John St. John

12.25. THE EQUINOX 3‘ If others are to read this, I should like them to see that elaborate codes of morality have nothing to do with my system. No question of sin and grace ever enters it. If a chemist wants to prepare copper sulphate from its oxide, he does not hesitateon the ground that sulphuric acid, thrown in the eyes, hurts people. So I use the moral drug which will produce the desired result, whether that drug be what people commonly call poison or no. In short, I act like a sensible man; and I think I deserve every credit for introducingthis com- pletely new idea into religion. That function of my brain which says “You ought to be willing Adonai ” sometimes acts. But I am willing Him! It is so active because all this week it has been working hard, and doesn’t realise that its work is done. Just as a retired grocer wakes up and thinks “ I must go and open the shop.” In Hindu phrase, the thought-stuff, painfully forced all these days into one channel, has acquired the habit [i.e., of flowing naturally in it.—BD.] I am Ekägrata— one-pointed. Just as if one arranges a siphon, one has to suck and suck for a while, and then when the balance in the two arms of the tube is attained, the fluid goes on softly and silently of its own act. Gravitation which was against us is now for us. So now the whole destiny of the Universe is by me overcome; I am impelled, with ever-gathering and irresistible force, toward Adonai.