THE EQUINOX
head, and his throat is livid with the pressure of her fingers.
Their joint cry is an intolerable anguish, yet it is the cry
of their rapture, so that every pain, and every curse, and every
bereavement, and every death of everything in the whole
universe, is but one little gust of wind in that tempest-scream
of ecstasy.
The voice thereof is not articulate. It is in vain to seek
comparison. It is absolutely continuous, without breaks or
beats. If there seem to be vibration therein, it is because of
the imperfection of the ears of the seer.
And there cometh an interior voice, which sayeth to the
seer that he hath trained his eyes well and can see much; and
he hath trained his ears a little, and can hear a little; but his
other senses hath he trained scarcely at all, and therefore the
Aethyrs are almost silent to him on those planes. By the
senses are meant the spiritual correlations of the senses, not
the physical senses. But this matters little, because the Seer,
so far as he is a seer, is the expression of the spirit of
humanity. What is true of him is true of humanity, so that
even if he had been able to receive the full Aethyrs, he could
not have communicated them.
And an Angel speaks: Behold, this vision is utterly be-
yond thine understanding. Yet shalt thou endeavour to unite
thyself with the dreadful marriage-bed.
So I am torn asunder, nerve from nerve and vein from
vein, and more intimately,—cell from cell, molecule from mole-
cule, and atom from atom, and at the same time all crushed
together. Write down that the tearing asunder zs a crushing
together. All the double phenomena are only two ways of
looking at a single phenomenon; and the single phenomenon
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