The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES the nations, do you rest immobile, guardians of the tombs of your fathers? Your fathers are not here, they are risen: for the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, is not the God of the dead ! Why do you always impress upon your offspring the bloody sigil of the knife? God no longer wishes to separate you from other men; be our brethren, and eat with us the consecrated Bread of peace on altars that blood stains never. The law of Moses is accomplished: read your books and understand that you have been a blind and hard-hearted race, even as all your prophets said to you. You have also been a courageous race, a race that per- severed in strife. Children of Israel, become the children of God: Under- stand and love! God has wiped from your forehead the brand of Cain, and the peoples seeing you pass will no longer say, ‘‘ There go the Jews!” They will cry, “Room for our brethren! Room for our elders in the Faith!” And we shall go every year to eat the passover with you in the city of the New Jerusalem. And we shall take our rest under your vine and under your fig-tree; for you will be once more the friend of the traveller, in memory of Abraham, of Tobias, and of the angels who visited them. And in memory of Him who said: “ He who receiveth the least of these My little ones, receiveth Me.” For then you will no longer refuse an asylum in your 53