The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX of the great mountain upon which he was standing the summit seemed but a furlong above him, it was in truth many a year’s weary march away, and ridge upon ridge lay con- cealed, and each as it was gained presented an increasing difficulty. This Silence or Equilibrium is described in the “ Shiva Sanhita” * as Samadhi: “When the mind of the Yogi is absorbed in the Great God,{ then the fulness of Samadhi t is attained, then the Yogi gets steadfastness.§ Though Frater P. had not attained to this Steadfastness, he had won a decisive victory over the lower states of Dhyana as far back as October 1901, which shows that though he was still distant he was by degrees nearing a state in which he would find no more Worlds to Conquer. However, up to this point, there are several results to record, which are of extreme importance to the beginner, in so much that some of them are arrived at by methods diametric- ally opposed to those held by the dogmatic Yogins. At the very commencement of his Yoga exercises Frater P. discovered, that in so lecherous a race as the Hindus it is absolutely necessary before a Chela can be accepted bya Guru to castrate him spiritually and mentally.|| This being so, we * “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. v, 155. + Atman, Pan, Harpocrates, whose sign is silence, etc., etc. See 777. t The Vision of the Holy Guardian Angel—Adonai. § Equilibrium, Silence, Supreme Attainment, Zero. || As for women they are considered beyond the possibility of redemption, for in order of re-incarnation they are placed seven stages below a man, three below a camel, and one below a pig. Manu speaks of “the gliding of the soul through ten thousand millions of wombs.” And ifa man steal grain in the husk, he shall be born a rat; if honey, a great stinging gnat; if milk,a crow; if woven 190