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THE EQUINOX
one stupendous magical exercise to enter that Silence which is
beyond all thought.
IV. Right Acts or Right Conduct.
Having become obedient to his Holy Guardian Angel (the
aspirant’s Spritual Guru) or to the Universal Law as the
Buddhist prefers to call it, man naturally enters the stage of
Right Conduct, which brings with it supernormal or magical
powers. Self is now put aside from action as well as from
speech, and the striver only progresses by a stupendous
courage and endurance. The canonical Buddhists howesver
strenuously deny the value of these magical powers, Iddhis or
Siddhis, and attribute the purification of the striver, the
attainment of the state of “stainless deeds,” to the great love
wherein he must now enshrine all things. In detail the differences
between Buddhism and the Yoga are verbal; in essence,
man, at this stage, becomes the lover of the World, and love
is the wand of the Magician, that wand which conquers and
subdues, vivifies, fructifies, and replenishes the worlds, and
like the Caduceus of Hermes it is formed of two twining
snakes.
V. Right Livelihood.
Up to this stage man has been but a disciple to his Holy
Guardian Angel, but now he grows to be his equal, and in the
flesh becomes a flame-shod Adept whose white feet are
not soiled by the dust and mud of earth. He has gained
perfect control over his body and his mind; and not only are
his speech and actions right, but his very life is right, in fact
his actions have become a Temple wherein he can at will