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.
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