The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX who denies anything asserts something,” now let me disclose to you this “Something,” so that you may find behind the pairs of opposites what this Something is in itself and not in its appearance. It has been pointed out in a past chapter how that in the West symbol has been added to symbol, and how that in the East symbol has been subtracted from symbol. How in the West the Magician has said: “As all came from God so must all proceed to God,” the motion being a forward one, an acceleration of the one already existing. Now let us analyze what is meant by the words of the Yogi when he says: “ As all came from God so must all return to God,” the motion being, as it will be at once seen, a backward one, a slowing down of the one which already exists, until finally is reached that goal from which we originally set out by a cessation of thinking, a weakening of the vibrations of illusion until they cease to exist in Equilibrium.* * “The forces of the universe are only known to us, in reality, by disturb- ances of equilibrium. The state of equilibrium constitutes the limit beyond which we can no longer follow them” (Gustave le Bon, “The Evolution of Matter,” p. 94). 52