the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
withdraw himself to pray. He has become a priest unto himself
his own Guardian, he may administer to himself the holy
sacrement of God in Truth and in Right, hae has become
Exempt from the shackles of Earth. He is the Supreme Man,
one step more he enters the Sanctuary of God and becomes
one with the Brotherhood of Light.
Up to this stage progress has meantWork, work terrible
and Titanic, one great striving after union which roughly may
be compared to the five methods of Yoga.
From this fifth stage work gives place to knowledge.
Qabalistically the aspirant enters Daäth.
VI. Right Effort.
Man is now Master of Virtue and Vice and no longer their
slave, servant, enemy, or friend. The LVX has descended
upon him, and just as the dew of the moon within the Sahasâra
Chakkra falling upon the two-petalled Ajna-lotus causes the
leaves to open out, so now does this celestial light lift him
out and beyond the world, as wings life a bird from the
fields of earth, encompassing him, extending to his right hand
and to his left like the wings of the Solar Globe which
shut out from the ruby ball the twin serpents which twine
beneath it.*
. . . Having purified himself, he understands the perfect life; being a doer
of Holiness, he is a knower of Holiness; having practiced Truth, he has become
accomplished in the knowledge of Truth. He perceives the working of the inner
Law of things, and is loving, wise, enlightened. And being loving, wise and
* The two serpents and central rod of the Caduceus are in Yoga represented
by the Ida, Pingala and Sushumnâ. The wings closed, to the Ajnalotus;
open and displaying the solar disk, to the Sahasâra Chakkra.
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