The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX Then, it may be, the Eye will open upon him, and the tomb of his Pyramid be unsealed. It is impossible in a few words to explain thoroughly this eclectic system; for each act and thought of the ritual demands an expert teacher, and even a good pupil might study for years before mastering the method. By which time he might not impossibly have discovered one of his own. Howbeit, I must do my best; and if by that best I can help “‘ the least of these little ones,” so much the better. XIx “The Intelligible subsisteth beyond Mind.”—ZOROASTER. Nevodha-samapatti—It must be very satisfactory, you will probably be thinking, to wear that Eye as a badge, to have got so near to the End. And that is where the joke comes in. Yet to the adept the Anglo-Indian proverb, “ A jok’s a jok (leech) but a jok up your nose is no joke” (Nose is not the word ; but no matter !), may occur with painful intensity. For he is no nearer to Nibbana than when he started. Though he has stripped off all the husks of Thought and touched Thought itself, even attaining to Negation of thought; yet he is still upon the plane of Thought. And—that which can be thought is not true. All his righteousness is as filthy rags; even his eternity of Shivadarshana, his stored crores of Mahakalpas in the Arupa- Brahma-Lokas must pass; he must come back to his horses —and this time as a horse-fly. 84