The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX ment of this grade. In all previous grades the nature of the Initiation has been light through darkness. In this it is dark- ness through light. The word of the Adept was L V X, Light. The word of the Master of the Temple is N O X, Night. This isthe Night of Pan. The direction of the Path is definitely changed. The Master of the Temple cannot go to the Magus unless bringing the Neophyte himself in his hand, and in this task there is no consolation, as there has always been before. The visions are no more. Silence and stillness and darkness rule the grade. The Adept has through- out his progress been unifying himself. As it is written in Liber CCCXXXIII, Chapter III, the Brothers of A... A.. are women; the Aspirants to A..A..aremen. The Master of the Temple has given birth to a child, which child appears as an Adept among men. But that which was the Adept is but a little pile of dust. Samadhi has been attained once and for all. The process is complete and permanent. The Great Work is accomplished. The new Great Work is pro- claimed. He has finished with Solve. He must begin Coagula. In the 13th Aithyr the Initiation continues. The Initiate obtains his reward, and that reward is to understand all, yet to labour in the darkness without hope of reward. Now, however, we come to the 12th Athyr, wherein is the second mystery of the reward, of which the key is the word N O X. BABALON, the Lady of the City of the Pyramids, is revealed. In Liber VII is the first utterance of the Master of the Temple, and this book should be studied by those who seek a further understanding. 120