The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX 51. With my Hawk’s head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross. 52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him. 53. With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Buddhist, Mongol and Din. 54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds. 55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! 56. Also for beauty’s sake and love's! 57- Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play : all fools despise! 58. But the keen and the proud, the royal and the lofty; ye are brothers! 59. As brothers fight ye! 60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. 61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its com- ment; & he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second, gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. 68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are mere liars. 32