The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX absolute to do thy will; but seek to do any other thing what- ever, and instantly obstacles must arise. Every act that is not in definite course of that one orbit is erratic, an hin- drance. Will must not be two, but one. Note further that this will is not only to be pure, that is, single, as explained above, but also “unassuaged of pur- pose.” This strange phrase must give us pause. It may mean that any purpose in the will would damp it; clearly the “lust of result” is a thing from which it must be delivered. But the phrase may also be interpreted as if it read “with purpose unassuaged”—i. e., with tireless energy. The con- ception is, therefore, of an eternal motion, infinite and un- alterable. It is Nirvana, only dynamic instead of static— and this comes to the same thing in the end. The obvious practical task of the magician is then to dis- cover what his will really is, so that he may do it in this man- ner, and he can best accomplish this by the practices of Liber Thisarb (see Equinox I. VII. 105) or such others as may from one time to another be appointed. It should now be perfectly simple for everybody to under- stand the Message of the Master Therion. Thou must (1) Find out what is thy Will. (2) Do that Will with (a) one-pointedness, (b) detachment, (c) peace. Then, and then only, art thou in harmony with the Move- ment of Things, thy will part of, and therefore equal to, the Will of God. And since the will is but the dynamic aspect of the self, and since two different selves could not possess identical wills; then, if thy will be God’s will, Thou art That. There is but one other word to explain. Elsewhere it is written—surely for our great comfort—‘Love is the law, love under will.” 42