3.40.
4.10.
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THE EQUINOX
One might justly object to any Results of this Ten days’
strain.
But if abundant health and new capacity to do
great work be the after—effect, who then will dare to
cast a stone?
Not that it matters a turnip—top to the Adept himself.
But others may be deterred from entering the Path by
the foolish talk of the ignorant, and thus may flowers be
lost that should go to make the fadelesswreath of Adonai.
Ah, Lord, pluck me up utterly by the root, and set that
which Thou pluckest as a flower upon Thy brow!
Walked back to the Dome to drink a citron presse
through the lovely gardens, sad with their fallen leaves.
Reflecting on what Dr. Henry Maudsley once wrote to
him about mysticism “ Like other bad habits (he might
have said ‘Like all living beings‘) it grows by what it
feeds on.”
Most important, then, to use the constant
critical check on all
one’s work.
The devotion to
Adonai might itself fall under suspicion, were it not for
the definition of Adonai.
Adonai is that thought which informs and strengthens
and purifies, supreme sanity in supreme genius.
Any-
thing that is not that is not Adonai.
Hence
the refusal
of
all
other
Results,
however
glorious; for they are all
relative, partial, impure.
Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta: Change, Sorrow, Unsubstan-
tiality; these are their characteristics, however much
they may appear to be Atman, Sat, Chit, Ananda, Soul,
Being, Knowledge, Bliss.
But the main consideration was one of expediency.