The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX and myriads of little spheres, which he feels are in Reality one Great Ocean if he could only make them unite. Each stage above him is his Ultimate goal for the time being. Possessing one little sphere, his one and only object is to unite it to another, or another to it; not two others, not to the whole, but only to that Ove Other. For the time being (let it appear as if it were for all time to the initiate), that Oxe Other is God and Very God—the Omega of his quest, and that a// others are Devils that would tempt and seduce him. Thus it happens that until you become God, God Himself is in Reality The Tempter, Satan, and the Prince of Darkness, who, assuming the glittering robes of Time and Space, whispers in our ears: “ Millions and millions and millions of eternities are as nothingness to me; then how canst thou, thou little mote dancing in the beam of mine eye, hope to span me?” Thus God at the outset comes to us and like the old witch in “ Cinderella” strews innumerable lentils before us to count—but begin ! and soon you will find that you have left the kitchen of the world behind you and have entered the enchanted Palace “‘ Beyond.” It is all very difficult and complex at first; it is rather like a man who, setting out by a strange road to visit the capital of his country, comes to a great mountain and gazes up its all but endless slopes. “It is too high for me to climb,” the little man will say; “it is indeed very beautiful; but I will go back and find some other road.” “Tam sure it would be too long a journey,” says a second ; “T could not afford it; I too will return.” “ There are no guides here,” says a third; “ how foolish for me to attempt so high a peak.” 228