The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX “Close not thine eyes” may refer to sleep or to ecstasy, perhaps to both. Dorje is the whirling power which throws off from itself every other influence. Vairaga is a very definite stage in moral strength. The point is that it is one’s intense longing for ecstasy which makes one yield to it. If one does so, one is overwhelmed with the illusion, for even the highest ecstasy is still illusion. The result, in many cases, of obtaining Dhyana is that the workers cease to work. Vairaga is an indifference ap- proaching disgust for everything. It reminds one a good deal of the Oxford Manner. Cambridge men have this feel- ing, but do not think other people worth the trouble of flat- tering. 34. Beware of trembling. ’Neath the breath of fear the key of Kshanti rusty grows: the rusty key refuseth to un- lock. The word “trembling” seems to imply that it is giddy ecstasy which is referred to, and the “fear” here spoken of may perhaps be the Panic Fear, possibly some feeling anal- ogous to that which produces what is called psychical im- potence. 35. The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire— the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale—and that alone can guide. For as the lingering sunbeam, that on the top of some tall moun- tain shines, is followed by black night when out it fades, so is 100