The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX Tome!” And with these words “The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.” III. In the next chapter of our book is given the word of Hadit, who is the complement of Nuit. He is eternal energy, the Infinite Motion of Things, the central core of all being. The manifested Universe comes from the marriage of Nuit and Hadit; without this could no thing be. This eternal, this perpetual marriage-feast is then the nature of things themselves; and therefore everything that iis, is a crystalli- zation of divine ecstasy. Hadit tells us of Himself: “I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star.” He is then your own inmost divine self; it is you, and not another, who are lost in the constant rapture of the embraces of In- finite Beauty. A little further on He speaks of us: “We are not for the poor and the sad; the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk.” “Is a God to live ina dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us.” “Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.” Later, concerning death, He says: “Think not, O king, upon that lie: That Thou must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be under- stood: if the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever.” When you know that, what is left but delight? And how are we to live meanwhile? “It is a lie, this folly against self{—Be strong, man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.” Again and again, in words like these, He sees the expan- sion and the development of the soul through joy. 50