The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING obtained possession of his sight were suddenly to return to a state of blindness, would have great difficulty in explaining to his blind brothers the sights he had seen, in fact none would believe him, and his difficulty in explaining in the language of blind-land the wonders of the land of sight would probably be so great that he would find more consolation in silence than in an attempted explanation: this has generally been the case with the true adepts; and those who have tried to explain themselves have been called mad by the canaiile. “The truth is,” continues the Mystic, “ both of you have been talking foolishness through your material and idealistic hats. For: “In the Material World Matter is Existence. “Tn the Sensible World Sense is Existence. “In the Spiritual World Spirit is Existence. “And though in the Sensible World a cow or an angel exists solely as an idea to us, this does not preclude the possibility of a cow existing as beef in the Material World, or an angel as a spirit in the Spiritual World.” “The fact is,” interrupts the Sceptic, “I doubt all three of you; for from the above you all three infer a chain of events— whether material, sensual, or spiritual, thus postulating the Existence of Causality as a common property of these three worlds. Let us strike out Matter, Sense and Spirit, and what is left? Surely not Time and Space, that twin inference con- ceived by that Matter, Sense and Spirit we have just put to bed.” “Don’t you think,” says the Scientific Illuminist, “that instead of dreaming all your lives it would be a good thing to wake up and doa little work? Thereare four of you, and the 299