The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX In Mexico: even as I did receive it from him who is reincarnated in me: and this work is to the best of my knowledge a synthesis of what the Gods have given unto me, as far as is possible without violating my obligations unto the Chiefs of the R. R. et A.C. Now did I deem it well that I should rest awhile before resuming my labours in the Great Work, seeing that he, who sleepeth never, shall fall by the wayside, and also remembering the twofold sign: the Power of Horus: and the Power of Hoor-pa-Kraat.* Now, the year being yet young, One D. A. came unto me, and spake. And he spake not any more (as had been his wont) in guise ofa skeptic and indifferent man: but indeed with the very voice and power of a Great Guru, or of one definitely sent from such a Brother of the Great White Lodge. Yea! though he spake unto me words all of disapproval, did I give thanks and grace to God that he had deemed my folly worthy to attract his wisdom. And, after days, did my Guru not leave me in my state of humiliation, and, as I may say, despair: but spake words of comfort saying: “Is it not written that if thine Eye be single thy whole body shall be full of Light?” Adding: “In thee is no power of mental concentration and control of thought: and without this thou mayst achieve nothing.” Under his direction, therefore, 1 began to apply myself unto the practice of Raja-yoga, at the same time avoiding all, even the smallest, consideration of things occult, as also he bade me. Thus, at the beginning, I did meditate twice daily, three meditations morning and evening, upon such simple objects as—a white triangle; a red cross; Isis; the simple Tatwas; a wand; and the like. I remained after some three weeks for 593} minutes at one time, wherein my thought wandered 25 times. Now I began also to consider more complex things: my little Rose Cross;+ the these A&thyrs, “whose dominion extendeth in ever widening circles without and beyond the Watch Towers of the Universe.” In one sense rightly enough did P. bring to completion the work L.I.L, at the end of the year 1900; but, in another, it took him nine long years of toil before he perfected it, for it was not until the last days of the year 1909 that the work of the Thirty thyrs was indeed brought to an end. In 1900 verily was the work conceived, but not until the year 1909 was it brought forth a light unto the darkness, a little spark cast into the Well of Time. (P. merely means that at this time he established a secret Order of this name.) * The Signs are of Projection and Withdrawal of Force; necessary com- plements. + Lost under dramatic circumstances at Frater P. A.’s house in 1909. 46