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THE EQUINOX
itself a suicidal Will called Buddha or Christ.” This perhaps
is most easily explained by imagining “Mâyâ” to be a circle
of particles moving from right to left which after a time
through its own intrinsic motion sets up within itself a
counter motion, a kind of back-water current which moves in
the opposite direction, from left to right, and little by little
destroys the Mâyâ circle, marked “B”; and then becoming
its Mâyâ, in its turn sets up a counter circle which in time will
likewise be destroyed. The
outer circle “B” is the world
Mâyâ or the Samasâra Chakkra,
the inner “A” the Bodhi
Satva, the Buddha, the Christ.
Thus is fulfilled again and
again the great prophecy:
Whenever the dhamma decays, and
a-dhamma prevails, then I manifest myself.
For the protection of the good, for
DIAGRAM 88.
The Bodhi Satva
the destruction of the eivl, for the firm
establishment of the National Righteousness
I am born again and again!*
* Cf. Captain J. F. C. Fuller’s “Star in the West,” pp. 287, 288. “In his
Essay ‘Eleusis,’ Crowley suggests that the world’s history may rougly be
divided into a continuous succssion of periods, each embracing three distinct
cycles—of Renaissance, Decadence, and Slime. In the first the Adepts rise
as artists, philosophers, and men of science, who are sooner or later recognized
as great men; in the second the adepts as adepts appear, but seem as fools
and knaves; and in the third, that of Slime, vanish altogether, and are
invisible. Then the chain starts again. Thus Crowley writes:
“ ‘Decadence marks the period when the adepts, nearing their earthly perfection,
become true adepts, not mere men of genius. They disappear, harvested
by heaven: and perfect darkness (apparent death) ensures until the youthful
forerunners of the next crop begin to shoot in the form of artists.