The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

EDITORIAL plained in No. 1 of this Review, in Mr. Frank Harris’s “The Magic Glasses.” Mr. ’Allett is the Materialist, Canon Bayton the Idealist, the Judge’s daughter is the Agnostic, and Matthew Penry the Scientific Illuminist. If the little girl had been able to “follow up the light,” she might there have seen Penry standing, his head and his feet white like wool, and his eyes a flaming fire | This, then, in one language or another, is our philosophical position. But for those who are not content with this, let it be said that there is something more behind and beyond. Among us are those who have experienced things of a nature so exalted that no words ever penned could even adumbrate them faintly. The communication of such knowledge, so far as it is at all possible, must be a personal thing ; and we offer it with both hands. It is simple to write to the Chancellor of the A... A... at the care of the publishers, 23 Paternoster Row, E.C.; a neophyte of the Order will be detailed to meet the inquirer. He will read to him the History of the Order and explain the task of the Probationer. For we give to each inquirer a year’s study; mutual, so that he may decide whether we can indeed give that which he wishes, and so that we may know exactly what training is suitable for him. Also, because we are subtle of mind, many are offended. For we wished to test the world by the touchstone of THE Eguinox. Those who perceived the essential gold that lay hidden in that hard rock are now busy delving out the same ; many are thereby become rich. So I who write this for the Brethren, with all humility and 9