THE EQUINOX
11.15. Made also considerations concerning the Nature of the
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Path.
The upshot is that it does not matter.
Acquire full
power of Concentration; the rest is only leather and
prunella.
Don’t worry; work!
I shall now make a pantacle to aid the said faculty of
concentration.
The Voice 01 the Nadi (by the way) is resoundingwell,
and the Chittam is a little better under control.
Have worked well on the Pantacle, thinking of Adonai.
Of course we are now reduced to a “low anthropo-
morphic conception ”—but what odds ?
Once the
Right Thought comes it will transcend any and all
conceptions.
The objection is as silly as the objection
to illustrating Geometry by Diagrams, on the ground
that printed lines are thick—and so on.
This is the imbecility of the “ Protestant " objection to
images.
What fools these mortals be!
The Greeks, too, after exhausting all their sublimest
thoughts of Zeus and Hades and Poseidon, found that
they could not find a fitting image of the All, the supreme
—so they just carved a goat-man, saying: Let this
represent Pan]
Also in the holiest place of the most secret temple
there is an empty shrine.
But whoso goes there in the first instance thinks ;
There is no God.
He who goes there at the End, when he has adored all
the other deities, knoweth that No God.