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THE EQUINOX
colour and has sixteen petals. It is the seat of the Udana and
the Âkâsa Tatwa; its presiding adept is Chhagalanda and its
goddess Sakini.
6. The Ajna Chakkra. This Chakkra is situated between the
two eyebrows, in the place of the pineal gland. It is the seat of
the Mano Tatwa, and consists of two petals. Within this lotus
are sometimes placed the three mystical principles of Vindu,
Nadi and Shakti.* “Its presiding adept is called Sukla-
Mahakala (the white great time; also Adhanari—‘Adonai’) its
presiding goddess is called Hakini.Ӡ
97. Within that petal, there is the eternal seed, brilliant as he autumnal moon.
The wise anchorite by knowing this is never destroyed.
98. This is the great light held secret in all the Tantras; by contemplating on
this, one obtains the greatest psychic powers, there is no doubt in it.
99. I am the giver of salvation, I am the third linga in the turya (the state of
ecstasy, also the name of the thousand petalled lotus.‡ By contemplating on
This the Yogi becomes certainly like me.§
The Sushumnâ following the spinal cord on reaching the
Brahmarandhra (the hole of Brahman) the junction of the
sutures of the skull, by a modification goes to the right side of
the Ajna lotus, whence it proceeds to the left nostril, and is
called the Varana, Ganges (northward flowing Ganges) or Ida.
By a similar modification in the opposite direction the
* “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. v, 110. † Ibid., chap. v, 49.
‡ Though all Hindu works proclaim that the Sahasrâra has but one
thousand petals, its true number is one thousand and one as depicted in the
diagram called the Yogi. 1001 = 91 × 11 (}ma × ynda); 91 = hwhy + ynda 11 = ABRA-
HADABRA = 418 (38 × 11) = Achad Osher, or one and ten, = the Eleven
Averse Sephiroth = Adonai. Also 91 = 13 × 7 dja × ARARITA, etc., etc. 11 is
the Number of the Great Work, the Uniting of the Five and the Six, and 91 =
mystic number (1+2+3 . . . + 13) of 13 = Achad = 1.
§ Ibid., chap. v, 50.