The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE MAN-COVER Being a man of method and logic, I could not but begin with book-keeping. When they were'dry the two books came very handy tome. I opened them at the first page, and started putting down with a blue pencil the most important among all the thoughts that came into my brain. In “The book which contains all that I know for certain” I began with these sentences : “Your enemy, when his hatred and persecution lead you to a clearer perception of Life’s secrets, becomes your benefactor.” “The men living in my company being unable to realise that my body is nothing but an illusion of their deficient sight, it is useless for me to try and oblige them to recognise it as a mere wood cover.” “ Their error will appear even more plausible and explicable when one considers that a few days ago I was myself unaware of my real personality; and that I am still at times under the influence of insufficiently keen senses.” “The destiny of a Man-Cover being a case of exceptional scarcity, he cannot reasonably be bound by everyday morals and conventions. All that hampers him, all that comes in his way to prevent him from fulfilling his sacred duty, must be surmounted and overcome. What is crime in a man is often virtue in a cover.” Having thus established a sound and most solid base of 373