either he shall win, or he shall fail. It is most important that the Master should not reject any pupil. As it is written in Liber Legis, “He must teach, but he may make severe the ordeals.” Compare also the 13th Ethyr, in Liber 418, where it is shown that Nemo has no means of deciding which of his flowers is the really im- portant one, although assured that all will one day bloom. 71. Yea, if he conquers, Nirvana shall be his. Before he casts his shadow off, his mortal coil, that pregnant cause of anguish and illimitable pain—in him will men a great and holy Buddha honour. The words “mortal coil” suggest Stratford-on-Avon rather than Lhassa. The meaning of the verse is a little ob- scure. It is that the conqueror will be recognised as a Buddha sooner or later. This is not true, but does not mat- ter. My God! if one wanted ‘recognition’ from ‘men’! Help! 68